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Stern-ender – a lake freighter with all cabins aft. Straight decker (bulker) – a freighter built without conveyors and cranes to offload cargo, instead using port facilities. [27] Tug-barge - a bulk carrier created by pairing barges (former self-unloaders and straight-deckers) with a tugboat. [4] Some of the newer classes of lake freighters ...
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.
MACS3 Basic Loading Program supports client–server software architecture for distributed cargo management and allows the complete loading condition (containers, tanks, general cargo and constant items) to be stored in a single compressed mxml-file, making it very easy for you to exchange loading conditions between ship and office.
The lake freighter SS Henry Steinbrenner was a 427-foot (130 m) long, 50-foot (15 m) wide, and 28-foot (8.5 m) deep, [1] dry bulk freighter of typical construction style for the early 1900s, primarily designed for the iron ore, coal, and grain trades on the Great Lakes.
Cranes on a LoLo vessel Flora Delmas, a LoLo vessel Container with a crane on it. Lift-on/lift-off (LoLo, sometimes LOLO, LO/LO or Lo/Lo) [1] ships are cargo ships with on-board cranes to load and unload cargo. Ships with cranes or other cargo handling equipment on-board are also termed geared vessels.
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.
Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter Interlake Steamship Company 1913 [114] [ap] 1941 [117] Reconstructed and fitted with cranes in 1927; [118] leased to Boland & Cornelius in 1941; [117] sold to Lake Shore Steel of Chicago in 1958; [119] scrapped in 1961. [118] SS William B. Davock: Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter Interlake Steamship ...
Early in the 20th century, a new design was becoming prevalent on Great Lakes ore/ bulk cargo freighters. [1] Instead of locating the pilothouse and deckhouses in the center of the ship, the new design placed deck houses at the extreme front and back of the boat. The name "straight deck" referred to the large flat cargo hold expanse in between.