20198738HDR30.JPG-SharpenAI-Focus Thunder Bay Harbour - "Ojibway"
A passage through the Ice to get to the Grain Elevators.
Length 642' 03" (195.76m)
Beam 67' 00" (20.42m)
Depth 35' 00" (10.67m)
Capacity (mid-summer) 20,668 tons (21,000 mt)
Power (diesel) 4,100 b.h.p.(3,015 kW)
Displacement (light) 7,011 tons (7,124 mt)
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.
It was announced in April 2022 that Ojibway was to be retired and sold for scrapping. She departed winter layup at Sorel, QC, on April 3, 2022, bound for the Marine Recycling Corp.
20198738HDR30.JPG-SharpenAI-Focus Thunder Bay Harbour - "Ojibway"
A passage through the Ice to get to the Grain Elevators.
Length 642' 03" (195.76m)
Beam 67' 00" (20.42m)
Depth 35' 00" (10.67m)
Capacity (mid-summer) 20,668 tons (21,000 mt)
Power (diesel) 4,100 b.h.p.(3,015 kW)
Displacement (light) 7,011 tons (7,124 mt)
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.
It was announced in April 2022 that Ojibway was to be retired and sold for scrapping. She departed winter layup at Sorel, QC, on April 3, 2022, bound for the Marine Recycling Corp.