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A J wrote:Just a small detail, the maritimers were/are 60 feet wide.

Good catch! I was just going from memory and meant to double-check that before I posted, but forgot. Thanks for the correction.

The Supers were ordered before the US got involved in the war, and were the largest vessels designed for the iron ore trade. They were also quite advanced for the time. They made extensive use of welding in their construction, and were powered by 4,000-horsepower reduction-geared steam turbines fed ...

The Supers were ordered before the US got involved in the war, and were the largest vessels designed for the iron ore trade. They were also quite advanced for the time. They made extensive use of welding in their construction, and were powered by 4,000-horsepower reduction-geared steam turbines fed ...

But how do they proceed through the flight locks in the Wellend? For the Victory tow, they locked the Tim McKiel through all the way down through Lock 1, and the smaller tugs Evans McKiel (on the bow) and Vac (on the stern) handled the tow through the locks. By not lowering the arrester booms, and ...

I have a Revell T-2 that I converted into the Middletown (or started to anyway, it's about 85% complete). I modeled her as I knew her in the early 90s, so that includes the self-unloader conversion, as well as reshaping the bow and stern, increasing the height of the stack, and modifying the aft cab...

The Maritimers were intended for post-war fleet modernization as well as boosting steelmaking capacity during the war. There weren't any U-boats operating on the Lakes, so these boats didn't need to be expendable. However, there was one major concession to wartime economy in their design: the use of...

As I understand it, the looming EPA ban that threatens the remaining Great Lakes steamers is specifically a ban on burning no.6 fuel (bunker C), which is why the Badger will be able to keep running on coal after the ash retention system is installed. As for the operational WWII-era museum ships and ...

They have picked up parts from ships scrapped at IMS in recent years, presumably there will be a lot of usable parts from the Algoma Transfer that would be well suited for converting the CTC #1.

With the sternwheel design also gave the paddlewheel a greater measure of protection when running in shallow, swift, or snag-infested waters, except of course when running astern. That's one of the main reasons they became so popular on the Mississippi and its tributaries, as well as the western riv...

The Sabino at Mystic Seaport in Connecticut is coal-fired too. I think what sets the Badger apart from Segwun and Sabino (apart from size) is that she is still in regular commercial service, as opposed to being restored and operated as a museum vessel.

Denny wrote:Even the Pineglen is getting up there in age also as she was built in 1985 and in two years she will be at 30 years of age.

Wow, talk about feeling old! And she Still holds the distinction of being the last all-new, powered Great Lakes freighter built on the Lakes.

Somebody wrote, "since when did this board become the place to talk politics?" on this post and I have to say I don't think there is a better place. Actually what I said was "Since when did it become ok to post political rants on here?", big difference. Certainly there are polic...

Wow, since when did it become ok to post political rants on here? Considering that when the Constitution was written, the Industrial Revolution in this country consisted of a handful water-powered textile mills, I highly doubt things like greenhouse gases, global warming, and green energy ever cross...

Willowglen didn't go to Egypt, she went straight to the scrapyard in Aliaga, Turkey where she was cut up. A lot of ships that went for scrap overseas around that time left with a concocted cover story to try to deflect the attention of Greenpeace and other environmental groups who were actively camp...

I saw on today's news page that the saltie Seneca, formerly the Stokmarnes/Millenium Eagle/Mangal Desai has arrived for scrapping in Gadani, Pakistan. Not only was she a frequent visitor to the Lakes, but she also has a place in Great Lakes history. As the Mangal Desai, she was the ship that rescued...

Actually, only one of us had anything to do with the Northeastern Maritime Historical Foundation and the effort to save the Harriman, and just like you and everybody else who donated money, time, and energy to what was ultimately a failed effort, I too "drank the Kool-Aid" in what seemed l...

Any chance of adding the E.M. Ford engine to that already-impressive collection? For that matter, is there any way for members of the public to get in to see them?

Back in 1984 I was a 12-year-old kid on the way home to Minnesota after a family road trip to New England and Quebec. We came back through Canada and crossed back into the US at the Soo, which included stopping to watch a couple of ships come through the locks. At the time, I was already interested ...

ashland69 wrote:What about Halifax? Haven't heard anything for quite some time now or I may have missed some news.

Scrapped in Aliaga, Turkey last year.

The latest photos show that scrapping of the E.M. Ford's stern is well underway. This is odd because they started at the bow and she is bow-in to the slip, and typically ships are scrapped starting at one end and working their way to the other. On the Ford they skipped from the bow to the stern with...