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- May 1, 2024, 7:42 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: Adella Shores
- Replies: 1
- Views: 259
Re: Adella Shores
They got something bigger that they are sitting on. Just be patient.
- April 24, 2024, 3:20 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: New Cement Carrier
- Replies: 2
- Views: 845
New Cement Carrier
Ran across this article. In they mention that the new ship will allow the company to retire two older ones. Which ones I wonder?
https://www.workboat.com/shipbuilding/e ... nt-carrier
https://www.workboat.com/shipbuilding/e ... nt-carrier
- April 23, 2024, 7:15 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: Paul r tregurtha
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4212
Re: Paul r tregurtha
I'm curious when Coal has been hauled south instead of north? Normally one would load coal in Erie and then head north with it to whatever destination needs it. I wonder if there's a massive pile that is not being used up in Superior?
- April 21, 2024, 6:24 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: Arthur b homer
- Replies: 3
- Views: 821
Re: Arthur b homer
It has been discussed before. She had no self unloader, and there was no need for a 850ft vessel. Even the Blough and a few footers were on the wall. Bethlehem was also in its death throes too.
- April 18, 2024, 8:50 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: Passenger
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1913
Re: Passenger
There are only two realistic ways to be a passenger on a freighter. 1. Through raffles conducted by maritime organizations such as the Great Lakes Historical Society, which is your best bet. 2. Get a hold of their head office and ask them if you could arrange a trip. Option 2 is normally reserved fo...
- March 7, 2024, 8:11 am
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: Masts on boats
- Replies: 2
- Views: 775
Re: Masts on boats
A double reasoning of aesthetics and the positioning of navigation lights. The larger the boat, typically the higher the lights had to be from the deck and the separation of such lights to indicate the vessel's length and what type it was.
- February 16, 2024, 9:01 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: Wreck of the Zealand 1880
- Replies: 1
- Views: 589
Re: Wreck of the Zealand 1880
No the Zealand has not been found at all. The hull that was discovered in 1899 was not that of the Zealand. Jim Kennard believes that the Zealand lies in depths greater that 500ft. It's likely that salvagers found a schooner (RH Rae) and mistaken the hull as a steamer due to the schooners unique mac...
- December 21, 2023, 8:01 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: Whalebacks
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1407
Re: Whalebacks
Appreciate the information Jared...... Here's a goofy question for you---with several variables involved of course..... How did the whalebacks fair as they went under and hit the bottom compared to a conventionally shaped hull ?? More or less hull fractures etc, etc..... does that make sense ?? In ...
- December 20, 2023, 10:01 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: Whalebacks
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1407
Re: Whalebacks
Appreciate that Jared. I thought maybe they used the same winches for docking--but didn't seem right. So when they released the anchors-- just let them slide down the hull ?? You ever dive a whaleback ?? Yes they would let the anchor slide down the hull, they had a sacrificial rope on some of them ...
- December 19, 2023, 10:32 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: Whalebacks
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1407
Re: Whalebacks
The coal bunker is the last hatch closest to the stern superstructure. On some whalebacks, the hatch was raised 4-6ft off the spar deck. On later conversions it was flush with the spar deck. The anchor windlass was housed in the forward turret and there were winches to set the flukes of the anchor w...
- December 6, 2023, 4:03 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: USCGC Mesquite
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1584
Re: USCGC Mesquite
There is plenty of blame to go around and the Capt stood Court Martial. It should be pointed out however that Mesquite was covering buoy retrieval for the Sundew which was under going maintenance in a dangerous shoal area they had never worked before. GPS was unavailable, LORAN inaccurate and it wa...
- November 27, 2023, 9:04 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: Steamers
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4329
Re: Steamers
One of the below comments asked what boats are in layup. I gave the list and the second hand rumors I had heard.guest wrote: ↑November 27, 2023, 2:25 pm why list the blough as a steamer? it never was. and yes your correct next move will be on a tow line headed across lake erie for MRC in port colborne. surprised it hasnt happened yet.
- November 26, 2023, 5:57 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: Gilchrist Fleet flag color
- Replies: 1
- Views: 846
Gilchrist Fleet flag color
Does anyone know what color the house flag was for the Gilchrist fleet?
- November 22, 2023, 8:27 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: dunn paper company, port huron
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1285
Re: dunn paper company, port huron
I don't recall ever seeing anything about the Dunn Paper Company receiving coal shipments at its Port Huron plant, they may have at one time. The only marine traffic I have ever seen mentioned in relation to this company was a few visits by some saltwater vessels during the early Seaway era to load...
- November 21, 2023, 7:37 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: dunn paper company, port huron
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1285
Re: dunn paper company, port huron
I don't recall ever seeing anything about the Dunn Paper Company receiving coal shipments at its Port Huron plant, they may have at one time. The only marine traffic I have ever seen mentioned in relation to this company was a few visits by some saltwater vessels during the early Seaway era to load...
- November 21, 2023, 7:35 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: Steamers
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4329
Re: Steamers
Long term and possibly scrap layup remains the:
Ryerson
Sherwin
Blough
CTC 1
Ingelehart
Calloway
There's been some rumblings that Munson, McCarthy, Lee A and Anderson isn't far from the chomping block within the next two seasons but that is second hand rumor.
Ryerson
Sherwin
Blough
CTC 1
Ingelehart
Calloway
There's been some rumblings that Munson, McCarthy, Lee A and Anderson isn't far from the chomping block within the next two seasons but that is second hand rumor.
- November 14, 2023, 3:01 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: Wreck of the Simcoe 1880
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1250
Re: Wreck of the Simcoe 1880
Thanks for the update! Has the Eclipse been found? I know she went aground in the area but I thought she was atomized on shore by the storm. No, the Eclipse went down in deep water. I'm guessing from the one survivor's story in 2 different newspapers that she was some 8 miles off shore when she fou...
- November 13, 2023, 2:22 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: Wreck of the Simcoe 1880
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1250
Re: Wreck of the Simcoe 1880
The wreck has not been discovered yet. I took a crack at it in 2018 and 2019 with a permit. Depths were 200-360ft of water. Simcoe, Eclipse, and Salvor are in the same area. I took what information I had known about her course and where the Emerald had seen her go down and picked up survivors and ma...
- November 8, 2023, 1:33 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: Why the fascination with the Edmond Fitzgerald?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2494
Re: Why the fascination with the Edmond Fitzgerald?
Frankly I'm so tired of hearing about the Fitzgerald, but I understand the interest of people that are just discovering it. Everything that can be said has been, just raking over the same ground over and over again. As a counterpoint to the mystery surrounding the Fitz there is the exact opposite o...
- November 5, 2023, 12:02 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: Why the fascination with the Edmond Fitzgerald?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2494
Re: Why the fascination with the Edmond Fitzgerald?
There a few reasons, 1. She was the most recent loss on the lakes. The taking off all hands on a ship that was considered one of the best equipped on the lakes. 2. The immediate battle between the Coast Guard and the Lake Carrier's association over the causes and the widespread (for the time) media ...