Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company company. In 1944, Parsons was one of 19 companies which formed the 'Parsons and Marine Engineering Turbine Research and Development Association', usually known as Pametrada. The last ship to use a Parsons propulsion system was launched in 1964. The company was absorbed into C. A. Parsons and Company and survives in the Heaton area of Newcastle as part of Siemens, a German industrial conglomerate. Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company was a British engineering company based in Wallsend, North East England, on the River Tyne. The company was founded by Charles Algernon Parsons in 1897 with
Camosun (steamship) captain failed to give the order to reduce speed in time, and so "Camosun" crashed through a dock at the Rivers Inlet cannery, going right up into the cannery building itself. In 1935 "Camosun" was sold for scrap. Camosun (steamship) Camosun was a steamship built in 1904 in Paisley, Scotland which served in British Columbia. "Camosun" was the first passenger-freighter ship ordered by the Union Steamship Company of British Columbia. The vessel was intended to compete against the ships of two rival concerns, of the Canadian Pacific, and and of the Boscowitz Company. Construction on the vessel began in the