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Baie Comeau (2013 ship)

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Name
  
Baie Comeau

Port of registry
  
Canada

Completed
  
June 2013

Length
  
226 m

Builder
  
Jiangyin

Operator
  
Canada Steamship Lines

Yard number
  
CX9304

Identification
  
IMO number 9639892

Draft
  
9 m

Baie Comeau (2013 ship)

Baie Comeau was the fourth and last self-unloading lake freighter in Canada Steamship Lines (CSL) Trillium class. Like her sister ships, Baie St. Paul, Thunder Bay, and Whitefish Bay she was built in China.

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Design and description

Baie Comeau was constructed at the Chengxi shipyard in Jiangyin, China with the yard number CX9304. According to the Miramar Ship Index the ship has a gross tonnage (GT) of 32,000 tons and a deadweight tonnage (DWT) of 37,690 tons. However, on the CSL website, the ship is stated as having a GT of 24,430 and DWT of 34,490 tons.

Baie Comeau is 225.5 metres (739 ft 10 in) long overall with a beam of 23.76 metres (77 ft 11 in). Baie Comeau has a maximum draught of 9 metres (30 ft). The ship is powered by one IMO Tier III MAN B&W 6S50ME diesel engine driving one shaft creating 8,750 kilowatts (11,730 hp).

The ship is equipped with five holds and has a net hold capacity of 41,917.96 cubic metres (1,480,319 cu ft). The vessel has an average unloading rate of 5,450 tonnes (5,360 long tons; 6,010 short tons) per hour.

Service history

Baie Comeau left China on 30 June 2013, arrived in Montreal on 24 August. In an inaugural salute to the completion of its first voyage, carrying cargo, Claude Dumais, CSL's vice president of technical operations, presented Christine Brisson, mayor of Baie-Comeau, with an 2.4-metre (7.9 ft) model of the vessel, which will be displayed in the city's municipal offices.

The Quebec & Ontario Transportation Company launched an earlier vessel named Baie Comeau in 1954.

References

Baie Comeau (2013 ship) Wikipedia