Name CSL Tadoussac Laid down 25 June 1968 Construction started 25 June 1968 | Yard number 192 Completed October 1969 Launched 29 May 1969 | |
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Csl tadoussac arrives
CSL Tadoussac is lake freighter currently operated by Canada Steamship Lines (CSL), on the North American Great Lakes. She was launched in 1969. Initially named Tadoussac, following her refit in 2001, she was renamed CSL Tadoussac. She was the last freighter built for CSL in the traditional two superstructure design, which puts her bridge up in the ship's bow. She was designed and built with a self-unloading boom and self-unloading hoppers. Her boom pivots from her aft superstructure.
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- Csl tadoussac arrives
- Ship csl tadoussac on welland canal
- Description
- Construction and service history
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Ship csl tadoussac on welland canal
Description
CSL Tadoussac has a gross register tonnage of 20,634 tons and a deadweight tonnage of 29,262 tons. The ship is 222.6 metres (730 ft 4 in) long overall and 218.9 metres (718 ft 2 in) between perpendiculars with a beam of 22.9 metres (75 ft 2 in).
CSL Tadoussac is propelled by one shaft powered by a diesel engine. This gives the ship a maximum speed of 14.5 knots (26.9 km/h; 16.7 mph).
Construction and service history
The vessel was built at Collingwood Shipyards in Collingwood, Ontario. The vessel's keel was laid on 25 June 1968 and Tadoussac was launched on 29 May 1969. Her launch was marred by an accident that released the vessel 15 minutes early. Two workers died and 35 were injured. The ship was completed in October 1969.
On the eve of the fifteenth anniversary of the sinking of SS Edmund Fitzgerald, 10 November 1990, Tadoussac lost power in a serious storm off Whitefish Point, in Lake Superior. Edmund Fitzgerald was lost off Whitefish Point.
On 28 July 1998 Tadoussac ran aground on a sandbank off of Detroit in Lake Erie.
Tadoussac was sent to Port Weller Shipyards in December 2000, for a $20 million CAD conversion. CSL initiated the conversion to comply with contractual obligations to clients in the cement clinker and iron ore trades. She was widened; her self-unloading machinery was totally replaced; she had dust suppression equipment installed. The changes resulted in a modest increase in her maximum capacity for most cargoes, but reduced her capacity for carrying coal. On 1 March 2015, after her conversion, she was rechristened CSL Tadoussac, instead of merely Tadoussac.
On 11 December 2012, CSL Tadoussac collided with a pier on the Maumee River in Toledo, Ohio. Her bunker tank was pierced.