Manitoba

This smaller size straight deck bulk carrier was built as hull #187 by Collingwood Shipyards Ltd., Collingwood, ON. The vessel was launched as the Mantadoc (2) on November 23, 1966 for the N. M. Paterson & Sons Ltd. fleet of Thunder Bay, ON. This vessel's construction was ordered as a result of a need to replace Paterson's old, small bulk carriers and to augment the fleet's capacity.
The Mantadoc was named after the Province of Manitoba (“Manta") which is the provincial location of Paterson's corporate head office in Winnipeg, MB. In keeping with Paterson's fleet suffix policy of ending most of their vessel names with “doc" meaning “Dominion of Canada"; the Mantadoc thusly derived its name. N. M. Paterson & Sons Ltd. (now Paterson GlobalFoods Inc.) was a major grain elevator operator in Canada with many of its operations in Manitoba. Through its Marine Division, N. M. Paterson & Sons had been operating vessels on the Great Lakes since 1915 when its first small vessel, the 1874 built D. R. Van Allen was purchased.
The vessel is powered by 4 Fairbanks Morse model 8-38D8-1/8 8 cylinder diesel engines rated at a total of 5,332 b.h.p. (3,920 kW). Burning marine diesel oil, the power is fed through a gear reduction box to a single controllable pitch KaMeWa propeller giving the vessel a maximum service speed of 16.1 m.p.h. The vessel's 18 hatches service 6 holds where she is capable of carrying 19,093 tons (19,400 mt) of iron ore at a mid summer draft of 26' 1" (7.94m) and displaces 4,527 tons (4,600 mt) lightweight. The bulker has the cubic capacity to carry 18,100 net tons of coal, 16,928 tons (17,200 mt) of wheat, 15,224 tons (15,439 mt) of corn or rye, 13,359 tons (13,574 mt) of barley or 12,279 tons (12,476 mt) of oats. Other capacities include 320.6 tons (326 mt) of diesel oil of which she used approximately 9.85 tons (10 mt) each day; 6,567.5 tons (6,673 mt) of ballast water, and 60 tons (61 mt) of potable water. The vessel is equipped with 3 Caterpillar diesel generators rated at a total of 780 h.p. (575 kW) and a 600 h.p. (441 kW) KaMeWa bow thruster.
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[@adriannegrillo8394]

Awesome! Glad you caught her horn!

[@leclairj31]

Nice song perfect for the slide show 👌

[@MidwestSteven1]

2 years late but I saw a tiktok about the breaker yard in Turkey, and Manitoba was there

[@mustangmike4078]

Since I'm a Toledo native I'd love to see a video featuring the Col Schoonmaker/Willis Boyer.

[@tuckerhager6429]

Coming right up! Sorry I haven’t been able to post slideshows in forever. But I’m back now going full time!

[@mustangmike4078]

@@tuckerhager6429 Awesome!

[@Geminifan20]

Great job on this video btw can you do one on the Mapleglen originally the Carroll lake

[@tuckerhager6429]

I’ll try!

[@rwallace2387]

why was it called nito well being towed for scrap?

[@tuckerhager6429]

If anything happened to the ship that caused damages the fleet won’t be held responsible. They often change the name of a ship being towed to scrap and black out the fleet stack to avoid being accountable.

[@MynameisEric551]

Do you make videos of Lake Freighters that sank?

[@tuckerhager6429]

I do! I made a playlist on my channel.

[@MynameisEric551]

@@tuckerhager6429 Can you make a video about the Henry Steinbrenner?