Government Shipyard
Sorel QC
Most recent update: July 16, 2021.
In the 19th century, the Canadian Government built much of its marine construction equipment - dredges, barges, etc. - at a shipyard in Sorel. In 1906, this yard was turned over to the Canadian Coast Guard to manage and, not surprisingly, it began to build more complex vessels. In 1937, it was sold to Joseph Simard's Consolidated Marine Companies, which already owned the nearby Chantiers Manseau, and the two yards together became Marine Industries, Lte, (MIL). This table appears to be far from complete.
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| O/N | Name | Customer | Type | Tons | Built | Notes | |
| Frontenac | Canadian Coast Guard | tugboat | 262 | 1901 | scrapped 1927 | ||
| Lac St. Pierre | Canadian Coast Guard | tugboat | 100 | 1901 | sold 1943 | ||
| James Howden | Canadian Coast Guard | tugboat | 100 | 1903 | scrapped 1929 | ||
| W. S. Fielding | Dept of Public Works | dredger | 1,854 | 1905 | later P.W.D. No. 1 1914, Riding Mountain Park 1943, Empire Pike 1945, Basingford 1946, scrapped 1949 | ||
| Rouville | Canadian Coast Guard | fisheries patrol | 301 | 1906 | foundered 1920s | ||
| M. & F. No. 8 | Dept of Marine & Fisheries | dredger | 2,050 | 1906 | later D.M. No. 8 1930, deleted 1973 | ||
| Vercheres | Canadian Coast Guard | buoy tender | 147 | 1906 | scrapped 1928 | ||
| Montmagny | Canadian Coast Guard | buoy tender | 1,269 | 1909 | lost in collision off Crane Is, 26nm below Quebec 1914 | ||
| Lambton | Canadian Coast Guard | buoy tender | 323 | 1909 | lost near Caribou Island 1922 | ||
| Varennes | Canadian Coast Guard | tugboat | 187 | 1911 | scrapped 1943 | ||
| Becancour | ferry | 214 | 1914 | ||||
| 138457 | Detector | Canadian Coast Guard | Sounding Vessel | 584 | 1915 | preserved ashore at L'Islet sur Mer 1979 | |
| Coal Barge No. 6 | Ministry of Transport | barge | 595 | 1915 | later Roseleaf 1945, B.F. 1951, lost off Mitis-sur-Mer 1951 | ||
| Bradbury | Canadian Coast Guard | fisheries patrol | 1915 | built KD, assembled in Selkirk MB, retired 1973, in the Marine Museum of Manitoba | |||
| Berthier | Canadian Coast Guard | survey ship | 368 | 1916 | sold 1961 | ||
| Ostrea | Canadian Coast Guard | Oyster Prot'n. | 111 | 1916 | sold 1930, wrecked 1934 | ||
| Argenteuil | Canadian Coast Guard | buoy tender | 165 | 1917 | sold 1960, sank 1962 | ||
| CD-51 | Royal Navy | Drifter | 100 | 1917 | sold 1922 | ||
| CD-52 | Royal Navy | Drifter | 100 | 1917 | sold 1922 | ||
| CD-53 | Royal Navy | Drifter | 100 | 1917 | sold as Karrier 1922 | ||
| TR-32 | Royal Navy | trawler | 275 | 1918 | sold as Authorpe 1926 | ||
| TR-33 | Royal Navy | trawler | 275 | 1918 | sold as Windroos 1927, then Freddy, sunk 1940 but raised, designated M-3230, sunk by mine 1944 | ||
| TR-34 | Royal Navy | trawler | 275 | 1918 | sold as Valentia 1919, Etoile du Nord 1928, mined off Dunkirk 1940 | ||
| TR-51 | Royal Navy | trawler | 274 | 1918 | sold as Marie Caroline 1919 | ||
| TR-52 | Royal Navy | trawler | 274 | 1918 | sold as Marie-Mad 1919, mined off Ajaccio 1943 | ||
| TR-53 | Royal Navy | trawler | 274 | 1918 | sold as Marie Therese II 1920, captured 1940, designated M-4204, sunk by bombing 1944 | ||
| Brant | Canadian Coast Guard | buoy tender | 285 | 1927 | laid up 1966 | ||
| Coal Barge No. 7 | Ministry of Transport | barge | 502 | 1927 | later buoy tender Alberni 1936, scrapped 1961 | ||
| Lanoraie | Canadian Coast Guard | survey ship | 177 | 1928 | sold 1956 | ||
| Frontenac | Canadian Coast Guard | tugboat | 248 | 1930 | sold 1967 | ||
| 192908 | Niangua | closed | |||||
| 194540 | Louis D | barge | 919 | 1932 | later Basse-Cote | ||
| 172244 | D.T. Sounding Scow No. 3 | Port of Montreal | work boat | 160 | 1935 |