Lucky 13! Waking Up Duluth with a Master Salute! the Arthur M Anderson July 31,2022

Arriving Duluth for the 13th time this season. Pulling into the Pier at 06:27 AM this Sunday morning with a cargo of Eastern Coal for the Graymont Superior Dock.
I decided to go with the ride along on this one since the pier was mostly devoid of tourists, a lot easier to video and ride without the people!
After they discharge the coal they will be heading to the Hallett 5 dock to load Blast furnace trim.
Info on the Anderson via Boatnerd.com

One of the better-known lakers is the Arthur M. Anderson. Renowned for her role involving the loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald on Nov. 10, 1975, the Arthur M. Anderson was the last vessel to have had visual, radio and radar contact with the Edmund Fitzgerald. Built by the American Shipbuilding Co., Lorain, OH, as hull #868, the Anderson was launched Feb. 16, 1952 for the Pittsburgh Steamship Div., U.S. Steel Corp., in Cleveland, OH, by Mrs. Anderson in honor of her husband. Arthur Marvin Anderson was a director of the United States Steel Corp., a member of its finance committee and vice chairman of the J. P. Morgan and Co. at the time of the launch.

In the summer of 1950, Pittsburgh Steamship had announced the building of three new vessels following the trend set by other Great Lakes shipping companies in upgrading their fleets in the early 1950s. Given the fleet designation AAA class, the Arthur M. Anderson was the second of the three identical sisterships to enter service for the fleet in 1952. The other two were Philip R. Clarke, built in 1951 at American Shipbuilding Co., entering service in May 1952 and Cason J. Callaway, built in 1952 at Great Lakes Engineering Works, River Rouge, MI, and entering service in September 1952. The three bulkers have all remained in service, have stayed with the same fleet and have retained their original christened names throughout their careers. A fourth identical sister, William Clay Ford (1) was launched in 1953 for the Ford Motor Co., Dearborn, MI, and was scrapped at Port Maitland, ON in 1987. Of note, the AAA designation was an internal U.S. Steel accounting code used for fleet vessel classification by differentiating their ships according to size thus determining pay scales for shipboard personnel. Basically the larger and more powerful the vessel, the more the officers were paid. Arthur M. Anderson, Cason J. Callaway, and Philip R. Clarke, as well as the self-unloader John G. Munson, all fit the similar criteria, thus the common accounting code designation. The four identical sister ships are loosely classed together four 4 other bulkers built in the early 1950s of nearly the same design, size and power, these being the Edward B. Greene (1952), J.L. Mauthe (1952), Reserve (1952) and Armco (1953). The shipping industry generally classified these eight bulkers as the Pittsburgh class.

Arthur M. Anderson and her sister ships were never the largest, but relative to their size, were considered among the most powerful bulkers built for the Great Lakes at the time. The design was similar to, but an expanded and modified version of the Maritime class built during World War II, examples being Cuyahoga, Manistee and Mississagi. The hull streamlining introduced with the war builds was further refined and the bows and sterns modified based on extensive model testing. Water flow to the propeller was improved by an asymmetrically designed hull by the stern. The rudder was offset slightly to function more efficiently in the flow of water back from the prop. Also included in the vessels' construction was the use of alternating current electrical power and on-board sewage treatment capabilities, both firsts for the Pittsburgh fleet. The addition of the Anderson, Callaway and Clarke gave the Pittsburgh Steamship fleet a total of 64 steamers at the end of the 1952 season.

As completed, Arthur M. Anderson's overall dimensions were 647' 00" loa x 70' 00" beam x 36' 00" depth with a capacity of 21,000 tons dwt at a mid-summer draft of 26' 02". The cargo was contained in three holds serviced by 19 hatches (6-7-6 configuration). After the St. Lawrence Seaway opened in 1959, she could carry 20,800 tons at the early Seaway draft of 26' 00.” Power was and still is supplied by a 7,700 s.h.p. cross-compound steam turbine engine (steam expanded through two turbines) built by Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. Ltd., Pittsburgh, PA, with two heavy-fuel oil fired Foster-Wheeler water tube boilers providing the steam; the power then transmitted to the single controllable pitch propeller through double reductions gears driving the bulker at a speed of 16 m.p.h. The beam (width)

Ship Particulars
Length 767' 00" (233.78m)
Beam 70' 00" (21.34m)
Depth 36' 00" (10.97m)
Midsummer Draft 27' 00" (8.23m)
Unloading Boom Conveyor Length 262' (79.86m)
Capacity 25,300 tons
Engine Power 7,700 shp steam turbine

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