Federal Rideau is a bulk carrier owned and operated by Fednav.

The ship is powered by a diesel engine driving one screw with a maximum speed of 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph).

The vessel's keel was laid down on 14 September 1999 and the bulk carrier was given the yard number 10261.

[2] In July 2014 she ran aground in Lake St. Clair, near Peche Island, and required five tugboats to get free.

In December 2014 a failure of the Martin Luther King Bridge over the Maumee River blocked her progress in Toledo, Ohio.