Ojibway IV

by Michiale Schneider

Title

Ojibway IV

Artist

Michiale Schneider

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Photograph - Photography

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This classic Great Lakes bulk carrier was built by the Defoe Shipbuilding Company in Bay City, Michigan, and entered service on September 24, 1952. The vessel was built along the same basic plans used for building U.S. Steel's "Super", or AA, class of vessel (Leon Fraser and others) in 1942.

The vessel was powered by a high pressure and a low pressure steam turbine engine each rated at 2,200 s.h.p., giving her a speed under full load of between 13.5 and 14 m.p.h. The engines were built by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation in 1941 having been originally installed aboard the ocean vessel Alcoa Protector, which was sunk by the Japanese in late 1943. The engines were recovered from the wreck several years later to be used in this vessel. The vessel is fitted with oil-fired, water-tube boilers to produce steam, and the vessel has been an oil burner for her entire career on the Lakes.

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January 30th, 2016

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