History | |
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Name |
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Namesake | Winnipeg and Dominion of Canada |
Owner | Patterson Steamship Co. of Fort William |
Builder | Globe Iron Works |
Launched | 1899 |
Out of service | 1967 |
Fate | Scrapped |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Laker |
Tonnage | 4,661-long-ton (4,736 t) |
Length | 430-foot (130 m) |
Windoc was the name of two Great Lakes freighters owned by Canadian shipping company N.M. Paterson & Sons Ltd., with the second ship named in memory of the first in 1986. Both ships suffered similar accidents with lift bridges on the Welland Canal.