soMe MuseuM ships Found in the greAt lAKes
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Great Lakers
voyages via the Panama Canal.
The 740ft ships have a
capacity of 39,000 deadweight
tonnes in ocean transit but
only 29,100 tonnes while
operating in the St Lawrence/
Great Lakes system. They
make use of a traditional boom
aft, twin belt self-unloading
system, but have been equipped
with modern diesel engines
utilising exhaust gas scrubbing
technology to make them
IMO Tier II compliant. A
smaller vessel, the 24,900dwt
Algoma Innovator, which also
arrived on the Lakes in the
spring following completion
by Croatia’s Uljanik shipyard,
unlike the Chinese-built
ships makes use of a forward
mounted boom to allow bulk
cargoes to be delivered into
more confined spaces.
Besides ships specifically built
or modified for trading on
the Great Lakes are a number
of oceangoing vessels that
have been kept within Seaway
measurements, but which are ofThere are various museum ships that
can be visited on the Great Lakes as well
as several that can be viewed externally.
These include the following:
The Canadian passenger boat
Norgoma and the retired ore carrier
Valley Camp at Sault Ste Marie.
The 1905-built US ferry Milwaukee
Clipper, the US Navy LST 393,
the USCG cutter McLane and thesubmarine Silversides at Muskegon,
Minnesota.
The submarines Cobia, Cod and
U-505 at Manitowoc, Wisconsin;
Cleveland, Ohio; and Chicago, Illinois.
The 1946-built ferry Norilse at
Manitowaning, Ontario.
The 1944-built US icebreaker
Mackinaw at Mackinaw City.
The Canadian destroyer HMCSHaida at Hamilton, Ontario
The 1944-built US Tug Major Elisha
K. Henson at Oswego, New York.
The Coast Guard cutter Acacia
and railroad ferry City of Milwaukee
at Manistee, Michigan
The US Navy destroyer The
Sullivans, cruiser Little Rock and
submarine Croaker, along with the
1900-built fireboat Edward M Cotter,at Buffalo, New York.
Also at Buffalo, although not on a
permanent basis, is the 115-year-old
excursion steamer Columbia, which
is being restored for an eventual
move to New York’s Hudson River and
reactivation as a working tour boat.
A sister, the 1910-built Ste. Claire,
has been laid up at Detroit, Michigan
for many years. One of the latest naval ships to take up residency on the Great Lakes as a
floating museum is the former USS Edson (DD-946). a Forrest Sherman-class
destroyer once on display at New York’s Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum but
moved to Bay City, Michigan in 2013. coDy law Built by the Toledo Shipbuilding Company in 1944 and decommissioned
in 2006, the former USCGC Mackinaw (WAGB-83) is now the centrepiece
of the Icebreaker Mackinaw Maritime Museum at Mackinaw City, Michigan.
DaviD Ruff One of a number of US and Canadian icebreakers employed on the Great
Lakes, USCGC Mackinaw (WLBB-30) was commissioned in 2006 to replace
her namesake, USCGC Mackinaw (WAGB-83), which is now a museum ship at
Mackinaw City, Michigan. DaviD Ruff The last remaining whaleback
freighter, Meteor, designed by
Captain Alexander McDougall and
built at Superior, Wisconsin in 1896,
is a museum ship today on Superior’s
Baker Island. Jim SHaw
With winter weather
still in the air, the
1981-built Paul R.
Tregurtha, the largest
ship sailing on the
Great Lakes, moves
through the largest
lock on the Lakes, the
Poe Lock, at Sault Ste.
Marie, Michigan. uS
aRmy coRpS of engineeRSCorporation’s Algoma
Niagara and Algoma Sault,
both completed by China’s
Yangzijiang Shipyard. Class
leader Algoma Niagara
arrived in the Lakes last
autumn, while sister Algoma
Sault arrived this past spring,
both making their delivery