Towns and Nature: Cleveland, OH: Great Lakes Shipyard and Towing

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Lance Aerial Media posted five photos with the comment: "Sam Laud getting propeller shaft seal replaced."

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Dennis DeBruler: This photo shows how they empty the stern ballast tanks and flood the bow tanks to expose the shaft for the work.
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Marine Historical Society of Detroit posted

Great Lakes Towing Company's wrecking tug Favorite (2) seen removing rail cars from the capsized car ferry Ann Arbor No. 4 in June of 1909 at Manistique, MI. It appears that there is already another ore car on the forward deck of the tug, sitting upside down. Unknown photographer. Father Dowling collection/MHSD.

The ferry capsized and sank at its slip in Manistique on May 29, 1909 after a switching error placed 8 fully loaded cars of iron ore on the port wing (outside) track with no cars on the starboard wing track. Contributing to the sinking were open deadlights on the ferry.

Over the years Great Lakes Towing has had three wrecking tugs and a floating dry dock that carried the name Favorite. This was their second wrecking tug, built in 1907 by the Buffalo Dry Dock Company.

Judy Barnes-DePeal shared

Bill Kloss posted three photos with the comment: "Thanks to my friends at the Great Lakes Towing and Shipyard for the opportunity to visit their facility in Cleveland. This is the Minnesota, the latest tug under construction. It's number 8 in a series of 10 new tugs to be built. 6/7/2023"

Bill Kloss posted three photos with the comment: "More photos from my visit to the Great Lakes Shipyard in Cleveland. 6/7/2023"

Brian R. Wroblewski: How many of the old style G tugs have a Kort Nozzle?

Bill Kloss: Brian R. Wroblewski 2 that I know of. Nebraska being the other.

Brian R. Wroblewski: Bill Kloss ok thanks. Must have been some sort of trial or something. Maybe it doesn't make too much difference.

The roads by the waterworks and shipyard are closed to the public, so I couldn't get any street views of this area.

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"Great Lakes Shipyard is a full-service shipyard for new vessel and barge construction, fabrication, maintenance, and repairs in a state-of-the-art facility that includes a 770-ton mobile Travelift. The newly constructed shipyard facility is located in the Old River Channel on the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio with a water front of approximately 2,000 lineal feet. An additional 3,800 lineal feet of water front is available on the Cuyahoga River proximate to the Shipyard."

It looks like they have a Self-Propelled Modular Transporter (SPMT) as well as a mobile Travellift.

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I've seen many photos that had a "G" tugboat in them. Now I know why. The "G" stands for Great Lakes Towing and they have facilities all around the lakes.

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In addition to having tugboats, they know how the cut red tape.

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"The Great Lakes Towing Company provide emergency assistance to vessels that are wrecked, disabled, or in distress on the U.S. Great Lakes. Emergency assistance is also provided to vessels in Canadian waters under a Treaty between the United States and Canada. No claim for salvage under the maritime laws is made by the Towing Company for emergency services provided under the Company’s Lakes-Wide Contract."

The Great Lakes Towing Company and Great Lakes Shipyard posted three photos with the comment: "Tug MINNESOTA is officially out of the fabrication shop and into the water. There's still work that needs to be done, but she's one step closer to her first tow"

Jeff McMeekin: Do these new tugs have crew berths on them?

Aaron Burnett: Jeff McMeekin, 1 berth for 2 men typically.