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First iron-hulled lake freighter. Onoko: 1882 Followed Brunswick in advancing the design of what would become the Great Lakes boat Spokane: 1886 First steel-hulled lake freighter. Hennepin: 1888 Originally Str. George H. Dyer, it was the first ship retrofitted to have self-unloading equipment in 1902. Hennepin sank in a storm in 1927. [5 ...
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.
The forward cabin and pilothouse of MV Benson Ford was converted into a private island residence in 1986 which is now located on a cliff on South Bass Island in Lake Erie. General characteristics; Length: 612 ft (187 m) Beam: 62 ft (19 m) Depth: 32 ft (9.8 m) Propulsion: 1x Sun-Doxford 4 cylinder opposed piston diesel engine: Speed
The SS Benjamin Noble was a steel hulled package freighter package freighter built in 1909, that went down with all hands in 1914, in mid-lake off Knife River, Minnesota. Her wreck was found half buried in 2004, in 365-feet of water. [9] [10] 6: Big Bay Sloop shipwreck (sloop) Big Bay Sloop shipwreck (sloop) January 14, 2009
The U.S. and Canadian coast guards collaborated to free a large freighter that had been trapped in ice in the midst of Lake Erie for days. It took several icebreaking ships two days to Free the ...
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]
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A freighter was on its way to Canada on Sunday after it was freed from ice that trapped it in a frozen Lake Erie for days, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The Manitoulin, a 663-foot (202-meter) Canadian vessel with 17 people on board, got stuck in the ice on Lake Erie on Wednesday after it dropped off a load of wheat in ...
James L. Kuber (lake freighter) James R. Barker (1976 ship) SS Jarvis Lord; SS John A. McGean; John B. Aird (ship) John Hulst (ship) MV John J. Boland; SS John Mitchell (1906) SS John Sherwin (1906) Joseph S. Fay Shipwreck Site