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    NAME: Cartiercliffe Hall
    OTHER NAME(s): 1960-1976, Ruhr Ore
                   1988-1994, Winnipeg
                   1994-      Algontario
    REASON: Fire
    DATE:  June 5, 1979
    LOCATION: Lake Superior, off Copper Harbor
    TYPE: propeller
    HULL TYPE: steel
    BUILDER: Schlieker-Werft, Hamburg, Germany - 1960
    OWNERS: 1960-1976, Transatlantic Bulk Carriers, Inc., Monrovia, Liberia
            1976-1986, Hall Corp., Shipping Ltd., Montreal, Canada
            1986-1991, Navican Management, Montreal, Canada
            1991-      Great Lakes Bulk Carriers, Montreal, Canada
    MASTER: Capt. Raymond Boudreau
    TONNAGE: 8200 gross (orig), 18531 (after rebuild)
    LENGTH:  546 ft (orig), 716 ft (after rebuild)
    BEAM:  74 ft (orig), 76 ft (after rebuild)
    DEPTH: 30.83 ft (orig), 36 ft (after rebuild)
    REBUILD: 1977 by Davie Shipbuilding, Ltd.
             1979 Reconstructed in Collingwood
    CASUALTIES: 7
    SURVIVORS:  18

                    Crew forced to abandon ship when the aft end
                    burst into flames.  Six of crew lost in flames.
                    Another died in the hospital at Ann Arbor, MI.
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Sources: The Ludington Daily News, June 6, 1979
         Historical Collections of the Great Lakes,
           Bowling Green State University