"Get my good side" The Wilfred Sykes First Duluth Arrival this season! Bringing limestone.

Ironically, she actually arrived for the 2nd time this season this early morning!

Making their 1st Duluth arrival, only arrival so far this season, with a cargo of limestone for the Graymont dock in Superior. They arrived 7/11/2022 16:02:00, unfortunately with dreary weather conditions. They arrived at the Graymont dock 17:03:00, spent the next 6.6 hours discharging the stone.
They departed Graymont 23:41:00 and sailed up the St Louis River to the Hallett 5 dock to load Blast Furnace Trim. Arrived at Hallett 7/12/2022 0:53:00. 25.6 hours later, 7/13/2022 2:27:00 they departed Hallett, heading down the river to the Duluth Canal. They departed Duluth 03:24 after spending a total of 35.4 hours in Port.
Info From Boatnerd.com"

Built by American Shipbuilding Co., Lorain, OH in 1949 for Inland Steel Co., the streamlined bulk freighter Wilfred Sykes was the first new American-built Great Lakes vessel constructed after World War II. At the time of her launch, she was the largest vessel on the Great Lakes. The Sykes is powered by 2 steam turbine engines producing a combined 7,700 horsepower driving an 18 1/2 foot diameter four-blade propeller giving her a speed of up to 16 mph. Being the first steamship built to burn "bunker C" heavy oil for fuel instead of coal, her fuel tanks can hold 165,000 gallons giving her a cruising range of 4,500 miles. She is also equipped with a bow thruster.
Her 18 hatches feed into 6 compartments where she can carry 20,150 tons at maximum Seaway draft of 26 feet and is capable of carrying 21,500 tons at her maximum mid-summer draft of 26 feet 11 inches. The Sykes was the first Great Lakes vessel built with a 70-foot beam and was also the first laker built capable of carrying in excess of 20,000 tons. She set iron ore cargo records during her first three seasons of operations (1950, 51, & 52). At the time of her design, Inland Steel determined that the needs of the iron ore trade dictated that this vessel be the largest and fastest that the yards were capable of building and still be able to pass through the existing locks at Sault Ste. Marie. Her hatches are 44 feet wide, 11 feet long, and spaced on 24-foot centers. The one-piece hatch covers are moved by a 25 hp. electric motor driven tracked hatch crane which is equipped with 2 lifting hooks powered by a separate 10 hp. motor.
Ship Particulars
Length 678' 00" (206.66m)
Beam 70' 00" (21.34m)
Depth 37' 00" (11.28m)
Midsummer Draft 26' 11" (8.2m)
Unloading Boom Conveyor Length 250' (76.2m)
Capacity 21,500 tons
Engine Power 7,700 shp steam turbine

Who was Wilfred Sykes? From the New York Times: May 04, 1964

CHICAGO, May 3 (UPI)—Wilfred Sykes, former president of the Inland Steel Company, died yesterday in San Francisco at the age of 80. His death was announced by Inland's office here.

Mr. Sykes, long a. Chicago civic leader, had been president of the Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry and of the Glenwood School for Boys.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Matilda St. George Sykes, and a son, Reginald B. Sykes, an Inland executive.

Mr. Sykes, a native of Palmerston, New Zealand, attended college in Melbourne, Australia, and became an engineer for a German electrical company in that country in 1901. He also was with the same concern in Berlin for two years before coming to the United States and joining the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company in 1909.
Mr. Sykes then was with the Steel and Tube Company of America for two years before joining Inland Steel in 1923. He served as Inland's president from 1941 to 1949, when he became chairman of the executive committee. He was made an honorary director in 1954.

A fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Mr. Sykes also was a member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, the American Iron and Steel Institute and the American Society of Naval Engineers.

He had received awards from technical groups and one from the University of Missouri. While a vice president of the National Association of Manufacturers, Mr. Sykes headed a committee to deal with postWorld War II problems.

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