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Sprucebranch (1944/3,345gt) was built as Otterburn Park by Marine
Industries of Sorel, Quebec. Bought in 1946 by Branch Lines, the 79m tanker
was lengthened by 21m in 1960. Her career ended in 1973 and a year later she
left for Vigo, Spain, where she was broken up. Photographed on 1 July 1973. Canadian Progress (1968/21,436gt) of Upper Lakes Shipping is a typical
modern self-unloader, with a box-like hull and a superstructure set well aft.
She was built by Port Weller Dry Docks, on the Welland Canal, to the then
maximum dimensions of 222.51m by 22.94m. Photographed on 17 June 1972.
The self-unloader Pinedale (1906/7,126gt) spent her first 56 years in
American ownership and her last 16 in Canadian ownership as a member of the
Reoch Transports fleet. The 156m ship was built by Detroit SB Co, which also
supplied her 1,600ihp triple-cylinder engine. Her career ended in 1978 with
demolition at Hamilton, Ontario in 1980. Photographed on 10 June 1972.
Calgadoc (1956/2,293gt) was built at the Georgian Bay port of Collingwood for N. M. Paterson & Sons, Thunder Bay. Her Fairbanks Morse engines developed
1,280bhp. Her certificate allowed her to undertake limited coasting voyages between Belle Isle and New York. She was sold in 1975 and renamed El Salinero. On
21 September 1982 she foundered in Mexican waters. Photographed on 31 October 1971.
Liquilassie (1943/4,207gt) was built at Duluth, Minnesota as Temblador to
carry crude oil from Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela to Trinidad. She was renamed
when she returned to the Great Lakes in 1961. In 1978 she was reduced to a
barge; her active career ended in 1987, when she was sunk as an artificial reef
in the Tonga Islands. Photographed on 2 October 1971.