Organization: Library and Archives Canada
Year: 2021
Month: August
Request Number: A-2020-02381
Request Summary: To whom it may concern, hello, we would like to know the identity of a wreck located north of Île Blanche, St. Lawrence River, Quebec, whose presence is indicated on the nautical charts at the following approximate position: 48° 0'N, 69°39'W. The wreck lies about 47 m (154 ft) deep. According to an article in Le Soleil on June 17, 1949, page 17, it would be the floating mechanical crane "Muscextension" whose barge which was towing it - named "International" - was the victim of a collision with the Sein, a French ship of the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique de Paris, in 1949.
Disposition: All excluded
Number of pages: 0