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The engine room onboard the Manitowoc has been copletely gutted, in order to sell the barge in the future, or haul actual cargo it needed a load line, and it could not get one with all that weight in her belly. It was gutted a few years ago.

Here is the previously mentioned patent by Joesph Wood, on google patents. http://www.google.com/patents/US1701965?dq=1701965

I am looking to purchase fire axes from Great Lakes vessels. Canadian or US doesnt particularly bother me, I am looking for the axes that have the ships name stenciled on the handle.

I am also looking for framed or unframed station bills for the muster stations onboard any Great Lakes freighter ...

Tried contacting you weeks ago but so far no response, would be interested to know if my message got through.

Have any photos? That would really help.

I totally understand everyones points made here about it being expensive and very difficult. That shouldnt be a reason to simply not try, and thats why I am moving ahead with my attempts to save it along with alot of people who want to see it saved too. I would much rather fail having given it my ...

There were no handles per say, in the original design for the hatch covers on the whaleback, they had threaded bolts instead of clamps that secured the hatch, and the crew would remove those bolts, and in the holes would place a small roller, the hatch would be set on the rollers using pry bars and ...

The tug in the gallery is the C.L. Boynton of Union Towing & Wrecking Co, Duluth, MN. built 1894, and wood hulled.

Well it starts out with what I think is the Western States, but definately a D&C liner, then it goes to the Mackinaw, next we see the Soo Locks with the EJ Block leaving the lock, but then a time skip with the EJ Block still in the lock. We next see the Michigan from Cleveland Cliffs, then behind ...

Does anyone have any video or film of the JB Ford in action as a steamship, or as a trasnfer vessel? We are looking for some live action footage for a video being made. Thanks.

In another post last year, it was mentioned that anything of any mechanical, historic, or archival value have been removed from the J.B. Ford. The pickers left the asbestos and very little else. Is the E.M. Ford still at the Soo?

The steel is there, the rivets are there, the woodwork is there ...

Back in 1943 when the George M. Humphrey was struck and sunk by the DM Clemson in June 1943. It was told to us that after it was determined that the Clemson was more at fault than the Humphrey, which I have been able to confirm. Though I have not been able to directly link to the incident is the ...

Hey just looked up on the BGSU website and found that Harry Roberts and John McAlpine were sailing on the E. L. Wallace in 1913, so I believe that is the vessel that John was sailing on in 1913. Just to ad back a little bit of history.

So far this is what I have located, if this isnt exactly what you are looking for, try looking through the CFR (Code of Federal Regulations) volumes of regulations regarding everything.


Title 33: Navigation and Navigable Waters

CHAPTER I: COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY (CONTINUED ...

I am Chris, ill see you there! -Steve

If you look at the picture, it may be angle of the camera, but I would venture a guess, that her back is broken, forward of midship. Her bow is sagging down forward of the first hatch stacking area on deck. Looking at the way the deck is sagging, it looks like she has broken in two places, it just ...

Well there were actually two different Buckeye's that preceded the most recent one.

There was the Leonard B. Miller of 1910 which became the buckeye in 1974 and was with Columbia until 1979. This buckeye survived until 1995, and was still named Buckeye till the end, just in different colors and ...

Very little material makes it back into the tunnel once its on the belt, 95% of what is in the tunnel on the floors, or at the base of the loop belt is spillage off the belt during travel. There are at least a dozen locations on the boom belt, loop belt, and tunnel belt combined that have these home ...

Most times that I went through there was on a light ship, and the last time I remember I was in the pilot house of the Wolverine, and looking down off the bridge wing on a sunny day, the water was pretty calm, but still some good ripples and wake from the boat, but I could clearly see the bottom and ...

Our group is looking to locate any information on the Holmes during the storm and accounts that were written down or other stories as recorded during or after the storm. Being she is one of only two ships to survive open Lake Huron during the height of the storm, there has to be information out ...