Sauniere (ship)
Algoma Central bulk carrier Sauniere moored in the Port de Montréal. | |
| History | |
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| Owner |
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| Port of registry |
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| Builder | Lithgows Ltd., Glasgow, Scotland |
| Yard number | 1177 |
| Laid down | 20 January 1970 |
| Launched | 2 September 1970 |
| Completed | 18 December 1970 |
| Out of service | 2009 |
| Identification | IMO number: 7028489 |
| Fate | Scrapped 2010 |
| General characteristics as built | |
| Type | Self-unloading bulk carrier |
| Tonnage | |
| Length | |
| Beam | 22.9 m (75 ft 2 in) |
| Depth | 12.8 m (42 ft 0 in) |
| Installed power | 2 × 4,400 bhp (3,300 kW) Helsingor Skibs & Msk. diesel engines |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Sauniere was a self-unloading bulk carrier operated by Algoma Central. Laid down as Bulknes, before launching the vessel's name was changed to Brooknes. The ship was constructed and completed in 1970. The ship was initially owned by the Swedish company Kristian Jebsens Rederi A/S. In 1974, Algoma Central purchased the vessel, registered the ship in West Germany and renamed it Algosea. Algoma Central sent the ship to Swan Hunter in England to be lengthened. Emerging in 1976, Algosea sailed for Canada for conversion to a self-unloading bulk carrier at Herb Fraser and Associates in Port Colborne, Ontario. Algosea, which transported road salt between ports in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Saint Lawrence Seaway and Great Lakes suffered three collisions and two groundings during its career. The Algosea was renamed Sauniere in 1982 and continued in service until 2009 when the bulk carrier was sold for scrap and broken up in Turkey in 2010.