garbear wrote: Later that year, on December 22, the large bulker hit the pierhead while entering the Duluth / Superior harbor in bad visibility. The vessel received plate damage that was repaired at Superior's Fraser Shipyards, returning to service in June of 1979.
The text garbear has contributed seems to come from the boatnerd.com fleet photo gallery page for the
Beeghly / Oberstar:
boatnerd.com Fleet Photo Gallery page wrote:
Later that year, on December 22, the large bulker hit the pierhead while entering the Duluth / Superior harbor in bad visibility. The vessel received plate damage that was repaired at Superior's Fraser Shipyards, returning to service in June of 1979.
...and that account of the incident seems to originate from or have a lot in common with the following passage in the Toronto Marine Historical Society's newsletter, called
The Scanner, vol. 11 no. 4, January 1979, Marine News page:
[i]The Scanner[/i] Marine News page January 1979 wrote:On the afternoon of December 22, the steamer was caught in a nasty snowstorm whilst trying to negotiate the Duluth harbour entrance. The lake was calm but the visibility bad, and BEEGHLY ran onto one of the pierheads. She damaged a number of hull plates and was dispatched to Fraser Shipyards for repairs so that she might be ready for late navigation.
It's important to note: that description of the incident was updated in the next edition of
The Scanner, vol. 11 no. 15, February 1979, Marine News page: the updated version seems to paint a more accurate picture of the incident which is different in a few key ways from the initially-reported version of the story:
[i]The Scanner[/i] February 1979 Marine News page wrote:The December 22 accident involving the Interlake Steamship Company bulk carrier CHARLES M. BEEGHLY was much more serious than early reports indicated. BEEGHLY was outbound at the Duluth harbour entrance when she somehow managed to run foul of an underwater section of the inner pier. An eyewitness reported that she hit the obstruction with such force that she stopped dead in the water! The steamer was backed out of the entrance and into the harbour where she settled, was pumped out, and settled a second time. It is hoped that repairs can be completed by Fraser Shipyards, but its drydock is already overloaded with work, a situation due in part to the AmShip strike.
The account from the February 1979
Scanner seems to match better with the knowledge that people are contributing to this thread, and with accounts of the incident as laid out in Julius Wolff's excellent book
Lake Superior Shipwrecks.
[quote="garbear"] Later that year, on December 22, the large bulker hit the pierhead while entering the Duluth / Superior harbor in bad visibility. The vessel received plate damage that was repaired at Superior's Fraser Shipyards, returning to service in June of 1979.[/quote]
The text garbear has contributed seems to come from the boatnerd.com fleet photo gallery page for the [i]Beeghly / Oberstar:[/i]
[quote="boatnerd.com Fleet Photo Gallery page"]
Later that year, on December 22, the large bulker hit the pierhead while entering the Duluth / Superior harbor in bad visibility. The vessel received plate damage that was repaired at Superior's Fraser Shipyards, returning to service in June of 1979.[/quote]
...and that account of the incident seems to originate from or have a lot in common with the following passage in the Toronto Marine Historical Society's newsletter, called [i]The Scanner[/i], vol. 11 no. 4, January 1979, Marine News page:
[quote="[i]The Scanner[/i] Marine News page January 1979"]On the afternoon of December 22, the steamer was caught in a nasty snowstorm whilst trying to negotiate the Duluth harbour entrance. The lake was calm but the visibility bad, and BEEGHLY ran onto one of the pierheads. She damaged a number of hull plates and was dispatched to Fraser Shipyards for repairs so that she might be ready for late navigation.[/quote]
It's important to note: that description of the incident was updated in the next edition of [i]The Scanner[/i], vol. 11 no. 15, February 1979, Marine News page: the updated version seems to paint a more accurate picture of the incident which is different in a few key ways from the initially-reported version of the story:
[quote="[i]The Scanner[/i] February 1979 Marine News page"]The December 22 accident involving the Interlake Steamship Company bulk carrier CHARLES M. BEEGHLY was much more serious than early reports indicated. BEEGHLY was outbound at the Duluth harbour entrance when she somehow managed to run foul of an underwater section of the inner pier. An eyewitness reported that she hit the obstruction with such force that she stopped dead in the water! The steamer was backed out of the entrance and into the harbour where she settled, was pumped out, and settled a second time. It is hoped that repairs can be completed by Fraser Shipyards, but its drydock is already overloaded with work, a situation due in part to the AmShip strike.[/quote]
The account from the February 1979 [i]Scanner[/i] seems to match better with the knowledge that people are contributing to this thread, and with accounts of the incident as laid out in Julius Wolff's excellent book [i]Lake Superior Shipwrecks[/i].