LL2 Retro Lakers

Ultimately, all these vessels share some features, one design feature in particular.  Answer follows.  I took these photos between June 2016 and June 2023.

Kaye E. Barker below and 

below.  In service since 1952 from Toledo, she looks great at 767′ x 70′ and 25,900 tons.

Saginaw was entered service in 1953 in Manitowoc and measures 640′ x 72′ and 

carries 22, 625 tons.

Enjoy another shot.

Michipicoten was launched in Quincy MA in 1953;  she measures 690′ x 70′ and capacity is 22,300.

Mississagi is being scrapped at the Soo ON;  she was one of 15 “maritimers” built in Detroit.  Her measurements are 621′ x 60′.

She’s a 1943 launch.

The Hon. James L. Oberstar was launched in Toledo in 1959;  she’s 806′ mx 75′ and has capacity of 31,000 gross tons.  That white plume from her stack is the result of freshwater, closed-loop exhaust gas scrubbers, DuPont Marine Scrubbers, from BELCO.

Anyone for more Oberstar?

 

Cason J. Calloway, like me, dates from 1952,  measures 748′ x 69′ and has capacity of 26,779 tons.  She was built in Detroit and, unlike me,  may be laid up at present.

Ojibway here are the numbers:  launched in Bay City MI in 1952, 647′ x 67′ and 18,602 tons.  I believe she was scrapped in 2022.

Frontenac was launched in 1968 in Lauzon QC.   She measures  730′ x 75′ and carries 26,365 tons.

Here’s another view in another lake.

The beauty that is Wilfred Sykes was launched in Lorain OH in 1949;  she measures 678′ x 70′ and carries 21,500. 

CSL Tadoussac came out of Collingwood ON in 1969. She measures 730′ x 75′ and has capacity of 29,261.

John G. Munson came out of Manitowoc WI in 1952.  She measures 666′ x 72′ and carries 20900 tons.

If PRT is the queen of the lakes by virtue of loa, then Alpena must be empress of the lakes, by virtue of her age and longevity in service.  She’s 519′ x 67′ and came out of Detroit in 1942.

 

All photos, any errors, WVD, who returned to the sixth boro in the wee hours today.

And the common thread is the bow superstructure, aka “house forward.”  The number of vessels with this design is declining.  Anyone speak to the advantages and disadvantages of this design?