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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 Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence Seaway.
Algoma Central ordered two Equinox 650 self-unloaders, named for their 650.9-foot (198.4 m) length, from Uljanik in April 2015. [6] They are identical in most other characteristics to Equinox 740 vessels, particularly the Croatian-built ones with which they share the unloading boom-forward design, although the shorter length gives them a lower cargo capacity, with a deadweight tonnage of ...
Propulsion. 1 shaft. Speed. 15.5 knots (28.7 km/h; 17.8 mph) MV Tim S. Dool is an Algoma Central -owned seawaymax lake freighter built in 1967, by the Saint John Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. in Saint John, New Brunswick. She initially entered service as Senneville when she sailed as part of the fleet of Mohawk Navigation Company.
Her remains lie about 9.5 miles off the Algoma shore, partially embedded about 270 feet below the surface of Lake Michigan. ... MORE: A very heavy piece of Great Lakes shipping history relocates ...
She is the third vessel of Algoma Central's fleet to be named after the city. [3] Algoma Sault is the second self-unloading Equinox-class bulk carrier [1] and the seventh ship of the class overall. [6] The ship entered service in 2018 and sails on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway delivering dry bulk cargoes such as wheat, [7] and road ...
The winter of 2013–2014 was a hard winter on the Great Lakes, and to provide additional tonnage to help ease the back-log, Algoma Montrealais was activated for the 2014 season. In May 2015, Algoma Montrealais was taken out of service and renamed Mont. The vessel was towed to Aliağa, Turkey for scrapping, which began on 10 July 2015.
15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) 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 ...
The St. Joseph Channel is a strait in Algoma District, Northwestern Ontario, Canada and Chippewa County, Michigan, United States. [1] [2] It is in the Great Lakes Basin and connects the St. Marys River flowing through the Middle Neebish Channel between Neebish Island and Sugar Island at the northwest and Lake George / East Neebish Channel ...