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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.
Great Lakes Fleet was formed on July 1, 1967, when U.S. Steel consolidated its Great Lakes shipping operations by merging the Pittsburgh Steamship Division and its sister fleet, the Bradley Transportation Company forming the USS Great Lakes Fleet. [2] In 1981, Great Lakes Fleet was spun off into a U.S. Steel-owned subsidiary, Transtar, Inc. [3]
Calumet (1929 ship) Calumet (1973 ship) MV Canadian Miner. SS Carl D. Bradley. SS Cayuga. SS Cedarville. SS Charles S. Price. SS Charles W. Wetmore. SS Chester A. Congdon.
Harsens Island is North of Detroit in Michigan. The J. B. Ford was a steamship bulk freighter that saw service for 112 years on the Great Lakes of the United States and Canada. The ship was launched in Lorain, Ohio on 12 December 1903 as the Edwin F. Holmes. The freighter was named in honor of Edwin Francis Holmes, an investor in the Hawgood ...
Coal: 63,616 long tons (64,637 t) MV Paul R. Tregurtha is a Great Lakes -based bulk carrier freighter. She is the current Queen of the Lakes, an unofficial but widely recognized title given to the longest vessel active on the Great Lakes. [1] Launched as MV William J. De Lancey, she was the last of the thirteen "thousand footers" to enter ...
Crew. 16–17. MV Mark W. Barker is a large diesel-powered lake freighter owned and operated by the Interlake Steamship Company. She is the first of the River-class freighters constructed for an American shipping company. [2][3] Mark W. Barker is the first ship on the Great Lakes to be powered with engines that meet EPA Tier 4 standards. [4][5 ...
In April 2019, Interlake Steamship announced construction of a 639-foot (195 m) long, 75-foot (23 m) wide River-class self-unloading bulk freighter. The vessel, built by Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin , was the first U.S.-flagged, Jones Act -compliant ship built on the Great Lakes since 1983.
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.