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The pilot house of William Clay Ford is part of the Dossin Great Lakes Museum on Belle Isle, Detroit. [13] The bulk freighter was built in 1952 and scrapped in 1987. The past warship, converted into a Great Lakes freighter, SS Joseph H Thompson ' s pilot house was removed when being converted to a barge.
MV Paul R. Tregurtha is a Great Lakes-based bulk carrier freighter.She is the current Queen of the Lakes, an unofficial but widely recognized title given to the longest vessel active on the Great Lakes. [1]
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 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 ...
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]
At the time of its scrapping was the oldest intact lake freighter still afloat. [2] The ship was 440 feet long by 50 feet across the beam, with a depth of 28 feet. It was powered by a 1,500-horsepower triple-expansion steam engine, fed by two coal-fired Scotch marine boilers. [3] The Ford had 12 hatches feeding into 4 cargo compartments. [1]
As built the lake freighter was 195.0 m (639 ft 9 in) long overall and 189.9 m (623 ft 0 in) between perpendiculars with a beam of 22.0 m (72 ft 2 in). [1] The ship had a depth of hull of 11.0 m (36 ft 1 in) and a mid-summer draught of 8.0 m (26 ft 3 in). [2]
MV Kaye E. Barker on the Fox River in downtown Green Bay (2022). The SS Edward B. Greene on her maiden voyage in 1952, docked in Marquette. The MV Kaye E. Barker was constructed in Toledo in 1952 for the Cleveland-Cliffs Steamship Company as the SS Edward B. Greene, one of the eight AAA class freighters used for ore and coal shipping.