I believe this is an eastbound ILI 102 near Brewerton, just a few minutes from venturing out onto Oneida Lake.
I’m wondering what segregated cargo might be stored on deck in wooden and steel barrels.
If that’s Brewerton, this looks a lot like Three Rivers, with the stream off to the right being the Oswego River and its seven locks descending onto Lake Ontario at Oswego.
Note the boater between ILI 102 and the bank? Also, note the cleared field off along the port side of ILI 102, suggesting that grass and hay was still an important fuel for the draft animals still used in agriculture of the time.
Not heard of ILI 102? She’s the next completed hull sister of ILI 101, aka Day-Peckinpaugh. ILI 102 was launched a month later than her numerical predecessor, one of five vessels built as purpose-built Barge Canalmax cargo carriers. Later she operated as Andrew M. Barnes. New York archival photos show her trapped in the ice in 1936, but scant details exist on her service but she was scrapped by Hughes Brothers of New York in March 1950.
More of the ILI sisters forthcoming. Here‘s another reference greatlakes.bgsu.edu to peruse.
All photos used with permission of the Canal Society of New York.
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March 8, 2022 at 3:14 pm
William Lafferty
As Andrew M. Barnes the vessel ran continuously from 1936 to the end of 1947. Before the war it carried sugar upbound loaded at New York or Baltimore from ocean craft, destined for Cleveland, Toledo, or Chicago, and odd cargoes like sulfur for New York to Sandusky and fertilizer from Baltimore to Toronto. I think I’ve said here before during the war it hauled Canadian newsprint down bound and transshipped bauxite upbound to Canadian aluminum smelters. The sugar trade for the Barnes and Fiertz boats diminished with the arrival of the their new running mate, the Julius H. Barnes, in 1940 that could load directly at Cuba and bring sugar up the coast and the canal. I have no idea why the Andrew M. Barnes had such a relatively early demise, but my speculation would be catastrophic problems with its aging F-M power plant. Its sisters were sold off between 1950-1955 but remained in service. I. L. I. 105 was sold in 1936 and became the Michigan.
March 9, 2022 at 4:56 am
tugster
William– Thank you for the info, even if some of it you may have mentioned before.