Ship was built for Department of Transport by Davie Shipbuilding, Ltd, and designed to keep Northwest Passage free; length oa 315 ft, breadth molded 70 ft, load draft 28 ft; diesel electric propulsion machinery for triple screw vessel consists of 9 Fairbanks-Morse 12-cyl diesels, each developing total of 2000 bhp at 750 rpm.
CMS John A. MacDonald: Canada's largest icebreaker!
Rivers Harbors
Rivers and Harbors ; 46 , n 3
1961
2 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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