MV Windoc

Windoc was initially constructed as the bulk carrier Rhine Ore. As a bulk carrier the ship had a gross register tonnage of 8,202 tons and a deadweight tonnage of 19,918 tons. The ship measured overall and between perpendiculars with a beam of . The ship was powered by one diesel engine and had a maximum speed of . The Rhine Ore was part of a class of 8 sisterships (Ems Ore, Rhine Ore, Ruhr Ore, Weser Ore, Clyde Ore, Tees Ore, Thames Ore and Tyne Ore). Three of them were purchased by Hall Corp Ltd. of Toronto and rebuilt as lakers. After the vessel's conversion to a laker, the gross register tonnage increased to 18,531 tons and the deadweight tonnage to 29,050 tons. The length overall of the ship was increased to and between perpendiculars to . The beam was also increased to . ==Service history==

Rhine Ore was ordered from the Schlieker shipyard in Hamburg, West Germany by Transatlantic Bulk Carriers Inc. with the yard number 533. The vessel was launched on 11 April 1959 and completed in July. Registered under a flag of convenience in Monrovia upon entering service, Rhine Ore sailed until sold to Hall Corp Ltd. The vessel was towed to Hamilton Harbour for repairs, and in March, 2002, it broke free of its moorings in an winter gale, and ran aground away in about of water, where it was pulled out by four tugboats three days later. N.M. Paterson & Sons left the shipping business the following year, after 87 years, and sued the canal operator, St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corp., for $16.9 million (C). Their remaining four active and three mothballed ships were sold in 2002. The canal operator denied any negligence, and blamed the shipping company and the ship's crew for the accident. A Transport Safety Bureau report on the collision points to the bridge operator and bridge operating procedures and policies as major factors. They also concluded that impairment of the bridge operator was the root cause. The ship was converted into a storage barge. It was scrapped in 2011 at Port Colborne. ==See also==