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Name Hull number Image Class Year built Tonnage Notes Status USNS Lewis and Clark: T-AKE-1 Lewis and Clark: 2005 41,000 In operation USNS Sacagawea: T-AKE-2 Lewis and Clark: 2006 40,298 In operation USNS Alan Shepard: T-AKE-3 Lewis and Clark: 2006 40,298 In operation USNS Richard E. Byrd: T-AKE-4 Lewis and Clark: 2007 40,298 In operation USNS ...
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.
She is the oldest surviving hull on the Great Lakes, being built in 1896. The pilot house from the Thomas Walters survives as part of the Ashtabula Maritime & Surface Transportation Museum in Ashtabula, Ohio. 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.
First 1,000-footer lake freighter. Originally Hull 1173 and nicknamed "Stubby", the ship only consisted of the bow and stern sections. It was then sailed to Erie, Pennsylvania and lengthened by over 700 feet. [2] [18] Henry Ford II, Benson Ford: 1924 First lake freighters with diesel engines. [19] Feux Follets: 1967 Last ship built with a steam ...
Pages in category "Great Lakes freighters" ... (lake freighter) James R. Barker (1976 ship) ... This page was last edited on 17 October 2021, ...
Marco Polo (1991–2021) Scrapped in Alang, India in 2021. Work completed in 2022. MS Aleksandr Pushkin in the summer of 1970. Marco Polo in the port of Tallinn, circa August 2nd, 2012: USS America (ID-3006) 1905 Amerika (1905–1917) USAT America (1919–1920) SS America (1920–1931) USAT Edmund B. Alexander (1940–1957) Scrapped in 1957
The Type L6 ship is a United States Maritime Administration (MARAD) designation for World War II as a Great Lakes dry break bulk cargo ship.The L-Type Great Lakes Dry Bulk Cargo Ships were built in 1943 to carry much-needed iron ore from the upper Great Lakes to the steel and iron production facilities on Lakes Erie and Ontario in support of the war effort.
On May 27, 2016, while under operation of the Keystone Shipping Company, the Roger Blough ran aground on Gros Cap Reef in Whitefish Bay, Lake Superior with some minor flooding reported. [9] She remained aground on May 29, 2016 near Gros Cap Reefs Light with the United States Coast Guard vessel USCGC Mobile Bay on station monitoring the ...