Thank you for that insight! BTW, that looks like a strange fore-aft attitude — even for an (apparently) unladen wooden ship. Must have been heavy stuff in that aft engine room...
19 posted on 12/17/2012 11:49:13 AM PST by TXnMA
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That's a pretty typical example of a Lake Freighter configuration. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the same type. Basically they're bulk carriers--grain, iron ore, gravel, whatever.
20 posted on 12/17/2012 12:16:46 PM PST by Bubba Ho-Tep
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