CSL Tadoussac
The CSL Tadoussac is lake freighter currently operated by Canada Steamship Lines, on the North American Great Lakes. She was launched in 1969.[1] She was the last freighter built for CSL in the traditional two superstructure design, which puts her bridge right 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.
The vessel was built in Collingwood Shipyards.[1] Her launch was marred by an accident that released the vessel 15 minutes early. Two workers died and 35 were injured.
On the eve of the fifteenth anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, November 10, 1990, the Tadoussac lost power off Whitefish Point, in Lake Superior, during a serious storm.[1] The Edmund Fitzgerald was lost off Whitefish Point.
On July 28 1998 the Tadoussac ran aground on a sandbank off of Detroit in Lake Erie.[1]
The Tadoussac was sent to Port Weller Shipyards in December 2000, for a $20 million CAD conversion.[1] 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 cargos, but reduced her capacity for carrying coal. On March 1, 2015, after her conversion, she was rechristened the CSL Tadoussac, instead of merely Tadoussac.
On December 11, 2012, the CSL Tadoussac allided with a pier on the Maumee River in Toledo, Ohio.[2] Her bunker tank was pierced.
References
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|title=(help) - ↑ "CSL Tadoussac allision Toldeo, Ohio". Dvidshub. 2012-12-11. Retrieved 2015-06-22.
Coast Guard responders and investigators responded to the scene where the CSL Tadoussac (background), a 730-foot Canadian-flagged bulk carrier, allided with the pier, causing a puncture in the starboard stern bunker tank.