Radium Express (ship)
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The Radium Express is a Russel Brothers tugboat operated by the Northern Transportation Company. The vessel was built in Owen Sound, Ontario, disassembled, and then shipped by rail to Waterways, Alber
Hull of Radium Express being shipped to Waterways, Alberta, 1939.
Radium King
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The Radium King was built in 1937 to haul ore on the Mackenzie River, and her tributaries. This included uranium used in the US atom bombs of World War II. Later in her active career she hauled barges
Radium Express (ship)
…current. The Canadian Transportation Agency reported her speed as 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph) in 2011. On November 16, 1945, the Radium Express and the Radium King were caught by freeze up in Yellowknife. An account, published in 1953, of her first trip up the Bear River, said her propellers were first removed…
Reassembly of the Radium King, 1937.