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MV Indiana Harbor is a very large diesel-powered lake freighter owned and operated by the American Steamship Company. This vessel was built in 1979 at Bay Shipbuilding Company , Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin and included self-unloading technology.
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.
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 ...
Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter [e] Interlake Steamship Company [11] 1967 [12] [13] [f] 1987 [15] Sold in 1987 as part of the spin off of the Interlake Steamship Company in a management buyout; [15] repowered in 2009; [12] renamed MV Hon. James L. Oberstar in 2011. [13] SS Col. James Schoonmaker: Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter ...
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.
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.
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
The collision created a 7 by 4 feet (2.1 by 1.2 m) gash in the hull causing the engine room to flood. The ship partially sank with the stern resting on the bottom in 20 feet (6.1 m) of water. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] In February 2013, a federal jury awarded American Steamship Company (ASC) $4.7 million for repairs and lost profits in their lawsuit against ...