Read Below for what they did this season!
Pictures of the event at https://www.facebook.com/DuluthShipPhotography
Anyone have a guess on just how many ships visited Duluth this season?
About this visit!
Arriving Duluth for the 3rd and final time this season January 01, 2025
at 15:16 in the afternoon The 2nd arrival for the 1st day of the new year! the Oberstar beat them into Duluth by 1/2 hour. Arriving with no cargo in the holds, heading up river to SMET to load Petroleum Coke. They arrived at SMET at 16:26 and began loading the product. 8.9 hours later, January 2 at 01:09 they finished loading the Petcoke, and departed the dock. They sailed out of Duluth at 02:09 after being in Port for 10.9 hours, heading to Bath ON to deliver the product.
What they did this season:
Arrived Duluth 3 times, 1 time for fuel, 1 time with salt, 1 time for Petroleum Coke.
Spent 70.3 hours in port
Arrived Superior 3 times, each time BN for Iron Ore
Spent 39.5 hours in Port
Arrived Two Harbors 3 times, Each time for Iron Ore at TH CN
Spent 36 hours in Port
Delivered to Hamilton ON 6 times
Delivered to Bath ON 1 time
Departed light 2 times
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Algoma Compass, formerly Roger M. Kyes and Adam E. Cornelius, is a self-unloading bulk carrier built in Toledo, Ohio in 1973 for the American Steamship Company. The bulk carrier carried bulk cargoes throughout the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway. The vessel has earned a reputation as a "hard luck" ship, experiencing mechanical failures and groundings. In 2018, the ship was acquired by Algoma Central and put in service as Algoma Compass.
Design and description
Then known as Adam E. Cornelius in the Detroit River in 2008
A self-discharging bulk carrier, Algoma Compass initially measured 15,674 gross register tons (GRT) and 28,631 tons deadweight (DWT).[1] The ship was later remeasured, though the sources disagree on the totals, at 18,639 gross tonnage (GT)[2] or 29,200 GT at midsummer draught.[3] The deadweight tonnage increased to 29,127.[4] The ship is 207.3 m (680 ft 1 in) long overall and 202.6 m (664 ft 8 in) between perpendiculars with a beam of 23.8 m (78 ft 1 in).[1] The vessel has a midsummer draught of 8.706 m (28 ft 6+3⁄4 in).[3]
Algoma Compass is powered by two 2,600 kW (3,500 hp) General Motors Electro Motive Division (EMD) type 20-645-E78 two-stroke cycle, single acting V-20 cylinder diesel engines through single reduction gears to a single controllable pitch propeller turning one propeller. The vessel is also equipped with 750 kW (1,000 hp) stern and bow thrusters.[3][5] Sources disagree on the vessel's maximum speed, quoting 16.1 knots (29.8 km/h; 18.5 mph)[5] and 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph).[1]
The bulk carrier has four holds and 20 hatches serviced by a single belt gravity system feeding a stern-mounted incline belt elevator. They supply a 79 metres (260 ft) boom capable of luffing 18 degrees and operating 90 degrees to either port or stern.[5][4] Algoma Compass has a discharge rate of 5,900 metric tons (5,800 long tons; 6,500 short tons) per hour.[4]
Construction and career
The ship was ordered from the American Shipbuilding Company of Toledo, Ohio with the yard number 200. The ship was launched on March 28, 1973, named Roger M. Kyes.[1] The vessel was named after Roger M. Kyes, a former executive with General Motors and former United States Deputy Secretary of Defense, who served from 1969–1970 as the chairman and chief executive officer of the American Steamship Company. The ship was sponsored by his wife and marked the first ship to be constructed in Toledo since 1959.[5] Roger M. Kyes was completed on August 1, 1973, registered in Wilmington, Delaware for the American Steamship Company and placed in service, transporting bulk cargoes of items such as iron ore pellets throughout the Great Lakes and St. Lawerence Seaway.[1][3][a]
She was laid up in Toledo, Ohio in 2012–2014 and in Huron, Ohio in 2015.[7] In late 2017 she was sold to the Algoma Central Corp., registered in St. Catharines, Ontario and renamed Algoma Compass in 2018.[4][8] She returned to service in May 2018 after being laid up for nearly two-and-a-half years.[5] In Algoma service, the ship primarily services the road salt and construction material markets.[8]