$20,000 TO LOCAL FIRM

Bounty puts North Van
Shipbuilders in business

THE WINDS of Expo 86 have begun to blow life back into
a portion of North Vancouver's anemic shipbuilding in-

dustry.

The 39-metre replica of the
HMS Hounty sailed into North
Vancouver's Allied Shipbuilders
Ltd. Wednesday to undergo an
underwater survey of the ship's
steel hull, and an overhaul to it's
below deck interior.

“It comes at a good time,"
Allied manager Jim McLaren said
of the Bounty contract.

McLaren estimated total cost of
the work to be $20,000, and said
the ship will be in the Allied yard
until the end of April.

Invoived in the underwater
survey, McLaren said, would be
the removal of the ship's propeller
and tail shaft, and a major inspec-
tion of such things as the Bounty’s
sea valves,

fy TIMOTHY RENSHAW
| News Reporter

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Below ‘decks, Allied will be rear-
ranging bulkheads to add space for
Staterooms that Bounty passengers
will be using in the course of the
ship’s two-year round-the-world
voyage.

The Bounty, built in 1982 for
the film remake of Mutiny on the
Bounty, is in’ Vancouver to par-
ticipate in Expo 86 opening cere-
monies. . :

Describing the work as ‘‘a fussy,
small yard job’’, McLaren said his
yard won the contract because it

NEWS photo Tory Petors

THE CLASSIC lines of the Bounty fill an Allied Shipbufiders Ltd. dry-
dock. Built in 1982 for the remake of Mutiny On the Bounty, the 39-
metre steel-hulied sailing ship arrived in the North Vancouver shipyard
’ April 2 (o undergo an underwater survey and below-deck renovation.

Local hockey player
dies in car accident

A 15-year-old North Van-
couver hockey player,
returning from a. provincial
- tournament in Williams
. Lake, was killed in a single
car accident Thursday.

“Trevor Craven, who played for
the North Shore Winter Club, was
one of three local Bantam A team
members in the car when the acci-
dent occurred at
5:40 p.m, six miles south of 100
Mile House on Highway 97.

Driver Edward. Knight, 55, his
son Ross. Knight, 14, and Neil
McEachern, 16, all of North Van-
couver, were taken to Kamloops
Royal Inland Hospital and are in
satisfactory condition. :

An RCMP spokesman at the 10!
Mile House detachment said the
investigation reveals the driver lost
contro! of the vehicle and it rolled
over.

He said if charges are laid they
would be under the Motor Vehicle
Act.

approximately .

Although there was a_ slight
rainfall, the spokesman said, road

Weather:

Mainly sunny Sunday and
Monday. A few showers
Tuesday. Highs near 123°C.

has both the necessary dry-dock
facilities, and the pool of talented
manpower best suited to such
work.

“It's no different than the new
construction standard work we
might do on icebreakers,"’ Mclaren
said. ‘‘Besides the bowsprit and
the rigging, the Bounty is basically
similar to other vessels we're used
to working on."

In addition to work on the
Bounty, Allied has been contracted
to refit two vessels for Harbour
Ferries Ltd.

The Scenic, originally built in
1908, and the Hollyburn, original-
ly built in 1936, will be used during
Expo to shuttle passengers up and
down False Creek and from
Canada Harbor Place to False
Creek.

FLOATING OFFICE

The 70-foot Scenic has the
distinction of having been the only
floating post office in the British
Empire.

The 110-foot Hollyburn was the
last of the ferries that ran between
West Vancouver and Vancouver,
making its last run in that capacity
in 1945.

Work on the tvo vessels will be
completed in time for the May 2
Expo opening. McLaren said the
total contract is worth $400,000 to
Allied.

The influx of the Expo contracts
has allowed Allied to hire a por-
tion of shipyard workers laid off
with the recent closure of other
local yards. Eight joiners and
shipwrights from Bel-Aire Ship-
yard have found work with Allied
in the recent ship refitting.

Allied is also constructing a new
$3 million floating dry-dock,
McLaren said. The dock’s
2,000-ton lifting capacity will give
the North Vancouver yard the abil-
ity to bid for repair contracts on
larger vessels, including those in
the B.C, Ferry Corporation, fed-
eral fisheries and Coast Guard
fleets.

Allied’s present 600-ton,
floating-steel dry-dock is being us-
ed to do work on the Bounty. The
yard also has a 300-ton wooden
drydock, which is used primarily
for servicing commercial fishing
boats.

conditions were not responsible for
the non-alcohol related accident.

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