| Summary: | Part One: Horatio Cluett interviewed by Jeffrey Pittman about Marystown Shipyard, occupational life, naval architecture, types of occupations. 00:00-collector, Jeffrey Pittman, November 26, 2019, Marystown; informant, Horatio Cluett, born 1948, lives in Garnish, NL; 00:44-grade 11, electronics, 1967 clerk in outfitting department, Marystown Shipyard, superintendent, lofting, patterns, molds, plate cutting; 03:33-outfiting department, painting, insulation, joinery, New Brunswick, Joe Deveau, Marystown; 04:03-design office, chief draftsman, Tim Colton, England, College of Fisheries, naval architecture, first local person in design office; 06;11-contrators, waning shipbuilding , England, designers, Canada, family issues, build local team, Tim Whelan, Gary Taylor, Al Slaney, Chris West, Rob Thompson, very good design team; 09:40-1967 marine Institute, back to yard every summer, plastering walls of design office; 10:19-tough at first, wood shipbuilding, no welders, machinists, vocational school training, first trawlers simple, supply boats, ferries more complicated, trades learned and grew together, transition from wood to steel; 11:35-Billy Foote, Gerald Foote, Len Grandy, molds, lofting floor, Max Grandy, syncrolift, Steven Leonard Grandy, dory builder, 3000 Grandy dories, Grand Bank; 14:20-total change, learning new skills, wooden ships, steel ships, shipyard meant the world to local builders, 40 hour week, good pay, formerly worked schooners, trap skiffs; 16:00- steel construction experience, workers from England, some designers, welder foremen, platers, mechanical people, pipefitters, some tradesmen, English workers moved away, our yard now, Pat Sing; 17:57-Lauzon, Quebec, satellite company, trawlers, design drawings, revisions late coming, built wrongly, no knowledge of technical requirements, delays, costs, mistakes, integration of design and technical aspects; 20:26- build a ship a year, 10 vessels for new fish plant in Marystown, trials and tribulations of getting of the ground, built vessels 1 & 2, 3 ...
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