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Kingston Shipyards, the Glossary

Kingston Shipyards was a Canadian shipbuilder and ship repair company that operated from 1910 to 1968.^[1]

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1910 establishments in Ontario
1968 disestablishments in Ontario
History of shipbuilding in Ontario
Manufacturing companies disestablished in 1968
Manufacturing companies established in 1910
Shipbuilding companies of Canada

Barge

Barge often refers to a flat-bottomed inland waterway vessel which does not have its own means of mechanical propulsion.

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Board of Ordnance

The Board of Ordnance was a British government body.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Canada Steamship Lines

Canada Steamship Lines (CSL) is a shipping company with headquarters in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Canadian Coast Guard

The Canadian Coast Guard (CCG; Garde côtière canadienne, GCC) is the coast guard of Canada.

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Cap-Chat

Cap-Chat is a town in the Canadian province of Québec, in the Regional County Municipality of Haute-Gaspésie, and in the administrative region of Gaspésie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine.

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Cargo ship

A cargo ship or freighter is a merchant ship that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another.

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Collingwood Shipbuilding was a major Canadian shipbuilder of the late 19th and 20th centuries. Kingston Shipyards and Collingwood Shipbuilding are Defunct manufacturing companies of Canada, history of shipbuilding in Ontario and Shipbuilding companies of Canada.

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Corvette

A corvette is a small warship.

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Cutter (boat)

A cutter is a name for various types of watercraft.

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Dredging

Dredging is the excavation of material from a water environment.

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Dry dock

A dry dock (sometimes drydock or dry-dock) is a narrow basin or vessel that can be flooded to allow a load to be floated in, then drained to allow that load to come to rest on a dry platform.

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English Channel

The English Channel, also known as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Southern England from northern France.

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Ferry

A ferry is a boat that transports passengers, and occasionally vehicles and cargo, across a body of water.

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Float (nautical)

Floats (also called pontoons) are airtight hollow structures, similar to pressure vessels, designed to provide buoyancy in water.

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Foundry

A foundry is a factory that produces metal castings.

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Government of Canada

The Government of Canada (Gouvernement du Canada) is the body responsible for the federal administration of Canada.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.

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Great Lakes Museum

The Marine Museum of the Great Lakes is a museum dedicated to marine history in the Great Lakes.

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Gross tonnage

Gross tonnage (GT, G.T. or gt) is a nonlinear measure of a ship's overall internal volume.

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John Counter

John Counter (April 18, 1799 – October 29, 1862) was a Canadian businessman and political figure.

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Ketch

A ketch is a two-masted sailboat whose mainmast is taller than the mizzen mast (or aft-mast), and whose mizzen mast is stepped forward of the rudder post.

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Kingston, Ontario

Kingston is a city in Ontario, Canada, on the northeastern end of Lake Ontario.

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Lake freighter

Lake freighters, or lakers, are bulk carrier vessels operating on the Great Lakes of North America.

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Lake Ontario

Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes of North America.

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Landing craft

Landing craft are small and medium seagoing watercraft, such as boats and barges, used to convey a landing force (infantry and vehicles) from the sea to the shore during an amphibious assault.

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Lightship

A lightvessel, or lightship, is a ship that acts as a lighthouse.

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Minesweeper

A minesweeper is a small warship designed to remove or detonate naval mines.

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Ministry of War Transport

The Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) was a department of the British Government formed early in the Second World War to control transportation policy and resources.

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Naval mine

A naval mine is a self-contained explosive device placed in water to damage or destroy surface ships or submarines.

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Naval ship

A naval ship (or naval vessel) is a military ship (or sometimes boat, depending on classification) used by a navy.

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Passenger ship

A passenger ship is a merchant ship whose primary function is to carry passengers on the sea.

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Patent slip

A patent slip or marine railway is an inclined plane extending from shoreline into water, featuring a "cradle" onto which a ship is first floated, and a mechanism to haul the ship, attached to the cradle, out of the water onto a slip.

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Public Services and Procurement Canada

Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC; Services publics et Approvisionnement Canada),Public Services and Procurement Canada is the applied title under the Federal Identity Program; the legal title is Department of Public Works and Government Services.

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Pulpwood

Pulpwood can be defined as timber that is ground and processed into a fibrous pulp.

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Royal Canadian Mounted Police

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP; Gendarmerie royale du Canada; GRC) is the national police service of Canada.

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Royal Canadian Navy

The Royal Canadian Navy (RCN; Marine royale canadienne, MRC) is the naval force of Canada.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.

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Sawmill

A sawmill (saw mill, saw-mill) or lumber mill is a facility where logs are cut into lumber.

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Scow

A scow is a smaller type of barge.

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Shipbuilding

Shipbuilding is the construction of ships and other floating vessels.

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St. Lawrence II

The STV St.

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St. Lawrence River

The St.

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St. Lawrence Seaway

The St.

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Steam engine

A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.

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STV Pathfinder

STV Pathfinder is a traditionally rigged brigantine formerly operated by, a sail training organization based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from 1963-2017.

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Sulawesi

Sulawesi, also known as Celebes, is an island in Indonesia.

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Thomas Kirkpatrick (Canadian politician)

Thomas Kirkpatrick, (December 25, 1805 – March 26, 1870) was a Canadian lawyer and political figure.

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Tour boat

A tour boat is a boat used, and frequently purpose-built or adapted, for boat tours, a type of tourism frequently offered in much visited towns and cities of historic interest, that have canals or a river running through it, or that lie on a coast or a lake.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_Shipyards

Also known as Kingston Shipbuilding, Kingston Shipbuilding Co., Kingston Shipbuilding Co. Ltd, Kingston Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Kingston Shipbuilding Company.

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Kingston Shipyards, the Glossary

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See also

1910 establishments in Ontario

1968 disestablishments in Ontario

History of shipbuilding in Ontario

Manufacturing companies disestablished in 1968

Manufacturing companies established in 1910

Shipbuilding companies of Canada

References