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Created: 2018-11-16 11:49:44 PM
Last Edited: 2023-12-30 12:21:17 PM

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Saguenay (1989/07/18)	Saguenay (1989/07/18)	Saguenay (1989/09/04)	Saguenay (1990/06)
Saguenay (1990/08/02)	Saguenay (1990/10)	Saguenay (1992)

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Details/Construction
Builder:	Davie Shipbuilding Company (G.T. Davie & Sons)	Location:	Lauzon, Quebec, Canada	Hull #:	647
Keel Layed:		Launched:	1964/06/18	Commissioned:	1964/08/10

Propulsion
As built	Type:	4 Fairbanks Morse - 12 cylinder opposed piston diesel engines	Output:	9400 bhp (6914 kW) - 15 Knots
	Manufacturer:	Canadian Locomotive Company Ltd. - Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Dimensions
As built	Length (oa):	222.54 m (730.1 ft)	Gross Tonnage:	18058
	Length (lbp):		Net Tonnage:	13009
	Beam:	22.99 m (75.4 ft)	Dead Weight:	27810
	Depth:	11.0 m (36.2 ft)	Displacement:
	Draft:
	Change Description:	Built as a straight deck bulk carrier.
Year: 1972	Length (oa):	222.54 m (730.1 ft)	Gross Tonnage:	20148
	Length (lbp):	216.25 m (709.5 ft)	Net Tonnage:	14947
	Beam:	22.99 m (75.4 ft)	Dead Weight:	29267
	Depth:	12.10 m (39.7 ft)	Displacement:
	Draft:	9.145 m (30.0 ft)
	Change Description:	She was deepened and converted to a self-unloading bulk carrier at Thunder Bay by the Port Arthur Shipbuilding Company.
Year: 1997	Length (oa):		Gross Tonnage:
	Length (lbp):		Net Tonnage:
	Beam:		Dead Weight:
	Depth:		Displacement:
	Draft:
	Change Description:	Reduced to a barge. Forward accommodations structures and engines removed.

Owner History

Fleet History

Owner	Manager	From	Until
Canada Steamship Lines - Montreal, Quebec, Canada		1964/08	1997
Pierre Gagne Contracting Ltd. - Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada		1997	2004/05

Fleet	From	Until
Canada Steamship Lines - Canada	1964/08	1997

Name History

Registration History

Name	Until
Saguenay	1998
M.A.C. Gagne	2004/08

Number	Port	Call Sign	MMSI	From	Until
Can 322994	Toronto, Ontario, Canada	VGWX		1964/08	1997

Description

She Laid up for the final time at Toronto, Ontario on 30 November 1992. In 1997 she was sold to Pierre Gagne Contracting Ltd. of Thunder Bay, Ontario for use as a spoils holding vessel for contaminated dredging mud from the harbour at Thunder Bay. Following the completion of this work she was retired and sold for scrapping.

Disposition
Description/Location	Scrapped at Chittagong Roads, Bangladesh.
Arrival at Yard	2004/08/20	Beached:	Work Began:
Lost			Date:

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