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Working through the night, the Frontenac discharges stone at Southwest Sales in east Windsor as dawn approaches. The Frontenac was built by Davie Shipbuilding in Lauzon, QC in 1968. She was converted to a self-unloader at Collingwood Shipyards in 1973.
Name: Earl Minnis
Company: Canada Steamship L…
Date: 07/10/2011
Ship: Frontenac
Country: Canada
Registry: Montreal
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The Calumet discharges stone at the Southwest Sales dock in east Windsor.
Name: Earl Minnis
Company: Lower Lakes Transp…
Date: 05/11/2012
Ship: Calumet
Country: Canada
Registry: Cleveland, Ohio
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CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent has just tied up at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography. She will be in town for a few days to resupply and get fuel. After that she will sail for the Labrador Strait to resume icebreaking operations.
Name: Josh Roth
Company: Canadian Coast Gua…
Date: 01/28/2013
Ship: CCGS Louis S. St-L…
Country: Canada
Registry: Ottawa
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The Algoma Transfer is downbound from Lake Huron at Point Edward on Canada Day 2011.The Algoma Transfer was built by joining the stern section of Canadian Explorer (engine room, machinery) with the bow and mid-body of the WWII-era laker Hamilton Transfer in 1998 at Port Weller Dry Docks.She spent the 2012 and 2013 seasons tied up in Goderich. Things don't look promising for her.
Name: Earl Minnis
Company: Algoma Central Cor…
Date: 07/01/2011
Ship: Algoma Transfer
Country: Canada
Registry: Toronto Ontario
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Built by Bay Shipbuilding as the Columbia Star in 1981, the American Century unloads taconite ore at U.S. Steel's Great Lakes Works on Zug Island.
Name: Earl Minnis
Company: American Steamship…
Date: 01/07/2012
Ship: American Century
Country: Canada
Registry: Wilmington, Delaw…
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Lakes Contender is upbound the St May's River for the Soo Locks. This vessel is fairly new and was launched earlier in the year at Donjon Shipbuilding in Erie, PA.
Name: Josh Roth
Company: American Steamship…
Date: 10/06/2012
Ship: Lakes Contender, K…
Country: United States
Registry: Erie, PA
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Algoma Guardian (Front) and Algoma Montrealis (rear) are unloading ore at the Dofasco Dock in Burlington Bay. It has been said that Montrealis may have ran its last load into the Port of Hamilton and may be retired at the end of the shipping season.
Name: Stephen C. Host
Company: Algoma Central
Date: 11/30/2013
Ship: Algoma Guardian, A…
Country: Canada
Registry: St. Catherines
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On it's way to Montreal, Missassauga Express passes Quebec City. The pilot boat Ocean Express is alongside the ship for a pilot exchange.
Name: Josh Roth
Company: Hapag Lloyd
Date: 08/20/2013
Ship: Mississauga Expres…
Country: Canada
Registry: Hamilton, Bermuda…
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The "Dead Ship Tow" of Algoma Quebecois approaches the Homer Bridge (Bridge 4) of the Welland Canal after coming to a stop to allow the passage of CSL Niagara. Algoma Quebecois' final destination is the MRC/IMS scrap yard in Port Colborne where she will be dismantled and disposed of.
Name: Jay Brooks
Company: Algoma Central Cor…
Date: 11/20/2013
Ship: Algoma Quebecois
Country: Canada
Registry: Toronto, Canada
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Sam Laud is upbound the Detroit River on a nice summer day.
Name: Josh Roth
Company: American Steamship…
Date: 08/19/2012
Ship: Sam Laud
Country: Canada
Registry: Wilmington, Del
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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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Two Japanese built FedNav ships - Yukon and Agno are docked at Hamilton, Ontario - in pretty fall lighting.
Name: Stephen C. Host
Company: FedNav Group
Date: 10/24/2013
Ship: Federal Yukon, Agn…
Country: Canada
Registry: Hong Kong
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Late evening light sees the American Century upbound for Lake Huron at lights 1 and 2. It's hard to believe these behemoths are 30 plus years old. Downbound in the distance is the Catherine Desgagnés.
Name: Earl Minnis
Company: American Steamship…
Date: 07/31/2011
Ship: American Century
Country: Canada
Registry: Wilmington, Delaw…
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In ballast for Thunder Bay on a fine fall morning, the Gordon C. Leitch passes the beautiful skyline of Detroit. On February 25, 2011, a formal statement was issued announcing the sale of the privately owned Upper Lakes Shipping fleet and their associated interest in Seaway Marine Transport to Algoma Central Corporation. Former Upper Lakes Chairman of the Board, company spokesman and owner John D. ("Jack") Leitch stated "It is with some regret and sadness that I tell you that we have decided to sell the vessels of Upper Lakes Shipping and our interest in Seaway Marine Transport to Algoma Central Corporation. A definitive agreement has been signed and the deal is anticipated to close in about a month. By the end of this season the proud logo on the funnels of Upper Lakes vessels would no longer be seen on the Great Lakes or along the St. Lawrence River." Jack further states "For 80 years we have been a part of the Canadian landscape and of the fabric of the Canadian economy." The Upper Lakes Shipping fleet would take its place in modern Canadian Great Lakes history as having been a prominent player in the economic development of the regions served by the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway system. On April 15, 2011, Algoma announced that Gordon C. Leitch would retain her current name. The Gordon C. Leitch operated for Algoma throughout the 2011 season remaining in her ULS livery which continued to fuel rumors of her impending demise. She departed Hamilton on December 13 bound for Toledo OH to take on a partial load of grain, proceeding to Goderich to complete loading. This load, which proved to be her last, was partially discharged in Montreal with the remainder in Port Cartier. Afterwards she returned to Montreal for winter layup arriving there on December 28, 2011, berthing alongside the Algocape. Both vessels failed to fit out for the 2012 season and by June 12 they had been sold for scrap and had their Canadian registries closed. With her name shortened to DON for her last voyage, stack markings painted over and a homeport of Freetown (Sierra Leone) lettered on the stern, the Leitch was pulled from Montreal on August 15 by the deep sea tug Centaurus with Florence M on the stern, bound for Aliaga Turkey. The former Ralph Misener was beached there on September 10, and subsequently broken up. Thanks to Boatnerd.com for the additional information.
Name: Earl Minnis
Company: Upper Lakes Shippi…
Date: 10/14/2007
Ship: Gordon C. Leitch
Country: Canada
Registry: St. Catharines, O…
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The M/V Buffalo is named in honor of the home city of American Steamship Company, Buffalo, NY. Here, the Buffalo is upbound on the Detroit River at Windsor. GM's World Headquarters, the Renaissance Center, provides the backdrop. Detroit might be down at this point in history, but she's alive and kickin'. She'll survive and be a whole lot stronger in the future.
Name: Earl Minnis
Company: American Steamship…
Date: 04/15/2013
Ship: Buffalo
Country: Canada
Registry: Wilmington, Delaw…
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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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Algoma Central Corporations Algoma Provider is laid up in Hamilton, Ontario for maintenance.
Name: Stephen C. Host
Company: Algoma Central
Date: 04/02/2012
Ship: Algoma Provider
Country: Canada
Registry:
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The Canadian Enterprise takes on a late season load of Salt bound for Chicago at Windsor's Canadian Salt dock.
Name: Earl Minnis
Company: Upper Lakes Shippi…
Date: 01/24/2011
Ship: Canadian Enterpris…
Country: Canada
Registry: Toronto
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Built for the Upper Lakes fleet at the Port Weller Dry Docks as the Canadian Progress, the renamed Algoma Progress works her way down the Detroit River opposite Zug Island's US Steel Great Lakes Works.
Name: Earl Minnis
Company: Algoma Central Cor…
Date: 01/10/2012
Ship: Algoma Progress
Country: Canada
Registry: Toronto
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