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She is the oldest surviving hull on the Great Lakes, being built in 1896. The pilot house from the Thomas Walters survives as part of the Ashtabula Maritime & Surface Transportation Museum in Ashtabula, Ohio. It's noted that the Walters was the freighter built to replace the SS William C. Moreland, which ran aground on Sawtooth Reef, Lake Superior.
First 1,000-footer lake freighter. Originally Hull 1173 and nicknamed "Stubby", the ship only consisted of the bow and stern sections. It was then sailed to Erie, Pennsylvania and lengthened by over 700 feet. [2] [18] Henry Ford II, Benson Ford: 1924 First lake freighters with diesel engines. [19] Feux Follets: 1967 Last ship built with a steam ...
The vital shipping channel that connects Lake Erie to Lake Huron and includes the Detroit River has seen three ships go aground this year. Why do freighters keep getting stuck in Detroit, St ...
Great Lakes Fleet was formed on July 1, 1967, when U.S. Steel consolidated its Great Lakes shipping operations by merging the Pittsburgh Steamship Division and its sister fleet, the Bradley Transportation Company forming the USS Great Lakes Fleet. [2] In 1981, Great Lakes Fleet was spun off into a U.S. Steel-owned subsidiary, Transtar, Inc. [3]
The freighter has to travel the rest of Lake Erie and then go up the Detroit and St. Clair rivers to Sarnia, Ontario, where it will spend the rest of the winter, Rivera told The Associated Press on Sunday. “There is ice through other portions of the lake and the rivers, but we have another cutter that will take it through there,” he said.
At the time of its scrapping was the oldest intact lake freighter still afloat. [2] The ship was 440 feet long by 50 feet across the beam, with a depth of 28 feet. It was powered by a 1,500-horsepower triple-expansion steam engine, fed by two coal-fired Scotch marine boilers. [3] The Ford had 12 hatches feeding into 4 cargo compartments. [1]
As built the lake freighter was 195.0 m (639 ft 9 in) long overall and 189.9 m (623 ft 0 in) between perpendiculars with a beam of 22.0 m (72 ft 2 in). [1] The ship had a depth of hull of 11.0 m (36 ft 1 in) and a mid-summer draught of 8.0 m (26 ft 3 in). [2]
The collision created a 7 by 4 feet (2.1 by 1.2 m) gash in the hull causing the engine room to flood. The ship partially sank with the stern resting on the bottom in 20 feet (6.1 m) of water. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] In February 2013, a federal jury awarded American Steamship Company (ASC) $4.7 million for repairs and lost profits in their lawsuit against ...