ad ped with an 8,000-h.p. KaMeWa bowthruster. Che Detroit Marine Historian Journal of MARINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY of Detroit Volume 19, No. 1 September, 1965 TARANTAU (Can. 318687) Puoro ay WATEON STUDIO, MIDLAND Built by Collingwood Shipyards, Ltd., as HULL 184 to the order of Canadian General Electric. Keel laying took place Dec. 4.1963, and launching was carried out July 23, 1964. Christened at Midland, March 24, 1965 (see photo above), she arrived in Taconite Harbor on April 25 to load iron ore pellets. Operated by Canada Steamship Lines, she is the largest self-unloader on the Great Lakes. Dimensions are 730’ (0.A. 2 x 75° x 41’ 2”. Powered by a 9,000-h.p. G. E. steam turbine, providing a designed service speed of 17 m.p.h. Unloading equipment discharges at the rate of 4,200 tons of coal or 6,000 tons of ore per hour. This vessel is_also equip- Paul Sherlock