Port McNicoll, ON: Lost Grain Elevator

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The information that was here about the SS Keewatin has been moved to here.

Pat Kelly posted
I just came across this aerial photo of the elevator and the slip. 🙂
Robert Cox shared
Very old picture
James Ladouceur: I think this is about 1985 and the ship in the picture is the Carol Lake which was bought by Algoma that year I worked on it that winter a painted over the Maple leaf on the stack and installed the Bear logo on it

Scott Garrett posted

Just another regular boat load of wheat at the elevator...not quite

When Scott Misener docked at the elevator on this trip in July 1951 not one but two records were recorded.

She carried a cargo of 650, 613 bushels of Canadian wheat, the largest such cargo to be carried across the great lakes at that time. CPR crews at the elevator also recorded a first when the ship was unloaded in a record time of just under 15 hours using the three marine legs. The cargo would later fill 360 boxcars for shipment east.

Scott Misener launched in 1951 for Scott Misener Steamships was renamed John E.F. Misener in 1954 when a slightly larger vessel took that namesake.

This vessel took on her final cargo in December 1982 with a storage load to Port McNicoll. The ship was then laid up never to operate in revenue trade again. In 1984 during a wind storm she was ripped from her moorings in front of the elevator and drifted across the slip becoming wedged in the harbour. Her stern slammed into one of the marine towers causing that tower to run into the other two causing structural damage to the towers. Her bow bobbed along the west side of the slip before becoming wedged and took chunks out of the concrete dock near the old coal dock. She was moved to the west side of the slip where Keewatin is now docked. Her anchor was dropped and buried in the ground. She sat idle for two more years at that location before being towed to Quebec and finally landed at Cartagena, Colombia in tandem with Golden Hind, another frequent visitor to area elevators where she was broken up for scrap in 1986. Photo Scott Garrett Collection

Matthew Frederick shared
[The comment indicates the freighter was being loaded here. But Scott says it was being unloaded. And the marine elevators with their legs in the holds also indicates it is being unloaded.]