Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: monroe

"Monroe March 23 1958 Pittsburg Steamship Co. ship at winter berths Saturday" [Lots of good information in the [flickr] comments. Thanks, all.] Six ships in last week's photo , not five.... The ships : Unknown, Unknown, A.H. Ferbert, Governor Miller, Unknown, and John Hulst. (If you've reasonable guesses at the Unknown ships, please share. Thanks.) Winter layup's been a "feature" of Great Lakes shipping for as long as the lakes have hosted large ships. It's generally less uneconomical to park the ships than to keep the harbors ice-free, so most of the boats take to port from mid-January to late March. This photograph's less sharp than most in the set, and I've cropped a lot of "dead air" from the photograph. Borucki's Lakers

"March 23 1958 Sterns of freighters at Monroe Harbor Monroe Michigan Saturday" The nearest ship is John Hulst, and the fourth is A.H. Ferbert; the second seems not to be labelled, and I can't read the names on the others (both names are quite long). There are six ships in the harbor (see the next photo ), but only five seem to be visible here. John Hulst was Vice President of the Steel Corporation when his namesake was built in 1938; the ship hauled ore on the Lakes for 40 years, and was scrapped in 1986. =========== Had a short chat with Rick Borucki on Friday. He tells me his father labelled all his photographs with date/description/location, which Rick finds as amazing as I do. This is, apparently, just a small portion of the original collection of Lakers photographs. Borucki's Lakers

"Sunday Jan 16, 1949 Steel trust steamer Ben Fairless docked at Monroe, Mich basin for winter. Monroe Mich" Between Governor Miller & Sewell Avery. Named for United States Steel president Benjamin Fairless. One of the Steel Corp's "Supers" built in 1942; Fairless was scrapped in 1988. Sewell Avery, by the way, is the sunken hull serving as a dock near Algoma Steel in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. You've perhaps seen it on a locks tour. Borucki's Lakers