Scrap ships at Port Colborne (Feb 2023) PAUL H. TOWNSEND gone, OJIBWAY's pilothouse gone

[@suzannemarienau2760]

Great video, very informative. Thank you!

[@jakeeves5935]

I'd have to admit Ojibway and Paul h Townsend would probably have been great museum ships

[@maggiespeaks8555]

my dad was captain of the Ojibway when it was the Ernest R Breech for Ford Motor Company in the 70s and 80s. The last 'straight decker' - no unloading boom. he passed away at 91 in 2021...

[@30AndHatingIt]

My grandfather was First Mate when she was the Kinsman Independent. I’m devastated.

[@dieseldavetrains8988]

OJIBWAY, MANISTEE and S T CRAPO look like they were built in the early 1900's? Around 1915 to 1930 era? Amazing the Kort nozzle, thanks for explaining it as it caught my eye.

[@RightInNiagara]

They were all oldies - Ojibway was built in 1952, Manistee in 1943, and S T Crapo in 1927! As of today (Jun 8, 2023) only Manistee still remains partially intact, as she is being dismantled right now by the scrappers; the other two are gone.

[@dieseldavetrains8988]

@@RightInNiagara Thank you for that, 1927 wow! 95 years old, served the owners well.

[@hunterdaenzer]

Sad to say but the Algoma Transport will be there in the scrap yard after this up coming season.

[@adriannegrillo8394]

Oh really?

[@BlueWaterRailfan]

@@adriannegrillo8394 Yeah, Algoma Central is panning on retiring the Transport once the next equinox ship is delivered which will either be in 2023 or 2024.

[@brucesturton8521]

I hate to see old ships gone , i don't know enough about them but, i wondered if you could make restaurants out of them or some type of floating museum

[@RightInNiagara]

yes i understand the feeling, that something else could be done with these old ships. If someone wanted to buy one of these ships here, I am sure they could be bought. But no one is buying. it will cost money to clean them up and repurpose them to some other creative use. Many of these ships have sat around somewhere for years with a faint hope that maybe someone will buy them and put them back into service (it does happen now and again) but eventually there is just no other choice but to scrap them. At least here in Port Colborne, the company sometimes saves the occasional pilothouse off of a ship they are demolishing.

[@brucesturton8521]

@@RightInNiagara yes, I see it's such ashame to see ships being scraped , but, if no one is going to buy them, their is no other alternative. It just hurts to see them scraped.

[@darthdevious]

I have a few pictures of the Manistee that i took a few years ago when she was tied up here in Toledo, awaiting her fate.

[@TOTALCAMARO]

Where did they take the Mississagi for scrapping? I know she was towed out before the Manistee and Ojibway. It’s so sad seeing them end their careers like that 😢

[@RightInNiagara]

Mississagi was towed from Sarnia up to the Purvis Marine dock in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, in Oct. 2021

[@christianbastian1667]

Is the St Clair gone yet?

[@jamesbraun9842]

Yes

[@billhaight1727]

was expecting to see some debris . after an hour and a half .

[@RightInNiagara]

Yes. that's the thing... he was down there at least 1.5 hrs - he was already down when I arrived, so I don't know when he actually went in. Various tools were handed down and raised up, and the diver was moving around all over the area. But that bin didn't seem to have much in it. Maybe they got more stuff earlier in the day..? After the bin was raised, the diver was STILL down below for about half and hour!!

[@adriannegrillo8394]

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