American Integrity - Returning at Full Power

Here is the American Integrity seen arriving with the sunrise in Duluth, Minnesota on the morning of July 30, 2022. She was arriving empty and was scheduled to load low-sulfur coal at the Midwest Energy Terminal in Superior, Wisconsin. As the Integrity arrived, several chartered fishing boats were departing for the morning. (Note: The fishing boats weren't as close to the American Integrity as my camera made them appear.) The Integrity would depart in the evening, bound for the power plants at St Clair, Michigan and Monroe, Michigan to deliver her coal.

The last time I captured the American Integrity arrive with sunrise was earlier in the summer. That arrival was somewhat troubled, as the Integrity appeared to be running on only her starboard engines. This time she appeared to operating back at full power (though not at full speed, obviously), bucking the waves in the shipping canal. Unfortunately there was no salute with this arrival, but that's not unexpected with arrivals before 6am.

The 1000-foot American Integrity was launched in 1978 as the Lewis Wilson Foy. She was renamed the Oglebay Norton in 1991 when she was sold to the company of the same, then finally renamed the American Integrity in 2006 when she was sold to the American Steamship Company. According to the Boatnerd website, she is "powered by 4 GM Electro-Motive Division 20-645-E7 V-20 cylinder two stroke cycle, single acting 3,600 b.h.p diesel engines burning marine diesel oil. The power is fed through Falk single reduction gears to 2 controllable-pitch propellers giving the vessel a service speed of 18.4 m.p.h. She is equipped with both bow and stern thrusters. The vessel's 37 hatches feed into 7 holds where she is capable of carrying 78,850 tons at her mid summer draft of 34' 00". Her self unloading system feeds a stern mounted 250' discharge boom that can be swung 92 degrees to port or starboard and unload at a rate of up to 8,930 tons (10,000 net tons) per hour."

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