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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 ...
1900-1907,1913-1967: Fate: Scrapped in 1967, in Santander, Spain ... SS Saskadoc was a lake freighter, ... Her steam engines produced 160 shaft horsepower ...
SS Howard L. Shaw was a 451 ft (137 m) long Lake freighter that was built in 1900 by the Detroit Shipbuilding Company of Wyandotte, Michigan, for the Eddy-Shaw Transit Company of Bay City, Michigan. She was sunk on July 4, 1960 in Ontario Place where she remains to this day.
MV Tim S. Dool is an Algoma Central-owned seawaymax lake freighter built in 1967, by the Saint John Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. in Saint John, New Brunswick.She initially entered service as Senneville when she sailed as part of the fleet of Mohawk Navigation Company.
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.
She was also the first lake freighter equipped with a triple expansion steam engine. [5] She was used to haul bulk cargoes such as iron ore, coal, grain, salt and later automobiles. [5] In June 1888 the Cambria ran aground two miles (3.2 km) southwest of Peninsula Point Light on Lake Michigan with a cargo of iron ore weighing 2,334 tons. The ...
The lake freighter was powered by one 9,470 horsepower (7,062 kW) Sulzer 6RD76 6-cylinder marine diesel engine and had a bow thruster. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] Algocape had a maximum speed of 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph). [ 3 ]
Scrapped in Chittagong in 2001 [2] Apollo Sea China CP Ships: 1973 69,904 Caused a major oil spill [3] Sank off Cape Town in June 1994 [3] Banglar Samriddhi: LR-class Bangladesh Bangladesh Shipping Corporation: 2018 25,818 Damaged during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine [4] Abandoned in Ukraine [5] Birgo Norway Sameiet Birgo 1967 880