St. Lawrence Seaway

Here is another grounding I new about but was looking for picture happen on opening day of seaway in Montreal.

CWB Marquis aground

4/3 - 5 p.m. update - The first ship of the season to travel up the St. Lawrence Seaway has run aground near Beauharnois, Que., about 20 miles southwest of Montreal.

A spokesman for the Transportation Safety Board of Canada says the CWB Marquis went aground after hitting a large floe of ice. The TSB says it is sending a team of investigators to the site, where the vessel is awaiting help from a tugboat.

The vessel is owned by CWB, the former Canadian Wheat Board and is on its first trip since delivery from the Chinese yard where it was built.

Its departure Thursday through the St. Lambert Lock marked the official opening of the Seaway’s 57th navigation season.

Transportation Safety Board of Canada

They have now off loaded 2000 tons of stone onto another ship and she is now floating.

Freighter grounded near De Tour was outside
Lower Lakes Towing of Port Dover, Ontario, owns the Mississagi, a 72-year-old self-unloading bulk carrier. The ship made for its original destination of Bruce Mines, Ontario, before heading to Chicago after the five-hour weekend lightering operation was carried out under Coast Guard supervision.

Hjerstedt said the downbound Mississagi should have passed a shoal-marker buoy on its starboard side, but instead passed the buoy on its port side. The buoy marks a four-foot shoal outside the approximately 30-foot shipping channel. The ship's bow grounded on what was determined to be a mostly clay bottom.

Depending on the investigation results, the ship's owner could face a fine between $5,000 and $25,000, Hjerstedt said. Because the grounding happened outside the St. Marys River shipping channel, there was no vessel traffic disruption. The Coast Guard response involved two helicopter fly-overs and two cutters.

Hjerstedt must wrap his investigation within 120 days.

"Part of the process is looking at (crew) training and other factors," he said. "It will take a while before we develop conclusions about what the causes were."

Hjerstedt said vessel groundings are not terribly common, but do happen every few years around Lakes Superior, Michigan and Huron.

Elsewhere on the Great Lakes, the Coast Guard is investigating what caused a bulk freighter to run aground near Wellesley Island in New York's section of the St. Lawrence Seaway on Monday, April 20.

MLive

WELL ANOTHER SHIP AGROUND
Algoma Spirit loses power, grounds in Seaway

5/17 - At 4:15 p.m. Saturday afternoon, Algoma Spirit lost power, blacked out, and went hard aground on the south side of Cornwall Island. She is about a mile below the international bridge that crosses the river from Massena to Cornwall and across the river from light 11 on Raquette Point. The bow is on the river bank and the stern is out in deep water.

Traffic stopped as follows: Lyulin in Snell Lock, Ojibway above Snell Lock, Spartan and Spartan II on the wall above Eisenhower Lock. Algoma Equinox will likely go to anchor at Wilson Hill.

It happens all the time. Algoma Spirit is only one year old but was made in China.

Wabi Sabie 50 M and her tender Kemo Sabi 10 M is in the Montreal section of Seaway today and Aurora 61 M and Sarah Beth 33 M and Omnisea 34 M are in Quebec City.