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Stern-ender – a lake freighter with all cabins aft. Straight decker (bulker) – a freighter built without conveyors and cranes to offload cargo, instead using port facilities. [27] Tug-barge - a bulk carrier created by pairing barges (former self-unloaders and straight-deckers) with a tugboat. [4] Some of the newer classes of lake freighters ...
Six large cargo hatch covers on a capesize bulk carrier ship as she approaches the Egyptian-Japanese Friendship Bridge. A cargo hatch or deck hatch or hatchway is type of door used on ships and boats to cover the opening to the cargo hold or other lower part of the ship. To make the cargo hold waterproof, most cargo holds have cargo hatch.
Cranes on a LoLo vessel Flora Delmas, a LoLo vessel Container with a crane on it. Lift-on/lift-off (LoLo, sometimes LOLO, LO/LO or Lo/Lo) [1] ships are cargo ships with on-board cranes to load and unload cargo. Ships with cranes or other cargo handling equipment on-board are also termed geared vessels.
SS William A. Irvin is a lake freighter, named for William A. Irvin, that sailed as a bulk freighter on the Great Lakes as part US Steel's lake fleet. She was flagship of the company fleet from her launch in the depths of the Great Depression in 1938 until 1975 and then was a general workhorse of the fleet until her retirement in 1978.
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 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.
Lake freighter unloading limestone SS Carl D. Bradley unloading hopper in 1958 A self-discharger (or self-unloader ) is a ship that is able to discharge its cargo using its own gear. The most common discharge method for bulk cargo is to use an excavator that is fitted on a traverse running over the vessel's entire hatch, and that is able to ...
Due to the lengthening, her cargo capacity increased to 26,900 tons. The lengthening also added an additional hold and six more hatches to Reserve. [2] In May 1982, Oglebay Norton made the decision to convert Reserve to a self-unloading vessel. The conversion took place at Bay Shipbuilding in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. She could now unload at a ...