Frozen Anchor! The Presque Isle Arriving Duluth to free their Anchor! December 12, 2021. Season info

The Presque Isle arriving Duluth 12/12/2021 9:29:00 AM for their 9th and final time this season!
Arriving for service, not for product. Arriving with the Starboard anchor stuck with a chain twist in its hold. They headed up to the CN Gravity chute dock to get the anchor loose and the un-twist, I think.
It seemed to be a pretty efficient fix, they will be departed in 5 hours! Heading back out into the lake to go on the hook and wait for the CN Two Harbors dock to load iron ore.
Season Totals:

Duluth Visits: 9, Time spend it Port 176.7 hours, Time Loading 98.8, Time unloading 34.4 hours.

Two Harbors Visits: 32, Time spent in Port 621.6 hours, Time Loading 483.1 hours.

Delivered to Gary Indiana 30 times
Delivered to Nanticoke ON 7 times
Departed Duluth light 4 times, heading to Two Harbors to load ore.

Now you have the season info for the P.I!
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BOW SECTIONS
Year Built: 1972
Builder: DeFoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City, Michigan
CARGO SECTION
Year Built: 1973
Builder: Erie Marine, Erie, Pennsylvania [Litton Industries

The Presque Isle was constructed as a self-unloading integrated tug/barge unit for Litton Great Lakes Corporation. The tug/barge unit was intended to operate as part of Litton’s Wilson Transit Company, but Litton sold Wilson before the barge was completed. The tugboat was constructed by Halter Marine of New Orleans, Louisiana. The barge was constructed by two different shipyards on the Great Lakes. The bow portion of Presque Isle was built by DeFoe Shipbuilding in Bay City, Michigan, being towed to Erie, Pennsylvania by the tugs Laurence C. Turner and Maryland in October 1972. The cargo section and notch were being built by Litton Industries’ Erie Marine Shipyard where the 1,000-Footer Stewart J. Cort was built the year before. The bow section was welded to the cargo section in early 1973. The tug/barge Presque Isle was designed as an integrated tug/barge unit, with the tug fitting into a specially-designed notch where it would rigidly lock in, and the pair would sail as one vessel. It was designed with intentions to take advantage of the U.S. Coast Guard’s tug/barge manning requirements, but since the tug was not deemed seaworthy on its own, it had to operate with an full-size crew. The pair was built at a cost of about $35 Million under Title XI of the Merchant Marine Act of 1970.

Together, the tug/barge Presque Isle became the Great Lakes’ second 1,000-Footer.

Her self-unloading equipment consists of a dual hold belt system leading to twin aft-located rotary elevators that feed a 250′ deck-mounted boom.

Modifications
Forward forecastle reinforced.
General Stats
Length Overall [Combined Tug & Barge]: 1,000′

Length Overall [Barge]: 974’06”

Breadth: 104’07”

Depth: 46’06”

Loaded Draft: 28’07”

Capacity: 57,500 Tons

Vessel Type: Rotary-Bucket Elevator Self-Unloader; Barge

Self-Unloading Boom Length: Aft-Mounted; 250′

Number of Cargo Holds: 5 [Hatch-Hold Arrangement: 6-5-5-5-6]

Number of Hatches: 27 [Dimensions: 71’x20′]

Primary Operations: Ore, Coal, Stone Trades

Compiled By Brendan Falkowski

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