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Irving Shipbuilding's newest facility, an office space located in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, is home to Irving's CSC team and Fleetway Inc. At nearly 600 people, the Bluenose Building is home to one of the largest engineering and design workforces in Canada. [3] the Irving Group laid off about 100 workers in 2004 and left the site idle since.
The Irving Group of Companies is an informal name given to those companies owned and controlled by the Irving family of New Brunswick —descendants of Canadian industrialist K.C. Irving: his sons James K. (1928–2024), Arthur (1930–2024), and John (1932–2010), and their respective children.
The shipyard was sold in the 1950s to the industrialist K.C. Irving. The ensuing corporate restructuring saw the company renamed Saint John Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Ltd.. By the 1980s, it came to be known simply as Saint John Shipbuilding and was the flagship of a collection of eastern Canadian shipyards operated by Irving Shipbuilding.
River-class destroyer (2030s) The River-class destroyer, formerly the Canadian Surface Combatant (CSC), and Single Class Surface Combatant Project is the procurement project that will replace the Iroquois and Halifax -class warships with up to 15 new ships beginning in the early 2030s as part of the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy ...
Bluenose was a fishing and racing gaff rig schooner built in 1921 in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada.A celebrated racing ship and fishing vessel, Bluenose under the command of Angus Walters, became a provincial icon for Nova Scotia and an important Canadian symbol in the 1930s, serving as a working vessel until she was wrecked in 1946.
Bay Shipbuilding Company (BSC) is a shipyard and dry dock company in Sturgeon Bay, Door County, Wisconsin. As of 2015, Bay Ships was a subsidiary of Fincantieri Marine Group and produces articulated tug and barges, OPA-90 compliant double hull tank ships and offshore support vessels. [1] It also provides repair services to the lake freighter ...
The shipyard planned a replacement as part of its preparations for implementing the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy. [9] [10] In 2013 Irving Shipbuilding started its $300-million modernization of the Halifax Shipyard to accommodate the building of vessels for the federal government. [11]
The National Shipbuilding Strategy (NSS), formerly the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy (NSPS), is a Government of Canada program operated by the Department of Public Works and Government Services. The NSS was developed under the Stephen Harper Government in an effort to renew the fleets of the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) and the ...