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First iron-hulled lake freighter. Onoko: 1882 Followed Brunswick in advancing the design of what would become the Great Lakes boat Spokane: 1886 First steel-hulled lake freighter. Hennepin: 1888 Originally Str. George H. Dyer, it was the first ship retrofitted to have self-unloading equipment in 1902. Hennepin sank in a storm in 1927. [5 ...
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.
It's noted that the Walters was the freighter built to replace the SS William C. Moreland, which ran aground on Sawtooth Reef, Lake Superior. The Pilot house of the Irvan L. Clymer is located on Pier B in Duluth, Minnesota. Built in 1917 and scrapped in 1994 the Irvan L. Clymer ' s pilot house sits at the end of the pier.
Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter Interlake Steamship Company [11] 1952 [43] 1987 [15] Lengthened by 72 feet (22 m) in 1957; converted to self-unloader in 1980; [43] sold in 1987 as part of the spin off of the Interlake Steamship Company in a management buyout. [15] SS Frank Armstrong: Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter Interlake Steamship ...
Lake freighter Foundered on Lake Superior; all 24 crew members died. Location unknown. [29] Henry S. Sill: 1903 1947 416 Lake freighter Scrapped in 1947, in Hamilton, Ontario. [30] Wisconsin: 1903 1946 428 Lake freighter Scrapped in 1946, in Hamilton, Ontario. [31] George W. Perkins: 1905 1981 569 Lake freighter
She was laid-up in 2000, and sold to Port Dover, Ontario, firm Lower Lakes Towing Limited, which renamed her Mississagi for the start of the 2001 season. [6] On October 4, 2004, she nearly collided with the seawall at Port Huron, Michigan [7] [8] On February 26, 2015, a fire occurred aboard the Mississagi. At the time, the ship was docked in ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Drone footage from this weekend shows a Canadian freighter stuck in the ice on frozen Lake Erie near the shores of Buffalo, New York. The 663-foot ship called the Manitoulin was ...
In 2012, the ship underwent conversion to a lake freighter and was remeasured 18,049 gross tonnage (GT) and 29,984 DWT. [1] The vessel has capacity for 33,866.6 m 3 (1,195,986 cu ft) and carries a crew of between 13 and 15. [3]