Oh yes I have loaded coal there and also grain when I was on lakers but that is for future stories.I also have been unloaded by those Wonderful machines, Hullets but that too is in later stories.Guest in Toledo wrote:Thank You for sharing your stories. They are absolutely wonderful. In your day, coal floats were a livelihood for you and my reading is that coal wasn’t your favorite cargo. Have you ever loaded coal in my hometown, Toledo OH, or other Great Lake coal ports? Were you ever loaded, anywhere, by the huge coal loading machines of the past, or, unloaded by a Hullet? Who did you assign the laundry and cleaning detail your ships for the coal dust? On the Great Lakes coal runs, anything white that was laundered or cleaned was at best…some shade of gray. TIA. Please keep your stories coming as they are greatly appreciated.
Glad you enjoy my ramblings of days long gone but keep reading for more of my life as a sailor (deep sea and on the "Lakes)