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Manitowoc, WI, is a town whose drawbridges still go up for something other than sailboat masts. Manitowoc Engineering helped establish the town as a port because it built ships on its peninsula a few blocks upriver. Below are some copies of their shipbuilding activity from the Manitowoc Engineering notes.
This photo shows why they moved ship building to Sturgeon Bay, the ships were growing too big to get down the river.
After they moved shipbuilding to Sturgeon Bay, they continued to use their access to the Great Lakes to ship cranes on barges and ships.
The opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway allowed them to directly export cranes. These two 36' platform ringer cranes were shipped to Iran.
Ben Stalvey posted two photos with the comment: "Check this shipload out... Two 36ft Manitowoc platform ringers headed out from Manitowoc Engineering.... The year 1978 location Manitowoc WI."
To the left of the smokestack, we see the car ramp for the C&NW ferry dock.
Ben Stalvey shared his album of 72 photos of the tower segments loadout.
The John Marshall tug in Ben's photos is the largest in the Calumet River fleet. [CalRiverFleeting] I'm used to seeing pushboats rather than tugboats in the Chicagoland area. I guess that is because I don't spend much time near the mouth of the Calumet River. (Most of my towboat watching is in Lemont, Lockport and Joliet.) All but one of Calumet River Fleeting's boats are tugboats. [MarineLink] John Marshall was built in 1972 in Louisiana and worked the Gulf Coast until 1989 when it moved to New York City. It moved to the Great Lakes in 2014. [TugboatInformation]
It looks like they use two container loaders to move the segments next to the barge.
Shipping the tower segments by barge was significant enough that multiple people covered it. Connor Siemers posted five photos with the comment: "Busy Weekend in the Port Of Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Enjoy!"
Dennis DeBruler In the final photo, I wonder if they will tie those two barges together for the trip across Lake Michigan to Indiana. The tugboat John Marshall is the largest in Calumet River Fleeting's fleet:
http://calriverfleeting.com/our-fleet/
Connor Siemers Dennis DeBruler they pulled them out
[Unfortunately, I don't understand the answer. But I don't want to clutter up a group with questions.]
A video of the first barge-load out for the Candace Elise for the 2020 shipping season. Unfortunately, it uses a profile format. I think it started from this dock.
Trans-Link Services shared
As with John Marshall handling the wind turbine tower segments, the 1981 Candice Elise was built in Houma, LA and served down south before Ashton Marine brought it to the Great Lakes when it was founded in 2015. [TugboatInformation, AshtonTugs]
Manitowoc, WI, is a town whose drawbridges still go up for something other than sailboat masts. Manitowoc Engineering helped establish the town as a port because it built ships on its peninsula a few blocks upriver. Below are some copies of their shipbuilding activity from the Manitowoc Engineering notes.
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| Ben Stalvey posted Manitowoc Engineering property. Manitowoc WI This is where 28 World War II Gato class submarines were constructed. The Manitowoc 3900 was designed originally in house to pick up the sections of the Gato class submarines. Roger Thompson And VICON was developed to tension them out and pull them back to the dock when launched. Jay Wilson Lot of WW2 sub captains wanted nothing less than Manitowoc subs. |
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Hans van Vliet W.W 2 picture I think? with all the Libertyships on the photograph. Robert Nuke Thompson Hans: WWI, not WWII. The ships are real; the cranes are also real, and were used for years after they became obsolete. The steam whirleys were in operation until the late 1960s, and the electric bridge gantries were repurposed to service the steel racks, and were used until the 1990s. Arthur Zuehlke Thanks Ben. Shipbuilding was the main show in the day. Cranes were a sideline then. What eventually became the 4100 was developed to help build the subs and other boats built there in WWII. Arthur Zuehlke Robert ...also remember the steam Whirleys. My wife's grandfather Ben Reed ran one for some years. |
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| Hans van Vliet commented on his own posting |
After they moved shipbuilding to Sturgeon Bay, they continued to use their access to the Great Lakes to ship cranes on barges and ships.
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Steve Robinson posted
A heap of Manitowoc Crawlers either going somewhere or coming back from somewhere.
[The comments indicate these are 4100s with counterweights.]James Long John Blake it could have been the maitowoc docks. The WIL lines went most every where, but mostly houston, florida, south america and the virgin islands. My dad was the superintendent at the jacinto port yard in houston for wil. |
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| Philip Slow posted Manitowocs leaving the nest. Hans van Vliet To me it looks like if these are the bodies of two pcs 30 feet platform ringers. Transported on Manitowocs own crawler transporters |
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| Ben Stalvey posted Manitowoc 36FT platform ringer. What a rare impressive beast.. Does anyone have one now currently around the world???? Joseph Bonola Traveling Platform Ringer Bob Brickman This is the beginning, of the 7000. Dwight Wood Talk about pick and carry !! Derrick Wareham The ones sent to Iran lay still unpacked 10 years ago just rotting a way. [They arrived in Iran just before a regime change in Iran. The project got cancelled.] |
To the left of the smokestack, we see the car ramp for the C&NW ferry dock.
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| Greg Moss posted There is something for everyone in this Kodachrome taken aboard a carferry entering Manitowoc, WI by John Ingles in August of 1965. Of primary interest is the Charles C. West unloading at the coal dock. The West is home, being built in Manitowoc in 1925, originally as a carferry, but changed to a freighter midway thru her build. The C&NW railway served the coal docks and their carferry slip is just to the left of the coal slip. A Ford cabover fuel truck and an old Chevy Suburban round out the scene. Photo from my collection. Todd Neff: Ferry was most likely heading upriver to the Soo slip. The car ferry Badger still uses the east apron to load passenger cars. No rail cars, no west apron, no car ramp and saddest part of all, no CNW. Gary Jung: Todd Neff and basically no coal dock either Greg Moss shared Greg Moss posted, same comment [Some comments about it starting out as a ferry is an often repeated myth. Of note:] William Lafferty: I have no idea how this myth came to be. The Kelley Island Lime & Transport Company undertook a large expansion of the crushing capabilities of its quarry at Rockport, co-owned by the C. Reiss Coal Company, destined to go online in summer 1925. As a result, on 8 January 1925 Rockport Steamship Company, jointly owned by KIL&TCo and Reiss, and Manitowoc entered into a contract to build the West, named for the head of Manitowoc and the vessel's designer, to join the fleet's John A. Kling. Its keel was laid 2 March 1925 (obviously well after the contract date) and launched 8 July 1925. Clearly it was not "on the ways" when the contract was signed. Rockport's self-unloaders were slightly smaller than their contemporaries (especially the Michigan Limestone boats) then being built since Rockport wanted to expand delivery to smaller harbors and cities. As a result West designed its counter stern, twin crew, double engine configuration to aid water flow to the two wheels and increase maneuverability in constricted waterways. William Lafferty: That was the C. Reiss Coal Company "lakefront dock." Its main equipment was a Heyl & Patterson (still in business!) bridge using an 8-ton clamshell, although some sources say 6-ton. Its capacity was 450 tons/hour. |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Gary's comment While looking for the Badger dock, I was surprised to see that some coal piles still exist. Are these left over from when it was abandoned and have been setting here untouched for years? Gary Jung: Dennis DeBruler C. Reiss sold it to MPU years back. MPU still has a pile there on the north end as that is an older picture. |
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| Paul Erspamer commented on Greg's second post CHARLES C. WEST building in Manitowoc. Note dual propeller shafts, & propeller lying in foreground. Photo: City of Manitowoc. |
Manitowoc built a factory south of town so that they would have more room. Eventually, Broadwind Towers and other companies took over the peninsula facilities. Broadwind Towers building wind turbine tower segments and sometimes ship them by barge. And there are transloading services northwest of the peninsula.
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| Trans-Link Services posted A busy day in the Port of Manitowoc! Pere Marquette Shipping, Ashton Marine, LLC, and Great Lakes Dock and Materials are in to pick up loads of stone at our Spring Street Terminal. Calumet River Fleeting is at the peninsula to pick up the first of 300 Broadwind Energy wind tower sections being shipped to Indiana. The picture includes 4 tug boats, 6 barges, 6 Manitowoc cranes and the nearly-completed Konecranes load out platform! [Note the barge with tower segments in the lower middle.] |
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The John Marshall tug in Ben's photos is the largest in the Calumet River fleet. [CalRiverFleeting] I'm used to seeing pushboats rather than tugboats in the Chicagoland area. I guess that is because I don't spend much time near the mouth of the Calumet River. (Most of my towboat watching is in Lemont, Lockport and Joliet.) All but one of Calumet River Fleeting's boats are tugboats. [MarineLink] John Marshall was built in 1972 in Louisiana and worked the Gulf Coast until 1989 when it moved to New York City. It moved to the Great Lakes in 2014. [TugboatInformation]
It looks like they use two container loaders to move the segments next to the barge.
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Dennis DeBruler In the final photo, I wonder if they will tie those two barges together for the trip across Lake Michigan to Indiana. The tugboat John Marshall is the largest in Calumet River Fleeting's fleet:
http://calriverfleeting.com/our-fleet/
Connor Siemers Dennis DeBruler they pulled them out
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A video of the first barge-load out for the Candace Elise for the 2020 shipping season. Unfortunately, it uses a profile format. I think it started from this dock.
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| Connor Siemers posted Update: Nathan S has left manitowoc with Crane load in tow. Well Everyone, the time has come...the gray crane from Broadwind/Konecrane has been disassembled to go on the barge to reach it's destination in Louisiana for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The tugboat Nathan S has the honor of this tow to bring it to Chicago, from there it will eventually make it's way on the Mississippi River. Currently Nathan S is Manitowoc bound arriving at around 6pm (ish) tonight. As soon as everything is secured. They are heading to Chicago immediately. Photo Credit: Ben Stalvey |
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| Ben Stalvey posted Departure of the latest KoneCrane |
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| There is more information on the KroneCranes here [Although I don't know if the USACE crane is the same design as these Naval port cranes.] |
Steven Vance: Crane is going to Old River Locks North of Baton Rouge.
Bill Stephan: The things you learn here! I lived in BR for several years and never heard of the lower Old River. Hmmm Pretty interesting. Thanks! Bill in TR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_River_Control_Structure
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