Federal Rideau

Tugs guide the Federal Rideau to her moorings at the Redpath Sugar Refinery, in Toronto.

The Federal Rideau is a cargo vessel owned an operated by Fednav. She, and her sister ship, the Federal Asahii, were built in Oshima, Japan, 2000.[1]

In July 2014 she ran aground in Lake St. Clair, near Peche Island, and required five tugs to get free.[2] She was carrying 20,000 tons of wheat from Thunder Bay to Montreal.

In December 2014 a failure of the Martin Luther King Bridge over the Maumee River blocked her progress in Toledo, Ohio.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ "Steamboat Bill". 2000. p. 232. Retrieved 2016-04-18. Both Federal Asahii (ii) and Federal Rideau were built at Oshima, Japan.
  2. ↑ "More tugs called to rescue freighter stuck in Lake. St. Clair". CBC News. 2014-07-27. Retrieved 2016-04-18. A 200-metre long Federal Rideau ran aground in the downbound shipping channel off Peche Island in Lake St. Clair around 3 a.m. Sunday.
  3. ↑ David Patch (2014-12-03). "Bridge breakdown snarls midday traffic: Electrical issue gets MLK's spans stuck". Toledo Blade. Retrieved 2016-04-18. “Look, they’re waving,” Ms. Schneider told her son, who looked toward crewmen aboard the M.V. Federal Rideau but resolutely kept his hands in his warm coat pockets.
  4. ↑ "Martin Luther King, Jr. Bridge closed indefinitely after drawspan becomes stuck". Toledo Blade. 2014-12-05. Retrieved 2016-04-18. The M.V. Federal Rideau waits on the Maumee River as the Martin Luther King, Jr. Bridge malfunctions. The breakdown blocked traffic more than 2 hours Tuesday.
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