Motor vehicles –except two for the police and fire–are not permitted on Mackinac Island; a RORO named Corsair runs supply trailers to the dock, where all cargo is transshipped onto wagons pulled by horses.
Corsair, that RORO, was built in Rhode Island by Blount in 1955.
Bicycles and horses provide transport on the island.
Horses require that straw and hay are
essential cargoes.
Landing craft are useful around the iIsland as well.
I’m not sure if this LC has a name, but LC-6050 is still legible.
Wooden craft like Maumee Mistress recently participated in the wooden boat show I hope to get up to see one of these years.
Ann Marie Rose is clearly not wood, but I include it here because it’s the fourth time (4th!!) I’ve seen it since April, when I caught them entering the Harrows.
Elegante was in these same waters two years ago . . .
as seen here (scroll).
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
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September 1, 2018 at 12:31 pm
George Schneider
The green landing craft would be LCM 6050, a steel 56-foot LCM Mk 6 (or “Mike 6”) with an Army designation. I’m at work without my notes, so can’t tell you if there’s a merchant name for that boat now. She would have been built about 1954. Thank you for recording that number, Will!
September 2, 2018 at 11:33 am
William Lafferty
My suspicion is that LCM is a stripped-down version of the former Muskegon fireboat Firefighter 4, built by Avondale in 1953 as one of 196 “C” boats built for the Navy that ended up with the Army as LCM(6) 6-050 and was acquired by Muskegon in 1969.