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[4] On January 14, 2008, MV Walter J. McCarthy Jr. collided with a submerged object while docking at Hallett Dock No. 8 in Superior, Wisconsin. The collision created a 7 by 4 feet (2.1 by 1.2 m) gash in the hull causing the engine room to flood. The ship partially sank with the stern resting on the bottom in 20 feet (6.1 m) of water.
Bulk freighter (self unloading) 1,000 ft × 105 ft First 1000-footer on the lakes, and the only one with a forward pilothouse, following the traditional Great Lakes style. [41] [42] Burns Harbor: Bulk freighter (self unloading) 1,000 ft × 105 ft Indiana Harbor: Bulk freighter (self unloading) 1,000 ft × 105 ft Walter J. McCarthy Jr.
MV American Century is a very large diesel-powered Lake freighter owned and operated by the American Steamship Company.This vessel was built in 1981 at Bay Shipbuilding Company, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, and included self-unloading technology.
MV Indiana Harbor is a very large diesel-powered lake freighter owned and operated by the American Steamship Company.This vessel was built in 1979 at Bay Shipbuilding Company, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin and included self-unloading technology.
MV Edwin H. Gott is a very large diesel-powered lake freighter owned and operated by Great Lakes Fleet, Inc, a subsidiary of Canadian National Railway.This vessel was built in 1979 at Bay Shipbuilding Company, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, and included self-unloading technology.
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]
SS William A. Irvin is a lake freighter, named for William A. Irvin, that sailed as a bulk freighter on the Great Lakes as part US Steel's lake fleet. She was flagship of the company fleet from her launch in the depths of the Great Depression in 1938 until 1975 and then was a general workhorse of the fleet until her retirement in 1978.
The American Integrity on Lake St. Clair heading to the St. Clair River empty and riding high. Looking at the stern. MV American Integrity is a ship built in 1978 by Bay Shipbuilding Company in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. [3] She is one of the thirteen 1,000 footers in the Great Lakes laker fleet.