So as I said in the last post, the ship was the Walter J. McCarthy Jr. She is another one of the thousand footers and she hasn't appeared on this blog. So while I was disappointed at not seeing the Speer, I guess this will work.
The McCarthy was built by Bay Shipbuilding in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. Like some of the other 1000 footers, she was constructed in two pieces and welded together.
She was christened as the Belle River and was the first 1000 footer built at Bay Shipbuilding. She would use the design that was used in the construction of the Burns Harbor, Columbia Star, Indiana Harbor and the Oglebay Norton.
Here she is leaving the locks.
She is powered by four 3,600 horsepower engines and can carry 78,850 tons of cargo. In 1990, she was named the Walter J. McCarthy Jr. after the retired Chairman of the Board of Detroit Edison. She is used almost exclusively to carry low sulfur coal to the St. Clair and Monroe plants.
After another ship left the locks, we decided to head down the road from them and found a pretty neat spot for boatwatching. The channel seems like it is only about 40 or so feet from the shore so the boats appear pretty close.
A closeup shot of the superstructure.
As she heads on to other places.
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