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Clarke's Eight-Month-Old S.S. New Northland Arriving at Palm Beach CHAPTER 4 Clarke’s eight-month-old s.s. New Northland arriving at Palm Beach on January 10, 1927, to begin the first program of weekly cruises ever offered from Florida A NEW SHIP, SOUTHERN CRUISING AND NORTHERN ICE The "Northland" The order for a "steamer of special specification, strengthened for navigation in ice" mentioned by "The Gazette" in 1925 was placed with shipbuilders Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd of Newcastle upon Tyne, where, on January 30, 1926, the 3,445-ton Northland was launched at their Neptune yard. Designed by A T Wall & Company, consulting naval architects and engineers of Liverpool, with Walter Lambert as Canadian consulting architect, supervision was carried out by A T Wall and James M Dewar, consulting engineer of London. Walter Lambert, who had superintended the rebuilding of the North Shore after her fire in 1921, would play a role in the design and construction of several Clarke ships over the years. Meanwhile, "Fairplay" magazine carried news of the launching ceremony in its February 4 edition: - A luxuriously-fitted passenger and cargo vessel, ordered for the Clarke Steamship Company Ltd of Quebec by Tatham Bromage & Company Ltd, London, the well-known pulp and paper chartering agents, was launched on Friday afternoon, by Messrs Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, & Mrs Larkin, wife of the Hon Peter Larkin, High Commissioner for Canada, performing the naming ceremony. Mr Larkin and Miss Larkin, Dr Lemieux, Agent General for Quebec, and the Hon Victor Gordon, High Commissioner for Newfoundland, were also present. The new vessel is the Northland, and in respect of her accommodation for passengers she is a worthy successor to the many notable vessels of the liner type which have been built in the same shipyard. Her overall length is 302 ft, her moulded breadth 47 ft, her moulded depth 24 ft 6 in, and at a maximum load draft of 17 ft she will carry 2,000 tons deadweight. Her service speed will be 13 knots. The height between the decks, especially the decks on which passengers are accommodated, is impressive. There is provision for 142 first-class passengers, 76 third-class passengers, and a crew of 58 - a full complement, that is, of 276 - and the accommodation has been very carefully designed for the St Lawrence service in which the vessel will be engaged. Nearly the whole of the upper deck is devoted to first- class passengers in cabins which leave very little to be desired in respect of either comfort or artistic beauty. Two-thirds of the passengers are provided for in large cabins, none of which has a less area than 108 sq ft. Forty-five of the rooms are two- berth cabins, while none of the remainder contains more than three berths. In twenty-six, cot beds are fitted, and adjoining twelve are bathrooms. The latter rooms are cabins de luxe and are in pairs in different styles of internal decoration with furniture to match. They have dressing tables and easy chairs. The first-class dining saloon has a height of 8 ft 6 in and in it 82 persons can be accommodated at one time at tables chiefly arranged for two or four people. It is panelled in mahogany finished in cream enamel, the decorations around the port lights being of rich design. The lounge ... is an ideal apartment from which to observe the scenery through which the ship is passing. It has an area of 1,200 sq ft, and in its sides and end there are no fewer than 27 windows, 36 in by 20 in. The floor has been laid in oak on bearers, and levelled across the ship in order to make it suitable for dancing. An electric fireplace is fitted, and there is a raised roof extending for the whole length of the room and for nearly half its width. The panelling is of polished mahogany and the decorations as a whole have been carried out with fine artistic taste. The smoking room, which is at the after end of the promenade deck, and also has a raised roof, has for one of its features a coal fireplace. The panelling is in carefully selected white oak with a wax finish. Abaft the smoke-room and entered from it is a verandah café from which an uninterrupted view can be obtained on either beam and astern. The after end of the promenade deck for a length of 55 ft is reserved as a space for promenading and deck games. There is also generous promenading space on the boat deck. In the main 'tween decks four cargo spaces are arranged, two of them being insulated for the carriage of chilled or frozen meat, dairy produce, etc. All the cargo, except that in the forward hold, will be worked through large side doors and special arrangements have been made for its rapid and noiseless handling. Six months earlier, Peter Larkin, whose wife christened the Northland, had presided over the inauguration of Canada House in London's Trafalgar Square, as it was officially opened by King George V and Queen Mary on June 29, 1925. Larkin had founded the Salada Tea Co Ltd in Toronto in the 1890s. As Tatham Bromage not only handled the Gulf Pulp & Paper business out of Clarke City but had also chartered the tonnage required to transport materials for the new Corner Brook paper port in 1923-25, their choice as newbuilding broker had been most appropriate. As it happened, however, the Northland turned out to be the only steamship ever ordered by Clarke. Although it would purchase many steamships, including newbuildings, in future Clarke would build only motorships for its own account. An Early Start for 1926 Eight weeks after the Northland's launch, while she was still being fitted out and prepared for delivery across the Atlantic, the Gaspesia took the company's first sailing of 1926, a March 27 departure from Quebec to the North Shore. "Le Soleil" reported her return to Quebec on April 6, under the heading "Rich cargo on the Gaspesia" : - Furs to the value of $100,000 (fox, muskrat, otter, mink, etc) along with 150 lumberjacks were the valuable treasures brought back yesterday morning by the Gaspesia of the Clarke Trading Co, back from a trip to various centres on the North Shore. The forests in the vicinity of Shelter Bay and Godbout are plentiful with game of all sorts, which is why numerous trappers in the service of the furriers leave every year for this hunt... Confusing the Clarke Steamship Co with the Clarke Trading Co was not surprising. In the early years, the two companies worked so closely together that the Clarke Steamship Co even used "Clarketrad" as its cable address. In fact, in 1922 and 1923 there had been parliamentary votes in Ottawa to pay the Clarke Trading Co $1,500 each year for the "transportation of supplies to the inhabitants of the North Shore." At $100,000, the Gaspesia's haul was impressive. Twenty years earlier, Victor Huard had estimated the value of all furs sent to London in a season from the coast between Bersimis and the Strait of Belle Isle at about $80,000. And a typical voyage by a large Hudson's Bay Co fur trader would land between $150,000 and $750,000 of furs on the London market for a full season, and that from all the lands of the company. This North Shore voyage by the Gaspesia, which was usually employed on the Gaspé Coast, was typical of early season sailings. The Gaspesia was a better ship in ice and Clarke ships would thus depart from their normal duties on their first voyages as they were available in order to meet the prevailing cargo needs before the full season began. Although the Gaspesia often made early spring voyages to the North Shore, later in her career she would become more familiar with that coast. Even before the Gaspesia's first sailing, however, the icebreaker CGS Mikula had made a special voyage to Havre-St-Pierre, where she had delivered Louis T Blais, a couple of other passengers and mail on March 11. Blais went there as local manager of the Clarke Trading Co, a post that had become vacant because of the unfortunate death of the previous manager, Alfred Cormier, the week before in a house fire. It was rare for Clarke personnel to travel in anything other than a Clarke ship but had he awaited the first departure of the Gaspesia his arrival would have delayed by a month. Anticipation in Newfoundland A couple of weeks after the Gaspesia returned to Quebec, "The Western Star," the newspaper of Corner Brook and the west coast of Newfoundland, reported on the anticipated arrival of the new ship. On April 21, 1926, the day that Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II, was born in England, it reported that: - Corner Brook and Curling will shortly receive the first of many visits from a newcomer, the Northland, the new passenger and cargo vessel of the Clarke Steamship Company. She has completed a highly successful trial run at Newcastle, England, and will shortly leave on her trip across the ocean to Quebec and Montreal, where she will be welcomed with a special program of festivities and will be open to inspection for several days. After the formalities of registry, etc., have been completed the ship will commence her regular service from Montreal to Gaspé and Newfoundland, under the command of Capt William Tremblay, formerly of the Gaspesia. The Northland, besides having luxurious accommodation for 142 first- class passengers and cabins for 76 third-class passengers, has special freight provisions of particular interest to Newfoundland.
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