Federal Rideau

Tugs guide the Federal Rideau to her moorings at the Redpath Sugar Refinery, in Toronto.

The Federal Rideau is a cargo vessel owned an operated by Fednav. She, and her sister ship, the Federal Asahii, were built in Oshima, Japan, 2000.^[1]

In July 2014 she ran aground in Lake St. Clair, near Peche Island, and required five tugs to get free.^[2] She was carrying 20,000 tons of wheat from Thunder Bay to Montreal.

In December 2014 a failure of the Martin Luther King Bridge over the Maumee River blocked her progress in Toledo, Ohio.^[3][4]

References

1. "Steamboat Bill". 2000. p. 232. Retrieved 2016-04-18. Both Federal Asahii (ii) and Federal Rideau were built at Oshima, Japan.
2. "More tugs called to rescue freighter stuck in Lake. St. Clair". CBC News. 2014-07-27. Retrieved 2016-04-18. A 200-metre long Federal Rideau ran aground in the downbound shipping channel off Peche Island in Lake St. Clair around 3 a.m. Sunday.
3. David Patch (2014-12-03). "Bridge breakdown snarls midday traffic: Electrical issue gets MLK’s spans stuck". Toledo Blade. Retrieved 2016-04-18. “Look, they’re waving,” Ms. Schneider told her son, who looked toward crewmen aboard the M.V. Federal Rideau but resolutely kept his hands in his warm coat pockets.
4. "Martin Luther King, Jr. Bridge closed indefinitely after drawspan becomes stuck". Toledo Blade. 2014-12-05. Retrieved 2016-04-18. The M.V. Federal Rideau waits on the Maumee River as the Martin Luther King, Jr. Bridge malfunctions. The breakdown blocked traffic more than 2 hours Tuesday.