Marine Industries

Marine Industries Ltd.
Industry	Shipbuilding
Fate	Merged
Successor	MIL-Davie Shipbuilding
Founded	1937
Defunct	1986
Headquarters	Sorel-Tracy, Quebec, Canada
Products	Ferries, Naval vessels, Icebreakers
Number of employees	c.10,000

Marine Industries Limited (MIL) was a Canadian ship building company, in Sorel-Tracy, Quebec, with a shipyard located on the Richelieu river about 1 km from the St. Lawrence River. It employed up to 10,000 people during the post WWII boom.

Opened in 1937, the yard saw many contracts during its early years for vessels used on the Great Lakes and Canada's Atlantic coast. In 1986 the federal government asked Quebec to rationalize its shipyards, which saw MIL merge with Davie Shipbuilding in Lauzon; the Sorel shipyard was called M.I.L. Tracy (for Tracy, Quebec) and the Lauzon shipyard was called M.I.L. Lauzon.

Shortly after the merger, the new company, MIL Davie Shipbuilding closed the Sorel shipyard along with the Versatile Vickers shipyard in Montreal, resulting in a total loss of 1,700 jobs.

Ships built

MIL's Sorel shipyard was responsible for numerous Royal Canadian Navy, Canadian Coast Guard and CN Marine vessels.

Warships

Icebreakers

A.T Cameron 1958

Coast Guard vessels

CCGS Tupper

Ferries

MV Howe Sound Queen Hull Unknown
MV Abegweit
MV John Hamilton Gray
MV Ambrose Shea
MV Camille-Marcoux

References

↑ Macpherson, Ken; Milner, Marc (1993). Corvettes of the Royal Canadian Navy 1939-1945. St. Catharines, Ont.: Vanwell Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0-920277-83-7.

Canadian shipbuilders and shipyards

Active shipbuilders	ABCO Industries A.F. Theriault & Son Allied Shipbuilders Canoe Cove Manufacturing Davie Yards Hike Metal Products Irving Shipbuilding Glovertown Shipyard Kiewit Offshore Marystown Shipyard MIL/Metal Craft Marine Newdock Pictou Shipyards Port Weller Drydocks Seaspan Marine Toronto Drydock Vito Steel Boat & Barge

Defunct shipbuilders	Albion Iron Works (VMD) West Coast Shipbuilders Bathurst Street Wharf Bel-Air Shipyards Limited Betram Engineering Works Company Burrard Dry Dock Canadian Dredge and Dock Limited Canadian Power Boat Company Canadian Shipbuilding Company Canadian Vickers Collingwood Shipyards Davie Shipbuilding Dominion Shipbuilding and Repair Company Limited Dufferin Shipbuilding Company Limited Eastern Equipment Limited Ferguson Industries Limited Friede Goldman Newfoundland Government Dock Yard, Sorel Halifax Dartmouth Industries J. Coughlan & Sons John Doty Company John Manly's Limited Marine Industries MIL-Davie Shipbuilding Morton Engineering and Dry Dock Company Navy Island Marine Newfoundland Dockyard North Van Ship Repair Port Arthur Shipbuilding Company Prince Rupert Drydock & Shipbuilding Russel Brothers Saint John Shipbuilding Star Shipyards Thor Iron Works Toronto Shipbuilding Company Limited Toronto Shipyards Victoria Machinery Depot W. Armour & Company Western Canada Shipyards Limited West Coast Manly Shipyards Limited Western Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company William Lyall Shipbuilding Co Yarrow Shipyards (Canada)

Historic naval shipyards and shipbuilding facilities	Amherstburg Royal Naval Dockyard Esquimalt Royal Navy Dockyard Fort Saint-Jean (Quebec) Île aux Noix Naval Shipyards Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard Naval Shipyards, York (Upper Canada) Navy Island Royal Naval Shipyard Penetanguishene Naval Yard Royal Naval Dockyard, Halifax

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