Let’s start with Sugar Islander II moving school kids and commuters across from the Island to the US Soo.
The 1951 Empire State was tied up near those kayaks.
Not far away was Superior Pilot.
Maybe someone can help out with more info on Soo Marine Supply’s 60′.
Iowa and Wyoming wait for the next job. Between them, they have 202 years of work, with Iowa dating from 1915.
Stephan M. Asher has worked since 1954.
Owen M. Frederick and Cheraw are USACE boats.
Into the McArthur lock we go.
In the distance Federal Yukina discharged some dry bulk material, ore maybe.
discharge a dry bulk material.
Queen of the lakes Paul has started the climb into Lake Superior.
The 1943 Mississagi is disappearing piece by piece. She last appeared intact on this blog here.
This is my first time to post a photo of the 1976 Block.
Buckthorn heads up into Superior.
It’s active season on the Lakes, and Edgar B. Speer and all the others shuttle their contribution to the millions of tons of cargo per year.
Is she the only laker with this design of self-unloader?
Nokomis takes sightseers through the McArthur.
And someone’s taking a break from the galley of Walter J,
as they head for Superior.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
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June 4, 2023 at 3:47 pm
William Lafferty
The Ashtabula yard of the Great Lakes Engineering Works launched the Ojibway on 11 December 1946 for the Pittsburgh Steamship Company (United States Steel Corporation) for use as a midstream supply boat for Pittsburgh’s freighters at the Soo. 60.6 x 22.1 x 7.2, 53 gross and 25 net tons, originally powered by a Caterpillar D17000 Diesel, repowered in 1992 with a Caterpillar 3306. It replaced the Frontier of 1910, a former Niagara River ferry so converted in 1917. MCM Marine LLL of the Soo bought the Ojibway in 2008 and operates under Soo Marine Supply, Inc.
The Federal Yukina is at the Algoma Steel Export Dock, the stripped, sunk, and filled hull of the former Pittsburgh ore carrier Sewell Avery, put there in 1987 and one of the “Maritimers” built for the USMC during World War II.
I think, but am not certain, the rusty hulk beside the Norgoma is the remains of the former Imperial Oil tanker Iocolite of 1915, later Imperial Kingston and after 1961 the barge Charles W. Johnson.
June 7, 2023 at 5:37 am
tugster
Thx, William. I’ll try to get better pics of that hulk in a few days when we return up there. Yr info on Ojibway gives appetite for more pics of her too.