MV Buffalo  Algoma Buffalo" (formerly "Buffalo") is a diesel-powered Lake freighter owned by Algoma Central Corporation. This vessel was built in 1978 at Bay Shipbuilding Company, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin and included self-unloading technology. The ship is long and wide, with a carrying capacity of 24,300 Gross Tons (at midsummer draft), limestone, gypsum, coal or iron ore. The ship was built for American Steamship in 1978 and named for Buffalo, New York, where the company was founded. In late 2017 the ship was purchased by Algoma Central Corporation. The ship was involved in an incident in Bay City, Michigan in September 1990 when it created a wake that exploded another vessel.