The CSL Assiniboine can be seen here arriving Duluth, MN on 03/28/2024. He is arriving for a load of iron ore pellets from CN in West Duluth. He is heading to Quebec on this trip.
I did capture the Assiniboine heading into Rice’s Point on a different video (here it is btw - • Mesabi Miner - The Bro... ).
Info (from Boatnerd)
This Great Lakes self-unloading bulk carrier was built by Davie Shipbuilding Ltd., Lauzon, QC as their hull # 684 for the Power Corp. of Canada, Montreal, QC (Canada Steamship Lines, managers). Christened the Jean Parisien, the vessel was launched July 7, 1977. The Jean Parisien was the first of two vessels launched for Canada Steamship Lines in as many days with the Louis R. Desmarais (now CSL Laurentien) being launched at Collingwood, ON on July 8, 1977. The Jean Parisien was named posthumously in honor of Mr. Jean Parisien who was the Senior Deputy Chairman of Power Corp. of Canada at the time plans were made to build this vessel. He died February 20, 1976.
The vessel is powered by twin Pielstick 10PC2-2V-400 10-cylinder, four stroke cycle, single acting 4,500 b.h.p. diesel engines built by Crossley Premier Engines Ltd., Manchester, England. These engines burn intermediate grade 60 fuel and drive a single controllable pitch propeller giving the vessel a rated service speed of 15 m.p.h. He is equipped with a controllable pitch bow thruster.
The Jean Parisien had 23 hatches servicing 5 holds where he could carry 27,890 tons (28,338 mt) at the old maximum Seaway draft of 26′ 03″ (8.00m), approximately 28,250 tons (28,704 mt) at the new Seaway draft of 26′ 06″ (8.08m) implemented in 2004, and was capable of carrying 33,860 tons (34,404 mt) at a mid-summer draft of 30′ 03 5/8″ (9.23m). The self-unloading system consisted of hydraulically operated cargo gates feeding three conveyor belts running to a single stern-mounted loop belt elevator leading to a 258-foot (78.64m) discharge boom that can be swung 105 degrees to port or starboard and discharge iron ore at a rate of up to 5,413 tons (5,500 mt) per hour or coal at a rate of 3,937 tons (4,000 mt) per hour. Environmental controls are achieved by the use of water spraying systems, special dust hoods, boom conveyor covers, belt scrapers, and dust extractors.
The vessel sailed on his maiden voyage December 9, 1977 light to Sandusky, OH where he loaded coal for Hamilton, ON. During the winter of 1978/79, the Jean Parisien had 5-ton metal fins installed at his bow running at a 45 degree angle from the 13 (3.96m) to 26 foot (7.92m) marks designed to assist with ice breaking. This work was completed by Purvis Marine Ltd., Sault Ste. Marie, ON. The Jean Parisien has been an active participant in CSL’s program of discharging cargoes into large ocean going bulk carriers. In 1981, she teamed up with five of his fleet mates (Rt Hon Paul J. Martin (HM GRIFFITH), CSL Tadoussac, CSL Laurentien (Louis R, Desmarais), Atlantic Huron (Nanticoke), and Saguenay) to load 165,000 short tons of coal from Sandusky and Conneaut, OH into the ocean bulker Yemanja for delivery to Nippon Steel in Japan. This operation marked the first coal loading off Sept Isles, QC in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
The Jean Parisien set a record for barley on September 1, 1981 by loading 1,195,770 bushels at Thunder Bay, ON for Port Cartier, QC. The Jean Parisien has had the distinction of opening the St. Lawrence Seaway upbound on March 30, 1993 with a load of iron ore for Hamilton; then opening the Seaway downbound on April 5, 1993 returning to the St. Lawrence in ballast. On July 11, 1994; the Jean Parisien met the 1,000-footer Edgar B. Speer at Nanticoke, ON where the Speer transferred him 61,039 tons (62,020 mt) of taconite pellets via his short shuttle boom into the holds of the Jean Parisien who, in turn, used his long discharge boom to unload the cargo into the receiving hopper on shore.
On March 5, 2005, the name CSL Assiniboine was chosen for the newly rebuilt self-unloader once he sails later in 2005. The name honors Canada’s grain producing western provinces and was submitted by the retiring manager of CSL’s Winnipeg office. The Assiniboine River originates in southeastern Saskatchewan crossing the wheat-growing plains of Manitoba emptying into the Red River at Winnipeg, MB.
The Assiniboine was repowered in 2014 with new MaK diesel engines.
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