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Particulars Of Canadian War Vessels Building & Projected by Naval Service Headquarters (D. N. C. Dept.) 1943 – 1945: Blissville [CN838]. Canadian Transportation, August 1947, page 479: W.A.C. Ships Sales in May: Tug Blissville – Pictou Foundry & Machine Co., Ltd., Pictou, N.S. Canadian List of Shipping 1956: Blissville [C.170298] registered at Pictou, N. S.: built at Owen Sound in 1944. 37’ 5 x 10’ 5 x 5’ 1; 12 g.t.; 6 n.t.; 150 hp. Owned by the Minister of Public Works, Ottawa. Canadian List of Shipping 1970: Steel tug Blissville [C.170298] registered at Pictou, N. S.: built at Owen Sound in 1944. 38’; 12 g.t. |
Graphic from Tugbitts Vol. 13-4, courtesy Gerry Ouderkirk. Photos from B. Dibner collection. The 45 foot
YTL Blissville on a Québec Central flatcar ready to be railed to an ocean port for wartime service.
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Blissville RCN Official Photo DB-0350-6_DHH courtesy nauticapedia.ca.
Registry #170298. 1 – 150bhp 2nhp Diesel Engine (1944). She was a Canadian Naval Tug, Ville Class, that served with the Royal Canadian Navy in 1944. She was employed as a tug at HMCS Cornwallis. In 1946 she was sold to Pictou Foundry & Machine Co., Ltd., Pictou, NS. In 1952 she was sold to Ferguson Industries, Ltd., Pictou, NS. In 1955 she was sold to Department of Public Works, Ottawa, ON. In 1968 she was sold to A & B Dredging Ltd., Long Pond, NL. Registry Closed (Vessel sank in Placentia Bay NL June 26, 1972).
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http://www.nauticapedia.ca/dbase/Query/Shiplist4.php?&name=Blissville%20(H.M.C.S.)&id=2024&Page=1&input=blissville
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