Photo Collection

[garbear]

A few more.

[garbear]

A few more photos.

[Guest]

I've got a question. On some of the photos I try to post I get the message- " The file is too big, maximum allowed size is 300 KiB."
The photo is the same size as the other ones of posted, but there have been about 4 I haven't been able to post. Why can't I post? Thanks.

A sampling of some of your recent photos indicates they range in size from 216.24 KiB to 269.85 KiB, so all your photos are obviously not the same FILE SIZE, even if the originally scanned image area/size was the same for all of them.

The size of the compressed .JPG picture file your scanner program makes will vary with image content. A shot containing less detailed areas like a lot of water and sky will produce a smaller file size, whereas a shot with a lot detail like a ship or Hulett will have a bigger end file size even if the picture was originally the same size (in inches) as all the others.

So, unless you looked at the actual end result file sizes from the program, I suspect some did indeed creep past the 300 KiB limit. The solution is to crop the images or downsample them (reduce the scanning resolution or .JPG image creation "quality level". You can also use a free image viewing/editing program like the highly regarded IrfanView to downsample for "web publication". I often have to do that for the pictures I post here.

[Rob W]

In the Beeghly pic it looks as though a Nike missile is rising behind the vessel! Obviously not

[garbear]

I've got a question. On some of the photos I try to post I get the message- " The file is too big, maximum allowed size is 300 KiB."
The photo is the same size as the other ones of posted, but there have been about 4 I haven't been able to post. Why can't I post? Thanks.

[Darryl]

Great pictures of the Charles M. White and the Leon Falk Jr. That triple deck aftercabin on the Falk is something to see. I was in that aftercabin once and if I remember it had a big open space like a dunnage room.

[garbear]

Really appreciate your sharing your photos with us. It is great to see the ships that were in the trade back when I was sailing with Patersons...fabulous memories ! Thanks

I'll make sure I include what photos I have of the Paterson fleet.

[Guest]

Any idea why the unloading boom on the J. Burton Ayers is elevated like that? Seems like a really odd position for the boom while underway.

The only thing I ever thought was they were taking off the hatches. Maybe someone else would have a better answer.

From the position of the deck crane I would agree that the crew was doing some work involving the hatches up forward. I have seen several instances of ships moving in the St. Clair River with the booms raised but in this shot it appears that the Ayers has it boom raised to its full extent which seems unusual. Although the weight of the boom is insignificant compared to the tonnage of the vessel, I wonder if this configuration would effect its metacentric height?

[Canadoc]

Really appreciate your sharing your photos with us. It is great to see the ships that were in the trade back when I was sailing with Patersons....fabulous memories ! Thanks

[garbear]

A couple photos of the Joseph H. Thompson. I was just getting ready to turn in for the night when I saw her off to our starboard. I had looked out my porthole a few minutes earlier and saw nothing. We were downbound Lake Superior in the Marquette area, so I figured she had loaded in Marquette.

[A J]

Please keep posting your pictures Gar! Priceless view of the past.

[garbear]

Here's another view of the Munson.

[garbear]

Still from the same album.

[Rob W]

Gosh that picture of the Girdler makes me wish I had seen them coming up the Buffalo River with Ore to Republic Steel! Looks like and seamonster with those cabins so high up and that massive tomato can stack!


Great stuff Garbear!

Rob W

[garbear]

Thanks Garbear was the observation room at the back or front of the accommodations I ask because the fifties seemed to be the decade where they moved them from front to back, didn't the Clay ford have the sort of bay window at the back and maybe the Mauthe too.

The observation room was in the front. No special windows, just portholes.

[Guest]

Thanks Garbear was the observation room at the back or front of the accommodations I ask because the fifties seemed to be the decade where they moved them from front to back, didn't the Clay ford have the sort of bay window at the back and maybe the Mauthe too.

[garbear]

Sort of a subject change but i see in the photo of the Clark the deck below the pilot house doesn't have the large windows that some of her sister ships built have,was that deck capt quarters and guests or was there other officers rooms located there?

The captain's quarters were on the starboard side and the guest quarters were on the port. The captain had a small bedroom and office. The captain and the guests shared what was called he observation room. It had a couch, comfy chairs, a tv and other amenities. The deck officers quarters were on the spar deck level, starboard side. The port side were the the quarters for the wheelsmen/watchmen and the bosun.

[Guest]

Sort of a subject change but i see in the photo of the Clark the deck below the pilot house doesn't have the large windows that some of her sister ships built have,was that deck capt quarters and guests or was there other officers rooms located there?

[garbear]

A few more and then I have to start hitting some other albums.

[garbear]

Any idea why the unloading boom on the J. Burton Ayers is elevated like that? Seems like a really odd position for the boom while underway.

The only thing I ever thought was they were taking off the hatches. Maybe someone else would have a better answer.