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SS Arthur M. Anderson - Last Ship to have Contact with the SS Edmund Fitzgerald; SS Cason J. Callaway; SS Phillip R. Clarke - First vessel of the 'AAA' Class ore carriers; the SS M. Anderson and the SS Cason J. Callaway are also of this class. The three are sometimes referred to as the "Triplets" because the three ships are nearly identical in ...
SS B.F. Jones was a steel-hulled Great Lakes freighter that was named after one of the founders of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company. She was launched on December 30, 1905 as hull #15. She operated from April 1906 to August 21, 1955 when she collided with the steamer Cason J. Callaway. [1]
The iron ore transported from the upper Great Lakes primarily supplies the steel mills of the Midwest. [34] Iron ore makes up a majority of the cargo shipped annually. [35] The 1940s saw the rise in the use of taconite pellets, as sources of higher quality ore diminished. [36] Cason J. Callaway laid up in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. (2021)
A crew from the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society found her about 40 miles northwest of Whitefish Point, resting 650 feet below the surface of Lake Superior.
Arthur M. Anderson, along with Philip R. Clarke and Cason J. Callaway, were built for the Pittsburgh Steamship Division of U.S. Steel. Arthur M. Anderson ' s sea trials commenced on August 7, 1952, and she loaded her first cargo at the Two Harbors dock on August 12, 1952. She received several refits in her life including the addition of a new ...
Her last tow was the Cason J. Calloway on December 30, 1980. She was the last coal-fired, steam-engine tug in service on the lakes when she was retired in 1981. [2] [4] Edna G. is one of the attractions of the Lake County Historical Society in Two Harbors. Following reports of continued weakening of the hull though corrosion and exposure to ice ...
Shipwreck hunters have discovered a merchant ship that sank in Lake Superior in 1940, taking its captain with it, during a storm off Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The Arlington left Port Arthur ...
The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society, which worked on the discovery with researcher Dan Fountain, confirmed the find in a statement Monday.. Fountain spotted something at the bottom of the ...