Morton who changed the name of the shipyard to Quebec Docking & Ship Repairing Company in 1927 after incorporating it.
[2] Following the installation, the shipyard offered ship repair, boiler making and general engineering services.
[2] In 1937, the shipyard received its first Royal Canadian Navy contract when a minesweeper, HMCS Gaspe was ordered for construction.
Following this, the two yards were expropriated by the Canadian government and placed under the umbrella company, Quebec Shipyards Limited and remained under its control until the end of the war.
The ships were pulled sideways from launching ways on the west side of the river onto a railway cradle and from there were lowered into the water.
[2] To improve the yard's capability in building and launching large cargo ships during the Second World War, the river upstream from Morton Engineering was dredged in order to give room for newly launched larger cargo ships space to turn around.