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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 ...
James L. Kuber (lake freighter) James R. Barker (1976 ship) SS Jarvis Lord; SS John A. McGean; John B. Aird (ship) John Hulst (ship) MV John J. Boland; SS John Mitchell (1906) SS John Sherwin (1906) Joseph S. Fay Shipwreck Site
In May 1984, Indiana Harbor was the largest ship to ever enter the harbor at Ludington, Michigan and delivered 45,000 tons of limestone to Ludington's Dow plant. [4] It also set another record the following year with 50,090 tons of limestone. [5] In August 1986, Indiana Harbor broke the Lake Erie record for loading coal, 52,000 tons, at Toledo ...
Republic kept Valley Camp ' s name, and for that company she hauled iron ore and coal to their mills in Buffalo, New York; Cleveland, Ohio; and Indiana Harbor, Indiana. In 1966, Valley Camp made her last voyage. She was decommissioned due to problems with her coal-burning boilers. Her twin, Silver Bay, went on to sail until the early 1980s.
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]
first turbo electric lake freighter; SS Carl D. Bradley: 1927: 1958: Sank in storm 1958; Biggest Ship on the lakes until the construction of the Wilfred Sykes in 1949; SS Cedarville: 1927: 1965: Originally Named A.F. Harvey; Transferred from the Pittsburg steamship Co. and given a self unloader in 1956; Sank after collision 1965; SS John G ...
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.