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Che Detroit Marine Historian Journal of MARINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY of Detroit Volume 19, No. 2 October, 1965 ONTARIO POWER (Can. 322194) 20624 get. 12768 nete PHOTO FROM ONTARIO EDITORIAL BUREAU BUILT AS HULL 37 by Port Weller Drydocks, Ltd., to the order of Upper Lakes Shipping, Ltd., and christened at Port Weller on June 19, 1965. Designed to carry Nova Scotia coal to Lake Ontario ports, she is the largest ocean-going ship using the St. Lawrence Seaway. Dimensions are 710’ (O.A.) x 75’x 45’9”’. Her unique ocean-laker design will permit deep-sea voyages during the winter months. Propul- - sion equipment consists of a 9,000-h.p. steam turbine and one automated water tube boiler. The main engine is controlled from the wheelhouse and is one of the first bridge-controlled turbines in the world. Unloading equipment discharges over a 250-foot boom at the rate of 3,000 tons of coal or 2,400 tons of ore per hour. To assist in navigating narrow channels, this ship is fitted with an 800-h.p. bowthruster. Paul Sherlock