Two small vessels seen alongside the Corner Brook Paper Mills on Newfoundland's 8 cents stamp issued during 1932 are the sisters Corner Brook and Humber Arm owned by Bowaters Newfoundland Pulp and Paper Mills Company. Both ships were registered at St. Johns and were built by Armstrong Whitworth and Company at Newcastle in 1925 to a design which allowed the maximum number of large newsprint reels with the minimum of broken stowage. The sisters were under Furness Withy management but when the trade in newsprint between Newfoundland and England slackened off or ports were iced up the ships made occasional voyages on Furness Withy account. The North Atlantic crossing from the United Kingdom was however generally made in ballast the demand for newsprint being such that time could not be wasted in looking for westward cargo. The Humber Arm was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic by a German submarine on July 8, 1940 while the Corner Brook survived the war and was broken up in 1954.
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