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The second Carl D. Bradley was the 13th purpose-built self unloader, not counting a handful of sand suckers and the Collier No. 1 using more specialized unloading devices. Overall, including those vessels and conversions and depending upon how their chronology is measured, the Bradley was between th...

The CNR coal dock had three Brown Hoist locomotive cranes with one ton clamshells that could unload 1500 tons in ten hours. It also accommodated smaller self-unloaders. The dock was restricted to vessels 450 feet in length or shorter. The CPR dock at Britt originally had two Mead-Morrison towers usi...

That would be the first North American turbine driven vessel and the first turbine driven vessel to cross the Atlantic, the appropriately named twin-screw Turbinia , launched 20 March 1904 at Hebburn-on-Tyne, England, by Hawthorn, Leslie Co., Ltd., for the Turbine Steamship Company, Ltd., of Hamilto...

The Canadian Pacific Railway had two Huletts built at Fort William using 8 ton buckets in conjunction with two Hulett-McMyler storage bridges. They became operational in December 1912.

Europe suffered a potato famine of sorts in 1976 and the Emanuel was dispatched in ballast to Port Huron at the behest of a New York potato broker to load 5000 tons of Michigan and Wisconsin spuds for shipment to several European ports. It arrived at Port Huron on 21 October 1976. Emanuel was one of...

French has resolutely used masculine nouns in describing ships for well over a millennium. Le bateau = boat, le navire = ship, le vaisseau = vessel, le remorqueur = tugboat, le pétrolier = tanker, le paquebot = liner, and so forth. In English "ship" comes from the Germanic "schiff,&qu...

The Charlles M. White grounded on Waverly Shoal thirty miles south of Escanaba on 13 April 1974. The combined efforts of the Lauren Castle , John Purves , John M. Selvick , and Charles Asher with the Coast Guard's Mesquite and Raritan freed it late on 16 April 1974. Part of its cargo of taconite pel...

ABS, LR, BV, etc., still require anchors, which the Viking Octantis has, but the DPS is quite useful when deploying the many small craft the Viking ships use in ferrying passengers to shore. Ships at anchor are susceptible to wind and current, hence much movement pivoting around anchors. Deep sea dr...

This tiny photograph of an eBay listing indicates the flag had considerable red in it, but may have been more ornate.
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Looks to me like the Susan Hoey, bought by Gaelic in 1985, originally Bonita, from the Barworth Corporation, Denton, Texas. As Robin Lynn it arrived at Marine Recycyling at Port Colborne in September 2018 for dismantling.

These are the Canadian Pacific ferries in their later livery (buff funnel and black smoke band). The Ontario is in the foreground, I believe, and the Michigan behind, although the vessels were very similar in appearance, built 1890 but at different yards. I make this identification because the Ontar...

That did seem strange. I find no reference to it being lost on "lower Lake Michigan," though. It was bound from Buffalo to Chicago and disappeared, and the assumption may have been it would have been in that area by the time of its lost. In April it would be very unusual for a wreck to tra...

was capt. john roen born on beaver island? Captain Roen was born at Tysse, Norway, in 1887. He emigrated to the United States in 1906 and began shipping out on Great Lakes vessels in 1908, saving money to build the little tug Red Wing in 1910 at Beaver Island, used to tow log rafts from the island ...

Well, concerning the salvage of the first Humphrey , I don't think Captain John Roen's operation could be deemed a "small no name marine service" nor that he raised the vessel "with the equivalent of duct tape and chewing gum." Merritt, Chapman & Scott gave the underwriters a...

The Pioneer Transportation Company, Ltd., London, Ontario had the little tanker Pioneer built at Brooklyn, New York, by the SOS Welding Company, its first hull, launched in August 1928. That yard is now the site of the City of New York’s Hamilton Avenue Marine Transfer Center under the Gowanus Freew...

A firm called "The Seahouse" sold prints of Ross & Wiley negatives of vessels on southern Lake Michigan and the Detroit area throughout the 1930s. Its market was mostly crew members. It shared the Ross & Wiley address in the Hyde Park area of Chicago throughout the 1930s. A relativ...

Both vessels were built by Atlantic Marine Corporation at Jacksonville and are now part of the merger of American Queen Steamboat Company and Victory Cruise Lines. They were renamed last December. Both are eligible for reflagging to American registry under the Jones Act, so that is another possibili...

The new one doesn't work as well as the old one. I don't know the details, but this forum is easier to post on and easier to see when there are replies. Seems like it is easier for admins too, based on other posts. Ironic, isn't it? I've been using computers since I bought an IBM PC in 1984 (for wh...

Here is the Johnstown being gingerly towed on the Chicago River on 6 June 1952. The pilothouse is facing the vessel's port side, and there is no indication off any major bracing I can see. That said, why is everybody on this old Boatnerd information search site and not the new information search site?

Yes. Trials on 26 August 1943 and it left River Rouge on 28 August 1943.