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Lake Superior, former U.S. Army Corps of Engineers tug, built in 1943. Used as a museum ship in Duluth, Minnesota from 1996 - 2007. Abandoned after a 2022 sinking. USCGC Bramble, a former museum ship in Port Huron, Michigan. Sold and brought to Alabama in 2018, scrapped in 2023 [15]
The lake freighter MV Saginaw was launched as John J. Boland in 1953, the third vessel to bear that name. John J. Boland was owned and operated by the American Steamship Company and constructed by Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company at Manitowoc, Wisconsin. In 1999, the ship was sold to Lower Lakes Towing and renamed Saginaw. The ship is currently ...
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]
Foundered on Lake Michigan on November 11, 1940 William C. Moreland United States Interstate Steamship Company 1910 7,514 The stern of the Moreland was salvaged and reused as the stern of the Sir Trevor Dawson. Ran aground and sank on Sawtooth Reef October 18, 1910 Whitefish bay Canada Canadian Steamship Line: 2012 24,300 In operation
The completed hull No. 909 has a total length of 1,013 feet (309 m). [1] Stephens-Adamson designed a loop belt elevator system, that feeds a stern mounted 260-foot (79 m) discharge boom that can be swung 100 degrees to port or starboard.
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.
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 ...
The lake freighter SS Henry Steinbrenner was a 427-foot (130 m) long, 50-foot (15 m) wide, and 28-foot (8.5 m) deep, [1] dry bulk freighter of typical construction style for the early 1900s, primarily designed for the iron ore, coal, and grain trades on the Great Lakes.