Frontenac

[Denny]

Can’t say for sure but, I’d say at least three? There was the Alpena fire as many recall a few years ago, then we had the Blough fire in 2021 and now the latest one with the Frontenac. Definitely not good! Not sure if I may have missed anything or not but, these are the most recent that I show so far. Overall, in the past 10-15 years we’ve seen quite a few fires aboard lake vessels at lay up time! Seems like we’ve had quite a few more so than I can ever recall. Don’t mean to sound harsh or negative here just a point is all. If we have too many more fires involving ships at layups, eventually we won’t have enough ships then to carry and transport the raw materials! Just a point is all. However, as has been pointed out and mentioned here by a certain few that the US fleet is decreasing anyway in size and I’m sure the Canadian fleets as well are also decreasing in size. Hope we don’t have no more fires. 🙏

[guest]

Anybody keeping track as to how many fires this ship yard has had???

[Kymosobbie]

Firefighters from multiple departments in Door County responded to a fire on the Frontenac Bulk Carrier at Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding around noon Tuesday.

The fire reportedly occurred while cleaning the dust container onboard the ship. Not much smoke was visible from outside of the the scene, but firefighters had to weave through the ship to get water to the source of the fire, which was reportedly contained in about an hour.

According to the Canada Steamship Lines website, the MV Frontenac was built in 1968 and converted into a self-unloader in 1973.