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Barge Sarah Spencer down bound at Sarnia entering the st. clair river being pushed by tug Jane Ann IV. This set was common around the area at the time but was up for sale in 2005. I never saw it after this. It likely entered long term layup in the Rouge River at Detroit.

Name:	Shaun Hinz
Company:	TGL Marine Holding…
Date:	07/22/2007
Ship:	Sarah Spencer
Country:	Canada
Registry:

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I never did get the opportunity to shoot the Provider in Algoma paint. She is now on her way overseas for scrap. This was the last time I saw her.

from the Boatnerd website......

6/10 - With the tug VB Artico on the bow, the former Algoma Provider – its name shortened to OVI for her last voyage, stack markings painted over and a homeport of Freetown (Sierra Leone) lettered on the stern – was towed from Montreal early Sunday morning bound for a Turkish scrapyard. The 730-foot vessel was built at Collingwood, Ont., for Canada Steamship Lines in 1963 as Murray Bay and also sailed for the Upper Lakes fleet as Canadian Provider. She made only a few trips last fall under Algoma Central colors and the Algoma Provider name. With the departure of the Provider, there are only two steam-powered vessels left in the Canadian lakes and Seaway fleet, Algoma Montrealais and Algoma Quebecois. The former is sailing this year, but the latter remains laid up.

Name:	Earl Minnis
Company:	Upper Lakes Shippi…
Date:	07/03/2011
Ship:	Canadian Provider
Country:	Canada
Registry:	Toronto

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Queen Of Oak Bay slows for the dock at Horseshoe Bay

Name:	Trevor Blatherwick
Company:	B.C. Ferries
Date:	May 10th 2006
Ship:	Queen of Oak Bay
Country:	Canada
Registry:	Victoria, B.C.

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Built in 1963 at Canadian Vickers in Montreal for the Upper Lakes fleet as the Quebecois, the Algoma Quebecois, under the Algoma Central flag, sails downbound on the Detroit River for Quebec City. She was recently sent to the scrapper in Port Colborne. Another classic bites the dust.

Name:	Earl Minnis
Company:	Algoma Central Cor…
Date:	10/05/2012
Ship:	Algoma Quebecois
Country:	Canada
Registry:	Toronto

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The Arthur M Anderson about to enter the St. Clair River at Sarnia, the Anderson has the distinction of beeing the last ship to be in contact with the "big Fitz" before it sank in Lake Superior in 1975. The Anderson is also one of three sister ships still sailing together with their original names since 1952 the others being Cason J. Callaway and Philip R. Clarke.

Name:	Shaun Hinz
Company:	Great Lakes Fleet
Date:	07/26/2013
Ship:	Arthur M. Anderson
Country:	Canada
Registry:	Duluth MN

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Having been deliverd to CSL only a few month's ago. Canada Steamship Lines Thunder Bay is downbound in the St Lawrence River bound for Quebec.

Name:	Josh Roth
Company:	Canada Steamship L…
Date:	11/10/2013
Ship:	Thunder Bay
Country:	United States
Registry:	Montreal, QC

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The ships of Muskoka, Segwun and Wennonah II bask in the morning sun, floating blissfully at Gravenhurst docks.

Name:	Cameron Applegath
Company:	Unknown
Date:	05/19/2012
Ship:	RMS Segwun
Country:	Canada
Registry:

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MV Fairlift is docked in Hamilton to load it's cargo that is destined for Ohio. The ship waited in the harbour for some time before it's cargo was ready.

Name:	Josh Roth
Company:	Jumbo Shipping
Date:	10/13/2013
Ship:	Fairlift
Country:	Canada
Registry:	Willemstad

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Algoma Central's Algoville lays over at the docks of one of the Hamilton Port Authorities' ports, awaiting its next duties. (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada).

Name:	MrDanMofo
Company:	Algoma Central
Date:	06/23/2007
Ship:	Algoville
Country:	Canada
Registry:	St. Catharines

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With a partial load already dispersed overnight in Windsor, the Mississagi prepares to offload her remaining cargo in Kingsville.

Name:	Earl Minnis
Company:	Lower Lakes Towing…
Date:	04/17/2017
Ship:	Mississagi
Country:	Canada
Registry:	Port Dover

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Mississagi arriving at the City Dock in Sarnia with a load of stone.

Name:	Marc Dease
Company:	Lower Lakes Towing
Date:	5/24/2017
Ship:	Mississagi
Country:	Canada
Registry:

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Under threatening skies the Saginaw from the Lower Lakes Towing fleet makes an early morning appearance at Sarnia entering the St. Clair river . The Lower Lakes fleet is perhaps one of the most unique on the lakes, operating a variety of classic second hand vessels the big fleets disposed of years ago, may they continue to run for years to come.

Name:	Shaun Hinz
Company:	Lower Lakes Towing…
Date:	08/14/2013
Ship:	Saginaw
Country:	Canada
Registry:	Nanticoke

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Loading grain at Richardson ; Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

Name:	Chris Wilson
Company:	Atlantska plovidba
Date:	09/13/2013
Ship:	MV Orsula
Country:	Canada
Registry:	Marshall Islands

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While from the front it may look like an ordinary self-unloading bulk carrier, the McKee Sons is actually a steamship converted to a barge, and semi-permanently mated to the tugboat Invincible.

Name:	Chris van der Heide
Company:	Lower Lakes Towing…
Date:	07/10/2010
Ship:	McKee Sons
Country:	Canada
Registry:

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Making a rare visit to the Motor City, the 107 year old St. Marys Challenger works at Detroit's Lafarge Cement facility.

Currently holding the honors of being the oldest lake boat still trading on the Great Lakes, the self unloading cement carrier St. Marys Challenger was built as a traditional Great Lakes bulk carrier as hull #17 by Great Lakes Engineering Works, Ecorse (Detroit), MI in 1906. This veteran of the lakes was launched February 7, 1906 as the William P. Snyder for Shenango Steamship & Transportation Co. (subsidiary of Shenango Furnace Co.), Cleveland, OH. Retaining her original overall dimensions, the St. Marys Challenger is now powered by a Skinner Marine Unaflow 4 cylinder reciprocating steam engine burning heavy fuel oil rated at 3,500 i.h.p. (2,611 kW) with 2 water tube boilers. The power is fed to a single fixed pitch propeller and the vessel is equipped with a bow thruster. The vessel is capable of carrying 10,250 tons (10,415 mt) in 8 holds at mid summer draft of 21’09” (6.63m). Cargoes of bulk or powdered cement can be unloaded by a fully automated system including air slides, conveyor equipment and bucket elevators feeding a forward mounted 48’ (14.63m) discharge boom.

Of note, the St. Marys Challenger is one of only two remaining U.S. flagged vessels still active on the Great Lakes to be powered by the classic Skinner Marine Unaflow steam engine. The other vessel is the car ferry Badger (2) which is powered by two of these engines and, in turn, remains as the only coal fired vessel still in active service on the Great Lakes.

Name:	Earl Minnis
Company:	Port City Steamshi…
Date:	08/06/2013
Ship:	St. Marys Challeng…
Country:	Canada
Registry:	Philadelphia PA

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Making a late season run for a salt load in Goderich, the John D. Leitch is upbound on the Detroit River at Windsor.

Name:	Earl Minnis
Company:	Upper Lakes Shippi…
Date:	12/31/2008
Ship:	John D. Leitch
Country:	Canada
Registry:	Toronto

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