Recherche dans la collection - [Transport Canada, Fleet Systems, plans of departmental vessels] [technical drawing]

Accession consists of drawings for the construction, alteration and repair of departmental vessels. The classes of vessels include icebreakers, ferries, weather ships, supply, lightships, search and rescue, motor lifeboats and various small vessels. The more prominent vessels represented are: Abegweit, Alberni, Argenteuil, Bluenose, Brant, Chesterville, Cygnus, C.D. Howe, C.P. Edwards, d'Iberville, Ernest Lapointe, Estevan, Federal Maple, Federal Palm, Franklin, Grenville, John Guy, Lady Gray, Lady Laurier, Lord Selkirk, N.B. McLean, Pelee Islander, Petite Forte, Prima Vista, Safeguarder, Sambro, Saurel, and William Carson.
Acquisition documentation file also includes a Feb. 1993 booklet about the Fleet Systems Technical Library.

Accession was transferred on 28 June 1988 from Transport Canada, Fleet Systems.

Scales differ.

Accession originally consisted of: ships' drawings; instructions, specification books and inspection reports; photographs; 11 v. of service account ledgers; a package of upholstery samples; and 3 packages of ca. 400 x-ray plates. The x-ray plates were disposed of in Sept. 1994 because of being unreadable.

There are 389 microfilmed items. The itemized list contains a partial inventory of the NMC microfiche numbers.

The upholstery samples were transferred in Sept. 1994 to the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes, Kingston, ON.

The photographs were transferred in Sept. 1994 to the Visual and Sound Archives. The ledgers and textual material were transferred in Jan. 1995 to Government Archives Division.