by William Lafferty » January 27, 2023, 2:30 pm
The Québec Liquor Corporation, a part of the Québec provincial government, imported wine from France, Spain, and Italy by tanker through the 1970s into the 1990s, at least, using dedicated wine tankers flagged in Europe. The QLC bottled the wine itself and distributed it to wholesalers. Guinness had another fleet not mentioned in the Freightwaves article. Guinness expanded its original brewery to the banks of the Liffey in 1873 and had constructed a fleet of small, narrow steam barges that brought barrels of Guinness from the brewery dock to Dublin harbor for export and returned with empty barrels, a distance of a little over a mile, through downtown Dublin. Such barge traffic ended in 1961 and Guinness began using large stainless steel tanks transported aboard its own vessels rather than kegs or barrels. Its first "stout" tanker appeared in 1973 when Guinness's The Lady Patricia was so converted at Bristol.
The Québec Liquor Corporation, a part of the Québec provincial government, imported wine from France, Spain, and Italy by tanker through the 1970s into the 1990s, at least, using dedicated wine tankers flagged in Europe. The QLC bottled the wine itself and distributed it to wholesalers. Guinness had another fleet not mentioned in the Freightwaves article. Guinness expanded its original brewery to the banks of the Liffey in 1873 and had constructed a fleet of small, narrow steam barges that brought barrels of Guinness from the brewery dock to Dublin harbor for export and returned with empty barrels, a distance of a little over a mile, through downtown Dublin. Such barge traffic ended in 1961 and Guinness began using large stainless steel tanks transported aboard its own vessels rather than kegs or barrels. Its first "stout" tanker appeared in 1973 when Guinness's The Lady Patricia was so converted at Bristol.