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Ore Carriers: The many ore boats of the American and Canadian fleets is filled with many different old and new ore carriers. Historical ore carriers include Herbert C Jackson (1959), Wilfred Sykes (1949), Lee A. Tregurtha (1942), Saginaw (1953), Cuyahoga (1943), SS Edward L. Ryerson (1960), MV Kaye E. Barker (1952), and the John G Munson (1952)
SS Leon Fraser in Duluth, Minnesota, in 1979. The Leon Fraser was launched on February 28, 1942. [1] [2] She was built by the Great Lakes Engineering Works at their River Rouge yards in Ecorse, Michigan [1] [3] and named for Leon Fraser, president of the First National Bank of New York and a director of United States Steel.
The machine's operator, stationed in the vertical beam above the bucket for maximum cargo visibility, could spin the beam at any angle. The scoop bucket was lowered into the ship's hold, closed to capture a quantity (10 tons approx.) of ore, raised, and moved back toward the dock. The workmen who operated the Hulett uploaders were known as Ore ...
SS Arthur M. Anderson in August 2002 at a Duluth ore dock.. SS Arthur M. Anderson came out of the drydock of the American Ship Building Company of Lorain, Ohio in 1952. [1] She had a length of 647 feet (197 m), a 70-foot (21 m) beam, a 36-foot (11 m) depth, [1] and a gross tonnage of roughly 20,000 tons.
SS Daniel J. Morrell was a 603-foot (184 m) Great Lakes freighter that broke up in a strong storm on Lake Huron on 29 November 1966, taking with her 28 of her 29 crewmen. The freighter was used to carry bulk cargoes such as iron ore but was running with only ballast when the 60-year-old ship sank.
The SS William G. Mather (Official Number 224850) is a retired Great Lakes bulk freighter now restored as a museum ship in Cleveland, Ohio, one of five in the Great Lakes region.
Self-propelled whaleback barge built to carry iron ore. Pickands Mather 1892 [98] 1924 Refitted as self-unloader in 1923–1924; [99] sank September 21–22, 1924, sank off Thunder Bay Island, Michigan, in Lake Huron. [100] SS Samuel Mather (1976) Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter Interlake Steamship Company [44] 1976 [44] [ai] 1987 [15]
MV Kaye E. Barker on the Fox River in downtown Green Bay (2022). The SS Edward B. Greene on her maiden voyage in 1952, docked in Marquette. The MV Kaye E. Barker was constructed in Toledo in 1952 for the Cleveland-Cliffs Steamship Company as the SS Edward B. Greene, one of the eight AAA class freighters used for ore and coal shipping.