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     designed for the strenuous work of combatting the ice-Hoes, 
     
     and have been wonderfully successful, often pushing their 
     
     way through “shoved ice eight feet in thickness.” The 
     
     steamers are so constructed that they run up on heavy ice 
     
     and break it by sheer weight. The Stanley was built at 
     
     Govan, on the Clyde, in 1888, and is constructed throughout 
     
     of Siemen’s Martin steel. Her dimensions are : length, 207 
     
     feet; breadth, 32 feet; depth, 20 feet 3 inches. She is a screw 
     
     boat of 914 tons gross, and 300 horse power, and attains a 
     
     speed of nearly fifteen knots in clear water. The [Wilda was 
     
     built in 1899, at Dundee, Scotland. She is 225 feet long, 
     
     32 feet 6 inches broad, and 20 feet 6 inches deep; 1,089 tons 
     
     gross tonnage; indicated horse power, 2,900; nominal, 362; 
     
     with a speed of fifteen knots. A new and still more power- 
     
     ful ice-breaker, will, it is expected, be ready for service in 
     
     thewinter of 1906-1907. 
     
    
   
   
    
     At The Capes—In mid-winter the work of the ice— 
     
     breakers is supplemented by the ice-boat service between 
     
     Cape Traverse on the Island and Cape Tormentine on the 
     
     New Brunswick shore, a distance of nine miles—both points 
     
     being tapped by railways. For some weeks of nearly every 
     
     winter this service affords the quickest and most reliable 
     
     means of crossing. It has always been attended with 
     
     difficulty, and in some cases in the past with danger. Of 
     
     late years, however, the service has been greatly improved, 
     
     compasses, provisions, fur wraps, etc., being carried, and 
     
     everything being done to ensure safe passages. The 
     
     standard ice—boat is of oak planked with cedar, the planks 
     
     being covered with tin, and is eighteen feet long, five feet 
     
     wide, and two and a half feet deep. The boat has a double 
     
     keel, which serves for runners, and four leather straps are 
     
     attached to each side. The passage usually occupies three 
     
     and a half hours, but when there is much “lolly”—small 
     
     particles of ice floating in the water, often to the depth of 
     
     several feet—and when tide and wind are unfavourable, the 
     
    
   
   
    
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