CSL Tacoma Departs Baltimore December 21, 2018

This 228x32m (748.03×104.99ft) ship is a self discharging bulk freighter. One of five trillium class ships for Canada Steamship Lines Americas she was built in 2013 by Chengxi Shipyard Company in Jiangyin, china according to BalticShipping.com. From the outside she looks like your ordinary bulk freighter with the addition of a boom attached to a structure just forward of the superstructure. CSL has provided an excellent video on how the self discharging mechanism works – click here to watch it. Check out the rest of their YouTube channel while you’re at it – they have a lot of great videos. Watch for workers on the boom as she leaves Baltimore, Maryland in the video below. For best results watch in FULL SCREEN. You may need to watch for 20+ seconds before full resolution kicks in.

I also saw the cruise ship American Constitution, the tanker Golden Ray, and container ship Primavera this day.

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