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Two other factors related to this discussion are the load line regulations and the trend in recent years to increase hull depth for a given ship length (L/D). The freeboard calculations for load line assignment assume the ship has defined standard sheer curves forward and aft. This is to help avoid ...

The requirements for operating between Toledo and Detroit with open hatches are listed in the USCG Load Line Policy Manual as follows:

Great Lakes bulk carriers operating between Toledo, OH and Port Huron, MI.
Route: between Toledo, OH and Port Huron, MI
1. Applicability: Great Lakes bulk carriers ...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zcxa4udzcbxl44n/Machinery%20Design%20of%20GL%20Ore%20Carrier%20SS%20Edmund%20Fitzgerald%20-%20October%20%201958%20%281%29.pdf?dl=0


See if you can access it at the above dropbox link. Otherwise send me your email address. This version does not include the drawings included ...

Gregory, The infor you are looking for was published in 1958 by the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers in a paper entitled Machinery Design of Great Lakes Carrier S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald. I can send scan of it if you are interested.

The answer can be found on page 431 of the book "Basic Ship Propulsion" by J. P. Ghose, available on Google Books. The diagram on pg 432 (for a modern ship without a shoe) shows the change in hull shape just forward of the prop. The hull is twisted above and below the stern tube to impart a swirl in ...

Algoma Compass in now transmitting AIS in Huron, O.

Buffalo is downbound passing Cheboygan, MI. Marine Traffic showing destination Sarnia, ETA 1400 Tomorrow.

The following is from the 1955 edition of Design and Construction of Merchant Ships

On cargo and passenger ships, it is generally desirable to locate the propelling machinery about amidships. A rectangular compartment is the most suitable for arranging machinery and results in the least waste of ...

I sailed as wiper on this boat in 1969 when it was the John Dykstra for Ford Motor Co. Interesting article in the December 1953 issue of Great Lakes Review points out that the design was an upgrade of the 1942 AA's. In comparison to the AAA's which were being delivered at the same time (1953), the ...

Can someone reply with the name of the dock where the Columbia is located in Buffalo.

Does anyone know the final disposition of the iron passenger & freight side-wheeler (U.S.125150) built in 1883 at Wyandotte, Michigan by the Detroit Dry Dock Company (Hull#61) for the Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Company as a.) CITY OF MACKINAC: 203 X 32.4 X 10.5; 807 gross tons. Renamed b.) STATE ...

Open-hatch voyages are allowed by the Great Lakes Load Line Regulations. Here are the restrictions as quoted from the Load Line Technical Manual
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1. Applicability: Great Lakes bulk carriers carrying coal. or bulk cargo of ...

Could be related to a low forward pilothouse-mounted antenna. Most boats have a much higher antenna mounted on top of a mulitstory aft deckhouse.

Is it true that the Munson's stern thruster was the Voorhees' bow thruster?

Heard today that Donjon Shipbuilding acquired a tug for use in the yard. Any info on history?

MAK 6M43C rated 6000 KW at 500 RPM. Very similar to Saginaw.

Found this picture in a Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers paper yesterday and recalled the thread on this board last June re the W. F. White on Chesapeake Bay. The caption indicates that the location is Norfolk, Va. and it shows the cargo piled above the hatch coamings and spilled on ...

Here (in part) is the US Coast Guard visibility rule:
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46CFR §92.03-1 Navigation bridge visibility.

Each cargo and miscellaneous vessel which is 100 meters (328 feet) or more in length and contracted for on or after September ...

They were on eastern Lake Erie over the weekend, maybe to load coal at Ashtabula.

Saginaw, like other post-war Lakers, has electric winches but requires steam to heat the heavy fuel that the main engine burns. This is in addition to other duties such as quarters heating. The steam system includes an economizer salvaged from the Comeaudoc. It makes steam from the hot main engine ...