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Algorail was a lake freighter owned and operated by Algoma Central.The ship was built by Collingwood Shipyards in Collingwood, Ontario and was launched in 1967. The ship sailed on the North American Great Lakes and the Saint Lawrence Seaway delivering coal/coke, aggregates, slag, iron ore/oxides, salt, fertilizers, grain products, gypsum, quartzite, or sand.
Formerly Willam J. Delancey largest lake freighter ever built In operation R. J. Hackett United States Vulcan Transportation Company 1869 1,129 First lake freighter Burned and sank on November 12, 1905 Radcliffe R. Latimer Canada Algoma Central: 1978 22,465 Formerly Algobay, Atlantic Trader: In operation Regina Canada Canadian Steamship Lines: 1907
The vessel has a maximum speed of 15.5 knots (28.7 km/h; 17.8 mph). [1] Tim S. Dool was the second lake freighter constructed to a single-superstructure at the stern design as lake freighters had previously been built with two superstructures, located at the stern and bow. Tim S. Dool is of seawaymax dimensions. [3]
The bulk freighter was built in 1952 and scrapped in 1987. The past warship, converted into a Great Lakes freighter, SS Joseph H Thompson ' s pilot house was removed when being converted to a barge. SS Amasa Stone was partially sunk as a breakwater at Charlevoix, Michigan.
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.
First iron-hulled lake freighter. Onoko: 1882 Followed Brunswick in advancing the design of what would become the Great Lakes boat Spokane: 1886 First steel-hulled lake freighter. Hennepin: 1888 Originally Str. George H. Dyer, it was the first ship retrofitted to have self-unloading equipment in 1902. Hennepin sank in a storm in 1927. [5 ...
Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter [e] Interlake Steamship Company [11] 1967 [12] [13] [f] 1987 [15] Sold in 1987 as part of the spin off of the Interlake Steamship Company in a management buyout; [15] repowered in 2009; [12] renamed MV Hon. James L. Oberstar in 2011. [13] SS Col. James Schoonmaker: Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter ...
The lake vessel's now-redundant pilothouse was conserved and, in spring 2015, was donated to the National Museum of the Great Lakes for display in Toledo, Ohio. [5] Pilothouse restoration work has uncovered the vessel's original name, William P. Snyder. [2] August 9, 2023 - Detroit River - St. Marys Challenger was spotted on the Detroit River.