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Edmund Fitzgerald. Conversion to oil fuel and the fitting of automated boiler controls over the winter of 1971–72. SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29 men. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on ...
Lake freighter. SS Arthur M. Anderson, with pilothouse forward and engine room astern, also equipped with a self-unloading boom. 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 ...
SS Daniel J. Morrell was a 603-foot (184 m) Great Lakes freighter that broke up in a strong storm on Lake Huron on 29 November 1966, taking with her 28 of her 29 crewmen. The freighter was used to carry bulk cargoes such as iron ore but was running with only ballast when the 60-year-old ship sank.
A freighter in Lake Superior hit something underwater on Saturday and started taking on water, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. The Coast Guard Great Lakes district received reports about 6:53 a ...
Calumet (1929 ship) Calumet (1973 ship) MV Canadian Miner. SS Carl D. Bradley. SS Cayuga. SS Cedarville. SS Charles S. Price. SS Charles W. Wetmore. SS Chester A. Congdon.
It was making her way down the lake with coal for Chicago, and is presumed to have been overwhelmed at the height of the storm by the intense wind and waves, sinking in about 200 feet (61 m) of water 5 miles (8 km) off Little Sable Point between Ludington, Michigan and Pentwater, Michigan. The freighter Anna C. Minch sank nearby in the same storm.
The SS Cedarville left Port Calcite at 5:01 a.m. with a crew of 35 men. She was travelling between Rogers City, Michigan [4] and Gary, Indiana with a load of 14,411 long tons (14,642 t) of open-hearth limestone. [2][5] Her captain, Martin Joppich, had gotten the position the previous year. Elmer Fleming, one of the two survivors from the SS ...
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.