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  2. SS Noronic - Wikipedia

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    It was 2:38 a.m., only eight minutes after the fire began, but already half of the ship's decks were ablaze. [9]: 148 Twenty-seven-year-old Donald Williamson was the first rescuer on the scene. After working a late shift at a nearby Goodyear Tire plant, the former lake freighter deckhand wanted to see Noronic, which he knew was in port ...

  3. List of Great Lakes museum and historic ships - Wikipedia

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    SS Howard L. Shaw was a 451 ft (137 m) long Lake freighter that was built in 1900 by the Detroit Shipbuilding Company of Wyandotte, Michigan, for the Eddy-Shaw Transit Company of Bay City, Michigan. She was sunk on July 4, 1960 in Ontario Place where she remains to this day.

  4. SS Daniel J. Morrell - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Lake freighter - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. US Coast Guard says ship with cracked hull likely didn't ...

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    A ship that took on water in Lake Superior likely had a stress fracture in its hull, the U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday, backing off an initial report that the freighter had struck something below ...

  7. Type L6 ship - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. List of bulk carriers - Wikipedia

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    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 Robert ...

  9. MV Roger Blough - Wikipedia

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    [6] She was stuck in the ice in Lake Erie near Conneaut, Ohio for eight days in February 1979 [7] and then was laid up from 1981 to 1987 due to the economy and the capacity of the newer 1,000 feet (300 m) lake freighters. [8] [3]