Life

hub-logo-white

middle-header-life2

MVSaginaw UnloadSelf 27Dec22
Materials handling on the Great Lakes has come a long way
since men with wheelbarrows unloaded grain from schooners.
Wheat from the self-discharging MV Saginaw pours into the
Great Lakes terminal elevator in Owen Sound Tuesday, Dec. 27.

 


A fresh load of wheat steamed into Owen Sound overnight as the MV Saginaw arrived after a trip from Thunder Bay that began Christmas Day.

Motor Vessel Saginaw was launched in 1953 as the John J. Boland at the Manitowoc shipyards in Wisconsin. It was one of the only three self-discharging vessels constructed on the Great Lakes in the entire 1950s.

Originally designed as a stone carrier, it was taken over by Lower Lakes Towing in 1999, renamed MV Saginaw, and currently carries wheat, salt, coal, aggregates, or stone.

The Saginaw is a typical Lower Lakes lock-sized boat at 623 feet long with a 72 foot beam, and a depth of 36 feet. Its original steam turbine engine was replaced by a modern deisel powerplant, paired with a new controlled-pitch propellor, in 2007.

 

MVSaginaw OSHarbour 27Dec22
Grey is the pallete as MV Saginaw unloads wheat Tuesday, Dec. 27, in Owen Sound.
A closer look brings out some cheer.
 MVSaginaw Stern 27Dec22

 

HarbourWalkway sign winternogo 27Dec22 Care is needed
along the harbour
walls as the walkways
are not maintained in
winter months.

 

 

HarbourWalkway MVSaginaw 27Dec22
 Winter sets in at the Owen Sound harbour Tuesday, Dec. 23.

 

 

- by Hub staff
David Galway


 

 

Hub-Bottom-Tagline

CopyRight ©2015, ©2016, ©2017 of Hub Content
is held by content creators