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.
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.
Thunder Bay, Ontario, Oct. 20, 2006, Image 06-1061


Loading spout over the hatch on the Maritime Trader. The Mission Terminal, located on the Mission River,
is Thunder Bay's only independent grain terminal. Mission Terminal is owned by Upper Lakes Group, Inc.
Thunder Bay, Ontario, Oct. 20, 2006, Image 06-1078


Canola being loaded into 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.
Thunder Bay, Ontario, Oct. 20, 2006, Image 06-1075


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 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).
Thunder Bay, Ontario, Oct. 20, 2006, Image 06-1128


Pilothouse on the Maritime Trader.
Thunder Bay, Ontario, Oct. 20, 2006, Image 06-1054


Bill Beatty, Captain, M/V Maritime Trader
Thunder Bay, Ontario, Oct. 20, 2006, Image 06-1153


Two of the Trader's 4 Fairbansk Morse diesel engines.
Thunder Bay, Ontario, Oct. 20, 2006, Image 06-1116


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.
Thunder Bay, Ontario, Oct. 20, 2006, Image 06-1106


Control room overlooking the diesel engines. The instrument panels are all
in English Units instead of the metric system commonly found on Canadian ships.
Thunder Bay, Ontario, Oct. 20, 2006, Image 06-1115


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.
Thunder Bay, Ontario, Oct. 20, 2006, Image 06-1124


Wheelsman Bob Hodder, Father
Thunder Bay, Ontario, Oct. 20, 2006, Image 06-1082


2nd Mate Trevor Hodder, Son
Thunder Bay, Ontario, Oct. 20, 2006, Image 06-1053


Bob & Trevor Hodder, M/V Maritime Trader
Thunder Bay, Ontario, Oct. 20, 2006, Image 06-1099


Karen Rivers, Chief Cook
Thunder Bay, Ontario, Oct. 20, 2006, Image 06-1084


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.
Thunder Bay, Ontario, Oct. 20, 2006, Image 06-1099

To view additional crew portraits:
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