![]() ![]() Mechanical breakdowns weren't slowing down Marine Atlantic ferries earlier this week - it was the housework. Last Updated: Wednesday, J| 8:22 AM NT Comments29Recommend29CBC News You can write c/o Letters to the Editor Cape Breton Post, 255 George St., PO Box 1500, Sydney N.S., BIP 6K6 or fax We welcome your comments on this column or any other material appearing in the Post. ![]() Rannie Gillis is an author and avid Celtic historian whose column appears every week in the Cape Breton Post. They did, however, have washbasin facilities. Four-berth cabins on C-Deck ($10) and F-Deck ($8), deep in the bowels of the ship, did not have a bathroom. William Carson:ĭeLuxe cabins on B-Deck ($10 one way) had two single beds, and a small bathroom with private toilet. ![]() There were three different categories of cabins available on the M.V. Rail service is also available from Port aux Basques to all points in Newfoundland.” “Convenient train connections at North Sydney to and from Halifax, Moncton, Montreal, Saint John, Boston, etc. The back of the brochure had a map of eastern Canada, which indicated the route of Canadian National train service in this part of the country. John’s, your ticket price also included your ferry passage. An adult passenger ticket cost $5 one way ($28.75 today), and the cost to transport your car was $16 one way ($81.50 today).Īn interesting footnote in the brochure said: “Through rail fares include transportation on the ferry.” This meant, for example, that if you bought a ticket to go by train from Halifax to St. She would then leave Newfoundland at noon, and arrive back in Cape Breton at supper hour. She would leave North Sydney at midnight and arrive in Port aux Basques six and half hours later. In the summer months the Carson made two return trips each day. In addition to a nice photo of the ship, it has a picture of a deLuxe cabin ($10 one way), the ladies lounge, and the cafeteria, where I used to work while a student at Xavier Junior College in Sydney. I have in front of me, as I write, a little illustrated brochure on the M.V. She has four vehicle decks, as compared to two on the Caribou or Smallwood, and can carry more than 530 cars, or a smaller number of cars, trucks, motorcycles, etc. Although her passenger capacity of 700 is less than either the Caribou or Smallwood, she can carry almost twice the number of motor vehicles. She is 670 feet long, with a top speed of 27 knots. Built in Germany in 2002, the new vessel is significantly larger than any previous ship on the Newfoundland service. Joseph and Clara Smallwood, arrived four years later, in 1990.Įarlier this spring North Sydney welcomed the third generation of ‘super ship’, the M.V. Her virtually identical sister ship, the M.V. Caribou, also built in Quebec, is approximately 580 feet long, has a top speed of 22 knots, with a capacity of 1,200 passengers and 350 automobiles. Thirty-one years later, in 1986, the second generation of so-called ‘super ships’ arrived on the scene. The Carson, as she came to be known, was 351 feet long, had a top speed of 16 knots and could carry 292 passengers and 50 automobiles. ![]() Built in Quebec, she represented the first generation of East Coast drive-on/drive-off ferries that would modernize the transportation system between mainland Canada and her newest province. The year 1955 marked the beginning of a new era in ferry service across the Cabot Strait, with the arrival of the brand new M.V. Atlantic Vision is the new big boy of ferries ![]()
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