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Formed in 1882 as Collingwood Dry Dock, Shipbuilding and Foundry Company in Collingwood, Ontario by J. D. Silcox (also contractor at the Murray Canal) [1] and S. D. Andrews [2] and renamed with the shortened name in 1892, [3] Collingwood Shipbuilding's core business was building lake freighters, ships built to fit the narrow locks between the Great Lakes.
A bulk freighter that served in World War II and later sank while under tow. Ericsson: 22 November 1892 Blown aground at the entrance to Barkley Sound, designed by inventor John Ericsson in 1851 Florence United States: December 1902 A clipper believed to have foundered in a storm off Cape Flattery. HMS Grappler Royal Navy: 3 May 1883
The ships are used as dry-bulk lake freighters (two gearless bulk freighter and three self-unloading vessel). [29] The first in the series, Algoma Equinox, was launched in 2013. Trillium class – a new class of lake freighter delivered for Canada Steamship Lines in 2012 (Baie St. Paul) and 2013 (Whitefish Bay, Thunder Bay and Baie Comeau).
The SS Benjamin Noble was a steel hulled package freighter package freighter built in 1909, that went down with all hands in 1914, in mid-lake off Knife River, Minnesota. Her wreck was found half buried in 2004, in 365-feet of water. [9] [10] 6: Big Bay Sloop shipwreck (sloop) Big Bay Sloop shipwreck (sloop) January 14, 2009
11 November 1913 Lost on Lake Huron during the Great Lakes Storm of 1913. Its wreck was discovered in July 2015. [13] Ironton: 26 September 1894 A schooner that sank in a collision with the wooden freighter Ohio. Isaac M. Scott United States: 9 November 1913 A lake freighter that sank in the Great Lakes Storm of 1913
At the time of its scrapping was the oldest intact lake freighter still afloat. [2] The ship was 440 feet long by 50 feet across the beam, with a depth of 28 feet. It was powered by a 1,500-horsepower triple-expansion steam engine, fed by two coal-fired Scotch marine boilers. [3] The Ford had 12 hatches feeding into 4 cargo compartments. [1]
The Western Gap is a 120 metres (390 ft) wide channel allowing western access to the Inner Harbour. The gap is deep enough (over 31 metres) to allow large ships (like lake freighters) to enter and exit into the Inner Harbour. [2] The Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport is located on the south side of the channel and is accessed by ferry and tunnel.
During World War II it served out of Ketchikan, Alaska and is credited with sinking the Japanese submarine RO-32. [11] A Chicago-based Sea Scout troop acquired McLane after it was decommissioned in 1969, and the Great Lakes Naval Memorial and Museum acquired the cutter in 1993.