M/V Maritime Trader, loading grain at Mission Terminal. The Maritime
Trader was built in 1966 at Collingwood Shipyard Ltd. for N. M. Patereson
& Sons, Ltd., of Thunder Bay. When Paterson sold its fleet the vessel
was purchased by Canada Steamship Lines in 2002 and renamed the Teakglen.
In 2005 the Teakglen was acquired by Voyageur Marine, Ltd. and rechristened Martime Trader.
M/V Maritime Trader, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Oct. 20, 2006, Image 06-1051
View from the forward end of Maritime Trader, looking aft at loading.
The Maritime Trader is 607'9" overall, with a beamof 62 feet. The Maritime
Trader is the first ship in the recently formed Voyageur Marine fleet.
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Loading spout over the hatch on the Maritime Trader. The Mission Terminal,
located on the Mission River, in Thunder Bay, Ontario, is Thunder Bay's only
independent grain terminal. Mission Terminal is owned by Upper Lakes Group, Inc.
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Canola being loaded onto the Maritime Trader. Canola is the world's third
leading source of vegetable oil. Canola is a contrived word,
(
Canadian
Oil,
Low
Acid)
coined in 1974 to avoid the negative connotation of the plant "rapeseed."
The particular cargo of Canola is scheduled for delivery in Windsor, Ontario.
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Colorful cargo of Canola in cargo hold of Maritime Trader. Canada exports
3 to 4 million metric tons of Canola seed annually. The seed comes from the rapeseed,
an oilseed plant, raised primarily in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Efforts to remove
anti-nutritional components, such as erucic acid, resulted in a new genetic
modification of rapeseed, with low erucic acid content and low levels of
glucosinolates (Canola Canada).
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Pilothouse on the Maritime Trader.
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Bill Beatty, Captain, M/V Maritime Trader
Two of the Trader's 4 Fairbansk Morse diesel engines.
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The narrow space between engines. The combined horsepower of the engines
is approximately 5,500 HP. The Maritime Trader moves at about 12.5 miles per
hour, running straight diesel oil, dubbed "champagne" by the ship's engineers.
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Control room overlooking the diesel engines. The instrument panels are all
in English Units instead of the metric system commonly found on Canadian ships.
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Skylights at the top of the engine room are becoming a thing of the past on
the Great Lakes. Their ghostly glowing lights at night on the afterdeck invite
our imaginations to peer down on the activity below.
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Wheelsman Bob Hodder,Father
2nd Mate Trevor Hodder, Son
Bob & Trevor Hodder, M/V Maritime Trader
Karen Rivers, Chief Cook
Karen at work in the ship's galley. "I've been cooking since I was 12,"
she says, but it gets to be a long day after cooking and cleaning up for
three meals a day.
To view additional crew portraits:
Maritime Trader portraits
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