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I clicked through some Global Earth images. Here is one with Coastal Titan and a boat in the drydock.
It can also be used as a drydock for smaller boats.
They also use it to place a boat on a barge as a cheap drydock.
This photo shows the "dry" Trillium moored for ship repair and provides an overview of the Menier Consol floating Dry Dock.
After handling the BOF vessel, it returned to Toronto.
Menier Consol Drydock
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| TorontoDrydock-repair 180’L x40’Wx18’D (61m x 12 m x 5.5m [ship2yard]) floating drydock and 1000 tonne lift capacity |
Janey Anderson posted 19 photos with the comment:
So I had a SUPER fun experience on Saturday. I was invited to tour the Toronto Dry Docks! I have a lot of pictures 😂, cause there was a lot to see!First stop - the Menier Consol floating Dry Dock housing the 1935 William Inglis Toronto Island ferry for the much needed work she needs to meet Canada Transport standards.The Dry dock name is the "Menier Consol" and she used to be a ship. Built in 1962 as a pulpwood carrier at Davie Shipyards (Lauzon, Qc.) and later converted (1983) to a floating dry dock (180'L x 40' W x 18'D). She does not move from her slip in the Ship Channel. Her gate opens to allow water into the chamber so and she sinks underwater. The boat then moves over the dock, and then the water is pumped oiur of the compartment moving the dock out of the water, bringing the ship up with it.My tour was with Tony Visca of Allied Marine & Industrial out of Port Colborne.
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| 1 This is the Menier Consol floating Dry Dock (former timber carrier for 20 years before being converted). You can see the William Inglis ferry inside the dry dock. That's the Serendipity Princess out front. She will go in the dry dock or on the barge this winter. |
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| 2 The 1st set of stairs to get to the top of the dry dock |
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| 3 The next set of stairs to get down into the dry dock compartment. It's a long way down. |
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| 4 The 234 tonne William Inglis ferry up on blocks inside. |
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| 5 There is a large crew working on her inside. |
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| 6 The next set of stairs up to to the ferry. |
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| 7 Shows how the ferry is supported inside the dry dock. |
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| 9 From the top deck of the ferry looking down into the dry dock. Cath Mansfield: Oh wow!!!, they must have to have a huge clear up before flooding the chamber to remove the ferry when it's completed. |
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| 10 More perspective on the height of the walls. |
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| 11 Wall bumpers |
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| 12 Ropes/ladders - a floating workshop |
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| 13 From the deck of the ferry looking down into the dry dock. |
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| 14 The gate that opens in order to flood the compartment. |
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| 15 Happy I didn't have to climb the ladder. |
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| 16 Last, we took a trip around the upper ledge of the dry dock |
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| 17 It's a long way around up top and a little intimidating but great views!! |
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| 18 And I'm out! 😉 |
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| 19 Didn't get to go in the accommodations, but hope to have a tour one day. Dennis DeBruler: I would expect that the accommodations have been gutted for storage and shops such as machining and fabrication since I could not find a support building on shore. |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Janey's post Because of the "Ship Channel" comment and the counterweights in the background of your last photo, I was easily able to find her berth. https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6416065,-79.3478402,125a,35y,39.5t/data=!3m1!1e3 |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Janey's post Where is the Costal Titan and their other equipment moored when not in use? https://www.torontodrydock.com/project/tugs-and-barges/ |
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| Janey Anderson commented on Dennis' comment Dennis DeBruler she's just East, as is the Metis barge. Dennis DeBruler: Janey Anderson It's good to see that it was being used when the current Google Maps satellite image was taken. |
I clicked through some Global Earth images. Here is one with Coastal Titan and a boat in the drydock.
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| Global Earth, Mar 2022 |
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| TorontoDrydock-coastal-titan Coastal Titan is a multi-use barge. In addition to an obvious heavy lift LoLo capability, it can do RoRo or 200 containers and 114,00 cu.ft. of grain. (I don't know if it can do containers and grain at the same time.) |
It can also be used as a drydock for smaller boats.
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They also use it to place a boat on a barge as a cheap drydock.
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This photo shows the "dry" Trillium moored for ship repair and provides an overview of the Menier Consol floating Dry Dock.
It travels on the Great Lakes and the Seaway to do heavy lifts in other locations.
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| Heddle Shipyard in Port Weller via Dennis DeBruler 420 ton steel Basic Oxygen Furnace vessel, upside down without its cone According to some comments it is a KOBM for Dofasco. "A KOBM is "soft of like a combination of a BOF and a Q-BOP." (Now I need to learn what a Q-BOP is.) The barge is in the drydock so that they can control the height of the barge vs. the dock. |
After handling the BOF vessel, it returned to Toronto.
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| Michel Gosselin posted via Dennis DeBruler Entering lock 1 |
It traveled to Thunder Bay, ON, to pull the sunken James Whalen tug out of the water and move it to a dock.
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| Jeff Harding via Janey Anderson post via Dennis DeBruler |
Several fans took photos as it traveled to and from Thunder Bay.
Salvage Tug/Coastal Titan had a long journey up the Great Lakes to Thunder Bay. On Sep 1 it was going through the Welland Canal (6 photos). On Sep 3 it was on the Detroit River (3 photos) and going under the Blue Water Bridge (8 photos).
Then it had to go back to Toronto Drydock. On Sep 15 it was in Lock #8 of the Welland Canal (2 photos) and Port Colborne (10 photos).
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| Jeff Harding via Janney Anderson post via Dennis DeBruler Photos taken from the Radium Yellowknife Tug. It offloading transformers from Sloman Discoverer and took them to the base of the CN Tower. |
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| TorontoDrydock-project-cargo Offloading to a Self-Propelled Modular Transport (SPMT). |
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| Janey Anderson posted, cropped Toronto Drydock tug - OMNI COASTAL (built in 1969) seen here hoisted up (by Coastal Titan) on barge Radium 604 for scheduled maintenance. Toronto Shipping Channel. May 8/23 Matthew Carlson: Wonder why the one barge is flipped upside downAdam Bertrand: Matthew Carlson Weld the deck hatched and vents closed. Replating the bottom. Seen it done a few times |
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| Janey Anderson posted TRILLIUM FERRY IN FOR HER 5 YEAR INSPECTION The Coastal Titan Barge was aptly named when you see how she holds up the 673 ton Toronto TRILLIUM Ferry! This 111 year old ferry is up for its 5-year inspection and because of it’s size, they used the Coastal Titan to essentially “lift” her out of the water to put her on the floating dry dock (Radium 604) for hull inspection, etc. Coastal Titan, owned by the Toronto Dry Docks – is an unmanned barge/heavy lift usually pushed by tug Salvage Monarch. It is an extremely eclectic multi-functional barge that serves as a RoRo (Roll-on/Roll-off) - designed to carry wheeled cargo like cars, trucks, railroad cars that are driven on and off the ship on their own wheels AND a LoLo (Lift-on/Lift-off) which use a crane to load and unload cargo. It comes complete with Bow/Stern ramps and 2 Stuelken Booms. It also serves as a dry dock for small vessels – like tug Vigilant 1 in February 2022 |
Miscellaneous
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| 1 of 2 photos and a video posted by Janey Anderson So this awesome little number is Jet Boat 557 - owned by Toronto Dry Dock. She has a very shallow draft, twin engine 275Hp diesel jet drive; is trailerable AND has a 2 ton bollard pull! |
The jet boat in Janey's photos doesn't match either of the jet boats shown on their web site:
It looks like it is using its full 2-ton capacity to push a pipe for the Deep Lake Water Cooling expansion project.
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| Photo via TorontoDrydock |
