Pig Boat

In June of 1981, Debbie was kind enough to deliver me back to my summer job assigning freshmen to rooms. We took the long way around, following the south shore of Lake Superior from end to end and doing some other exploring. When our trip brought us to this old ship, I got pretty excited....

This is the last surviving whaleback laker, a tanker named Meteor. She was built as the Frank Rockefeller in 1896; later she was known as South Park before becoming Meteor in 1942. She was an active ship until 1969, and has been functioning as a museum in Superior, Wisconsin, since 1972.

I hear she's deteriorating and may not last much longer. Should that happen I'll miss her.

Taken during a harbor tour out of Duluth, approximately 1990.