English: Canada Steamship Lines Laurentien, upbound through the St.Clair River

• Built by Collingwood Shipyards, Collingwood, ON
• side launched July 8, 1977 for Canada Steamship Lines Ltd., Montreal

First name: Louis R. Desmarais

• IMO: 7423108
• MMSI: 316001637
• Call sign: VCJW
• Length: 225 m / 739'10"
• Width: 24 m / 78'00"
• Depth: 48'05"
• Capacity (tons): 37,797
• powered by 2 Pielstick V-10 cylinder 4,500 horsepower diesel engines feeding through a single reduction gear box to a controllable pitch propeller giving a rated service speed of 14 knots and equipped with a bow thruster. Engine room fire on Nov. 27, 1999 on western Lake Ontario when a hydraulic oil line broke spraying oil over the engines.

• Winter 2000-2001 converted by Port Weller Dry Docks to a SeawayMax-sized vessel by new forebody fitted to the engine-room. The new vessel features automated self-unloading equipment.

• March 3, 2001 christening the new vessel, new name CSL Laurentien. The sponsor of Hull 79 at the christening was Mrs. Kimberley Pauley, wife of Capt. Steve Pauley, of Mates Corner, NB.

03/09/2001 Grounding/Stranding with structural damage, between Duluth (USA) and Port Weller (Canada)