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Company. As part of his intention to make the yard bigger, he had a 2,500 ton marine railway installed. Following the installation, the shipyard offered ship repair, boiler making and general engineering services. In 1937, the shipyard received its first Royal
Canadian Navy contract when a minesweeper,
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To improve the yard's capability in building and launching large cargo ships during the Second World War, the river upstream from Morton
Engineering was dredged in order to give room for newly launched larger cargo ships space to turn around. It was also dredged downstream in order to connect it to a
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Morton
Engineering constructed corvettes and frigates for the Royal and Royal Canadian Navies as part of the convoy escort construction programmes. This included some corvettes that were later transferred to the United States. In 1941, the St. Lawrence During the war the yard employed 2700 workers at
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Between the wars, the shipyard changed hands. In 1919, it was purchased by W.J. Morton who changed the name of the shipyard to Quebec
Docking & Ship Repairing Company in 1927 after incorporating it. In 1928 he changed it again, giving it its more well known name, Morton Engineering and Dry Dock
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The site of the yard limited its ability to launch larger ships. It was only the installation of the marine railway that allowed the shipyard to launch modern ships. The ships were pulled sideways from launching ways on the west side of the river onto a railway cradle and from there were lowered
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and the two operated a joint fitting out yard located in the Louise Basin. This was due to hull construction outpacing the fitting out of ships. This would lead to labour strife and in June 1943 a strike by the workers at the shipyards would slow production. Following this, the two yards were
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its peak. This was beyond the capability of the yard's management and in 1943 the
Canadian Government took over running the yard and operated it until the end of the war. The Morton yard was partnered with the
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