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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. It's noted that the Walters was the freighter built to replace the SS William C. Moreland, which ran aground on Sawtooth Reef, Lake Superior.
She was launched on May 11, 1907 as hull number #623. She had a length of 601-feet, a beam of 58-feet and a height of 32-feet. She had a gross tonnage of 7,676 tons and a net tonnage of 6,426 tons. She was powered by a 2,000 horsepower triple expansion steam engine and fueled by two Scotch marine boilers. She entered service on June 24, 1907. [2]
Lake freighters, or lakers, are bulk carriers operating on the Great Lakes of North America. These vessels are traditionally called boats , although classified as ships . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Freighters typically have a long, narrow hull, a raised pilothouse , and the engine located at the rear of the ship.
Hanseatic (1967–1973) Doric (1973–1981) Royal Odyssey (1981–1988) Regent Sun (1988–1996) Sun Venture (1996–1998) Sun (1998) Sun 11 (1998–2001) Sank outside Cape St. Francis on July 26, 2001, while on the way to the scrapyard at Alang, India. Shalom in 1967 Hanseatic in Hamburg, 1973 Doric in Kiel MS Sobieski: 1938 Gruziya (1950–1975)
The lake freighter sank during a storm on Lake Superior. The ship went down in 460 feet (140 m) of water about 7 nautical miles (13 km) north of Deer Park in Luce County. All but one of the 23 members of the crew perished. Quincy Dredge Number Two United States: 1967
Howard M. Hanna Jr. was a 500 ft (150 m) Great Lakes freighter that had a lengthy, 75-year career on the Great Lakes of Canada and America. Hanna was a product of the Cleveland Shipbuilding Company of Cleveland, Ohio. The ship was commissioned by the Richardson Transportation Company to haul iron ore, coal and grain.
Sank after being rammed by the freighter Burlington in a storm on June 20, 1953. Tim S. Dool Canada Algoma Central: 1967 18,845 Formerly Senneville, Algoville: In operation Thunder bay Canada Canadian Steamship Line: 2013 24,300 In operation Walter J. McCarthy Jr United States American Steamship Company 1977 35,923 In operation Wexford France
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.