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by William Lafferty
March 27, 2024, 1:41 pm
Forum: Information Search
Topic: Coal exports
Replies: 2
Views: 200

Re: Coal exports

Sure. But I imagine the bridge wreckage will be quickly removed to provide a channel out of the Tidewater coal facilities and have no real effect on worldwide inventories. The largest coal importers are China and India which between them import around 700 million tons a year. India, by the way, impo...
by William Lafferty
March 11, 2024, 12:41 pm
Forum: Information Search
Topic: David A. Lewis, Jr.
Replies: 0
Views: 515

David A. Lewis, Jr.

Anybody care to speculate as to what this is all about? St. Marys Cement doing something experimental?! I think US CST is what is meant but I see no history of it on the Kanawha.
by William Lafferty
March 9, 2024, 3:43 pm
Forum: Information Search
Topic: Old uss ships
Replies: 3
Views: 722

Re: Old uss ships

Tall funnels help draft boilers of smoke and gas from combustion and keep the particulate farther away from the vessel itself. Forced draft boilers eventually made funnel height less of an issue. Comparison to the Pargny is apples to oranges since for over a third of its commercial life its powerpla...
by William Lafferty
March 7, 2024, 1:30 pm
Forum: Information Search
Topic: Masts on boats
Replies: 2
Views: 708

Re: Masts on boats

The higher the light, the farther over the horizon it can be seen. The 1897 "Rules to Prevent Collisions at Sea" stipulated for steamships a constant white light on the foremast visible for a minimum of five miles. Running lights had to be high enough to be seen two miles away. What were c...
by William Lafferty
March 3, 2024, 2:12 pm
Forum: Information Search
Topic: Catastrophic engine failures
Replies: 15
Views: 3038

Re: Catastrophic engine failures

Didn't see Agawa Canyon mentioned yet. September 1, 1970, four days after launching. The explosion killed one and injured seven others. Wasn't that due to paint fumes during construction? Yes. It occurred 1 September 1970. The vessel was launched 27 August 1970 so I doubt the crankcase would have b...
by William Lafferty
February 29, 2024, 3:08 pm
Forum: Information Search
Topic: Port Welcome Ship Restuarant Algonac early 1990s
Replies: 2
Views: 584

Re: Port Welcome Ship Restuarant Algonac early 1990s

The Maryland governor’s wife christened the Port Welcome , launched 7 August 1959 by RTC Shipbuilding Corporation, hull number 243, for the Maryland Port Authority. 128.1 x 32.5 x 12.1, 463 gross and 221 net tons, twin screw powered by twin Detroit 6-110 Diesels. The vessel was intended, in the Gove...
by William Lafferty
February 24, 2024, 2:45 pm
Forum: Information Search
Topic: Catastrophic engine failures
Replies: 15
Views: 3038

Re: Catastrophic engine failures

There have been some, although it depends on how one defines "catastrophic," I guess: Paterson , 17 September 1985; Joseph L. Block , 18 December 1997; Ralph Misener , 12 August 1980; Irving Nordic , 11 March 1993. The most notorious incident may not have been: The owners of the Vainqueur ...
by William Lafferty
February 1, 2024, 2:27 pm
Forum: Information Search
Topic: Car Ferry Grand Haven
Replies: 16
Views: 3317

Re: Car Ferry Grand Haven

Where were mccarthys remaining a autucarriers scrapped at? George H. Ingalls and T. J. McCarthy : Arrived at Port Colborne, Ontario, 28 June 1966 in tow of tugs Amherstburg and Atomic for demolition by Marine Salvage, Ltd. George W. Mead : Arrived 21 June 1966 under tow of John Purves at Ashtabula ...
by William Lafferty
January 27, 2024, 4:36 pm
Forum: Information Search
Topic: Car Ferry Grand Haven
Replies: 16
Views: 3317

Re: Car Ferry Grand Haven

Originally USCAN was to use McCarthy's four auto carriers in the service. Grand Haven arrived at Cleveland the evening of 28 December 1964. The Cleveland Stevedoring Company erected fencing, a gate, and roadway improvements to Dock 28, completed 24 December 1964. Its initial trip to Port Burwell was...
by William Lafferty
January 24, 2024, 12:52 pm
Forum: Information Search
Topic: Car Ferry Grand Haven
Replies: 16
Views: 3317

Re: Car Ferry Grand Haven

Given the Canadian "courtesy" flag flying above the pilothouse, I assume the vessel is in Canada, and given the text probably Port Burwell, although I think it made trips to Port Stanley, too. I am going to speculate it is sitting in the old P-OTCo car ferry slip at Port Burwell.
by William Lafferty
January 17, 2024, 11:10 am
Forum: Information Search
Topic: Ship diesels...
Replies: 2
Views: 1856

Re: Ship diesels...

If you are referring to contemporary power plants, the acknowledged largest marine Diesel in the Wärtsilä RT-flex96C. Fourteen cylinder and turbocharged, the cylinder bore is 37.8 inches and stroke is 98.4 inches.
by William Lafferty
January 10, 2024, 3:34 pm
Forum: Information Search
Topic: W.C. Richardson's cranes
Replies: 3
Views: 1636

Re: W.C. Richardson's cranes

The Richardson had twin 45-ton American Hoist & Derrick cranes, each powered by a GM "Twin Four" Diesel, while 15-hp electric motors controlled the booms' swing and four similar motors drove the crane's lateral motion on deck driving an eight wheel truck. The current for the motors (an...
by William Lafferty
December 30, 2023, 2:27 pm
Forum: Information Search
Topic: Winter Storage Cargo
Replies: 27
Views: 3400

Re: Winter Storage Cargo

The E. M. Ford did not have a "storage cargo" when it sank Christmas Day 1979, although it was originally intended to be such. According to the original circuit court case 915 F.2d 1154 (7th Cir. 1990) all the crew but five were sent home for the holiday after the Ford arrived on 23 Decemb...
by William Lafferty
August 24, 2023, 10:59 am
Forum: Information Search
Topic: Cleveland Cliff offers to buy USS
Replies: 27
Views: 4256

Re: Cleveland Cliff offers to buy USS

i doubt if the federal goverment will allow cliffs to buy uss as it would violate anti trust laws. it will all blow over and uss will carry on by its self I disagree. Regulators aimed at United States Steel in 1911 since it was, indeed, an immense presence in the domestic steel industry, but what i...
by William Lafferty
August 20, 2023, 2:08 pm
Forum: Information Search
Topic: Cleveland Cliff offers to buy USS
Replies: 27
Views: 4256

Re: Cleveland Cliff offers to buy USS

But then Mather forms his own company with Pickands and competes against it? I have had a hard time understanding the companies at the turn of the century as they were in one way or another related to US Steel but yet mostly owned by John Rockefeller's shell companies. The two large independent car...
by William Lafferty
August 18, 2023, 4:02 pm
Forum: Information Search
Topic: Gov Milller last trip prior to layup
Replies: 3
Views: 704

Re: Gov Milller last trip prior to layup

It laid up at Duluth on 15 October 1975 and was reported down bound at the Soo for Chicago (I assume the South Works and not Gary) on 3 October 1975, undoubtedly with ore, so that was probably its final paying trip. I have no idea what the crew knew or didn't know.
by William Lafferty
August 16, 2023, 11:29 am
Forum: Information Search
Topic: Cleveland Cliff offers to buy USS
Replies: 27
Views: 4256

Re: Cleveland Cliff offers to buy USS

Wasn't Cliffs a subsidiary of US Steel at one point? I thought 90% of the domestic steel industry owned by US steel until 1911ish? United States Steel was formed in 1901 as a vertically integrated Goliath by the merger of three of the nation's largest steel producers, Carnegie, National, and Federa...
by William Lafferty
July 21, 2023, 12:47 pm
Forum: Information Search
Topic: Old Photos Detroit waterfront
Replies: 6
Views: 1222

Re: Old Photos Detroit waterfront

It became a tourist attraction and eventually found a route on the lakes and stayed that way for 10 years or so before she was abandoned near Cleveland. Then in the 1930s they took her out for 4th of July and set the rotting hull ablaze as a public spectacle. Success ended up at Sandusky in 1944 fo...
by William Lafferty
July 21, 2023, 11:45 am
Forum: Information Search
Topic: mv northern venture
Replies: 8
Views: 1357

Re: mv northern venture

Mr. Link is correct. Launched 16 January 1998 at Akitsu, Japan, by Shin Kurushima Dockyard Co., Ltd., hull number 2965, as Asia Cement No. 7 for U-Ming Transportation Corporation, Keelung, Taipei. It was built as a dedicated limestone carrier. https://maritimemag.com/en/mckeil-marine-expands-its-bul...
by William Lafferty
July 20, 2023, 11:26 am
Forum: Information Search
Topic: Old Photos Detroit waterfront
Replies: 6
Views: 1222

Re: Old Photos Detroit waterfront

What was the 'Convict Ship'? Did it actually have to do with transporting convicts, or some sort of floating amusement attraction, or what?
Here is the advertisement that appeared in the Detroit newspapers in 1924 "explaining" the vessel and its notoriety: