A Canadian Monitor
- Publication
- Marine Review (Cleveland, OH), 2 Jun 1892, p. 3
Description
- Creator
- Redway, W. E.
- Item Type
- Drawings
- Inscriptions
- Canada’s Contribution to the List of Monitors.
Canadian vessel owners have for some time past been discussing plans of a freight vessel of the monitor type prepared by Engineer W. E. Redway of Toronto. Mr. Redway is connected with the John Doty Engine Works, operating an engine building plant in Toronto and also an iron shipyard. The announcement that Thomas Marks & Co. of Port Arthur and other Canadian capitalists are considering the question of entering into a contract for a boat of the new type has added interest to the plans. As shown by the illustration presented with this article, for which we are indebted to Thomas Marks & Co., Mr. Redway’s model is fashioned like an Indian canoe. The boat represented by the illustration is 255 feet long, 38 feet beam and 20 feet hold (Welland canal size), and is intended to carry 2,000 tons on 14 feet draft. In appearance such a craft as that proposed by Mr. Redway would be an improvement on other vessels of the monitor, straightback and whaleback type, but the plans will undoubtedly meet with severe criticism on the score of cost in construction, disadvantage in location of machinery, etc. - Subject(s)
- Language of Item
- English
- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to the applicable Canadian or American laws. No restrictions on use.
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