Port of registry Toronto Status Dead Length 217 m | Renamed Algoma Quebecois Launched 1963 Draft 8 m | |
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Name Québécois
Algoma Québécois (from April 2012) Identification Official number 319265
IMO number 5287847
Call sign CYGR
MMSI number 316001712 Fate Scrapping underway as of April 2014 Builders Canadian Vickers, Montreal | ||
Ships algoma transfer algoma quebecois scrapped in port colborne
Québécois was a lake freighter launched in 1963 by Canadian Vickers Ltd. She was a bulk carrier, at 75 feet (23 m) wide and 730 feet (220 m) long, she was built to the maximum dimensions of the St Lawrence Seaway locks. Her capacity was 28,000 tonnes. She normally carried grain, but occasionally carried ore.
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- Ships algoma transfer algoma quebecois scrapped in port colborne
- Algoma quebecois arrives duluth
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Her first owner was the Papachristides Company. The Upper Lakes Shipping Company acquired the vessel in 1972. In 2011 Upper Lakes was acquired by Algoma Central Corporation. The vessel was renamed Algoma Quebecois.
The Algoma Quebecois was towed through the Welland Canal and reached International Marine Salvage in Port Colborne on November 21, 2013 where she was scrapped in 2014.
Algoma quebecois arrives duluth
References
Algoma Quebecois Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA