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The hull of the E.W. Oglebay still survives as part of the dock at Drummond Island. She is the oldest surviving hull on the Great Lakes, being built in 1896. The pilot house from the Thomas Walters survives as part of the Ashtabula Maritime & Surface Transportation Museum in Ashtabula, Ohio.
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 ...
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.
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.
List of shipwrecks: 11 July 1967 Ship State Description USS Currier United States Navy: The decommissioned Buckley-class destroyer escort was sunk as a target with a Mark 14 Mod. 5 torpedo in the Pacific Ocean off California by the submarine USS Bugara ( United States Navy). [74] [75] Two unidentified motor torpedo boats United Arab Republic Navy
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 vital shipping channel that connects Lake Erie to Lake Huron and includes the Detroit River has seen three ships go aground this year. Why do freighters keep getting stuck in Detroit, St ...
The Cambria was launched in Cleveland on February 1, 1887, as hull number #12. [2] At the time of her construction she was only the second lake freighter built by Globe Iron Works Company to have a steel hull. She was also the first lake freighter equipped with a triple expansion steam engine. [5]