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The ship was renamed Algoma Progress and officially entered service with its new owners on 31 July 2011. [2] Algoma Progress continued in service until 2014, when Algoma Central sold the vessel to International Marine Salvage for scrap. The ship was towed to Port Colborne, Ontario where demolition was reported completed on 30 December 2014. [1] [3]
225.6 m (740 ft 2 in) oa. Beam. 23.8 m (78 ft 1 in) Algoma Equinox is a lake freighter and lead ship of her class built for Algoma Central, a Canadian shipping company. The vessel was built to a new design by Nantong Mingde Heavy Industries at their shipyard in Tongzhou, China in 2013. The ship entered service in December 2013, operating in the ...
Equinox 740. Algoma Equinox, the lead ship of the Equinox class, moored in Toronto. The Equinox 740 is named after their 740-foot (226 m) length, the maximum that clears the dimensions of the locks in the Welland Canal and Saint Lawrence River. [1] Algoma Central began designing the Equinox class in the early 2010s in conjunction with Finnish ...
Algoma Sault, which entered service in 2018, is the third freighter Algoma Central named after Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. She is a self-unloading bulk carrier, built for carrying cargoes like ore, grain, or coal, on the North American Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway. She is the seventh vessel of the Equinox class, and like her sister ships ...
Lake freighter. SS Arthur M. Anderson, with pilothouse forward and engine room astern, also equipped with a self-unloading boom. Lake freighters, or lakers, are bulk carriers operating on the Great Lakes of North America. These vessels are traditionally called boats, although classified as ships. [1][2] Freighters typically have a long, narrow ...
Algoma Compass, formerly Roger M. Kyes and Adam E. Cornelius, is a self-unloading bulk carrier built in Toledo, Ohio in 1973 for the American Steamship Company. The bulk carrier carried bulk cargoes throughout the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway. The vessel has earned a reputation as a "hard luck" ship, experiencing mechanical failures and ...
Algoma Québécois moored at the Toronto portlands in June 2013. Quebecois was a lake freighter that served the Great Lakes, operating between ports in the United States and Canada. The vessel was launched in 1962 by Canadian Vickers Ltd of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Used to carry grain and ore, Quebecois was built to the maximum dimensions ...
In 2011, the ship was sold to Algoma and became Algoma Navigator. In 2016, the bulk carrier was renamed Navi before being sold for scrap and broken up in 2016. Description. The ship was initially 197.2 m (647 ft 0 in) long overall and 187.5 m (615 ft 2 in) between perpendiculars with a beam of 22.9 m (75 ft 2 in).