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The Detroit Marine Historian Journal of Marine Historical Society of Detroit Volume 23, No. 6 February, 1970 ° een _ TADOUSSAC TADOUSSAC (ii or iii) (Can. 325750) Photo by John H. Bascom This unusual self-unloader is Canada Steamship Lines' second or thiré of that name. It's all a question of spelling. The first came into the fleet when the line was formed in 1913 from the old Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Company. She was an iron-hulled, beam-engined pas- senser steamer built as VIRGINIA for the Old Bay Line in 1879. The rub is that this vessel spelled her name TADOUSAC with one "s". The second TADOUSSAC, or the first to use two "s"s, was a large St. Law- rence River passenger steamer built for the line in 1928. She is still afloat as a hotel in Denmark under the name of ST. LAWRENCE. The present TADOUSSAC differs from the usual Lakes self-unloaders in that her unloading boom comes forward from an A-frame mounted over her after cabins, that she has twin side-by-side stacks and that her stern looks as if the last 30 feet had been cut off by a large knife. She gained headlines when she launched herself 15 minutes prematurely on May 29 at Collingwood Shipyards where she was built as HULL 192. (See the Historian for June, 1969) The newest TADOUSSAC's dimensions are 730' (0.A.) x 75' x 42'; 20,630 gross and 14,560 net tons. She is powered by a heavy-oil diesel eng- ine. If you would like to get a look at this unusual vessel, she is wintering at the Ojibway slip just below Windsor. Dave Glick