Canadian Miner

A typically Canadian designed Seaway-sized straight deck bulk carrier of the 1960's era, this vessel was built in two parts. The forward section was built at the George T. Davie & Sons Ltd. shipyard, Lauzon, QC as their hull #97and launched November 12, 1965 while the stern section was built at Canadian Vickers Shipyards Ltd., Montreal, QC as their hull #287and launched November 13, 1965. The joining of the halves took place at Champlain Drydock, Lauzon, QC. The new bulker was christened at Montreal, QC as the Maplecliffe Hall on April 25, 1966 for the Industrial Acceptance Corp., Ltd., being bareboat chartered to and managed by Hall Corp. of Canada Ltd. , Westmount (Montreal), QC (later Halco Inc., Toronto, ON). Canadian tax laws in the early and mid 1960’s allowed shipping companies to approach and work with financial backing partners to fund 'new builds' such as this being built in Canadian shipyards. (There were exceptions to this when Canadian yards were booked to capacity and there was an immediate identified need for the 'new build'.) The funding partner would retain ownership of the vessel benefiting from financial write-offs for the use of their funds with the shipping companies having complete control of the new vessels. This method of financing was used by many Canadian shipping companies at this time.
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