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Photographer: Keith W. Churill

Mississagi

Lower Lakes Towing, Ltd.

Home Port: Port Dover, Ontario

Type:  Self-unloader / steel

Built:  1943

Engine Type:  Diesel

Cargo Capacity:  15,800 tons

Length:  620 ' - 06"

Beam: 60' - 0"

Depth: 35' - 0"

(keel to upper deck )

 

 

 

The Mississagi, moored at the Sarnia, Ontario Commercial Harbor for winter lay-up on march 19, 2007. Rafting-off is the sister vessel Cuyahoga

History: She was launched  in 1943 as the Hill Annex. Later that same year she was renamed the George A. Sloan. In 1967 she was re-fitted with a self-unloader and in 1985, received the current powerplant.  In 2001 the USS Great Lakes Fleet became the Lower Lakes Towing, LTD. and she received her current name as the Mississagi.

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Mississagi

Moored in the Sarnia Ontario Commercial Harbor on March 19, 2007.

photographer: Keith W. Churill

 

 

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