1944 CANADA IMMIGRATION NORTH SYDNEY From NEWFOUNDLAND (DOMINION) S.S. KYLE

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The S.S.
Kyle
was built in Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, by Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson from 1912-13. The famous steamship is 220 feet (67m) in length, 32 feet (9.8m) in width, and 18 feet (5.5m) in depth. Its gross tonnage is 1,055 tonnes.
Under the direction of its first captain, Lorenzo Stevenson, the Kyle arrived in St. John’s on May 20, 1913, for coastal service. Originally part of the Reid Newfoundland Company’s Alphabet Fleet—a fleet of ships each named after Scottish towns—the
Kyle
was primarily used as a transport ship, bringing people and goods from the island to Labrador. The steamship also did the Port aux Basques-North Sydney ferry run for several years. Though strengthened for ice and nicknamed the “Bulldog of the North,” the ship was not the strongest in Reid’s fleet, but it was the fastest; at top speed, the Kyle could notch 19 miles per hour (19 knots).
In 1923 the Canadian National Railway acquired the ship from Reid Newfoundland Company.
In 1927 the
Kyle
gained international recognition, discovering the wreckage of the
Old Glory
aircraft in the Atlantic. Attempting to fly across the Atlantic, the
Old Glory
crashed 500 miles off the coast of Cape Race, Newfoundland. (Notably, an aircraft that left Harbour Grace airstrip around the same time, the
Sir John Carling,
was never recovered.)
As the first regularly scheduled ferry between Newfoundland and coastal Labrador, the
Kyle
is often fondly remembered in twentieth-century stories of the latter.
In 1958 the
Kyle
was sold to Arctic Transport Limited, who changed its name to
Arctic Eagle
.
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