m.s Nina Bowater

Unloading a steam boiler in Corner Brook. There are two cranes doing the lift. There were steel plates under the cranes to spread the load on the wooden wharf. We had to turn the ship round so they could reach the one on the other side.

There was a drought and the hydro electric power station could not produce electricity so the mill purchased two boilers from a scrap yard that had just removed them from a US military ship they were taking apart. It was loaded in the Norfolk scrap yard and we had to make a trip down from Baltimore over the week end to load it then go back to Baltimore to discharge the newsprint. We were told the boiler was to be left in the open with a second hand steam turbine driving an old generator under canvas until the rains came. Courtesy of Tom Kearsey.

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