(Update: just two days later I found the notes I thought I already had concerning ships on the Cuyahoga.)
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| Mark Hinsdale posted Have managed to take a few ship pictures in amongst all those trains... Here's the "David Z. Norton" in the Cuyahoga River Turning Basin at Cleveland OH. Hard working Cleveland has always been a favorite city of mine. |
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| Rare History Photos posted An aerial photo from 1967 shows plumes of industrial waste flowing in the Cuyahoga River and emptying into Lake Erie. Cleveland, Ohio. [As you can probably imagine, there are a lot of comments about the EPA.] |
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| Bev Shaw posted Cleveland Ohio circa 1924 [Ships were a lot smaller back then so a lot more were needed on the Great Lakes. Fortunately, their smaller size allowed them to fit into all sorts of nooks and crannies along the shore for winter layup. As a size comparison from 1955, let alone 1924: "In 1955 Sandusky loaded 1123 lake freighters with 8.1 million tons of coal. It would only take 270 of today’s much larger freighters to haul the same amount." [History]] |
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| Bill Kloss posted Iowa assisting Stephen B. Roman to her berth at Lehigh Cement in Cleveland. 5/23/2017 She started life as a package freighter for Canada Steamship Lines then was eventually converted to a cement carrier [in 1983]. She only runs in the Great Lakes. |
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| Bill Kloss commented on his posting English River is the only other one of this class still sailing. She also carries cement, but for LaFarge. |
About a year later, the Stephen B. Roman was headed overseas to be scrapped.
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| PictonGazette The Stephen B. Roman bulk cement freighter (McKeil Marine photo) [It has been replaced by a ship that has nearly twice the capacity.] |
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| Screenshot (source) [Notice that the boom is still going down and the hatch crane is moving as it gets underway.] Dan Meyers shared Darren MacCallum: That’s insane, are you tugged in and out, or is this all on self-navigation? Do you need a Pilot on board for this transit? Aidan Hall: Darren MacCallum All the mates and captains on the Great Lakes have their pilotage licenses. So, yeah you do have to have a pilot on board, we just don't have to pay for external pilots. Rarely do great lakes freighters use tugs. Generally they only use bow/stern thrusters. James Lee: Why would they build the mills so far upriver? Mark Oviatt: Because when they built the mills the boats were much smaller. Dennis DeBruler: There was at least one mill built close to the lake (Otis Iron and Steel in the 1870s), but when it was time for it to expand it had to go upriver to find enough cheap land. And I presume that once you channelize the river to support that mill, other mills could take advantage of it. At one time, USS, Republic and Jones & Laughlin all had mills along the river. Today's mill is the result of LTV's merger of Republic and J&L. |
A video from a ship going upbound I wish it was about half this speed.
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