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Harsens Island is North of Detroit in Michigan. The J. B. Ford was a steamship bulk freighter that saw service for 112 years on the Great Lakes of the United States and Canada. The ship was launched in Lorain, Ohio on 12 December 1903 as the Edwin F. Holmes. The freighter was named in honor of Edwin Francis Holmes, an investor in the Hawgood ...
Lake freighters, or lakers, are bulk carriers operating on the Great Lakes of North America. These vessels are traditionally called boats, although classified as ships. [1][2] Freighters typically have a long, narrow hull, a raised pilothouse, and the engine located at the rear of the ship.
SS Daniel J. Morrell was a 603-foot (184 m) Great Lakes freighter that broke up in a strong storm on Lake Huron on 29 November 1966, taking with her 28 of her 29 crewmen. The freighter was used to carry bulk cargoes such as iron ore but was running with only ballast when the 60-year-old ship sank.
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.
15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) Algorail was a lake freighter owned and operated by Algoma Central. The ship was built by Collingwood Shipyards in Collingwood, Ontario and was launched in 1967. The ship sailed on the North American Great Lakes and the Saint Lawrence Seaway delivering coal / coke, aggregates, slag, iron ore /oxides, salt, fertilizers ...
SS Edward L. Ryerson is a steel-hulled American Great Lakes freighter that entered service in 1960. Built between April 1959 and January 1960 for the Inland Steel Company, she was the third of the thirteen so-called 730-class of lake freighters, each of which shared the unofficial title of "Queen of the Lakes", as a result of their record-breaking length.
MV Paul R. Tregurtha laid up over the winter in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. MV Paul R. Tregurtha is a Great Lakes -based bulk carrier freighter. She is the current Queen of the Lakes, an unofficial but widely recognized title given to the longest vessel active on the Great Lakes. [1] Launched as MV William J. De Lancey, she was the last of the ...
MV John J. Boland is a diesel-powered lake freighter owned and operated by the Buffalo -based American Steamship Company (ASC), [4][5][6][7] a subsidiary of Rand Logistics. This vessel was built in 1973 at Bay Shipbuilding Company, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. [8] Initially named Charles E. Wilson, the vessel was renamed to its current name in 2000.