Casualties – 1952 built self discharging bulk carrier MICHIPICOTEN arrived safely in port – 08.06.2024
After yesterday – Saturday 8th June , 2024 we reported that the bulker MICHIPICOTEN collided with something underwater on Lake Superior and had water ingress ( https://maltashipphotos.com/casualties-1952-built-self-discharging-bulk-carrier-michipicoten-taking-water-08-06-2024/) has safely anchored in Thunder Bay, Ontario. She was loaded with taconite when she began to take on water after colliding with something underwater. Taconite is a low-grade […]
Casualty – Oldest Laker CUYAHOGA Catches Fire – 15.03.2024
Around 1400 hrs Canada time of Friday 15th March, 2024 , the oldest laker that sails the Great Lakes – CUYAHOGA caught fire which a preliminary investigation found the cause to be welding, which ignited paint on the inside of the cargo hold and took about three hours to put out. According to the USCG […]
Ships from Canada – Self discharging bulk carrier RADCLIFFE R LATIMER
One of the lake freighter (lakers) built and owned at Canada, is the 1978 built 222.5 metres long (loa) self discharging bulk carrier RADCLIFFE R LATIMER. She was built at Collingwood Shipbuilding – Collingwood, Canada as yard number 215 as ALGOBAY for Algoma Central trading until 1994 when she was chartered to Canada Steamship Lines […]
Ships from Canada – 1907 built steamship KEEWATIN
The world’s last Edwardian (TITANIC era) passenger steamship KEEWATIN was underway to her new home last Friday 28th April, 2023. She was built in 1907 by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company of Glasglow, Scotland as yard number 453. She was one of 3,800 similar ships built from 1900 to 1920 and is the same […]
Ships from Canada – Port Colborne August 2021 movements.
Port Colborne is a city in Ontario, Canada. It is located on Lake Erie, at the southern end of the Welland Canal, in the Niagara Region of Southern Ontario. The original settlement, known as Gravelly Bay, dates from 1832 and was renamed after Sir John Colborne, a British war hero and the Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada at the time of the opening of the (new) […]
