Baie Comeau (ship, 2013)

Baie Comeau leaving Two Harbors, Minnesota

The Baie Comeau was the fourth and last lake freighter in Canada Steamship Lines Trillium class. Like her sister ships, the Baie St. Paul, the Thunder Bay, and the Whitefish Bay she was built in China.^{[1] [2]}

She left China on June 30, 2013, arrived in Montreal on August 24.^[3] 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 metres (7.9 ft) model of the vessel, which will be displayed in the city's municipal offices.^[4]

The Quebec & Ontario Transportation Company launched an earlier vessel named the Baie Comeau in 1954.^[5]

References

1. "The Baie Comeau, CSL’s fourth Trillium-Class laker, arrives from Transoceanic voyage". Canadian Sailings magazine. 2013-09-23. Retrieved 2014-01. Canada Steamship Lines welcomed the final of four Trillium Class self-unloading lakers, the Baie Comeau. The vessel arrived in the port of Montreal on August 24. The Baie Comeau’s maiden voyage began on June 30 when it set sail from Chengxi Shipyard in Jiangyin, China. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
2. "Maiden voyage begins for Baie Comeau, the latest Trillium Class self unloader". Boatnerd.com. Retrieved 2013-07-02. The Baie Comeau was preceded by the Whitefish Bay and Thunder Bay, both departing in May on their maiden voyages, and also by the award-winning Trillium Class self-unloader Baie St. Paul in 2012.
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4. "The MV Baie Comeau Celebrated in Namesake City". Canada Steamship Lines. 2013-10-07. Archived from the original on 2014-01-25. Canada Steamship Lines (CSL) held a celebration today to salute the maiden voyage of the fourth newly built Trillium Class Laker, the MV Baie Comeau, to her namesake city.
5. Skip Gillham (2013-11-07). "Unknown end for old Baie Comeau". Port Colborne Leader. Retrieved 2014-01-25. Lloyds Register for Shipping deleted the ship from its listings in 1986 with the notation “continued existence in doubt”.