Showing posts with label algoma transfer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label algoma transfer. Show all posts
Monday, November 25, 2013
Ghost Ships
I did some other messing around in Lightroom tonight. I've heard some news in the boatnerd community lately. And it's not good in my opinion.
The first bit of news that I heard was that the St Marys Challenger would be converted into a barge. If you will recall, she was the oldest self powered freighter on the Great Lakes (if not the world). At 107 years old, she was something special and would attract a following anywhere. As a barge, she wont be so special anymore. So I decided to make her into a ghost ship with some messing around in Lightroom.
Then I heard that Algoma Quebecois was being towed to the scrapyard. She's not quite as old as St Marys Challenger but I think she was one of the older Canadian built vessels on the Lakes. She's a fairly beautiful boat at any rate. Soon she will be a ghost ship (even more so than the Challenger).
I haven't heard anything about Algoma Transfer (or Frankenship as I call her) in a long time. Based on the other news above, I do not think her fate is much better.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
The Algoma Transfer at the Soo Locks
I think one of the cooler things that can happen when I'm at the Soo Locks is if I see a ship that I have seen elsewhere. Given that I spend a good deal of time on the Detroit River, it is starting to get pretty likely that I will see a ship that I've seen on the Detroit River at one time or another. Seeing this ship was pretty cool because it has such a cool history.
Here she is preparing to enter the MacArthur lock. The Poe lock was busy with the McCarthy and the Algoma Transfer is small enough to fit in the MacArthur lock. It would be nice if someone would get off their behind and start working on the upgrade of the Davis and Sabin locks.
The Algoma Transfer gets a little closer. You can kind of see the International Bridge behind her.
She is almost in the lock.
A little closer now.
I decided to take a shot of the depth marker, so you could get an idea of just how much water is moved.
The Algoma Transfer is in pace and the water is starting to go down in order for ships to enter Lake Huron.
The water is almost emptied.
The Algoma Transfer as she pulls out of the lock.
She followed the McCarthy pretty closely, so here she is as she passes Sault Ste. Marie.
As you can see, it started to rain.
A closeup of the pilot house.
A nice shot of her length.
Heading somewhere to the south. Unfortunately, there was a big splotch of rain on my lens, so the front looks a little icky.
Friday, August 5, 2011
The Algoma Transfer
As I said in one of my posts last night, I was going to go to the Arboretum but I looked on boatnerd and saw that a ship was going to come down the Detroit River. Normally, I wouldn't go down to Belle Isle for one ship but I looked up the history of this ship and was intrigued by it. Plus it's been a while since I was down there.
So why would I find this particular ship intriguing, you ask? I mean, it looks pretty much like any freighter that you would find plying the Lakes, right?
Well it turns out that this ship is actually the combination of two ships. The front of the ship used to be the Hamilton Transfer and the back was the Canadian Explorer. In essence the Algoma Transfer is the history of five ships.
I'll start with the current chapter first. The Algoma Transfer started the current chapter as the Canadian Transfer as that was the combination of the names of the two ships at the time. She was built at Port Weller Dry Docks in 1998. She was recommissioned in August of that year.
She is capable of speeds up to 18 miles per hour and has a 6,100 horsepower diesel engine. She is capable of carrying 16,000 tons of cargo and is 650 feet long.
As I said, she has a long history. Most ships only have the history of one ship, she has two.
The Hamilton Transfer started life as J.H. Hilman built by the Great Lakes Engineering Works in Ashtabula, OH in 1943. She was a Maritimer built for the U.S. Maritime Commission in World War II. She was run by the Great Lakes Steamship company until she was sold to Northwestern Mutual in 1957.
In 1974, she was sold and renamed the Crispin Olgebay.
In 1981, she was laid up in Toledo due to the economic slowdown and she was destined for the scrap heap. She briefly came in service in 1989 until 1991 and then she was laid up again. She was then sold again in 1995 and converted to a barge.
The stern section started as the Cabot which was a coastal packet freighter. She was built in 1965 by the Davie Shipbuilding Company in Lauzon Quebec. In 1966, she rolled over on her side and was repaired and returned to service in 1967.
The Cabot was laid up in 1982 as the package business became more containerized. She was then combined with another ship to become the Canadian Explorer.
There more history of that other ship but it is getting pretty convoluted.
I think they should have named her Frankenship as she seems like the combination of so many dead ships.
This year, the ships of Upper Lakes were sold to Algoma and she was renamed Algoma Transfer. So there you have it.
Well it turns out that this ship is actually the combination of two ships. The front of the ship used to be the Hamilton Transfer and the back was the Canadian Explorer. In essence the Algoma Transfer is the history of five ships.
I'll start with the current chapter first. The Algoma Transfer started the current chapter as the Canadian Transfer as that was the combination of the names of the two ships at the time. She was built at Port Weller Dry Docks in 1998. She was recommissioned in August of that year.
She is capable of speeds up to 18 miles per hour and has a 6,100 horsepower diesel engine. She is capable of carrying 16,000 tons of cargo and is 650 feet long.
As I said, she has a long history. Most ships only have the history of one ship, she has two.
The Hamilton Transfer started life as J.H. Hilman built by the Great Lakes Engineering Works in Ashtabula, OH in 1943. She was a Maritimer built for the U.S. Maritime Commission in World War II. She was run by the Great Lakes Steamship company until she was sold to Northwestern Mutual in 1957.
In 1974, she was sold and renamed the Crispin Olgebay.
In 1981, she was laid up in Toledo due to the economic slowdown and she was destined for the scrap heap. She briefly came in service in 1989 until 1991 and then she was laid up again. She was then sold again in 1995 and converted to a barge.
The stern section started as the Cabot which was a coastal packet freighter. She was built in 1965 by the Davie Shipbuilding Company in Lauzon Quebec. In 1966, she rolled over on her side and was repaired and returned to service in 1967.
The Cabot was laid up in 1982 as the package business became more containerized. She was then combined with another ship to become the Canadian Explorer.
There more history of that other ship but it is getting pretty convoluted.
I think they should have named her Frankenship as she seems like the combination of so many dead ships.
This year, the ships of Upper Lakes were sold to Algoma and she was renamed Algoma Transfer. So there you have it.
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