Saint Laurent (cruise ship)
.JPG) Cruise ship Saint Laurent, moored at Toronto's International Marine Passenger Terminal, on 16 May 2015. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Saint Laurent |
| Owner: | Clipper Group AS |
| Operator: | Haimark Line |
| Port of registry: |
Nassau,  Bahamas |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Cruise ship |
| Tonnage: | 5,954 GRT |
| Length: | 91.44 m (300.0 ft) |
| Beam: | 15.24 m (50.0 ft) |
| Draught: | 8.4 m (28 ft) |
| Capacity: | 210 passengers |
| Crew: | 81 |
Saint Laurent is a French cruise ship, operated by the Haimark Line.[1] She is owned by the Clipper Group AS, of Copenhagen, Denmark, and was built in 2001.[2]
Her operators characterize her as a "luxury" vessel.[3] Her passengers live in 105 double staterooms, and are said to have available all the amenities offered on larger vessels.
On 18 June 2015, on the first season she toured the North American Great Lakes, Saint Laurent collided with the Eisenhower Lock, a canal lock on the St Lawrence Seaway.[1] The vessel has a capacity for 210 passengers, and, on the day of the collision, she was carrying 192 passengers, 81 crew, and a local pilot.[4] Twenty-two members of the ship's complement, nineteen passengers and three crew members were lightly injured, and were evacuated.[5]
After the collision the vessel took on water, so the lock was completely drained.[5] The collision caused the Seaway to be out of commission for 42 hours, and delayed 13 other vessels. Nine hours after the Seaway was re-opened another vessel, Tundra, ran aground.[6]
| length | 91.44 metres (300.0 ft) |
| width | 15.24 metres (50.0 ft) |
| draft | 8.4 metres (28 ft) |
| gross tonnage | 5,954 |
| deadweight tonnage | 200 |
See also
References
- 1 2 Theresa Norton Masek (2015-06-22). "Haimark Cancels June 26 Saint Laurent Departure". Travel Pulse News. Retrieved 2015-06-22.
Haimark Line is operating the 210-passenger Saint Laurent on a long-term charter from FleetPro, the ship’s management company. It is now operating its inaugural season in New England, the Great Lakes and Maritime Canada through the fall foliage season. From late fall to early spring 2016, the Saint Laurent is scheduled to operate in the Caribbean, Central and South America.
- 1 2 "Foreign Ship Data & Photo Gallery: 2015 Season". Boatnerd. Retrieved 2015-06-22.
- ↑ Bob Boughner (2015-01-23). "New cruise ship will sail Great Lakes waters". Toronto Sun. Retrieved 2015-07-23.
A sister ship, the Pearl Mist, which cruised past our condo on the St. Clair River a few times last summer, attracting a great deal of attention from shore onlookers, also has a busy scheduled again this summer. In fact, the July 18 to 28 Great Lakes and Georgian Bay sailing is already sold out.
- ↑ "Lock traffic on track". Trade Wind News. Retrieved 2015-06-22.
- 1 2 "Montreal's Saint Laurent cruise ship hits lock en route to Toronto". CBC News. 2015-06-19. Retrieved 2015-06-22.
Nineteen injured passengers and three injured crew members had to be removed from the ship with the help of fire officials late last night. All of the injuries appeared to be minor, according to FleetPro Passenger Ship Management, the company that manages the ship.
- ↑ Aiswarya Lakshmi (2015-06-22). "Tundra Aground in St. Lawrence Seaway". Marine Link. Retrieved 2015-06-22.
The 185 meter long drybulk vessel MV Tundra (30,892dwt, built 2009) owned by Canfornav, part of the Canadian Forest Navigation Group, has run aground overnight on the St. Lawrence Seaway at Lancaster, Ontario in Canada.