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Radium Dew The Radium Dew was launched in 1955.[1] She displaced 300 tonnes, and was the largest boat on the Mackenzie River system.[2]
In 1964 the vessel was still called "the most powerful vessel on the Mackenzie River".[3]
In 2005 the Atomic Energy Canada published a stody on the toxic legacy of the mining of radioactive ore at Port Radium.[1] It said that the Radium Dew and all other surviving vessels, with the exception of the Radium Gilbert, were uncontaminated. In 2005 she was "privately owned" in Hay River.
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"Status Report for the Historic Northern Transportation Route redacted colour" (PDF). Atomic Energy of Canada. December 2005. p. 86. Retrieved 2018-01-13.
Ships were used along the NTR to move barges loaded with uranium ore and concentrates (among other materials and supplies). Some vessels also transported cargo on board. Fifteen Radium Series vessels used along the NTR were identified in SENES (1994). Three were ddetermined to have been scrapped, and the disposition of one, the Radium Cruiser, was unknown. Radiological investigations were conducted on the other eleven vessels. Only one, the Radium Gilbert, showed any evidence of contamination.
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Hugh MacLennan (1959-04-11). "The high and mighty MACKENZIE". Maclean's magazine. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
But now' the Northern Transportation Company, after lengthening the old portage by another ten miles down to Bell Rock, was using cat-tracks to haul their barges across. Cat-tracks portaged the tugboats also, even the three-hundred-ton Radium Dew, which is equipped with an echosounder and is the largest boat on the river.
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"Item G-1979-023: 1172". NWT archives. 1964. Retrieved 2018-01-14.
Robert Christie at wheel of $750.00 Radium Dew [ship], the most powerful vessel on the Mackenzie River.
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