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Built in Scotland in 1907, the boat steamed between Fort William and Port McNicoll for over 50 years until she was sold for scrap in 1967. Saved from the wrecker's torch, Keewatin was towed to Saugatuck, Michigan for use as a museum in 1968. She is the last unmodified Great Lakes passenger liner in existence, and an example of Edwardian luxury.
Lake freighters, or lakers, are bulk carriers operating on the Great Lakes of North America. These vessels are traditionally called boats , although classified as ships . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Freighters typically have a long, narrow hull, a raised pilothouse , and the engine located at the rear of the ship.
SS Daniel J. Morrell was a 603-foot (184 m) Great Lakes freighter that broke up in a strong storm on Lake Huron on 29 November 1966, taking with her 28 of her 29 crewmen. The freighter was used to carry bulk cargoes such as iron ore but was running with only ballast when the 60-year-old ship sank.
MV Tim S. Dool is an Algoma Central-owned seawaymax lake freighter built in 1967, by the Saint John Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. in Saint John, New Brunswick.She initially entered service as Senneville when she sailed as part of the fleet of Mohawk Navigation Company.
The refitting of the former steamship lake carrier as a barge was described as a work with a cost of more than $10 million. [2] The tug Prentiss Brown had been built in 1967 at the Gulfport Shipyard in Port Arthur, Texas and worked in Florida, South Carolina, and New York before coming to the Great Lakes in 2008. [ 4 ]
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.
As built the lake freighter was 195.0 m (639 ft 9 in) long overall and 189.9 m (623 ft 0 in) between perpendiculars with a beam of 22.0 m (72 ft 2 in). [1] The ship had a depth of hull of 11.0 m (36 ft 1 in) and a mid-summer draught of 8.0 m (26 ft 3 in). [2]
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]