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Algorail was a lake freighter owned and operated by Algoma Central.The ship was built by Collingwood Shipyards in Collingwood, Ontario and was launched in 1967. The ship sailed on the North American Great Lakes and the Saint Lawrence Seaway delivering coal/coke, aggregates, slag, iron ore/oxides, salt, fertilizers, grain products, gypsum, quartzite, or sand.
The ships are used as dry-bulk lake freighters (two gearless bulk freighter and three self-unloading vessel). [29] The first in the series, Algoma Equinox, was launched in 2013. Trillium class – a new class of lake freighter delivered for Canada Steamship Lines in 2012 (Baie St. Paul) and 2013 (Whitefish Bay, Thunder Bay and Baie Comeau).
SS Daniel J. Morrell was a 603-foot (184 m) Great Lakes freighter that broke up in a strong storm on Lake Huron on 29 November 1966, taking with her 28 of her 29 crewmen. The freighter was used to carry bulk cargoes such as iron ore but was running with only ballast when the 60-year-old ship sank.
SS Howard L. Shaw was a 451 ft (137 m) long Lake freighter that was built in 1900 by the Detroit Shipbuilding Company of Wyandotte, Michigan, for the Eddy-Shaw Transit Company of Bay City, Michigan. She was sunk on July 4, 1960 in Ontario Place where she remains to this day.
The vessel has a maximum speed of 15.5 knots (28.7 km/h; 17.8 mph). [1] Tim S. Dool was the second lake freighter constructed to a single-superstructure at the stern design as lake freighters had previously been built with two superstructures, located at the stern and bow. Tim S. Dool is of seawaymax dimensions. [3]
Mississagi was a Type L6-S-B1 lake freighter launched in 1943. [1] [2] Originally she was powered by a 2,500 horsepower (1,900 kW) triple-expansion steam engine.In 1985 her steam engines were replaced by a 4,500 horsepower (3,400 kW) diesel engine.
Sank after a collision on May 7, 1965 Charles S. Price United States Interlake Steamship Company: 1910 6,322 Sank in the Great Lakes Storm of 1913: Chester A. Congdon United States Continental Steamship Company 1907 6,530 Formerly Salt Lake City: Ran aground and sank November 5, 1918 CSL Tadoussac Canada Canadian Steamship Line: 1969 20,634
In 1926 she was sold to Paterson Shipping, which operated her under the name Saskadoc until she was scrapped, in Santander, Spain, in 1967 along with Augustus B. Wolvin. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] References