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The Arlington was originally designated hull No. 192 in the Detroit Shipbuilding Company's yards in 1913, was first christened the F.P. Jones, then renamed the Glencadam in 1919. The Mathews Steamship Company acquired her in 1936, and rechristened her Arlington , and the Burke Towing and Salvage Company retained the designation after purchasing ...
The pilot house of William Clay Ford is part of the Dossin Great Lakes Museum on Belle Isle, Detroit. [13] The bulk freighter was built in 1952 and scrapped in 1987. The past warship, converted into a Great Lakes freighter, SS Joseph H Thompson ' s pilot house was removed when being converted to a barge.
GLT is the largest U.S.-flag tugboat company engaged in towing on the Great Lakes. [3] The company is widely referred to as “The Towing Company.” 1, 10 GLT provides services such as local harbor towing, docking and undocking, interport towing of vessels and barges, icebreaking, as well as rescue and assistance to grounded or damaged ships with a fleet of nearly forty tugboats stationed ...
With $125,000 in donations from Detroit's Dossin family, and a matching subsidy by the city's historical commission, the Dossin Great Lakes Museum broke ground on Belle Isle on May 21, 1959, near the former mooring of the J. T. Wing. It was opened on July 24, 1961. [2] William Edward Kapp was the lead architect for the firm of Smith, Hinchman ...
When purchased by the Lower Lakes Towing Company in 2011, it was renamed Tecumseh and re-registered at Port Dover, Ontario. [1] The ship underwent a refit at Veracruz, Mexico before sailing to the Great Lakes. Tecumseh arrived at Montreal, Quebec on 29 December 2011 where it was fitted with Port Colborne fairleads from the scrapped Canadian ...
At a price tag of $6.7 million, JOHN J. BOLAND was designed to haul up to 21,500 tons of coal, stone and iron ore across the Great Lakes. The 250-foot-long unloading boom could transport 3,500 ...
The Robert S. Pierson is a bulk carrier built for and operated on the North American Great Lakes. [1] The vessel went through several owners and several names. In 2007, she was sold to Lower Lakes Towing, a Canadian company. Her last namesake was Robert Scott Pierson, the founder of the shipping firm Soo River Company.
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