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ashland69 wrote: December 30, 2025, 3:54 pm

guest wrote: December 7, 2025, 6:33 am On the Canadian side the Atlantic Huron is done at the end of this year.

ATLANTIC HURON will be heading to Sheet Harbour, Nova Scotia just as soon as she's done in Quebec City, which might be day's end on December 30.

Atlantic Huron is as of 31 December 2015 8:51pm off of Cap-Chat, Quebec with an ETA for Sheet Harbour 4 January 2026.

guest wrote: December 7, 2025, 6:33 am On the Canadian side the Atlantic Huron is done at the end of this year.

ATLANTIC HURON will be heading to Sheet Harbour, Nova Scotia just as soon as she's done in Quebec City, which might be day's end on December 30.

Geest wrote: December 23, 2025, 6:29 pm The Buffalo and Compass/Cornielius were, at least to the best of my knowledge to be placeholders until the newbuilds Algoma has under contract are delivered. As such, they are going to be run into the ground before getting laid up. Both are heavily active in the salt trades which as well all know is the usual kiss of death for lakers.

Rust never sleeps!

The Buffalo and Compass/Cornielius were, at least to the best of my knowledge to be placeholders until the newbuilds Algoma has under contract are delivered. As such, they are going to be run into the ground before getting laid up. Both are heavily active in the salt trades which as well all know is the usual kiss of death for lakers.

I wonder then just how long Algoma will keep the Algoma Buffalo around for as she was built in 1978 and one would think that with all the salt cargoes she’s handled that it probably not helping on her steel and hull then in general. Thought I’ve seen and heard from a few on this board before that inspite of how they may look on the outside, the Algoma Discovery along with the Algoma Guardian are still ok although both were built in 1987 and were once salties. After the Atlantic Huron is retired, I wonder then who CSL plans to retire next at some point? Frontenac has carried much more salt in the past few years than she used to plus, she was built in the 1960s so while she has sailed mostly on the Great Lakes, I would think that with her age and the fact of her hauling salt cargoes don’t go well with her? Then there’s the Oakglen from CSL that has sailed since 1980. I don’t know what type of shape she is in and what if any work needs to be done to her? The CSL Tadoussac might be around for a while possibly since they just widened her about back in 2001. She hasn’t carried as much cement clinkers as she used to now that she is on the Colborne to Clarkson stone run. We’ll just have to wait and see just what ships will head to the scrappers torch and when.

Algoma Compass reportedly had substantial work done during her last dry docking over the winter of 2024, also saw mention that Algoma hoped to get another decade out of her.

The Atlantic Huron is currently Upbound in the Welland Canal at Lock 2 as of 11 PM as I type now. They are headed for Burns Harbor to unload Coke at the Steel Plant there. From there I don’t know where they are headed to next or what cargo they will load? I guess we’ll have to wait and see.

The Atlantic Huron isn’t done quite yet! According to the Port of Hamilton website she’s loading Coke for Burns Harbor and NOT to Quebec. So, she is not headed to the scrappers’ torch just yet. At least she is still here with us for a little while longer.

Denny wrote: December 8, 2025, 5:42 pm Seems a bit odd and strange that they would scrap her in Nova Scotia as I don’t recall a vessel ever being scrapped there? Would they lay up then in Nova Scotia and be towed overseas for scrapping or is the hull not good enough for a tow overseas?

The ferry M/V Holiday Island was sent there to be scrapped in 2022, after the catastrophic fire that ended her career.

J Kerwin wrote: December 7, 2025, 10:48 pm

guest wrote: December 7, 2025, 6:33 am On the Canadian side the Atlantic Huron is done at the end of this year.

Just saw that the Atlantic Huron is due to go on social media. Will head to Nova Scotia for scrapping after a load from Hamilton to Quebec City set to happen this week. She is one of only a few Collingwood built vessels left that were close to original form. Pretty soon there will be no examples of their fine vessels and no one will remember how great that town once was when it came to building some incredible ships. With that said I can remember when they launched the Prairie Harvest and I can remember going to see her being converted at Port Weller into the Self Unloader Atlantic Huron. Never thought I would be one day old enough to see her demise.

With the discovery of the James Carruthers, Collingwood still has a few samples left that will forever remain.

Denny wrote: December 8, 2025, 5:42 pm Seems a bit odd and strange that they would scrap her in Nova Scotia as I don’t recall a vessel ever being scrapped there? Would they lay up then in Nova Scotia and be towed overseas for scrapping or is the hull not good enough for a tow overseas?

R.J. MacIsaac Construction's ship recycling yard in Sheet Harbour, Nova Scotia has been certified by Lloyds Register as meeting the requirements for the Hong Kong International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships (Hong Kong Convention). I think they got their start in the ship recycling business winning the bid to dismantle the Canadian Miner wreck, and have also dismantled at least one obsolete offshore drilling rig.

An article about them from 2023: https://guysboroughjournal.ca/?page=post&ID=1233

Seems a bit odd and strange that they would scrap her in Nova Scotia as I don’t recall a vessel ever being scrapped there? Would they lay up then in Nova Scotia and be towed overseas for scrapping or is the hull not good enough for a tow overseas?

guest wrote: December 7, 2025, 6:33 am On the Canadian side the Atlantic Huron is done at the end of this year.

Just saw that the Atlantic Huron is due to go on social media. Will head to Nova Scotia for scrapping after a load from Hamilton to Quebec City set to happen this week. She is one of only a few Collingwood built vessels left that were close to original form. Pretty soon there will be no examples of their fine vessels and no one will remember how great that town once was when it came to building some incredible ships. With that said I can remember when they launched the Prairie Harvest and I can remember going to see her being converted at Port Weller into the Self Unloader Atlantic Huron. Never thought I would be one day old enough to see her demise.

Could Atlantic Huron be making their last trip of the season? They loaded ore pellets at BNSF #5 in Superior and now headed for Quebec to unload. I think that this is their first trip through the Seaway this year? Wonder then if they may lay up after this trip if they are finished then or do they still have orders and trips ahead until the end of the season? Thanks for any information.

GreatLaker wrote: December 7, 2025, 9:53 am Speer will get MAN 6L48/60CR diesel

That's a pretty big investment. Wonder if they got a commitment by US Steel to keep a couple of blast furnaces open.

Speer will get MAN 6L48/60CR diesel

On the Canadian side the Atlantic Huron is done at the end of this year.

Good to hear that the Speer is getting new main engines. Do you know if they are the same 8-cylinder MAK engines as the Gott?

Not so much a question of vessels condition as it is lack of cargo. DTE Monroe is shutting down 2027 most likely. Too many ships too little cargo. More hills to the scrappers. It’s a dying industry on the US side

I can't picture the Cort going for scrap, she's very solidly built, in fact her web frame spacing and depth is based off of a tanker, has engines that have easily obtained parts for her EMD 645s. Anyone know if it's possible to put 710 power assemblies in a 645 engine?

John D. Leitch and Algoma Compass have had mechanical issues in recent years, and with the entry into service of two new self-unloaders over the past couple of years their careers may be coming to a close.

The Gott is a very strong ship, re-powered in 2010-11. Roger Blough may very well be scrapped, though I remember when she first was towed to Conneaut it was mentioned is a post on this discussion board that she would be scrapped at that port after the old coal dock and track infrastructure had been dismantled. As for the Callaway and Anderson. While it's known the former needs quite a bit of steel replacement, the Anderson has had quite a bit of work done before her reactivation a couple of years ago, so I would be surprised if she is done. Same for the Clarke. A web search didn't reveal any mention of an upcoming re-powering for the Edgar B. Speer. It will be good news if that occurs.

As for the thousand-footers, the only one I can see whose future is uncertain is the Walter J. McCarthy, but I think we'll just have to wait and see which thousand-footer, if any, is the odd man out.