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Saturday, August 19, 2000

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Upbound Vessels:

Name	Registry	Destination	Additional Information

Gordon C. Leitch	Canada	Port Colborne	Secured at wharf 20, the Government grain elevator in the outer harbour at Port Colborne early this morning to load a part cargo of grain for a St. Lawrence River port
Cuyahoga	Canada	???	Departed upbound from wharf 12 early this morning with stone
Lake Erie	Canada	Milwaukee	Loaded with steel products from antwerp, Belgium. She was also carrying two yachts on deck. A sailboat which measured about 40' and a twin engine motor yacht that was around 50' long. Both had been loaded in Antwerp and were to be delivered to Milwaukee
Clipper Falcon	Bahamas	Windsor	Upbound in ballast to load. She unloaded steel products in Montreal several days earlier
Canadian Century	Canada	Ashtabula	In ballast
Tanker - Rathrowan	Norway	Sault Ste. Marie	In ballast to load coal tar for Denmark
J.A.W. Iglehart	U.S.A.	Cleveland	Loaded with cement from Bath
Brunto	Norway	Thunder Bay	In ballast to load peas in Thunder Bay for Sardina Island, Italy
Paterson	Canada	Chicago	Upbound with iron ore from Quebec
Canadian Voyager	Canada	Lakehead	In ballast to load wheat
Duden	Turkey	Duluth	Upbound at Port Robinson around 23:40 in ballast to load grain for Europe
Ziemia Tarnowska	Poland	Cleveland	Departed from lock 3 in St. Catharines around 23:30 loaded with steel prooducts from Holland
Canadian Olympic	Canada	???	Port Weller ETA around 01:50 on the 20th
Koningsborg	Holland	Cleveland	Port Weller ETA around 02:00 on the 20th with a partial load of steel

Downbound Vessels:

Name	Registry	Destination	Additional Information

Capt. Henry Jackman	Canada	Hamilton	Arrived in Hamilton around 04:00 to unload
English River	Canada	Bath	In ballast to load cement for Buffalo
Lake Champlain	Marshall Islands	Sorel	Destined for Casablanca, Morocco with grain from Thunder Bay
Jean Parisien	Canada	Hamilton	Loaded with coal from Ashtabula. Arrived in Hamilton at 18:00 for Stelco
John B. Aird	Canada	Valleyfield
Hilal II	Turkey	Montreal	Destined for Algeria with durum wheat from Duluth
Gordon C. Leitch	Canada	Seaway	Departed wharf 20 in Port Colborne around 20:30 partially loaded with grain. She was at Port Robinson at 24:00
Isa	Cyprus	Montreal	Port Colborne ETA around 07:00 on the 20th with peas and canola seeds from Thunder Bay destined for Spain
Rubin Stork	Panama	Montreal	Port Colborne ETA around 10:40 on the 20th in ballast

Vessels at Wharfs:

Name	Registry	Location

Juleen II (Pilot boat)	Canada	Port Weller pilot boat dock
Lady Kim (Pilot boat)	Canada	Port Weller pilot boat dock
J.W. Cooper (Pilot boat)	Canada	Port Colborne pilot boat dock
Tug - Everlast	Panama	Wharf 1 - Secured alongside the north face of wharf 1
Sweep Scow No. 4	Canada	Wharf 5 - The Thorold Industrial docks
Halifax	Canada	Wharf 16 - The former R&P coal dock in Port Colborne for engine reparis
Vac	Canada	Wharf 18.1 - The West Street wharf - Port Colborne
Gordon C. Leitch	Canada	Wharf 20 - The Government Elevator in Port Colborne's outer harbour. Secured there early this morning and departed around 20:30 downbound with a partial load of grain
CGR 100	Canada	Wharf 51 - Port Weller Coast Guard station
James E. McGrath	Canada	Wharf 52 - Port Weller Drydocks - tug dock
New Louis R. Desmarais hull #79	un-registered	Wharf 52 - Shallow drydock - Under construction
Algowood	Canada	Wharf 52 - deep dock - For repairs to her misdhip hold section and lengthening from 730 feet to 740 feet overall
Remains of - J.W. McGiffin's old hull	un-registered	Wharf 57 - International Marine Salvage scrapyard
H.M. Griffith's hull	un-registered	Wharf 57 - International Marine Salvage scrapyard (now being dismantled)
Tarantau	un-registered	Wharf 57 - International Marine Salvage scrapyard
Canadiana	un-registered	Adjacent to wharf 59 - Marsh Engineering drydock Laid up there partially sunk since July 23, 1988

Additional Vessel Movements

Duden	Turkey	Departed pier 8 in Hamilton harbour west at 12:30 in ballast for the canal destined for Duluth to load durum wheat
Thorshope	Cyprus	Departed Hamilton today at 19:30 and arrived in Toronto at 21:30 to unload steel products
Koningsborg	Holland	Departed Cote Ste. Catherine this morning continuing westbound for the canal. She has unloaded portions of her steel cargo in Nova Scotia and in Cote Ste Catherine. The remainder will be off loaded in Cleveland
Saturn	U.S.A.	Arrived in Oswego today
Tug - Valentine Moran & barge - Pennsylvania	U.S.A.	Eastbound in the Seaway for Tracy, Quebec
Jade Star	Canada	Westbound on Lake Ontario at 24:00 from Montreal for Hamilton
Morias	Greece	Westbound in the Seaway at Snell at 19:50 for Burns Harbor with finished steel products from Brazil
Darya Kamal	Hong Kong	Westbound in the Seaway at Snell at 22:30 for Marinette with pig iron from Brazil
Alaska Rainbow	Greece	Westbound in the Seaway at Snell at 23:45 destined for Thorold with bauxite from western Africa
Millenium Osprey	Cayman Islands	Westbound in the Seaway east of Snell at 24:00 for Hamilton, Cleveland, Detroit and Burns Harbor with steel products from Antwerp, Belgium and Brake, Germany.
Helena Oldendorff	Panama	Revised order out of Montreal at 01:00 on the 20th for Toronto
Seaharmony II	Malta	Due to enter the Seaway around 16:00 on the 20th
Frontenac	Canada	Departed Stelco in Hamilton around 13:00 destined for Picton to load cement clinker
Capt. Henry Jackman	Canada	Departed Hamilton around 13:30 destined for Quebec City in ballast
U.S. Brig Niagara	U.S.A.	Departed Prescott this morning westbound for the canal

Most of the information presented in these reports comes from the
Seaway Development Corporation's automated vessel information recording, the
Great Lakes Pilotage Authority recordings and by my own observations.
Thanks Eric Holmes for regular Hamilton reports, Richard Perrin, Robert Archer, the Welland Canal
and Lake Ontario pilots and the following sites for additional information for the
"Additional Movements" section today.
Fairplay Internet Register Port of Montreal Duluth Shipping News Soo River Passage Report
The Thunder Bay report Daily Salty Positions
If you know of any information that could be incorporated into this report daily please
send me a message. ETAs, ETDs, cargoes being carried, destinations and
current locations of ships on Lake Ontario, the St. Lawrence River or the Welland Canal.

Current, 24-hour Welland Canal Ship Positions - 1 (905) 688-6462 (Automated Recording)

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