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The Niagara Queen II is a small icebreaker that Ontario Power Generation uses to keep the inlet ports open at their plant on the Niagara River at Niagara Falls.[2][3][4]
History | |
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Operator | Ontario Hydro |
Builder | Hike Metals & Shipbuilding Limited, Wheatley, Ontario, Canada[1] |
Yard number | 815413[1] |
Commissioned | 1992[1] |
Status | in active service |
General characteristics | |
Type | Icebreaker |
Displacement | 85 tonnes (93.70 short tons)[1] |
Length | 26.8 metres (88 ft)[1] |
Beam | 5.5 metres (18 ft)[1] |
Draft | 1.9 metres (6.2 ft)[1] |
Depth | 2.9 metres (9.5 ft)[1] |
Installed power | 1,280 kilowatts (1,720 shp)[1] |
Speed | 110 kn (19 km/h)[1] |
Crew | 6[1] |
Niagara Queen II is a shallow draft river vessel designed by OPG and STX Marine. She replaced the Niagara Queen, a modified tugboat icebreaker operated by Ontario Hydro and now with OPG.
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