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House flag Interlake Steamship Company stack markings. The Interlake Steamship Company is an American freight ship company that operates a fleet on the Great Lakes in North America. [1] [2] [3] It is now part of Interlake Maritime Services. The company is chaired by James R. Barker, with his son, Mark W. Barker, serving as President.
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After some years leasing and managing the freighters of other companies, in 1894 Pickands Mather formed the Interlake Company (later the Interlake Steamship Company). [7] By 1912, Interlake had grown to be the second-largest shipping fleet on the Great Lakes, with 37 freighters. [8] The Interlake fleet expanded to 52 ships in 1916. [9]
Interlake Maritime Services is an American shipping firm that was created in December 2020 after Interlake Steamship Company purchased the assets of Pere Marquette Shipping Company and Lake Michigan Car Ferry Company, including the car ferry SS Badger, MT Undaunted, ATB Pere Marquette 41, SS Spartan, and MG Winfield Scott (LT-805).
The Interlake Steamship Company was given a contract in 1979, by its customer Republic Steel, to transport iron ore from Lake Superior ports to their steel mill at Indiana Harbor, or to their transshipment terminal at Lorain. [1] Designed by the American Ship Building Company to fulfill two briefs: Bulk carrier; Executive passenger transportation
In 1913 the H.P. Bope was transferred to the Lackawanna Steamship Company of Cleveland, Ohio. Later that year the fleet was renamed Interlake Steamship Company. In 1916 the H.P. Bope was renamed E.A.S. Clarke. The E.A.S. Clarke anchored off the Great Lakes Engineering Works in the Detroit River on October 26, 1924, because of heavy fog.
It was built in 1925 by Great Lakes Engineering Works, Ecorse, Michigan, as the flagship for Cleveland-Cliffs and was named in honor of the then-company president, William Gwinn Mather. SS William G. Mather remained the Cliffs' flagship until SS Edward B. Greene (now MV Kaye E. Barker of the Interlake Steamship Company fleet) was built in 1951 ...
Built in 1976 by the American Ship Building Company at Lorain, Ohio, the ship is 1,004 feet (306 m) long, 50 feet (15 m) high and 105 feet (32 m) wide. Like the MV Mesabi Miner, a ship of the same design, it is owned and operated by the Interlake Steamship Company [2] and was named for Interlake’s Chairman of the Board, James R. Barker. [3]