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Three tugboats sailed from Quebec City and arrived to help free the vessel on 25 November, but after a couple of hours, the ship remained stuck. The marine salvage team then changed plans and chose to lighter the lake freighter in order to aid in the freeing of the ship. [8] The lake freighter was refloated on 16 December. [9]
Algorail was launched on 13 December 1967, christened on 1 April 1968 and completed that month. [1] [2] The second freighter of the name was registered at Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario for Algoma Central. [1] [2] A self-unloading bulk carrier, she is one of the last lake freighters built in the traditional two-superstructure style, with the bridge ...
Formerly Willam J. Delancey largest lake freighter ever built In operation R. J. Hackett United States Vulcan Transportation Company 1869 1,129 First lake freighter Burned and sank on November 12, 1905 Radcliffe R. Latimer Canada Algoma Central: 1978 22,465 Formerly Algobay, Atlantic Trader: In operation Regina Canada Canadian Steamship Lines: 1907
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).
MV Algocape was a Canadian lake freighter operated by Algoma Central Corp. [1] [2] Initially constructed for Canada Steamship Lines as Richelieu, the ship was sold to Algoma Central Corp in 2004 and renamed Algocape.
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.
Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter [e] Interlake Steamship Company [11] 1967 [12] [13] [f] 1987 [15] Sold in 1987 as part of the spin off of the Interlake Steamship Company in a management buyout; [15] repowered in 2009; [12] renamed MV Hon. James L. Oberstar in 2011. [13] SS Col. James Schoonmaker: Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter ...
List of shipwrecks: 23 June 1967 Ship State Description Meldon United States: The 42-gross register ton, 53-foot (16.2 m) fishing vessel was wrecked on the coast of Long Island in Alaska. The wreck report does not specify which of a number of islands in Alaska named Long Island the incident occurred on. [22] Thimar S Liberia