page_title: Port Weller Dry Docks
section_title: Ships
hierarchical_section_title: Port Weller Dry Docks / Ships
caption_attribution_description: English: Maintenance work performed on Leadale at Port Weller Dry Docks in 1975 in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Leadale was launched in 1910 (as the Harry Yates) and scrapped in 1979. (Digitized from original Kodachrome.)
context_page_description: Port Weller Dry Docks was a shipbuilder located on the Welland Canal at the Lake Ontario entrance. The shipbuilder was founded in 1946 and the site was initially owned by the Government of Canada for storage purchases. The shipyard expanded to include ship repair, and reconstruction work. In 1956, the drydock was sold to the Upper Lakes Shipping Company, which began the construction of vessels at the site. The shipyard twice went insolvent, most recently in 2015. Port Weller Dry Docks was used to build, refit and repair cargo vessels.
context_section_description: Ships built at this facility include:
  CCGS Des Groseilliers icebreaker for Canadian Coast Guard
  Holiday Island for Canadian National Railway
  Vacationland for Canadian National Railway
  Windsolite Imperial Oil tanker
  Canadian Progress - 1968 - largest self-unloading bulk carrier on the Great Lakes at launch
  Dal-housie City a local passenger vessel
  Saskadoc - large bulk carrier
  Bruce Hudson - oil tanker
  Makaweli - tanker
  Wellandoc (Brampton) - bauxite carrier during World War II
  Handy Boy - floating steam crane
  John A. France 1960 - Great Lakes bulk carrier - renamed Algoriver in 1994 by Algoma Central and scrapped in Turkey 2003
  Coalfax - converted self-loader
  Soreldoc - laker
  Bayanna - self-loading steamer
  C.H. Houson 1929 - canaller
  Ralph S. Misener 1968 - bulk carrier and named for President of Scott Misner Steamships Limited was built in Montreal and now renamed Gordan C Leitch
  Norman B. Macpherson - former canal bulk carrier Loadmaster
  Lt. John Misener - bulk laker built as Scott Misner and renamed 1954
  Texaco Brave - oil tanker
  Blue Cross
  Blue River
  Transtream - tanker
  Translate
  Clevelander
  Governor - tug
  Is-obel and Sidney Mac - dredgers
  The Inland (Transinland) - canallers
  Milverton  (Clary Foran)
  Imperial Whitby (self-unloader George S. Gleet) - tanker
  Texaco Warrior - oil tanker
  Scott Misener 1951 - bulker laker and renamed John E F Misner 1954
  John O. McKellar 1952 - laker
  Rocky River - tug
  Black River and Pic River - diesel driven bulkers
  Robert Woods
  Albion - steamer
  Captain C.D. Secord - steamer
  Grey Beaver - bulk carrier
  C.A. Ansell (Fairlake and Ralph S. Misener)
  Chicago Tribune - newsprinter carrier (came to Port Weller)
  Jiimaan (1992), ferry servicing Pelee, Ontario
caption: Leadale at Port Weller Dry Docks in 1975
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