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The mill, originally known as the Detroit Commercial Mill, was built in 1928 and the grain elevator in 1942 alongside the mill. Both were razed in 1973, demolition begun 4 January 1973 and completed in March.

Two other factors in the relatively minuscule number of collisions between cross lake car ferries and freighters was that the car ferries operated among harbors with little constant commercial traffic, such as Chicago or Cleveland, where the odds would be higher of a collision, and not in constricte...

Attached is the summary from the Marine Casualty Report. I hope it is readable. The Sachem, as Derek E.[/I,] may still be among the rusting hulks at the base of Egan's slip at Lemont.

Here it is at Gibralter, 21 May 2010, aboard the Danzigergracht, so we know it got to the Mediterranean.

Very few, it appears. There was no official ceremony, that waiting until the launch of the Badger after which both were christened. Photographs were taken by Gene Larson of the Door County Advocate and Herb Reynolds of the Reynolds photo studio at Sturgeon Bay. Here is a very poor newsprint renditio...

I was wondering what your source is for your information concerning the shipment to Port Colborne?

An item in the Regina Leader-Post, 10 September 1952, 14. The inference may be it actually may have stopped at Port Weller for some tweaking, but it did proceed to Prescott.

Port Weller launched and "commissioned" the vessel on 27 August 1952. I'm not sure what the reports meant, exactly, by commissioned. It had dock trials 4 September 1952 and after sea trials the previous two days left Port Weller on 10 September 1952 for Fort William, to return to Port Colb...

My guess is it was loading at the Eastern States elevator at Huron, about a dozen miles or so southeast of Marblehead. It was razed in 2012.

After its stint at Yorktown it was decommissioned in 1998. In 2001 it was recommissioned and stationed at New London, Connecticut.

The hulls were red, cabins white while the funnel was black with a large block letter "P".

Actually the funnel livery consisted of a somewhat stylized white letter "B." Here is a detail from a photograph showing the Samuel F. B. Morse at Manitowoc loading grain in July 1900.

It is indeed Gary that she unloaded her last cargo at as I found it out by doing a search in Wikipedia and it does say there that it was Gary where she last unloaded at. Hope that this informations helps out here. Wikipedia? Really? I was going to attach the relative articles but Guest just did, wh...

There seems to be a lot of confusion about this. An issue mainly devoted to the Bradley in a 1959 issue of Calcite Screenings said it delivered its last cargo to the same dock it had delivered its first. This would have been the new Buffington Harbor of Universal Atlas Cementon 30 July 1927, then re...

As far as I can tell, none of the links cited in the postings below contain images of the Consolidator. The Mason County Historical Society had an online database (without images) but that is offline while the society transitions into its new research facility in downtown Ludington.

There's an aerial photograph of it under tow in the archives of the Port of Ludington Maritime Museum.

John Sherwin, born in 1901, was a Cleveland banking executive at the Union Trust, Midland Bank, and Cleveland Trust. In 1942 he became a partner in and vice president of Interlake Steamship Company. He is distantly related to the paint family, first cousin once removed of the daughter of Sherwin Wil...

Here is Sam Hankinson's photograph of the Roy R. Love, taken in March at Lemont and posted with his permission.

I forgot I had this. The Roy R. Love as built, arriving at St. Joseph on its delivery from Ferrysburg, 29 August 1908.

The Nathan S. in question was built in 1951 at Brooklyn by Ira S. Bushey & Sons, Inc., hull number 602, for Red Star Towing & Transportation Company, New York. It is the second Nathan S. , the first originally the New York City Department of Sanitation tug Sanita , later Soo Chief , Susan M....

Shipbuilding at the Chicago yard ended with the completion of the World War I "laker" program, the Lake Giddings the last vessel built, delivered in May 1920. It built a few workboats for its own use and fabricated some barge hulls after that, but was exclusively a repair yard until the end.

The Roy R. Love was launched as the steam fish tug Herbert on 28 July 1908 by Johnston Bros. at Ferrysburg, Michigan, hull no. 31, for G. Mollhagen & Co., St. Joseph, Michigan. It was named for Charles Mollhagen's son. 68.42 x 15.58 x 7.66; 55 gt, 37 nt. Sold 1918 to Gustav Ewig, Port Washington...