Great Lakes Shipping History

#101

The Michipicoten is expected to undergo permanent repairs ...

Excellent. She's not gonna be scrapped.

#102

Foggy wrote: ↑Thu Jun 20, 2024 10:08 am
The Michipicoten is expected to undergo permanent repairs ...
Excellent. She's not gonna be scrapped.

Lower Lakes only has 5 self-unloaders (Candian-flagged), and with the Cuyahoga laid up and possibly done for, scrapping another one would not be helpful to capacity.

#103

Still, that's an old ship and will probably crack somewhere else in the not-too-distant future. I know they've inspected her, but all that stuff above about how steel can ripen

and get brittle after so many years of flexing is still true. It will be interesting to follow up on her.

#104

The thread needs some thematic music.

RTH10260 · #105

#106

I like that narrator. Good information, no frills. I hope they can fix her up and get her back in service.

RTH10260 · #107

RTH10260 · #108