Last coal fired ship built for the US lake fleet?

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Re: Last coal fired ship built for the US lake fleet?

by Jon Paul » January 12, 2022, 7:04 am

When I was on the Samuel Mather in '75 we took on bunker coal at the PM Detour coal dock.

Re: Last coal fired ship built for the US lake fleet?

by badger » January 12, 2022, 12:14 am

in sept 1972 i saw the coalfired ss herbert c. jackson, straigh decker, unloading coal for the power plant at taconite harbor using the single clam bucket

Re: Last coal fired ship built for the US lake fleet?

by garbear » January 11, 2022, 3:14 pm

Guest wrote:I believe the Edmund Fitzgerald and John Sherwin were among the last coal-fired ships built for the US lake fleet in 1958. I not trying to get into how and why the Fitzgerald sank. However, I was wondering as to why these ships were built as such when other similar ships built earlier in the 1950s were oil-fired? Did this have anything to do with construction costs or intended trading patterns?
I forgot to mention Pickands Mather was the owner of Interlake Steamship and PM also was in the coal mining business.

Re: Last coal fired ship built for the US lake fleet?

by garbear » January 11, 2022, 3:02 pm

Guest wrote:I believe the Edmund Fitzgerald and John Sherwin were among the last coal-fired ships built for the US lake fleet in 1958. I not trying to get into how and why the Fitzgerald sank. However, I was wondering as to why these ships were built as such when other similar ships built earlier in the 1950s were oil-fired? Did this have anything to do with construction costs or intended trading patterns?

The Herbert C. Jackson was also coal-fired.

Last coal fired ship built for the US lake fleet?

by Guest » January 11, 2022, 10:52 am

I believe the Edmund Fitzgerald and John Sherwin were among the last coal-fired ships built for the US lake fleet in 1958. I not trying to get into how and why the Fitzgerald sank. However, I was wondering as to why these ships were built as such when other similar ships built earlier in the 1950s were oil-fired? Did this have anything to do with construction costs or intended trading patterns?

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