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The Great Lakes Historical Society, which operates the museum, has for about two decades raffled off donated trips aboard Interlake Steamship Co. freighters as they ply their trades, typically ...
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]
SS William Edenborn was a 497 ft (151 m) long Great Lakes bulk freighter that was built in 1900 and she was given the title Queen of the Lakes due to her length. She sailed from 1900, to 1962 when she was sunk as a breakwater at Cleveland , Ohio where she was buried under 39 feet of dredgings from the Cuyahoga River .
In 2010 the Great Lakes Steamship Society (GLSS) was formed (and soon thereafter incorporated) with the intention of acquiring and preserving items of maritime heritage on the Great Lakes, with their first goal the preservation of the J. B. Ford. [6] The GLSS achieved 501c3 non profit status in 2011 and worked to save the vessel until July 2014.
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.
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.
At a price tag of $6.7 million, JOHN J. BOLAND was designed to haul up to 21,500 tons of coal, stone and iron ore across the Great Lakes. The 250-foot-long unloading boom could transport 3,500 ...
The SS William G. Mather (Official Number 224850) is a retired Great Lakes bulk freighter now restored as a museum ship in Cleveland, Ohio, one of five in the Great Lakes region. She transported cargo such as ore, coal, stone, and grain to ports throughout the Great Lakes, and was nicknamed "The Ship That Built Cleveland" because Cleveland's ...