SS Hilda Marjanne  Hilda Marjanne was a Canadian straight deck bulk carrier operating on the Great Lakes. The ship was built at the Kaiser Shipyard in Swan Island, Oregon, for the U.S. Maritime Commission as a Type T2-SE-A1 tanker and launched on 9 December 1943 as the "Grande Ronde". "Grande Ronde" was chartered to Los Angeles Tanker Operations, Inc. of Los Angeles, California, for wartime service, primarily in the Pacific Theater. The ship was o/a, with a beam of and deep. Powered by a GE steam turbine engine, she had a deadweight tonnage of 16,600 tons and a capacity of of fuel oil. In 1948 the "Grande Ronde" was sold to the Cephalonian Maritime Company of Athens, Greece. Renamed "Kate N.L." she operated in the Mediterranean Sea transporting petroleum products. In 1960 she was sold to Leitch Transport Ltd. of Toronto, Ontario, and towed to the Schlieker-Werft shipyard in Hamburg, West Germany, to be converted to a bulk carrier. The ship was extended to , with a beam of giving her a deadweight tonnage of 25,600 tons. The ship, renamed "Hilda Marjanne", returned to Canada in August 1961 for service on the Great Lakes transporting grain and iron ore. In 1975 she was one of three ships called to aid the search for survivors from the ill-fated which had gone down; but stormy weather forced her to abandon her efforts leaving just the and the to continue the search. "Hilda Marjanne" was laid up at Hamilton, Ontario on June 13, 1983. The bows and midsection (minus the forward wheelhouse, stern accommodations and machinery) of "Hilda Marjanne" were then joined to the stern section of the freighter "Chimo" at the Port Weller Dry Docks, St. Catharines, Ontario. The remaining unwanted sections of both ships were scrapped. The new ship was completed on April 5, 1984, as the bulk carrier "Canadian Ranger", which served as a grain transporter until laid up in 2008. She was scrapped in Aliağa, Turkey, in 2011.