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- April 13, 2024, 4:09 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: George M. Humphrey 1956 incident
- Replies: 4
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Re: George M. Humphrey 1956 incident
The vessel's port bow struck rocks because of low water caused by wind and ice movement and took on water in at least three tanks forward. Part of its cargo was lightered by GLTCo's Laurence C. Turner and barge Reliance from the Soo, as well as the crane boat O. S. McFarland . Initially it was inten...
- March 27, 2024, 1:41 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: Coal exports
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1066
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...
- March 11, 2024, 12:41 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: David A. Lewis, Jr.
- Replies: 0
- Views: 517
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.
- March 9, 2024, 3:43 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: Old uss ships
- Replies: 3
- Views: 728
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...
- March 7, 2024, 1:30 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: Masts on boats
- Replies: 2
- Views: 709
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...
- March 3, 2024, 2:12 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: Catastrophic engine failures
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3109
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...
- February 29, 2024, 3:08 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: Port Welcome Ship Restuarant Algonac early 1990s
- Replies: 2
- Views: 591
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...
- February 24, 2024, 2:45 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: Catastrophic engine failures
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3109
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 ...
- February 1, 2024, 2:27 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: Car Ferry Grand Haven
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3361
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 ...
- January 27, 2024, 4:36 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: Car Ferry Grand Haven
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3361
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...
- January 24, 2024, 12:52 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: Car Ferry Grand Haven
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3361
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.
- January 17, 2024, 11:10 am
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: Ship diesels...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1870
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.
- January 10, 2024, 3:34 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: W.C. Richardson's cranes
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1648
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...
- December 30, 2023, 2:27 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: Winter Storage Cargo
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3408
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...
- August 24, 2023, 10:59 am
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: Cleveland Cliff offers to buy USS
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4257
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...
- August 20, 2023, 2:08 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: Cleveland Cliff offers to buy USS
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4257
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...
- August 18, 2023, 4:02 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: Gov Milller last trip prior to layup
- Replies: 3
- Views: 706
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.
- August 16, 2023, 11:29 am
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: Cleveland Cliff offers to buy USS
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4257
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...
- 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...
- July 21, 2023, 11:45 am
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: mv northern venture
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1358
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...