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Pages in category "Great Lakes freighters" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 208 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Great Lakes Fleet was formed on July 1, 1967, when U.S. Steel consolidated its Great Lakes shipping operations by merging the Pittsburgh Steamship Division and its sister fleet, the Bradley Transportation Company forming the USS Great Lakes Fleet. [2] In 1981, Great Lakes Fleet was spun off into a U.S. Steel-owned subsidiary, Transtar, Inc. [3]
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.
Great Lakes freighters (1 C, 208 P) G. Shipwrecks in the Great Lakes (8 C, 10 P) P. Package freighters (12 P) Passenger ships of the Great Lakes (15 P) S.
Third 1000-foot vessel on the upper Great Lakes [18] MV Mesabi Miner: 1977: Fourth 1000-foot vessel on the upper Great Lakes [19] MV Paul R. Tregurtha: 1981: Thirteenth 1000-foot vessel on the upper Great Lakes [6] Built as MV William J. Delancey [6] Flagship for the Interlake Steamship Company; Longest ship ever to operate on Great Lakes ...
Launched as MV William J. De Lancey, she was the last of the thirteen "thousand footers" to enter service on the Great Lakes, and was also the last Great Lakes vessel built at the American Ship Building Company yard in Lorain, Ohio. The MV Paul R. Tregurtha is the current flagship for the Interlake Steamship Company.
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 ...
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.