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Someone with knowledge, please enlighten me. Why would a vessel drag their anchor as they pass through miles of ice-choked water? I'm not making sense of the scenario as reported.

In the navy, if a good wind came up on us without much warning we'd drag anchor for a bit. Certainly not miles though ...

Thanks all. Another thought was to have my bad guy fall into the water between the ship and the pier, and have the wake from a passing ship create enough movement to squish him between the ship he fell off of, and the pier. But on the Valley Camp (my only Great Lakes ship museum visited so far ...

Thanks, everyone, for your very helpful insights. I guess drowning in grain is not how my bad guy is going to die. But another question: when a ship is laid up for the season (or even longer - surplus tonnage) or just used for storage, is there still electricity available on the ship? Would lights ...

Hi, I am writing a novel and the final scene will take place on a laid-up Great Lakes freighter. I want my bad guy to perish by falling into a hold full of grain and 'drowning' in the grain. Is there any way this would happen without the hatch cover being open? In other words, are there any ...

Hi, I am writing a novel and the final scene will take place on a laid-up Great Lakes freighter. I want my bad guy to perish by falling into a hold full of grain and 'drowning' in the grain. Is there any way this would happen without the hatch cover being open? In other words, are there any ...

I hope they can pump her out, that was a fun tug to work on. I would hope that when her time comes, the Wisconsin will be a museum tug as that one is ancient and has a really neat pilothouse.

wlbblw wrote:Little Rock's hull is steel. It's her superstructure that's Aluminum.

The independence class have aluminum hulls, the freedom class (lcs 9) have steel.

The lcs 2 was laid up in mayport because the alloy is garbage and was rusting at the weld lines

Good morning Jon Paul, regarding unloading in Lorain at the B&O lakefront dock, there weren't any huletts there. The 1961 ShipMasters Directory lists three Brown Electric unloaders with ten ton clam shells. As a "kid" I often to Lorain to see dad's boat either in layup at the old B&O coal dock ...

Bunkering connection?
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thats the connection for her DFM (deisel fuel marine). During an underway replenishment, a steel line is managed across the two ships using one of those white anchors around that, in which a refueling line spans across. they ram it into that ...

captrmetz wrote:Thanks to every one especially the Duluth Guest for all the info on getting a helm for the S.S Judith M. Pierson. I will post how we make out.

If someone can point me to what they may have had at her decomissioning, I might be of assistance in regards to a gyrocompaas.

It's interesting how Interlake invested big money into converting their older s/u's to diesel thus extending their life expectancy and making them more efficient. They even did the relatively small Herbert C. Jackson. Most of the vessels are of similar age to the Valor and she sits, likely awaiting ...

I wonder what equipment, particularly gyrocompasses she may have had...orangeshirt?

someone, somewhere, may possibly have knowledge of maybe a derelict or two somewhere