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The ships are used as dry-bulk lake freighters (two gearless bulk freighter and three self-unloading vessel). [29] The first in the series, Algoma Equinox, was launched in 2013. Trillium class – a new class of lake freighter delivered for Canada Steamship Lines in 2012 (Baie St. Paul) and 2013 (Whitefish Bay, Thunder Bay and Baie Comeau).
Free Solo is a 2018 American documentary film directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin [4] that profiles rock climber Alex Honnold on his quest to perform the first-ever free solo climb of a route on El Capitan, in Yosemite National Park in California, in June 2017. [5] [6]
[1] [2] The lake freighter was 222.5 m (730 ft 0 in) long overall and 215.7 m (707 ft 8 in) between perpendiculars with a beam of 23.0 m (75 ft 6 in). [ 2 ] The ship was powered by a 9,896- shaft-horsepower (7,379 kW) Canadian General Electric Type MD70 two-stage steam turbine engine with Babcock & Wilcox header-type boilers turning one screw ...
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.
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 ...
Algosoo was a lake freighter constructed for Algoma Central in 1974 by Collingwood Shipbuilding in Collingwood, Ontario.The second ship of the name, Algosoo was the last lake freighter built in the traditional design for use on the North American Great Lakes, where the bridge topped a superstructure right in the ship's bow, and a second superstructure topped her engines, right in the stern.
MV Benson Ford was constructed in 1924 at Great Lakes Engineering Works in Ecorse, Michigan, for the Ford Motor Company, [1] as one of two “state-of-the-art” bulk carriers [2] that were ordered by Henry Ford to transport raw materials such as coal and iron ore, the sister ship was MV Henry Ford II, which was built by the American Ship Building Company in Lorain, Ohio. [1]
As built, the bulk carrier was 195.4 metres (641 ft 1 in) long overall and 189 m (620 ft 1 in) between perpendiculars with a beam of 23.8 m (78 ft 1 in). [1] The ship has a midsummer draught of 10.5 m (34 ft 6 in) and a depth of hold of 13.79 m (45 ft 3 in). [2]