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WHALEBACK Great Lake freighter
The John Ericsson was
a whaleback Great Lakes freighter designed by
Captain A. McDougall and built in Superior,
Wisconsin in 1896. She was designed to carry
freight on the rough waters of the Great Lakes. Her
hull looks somewhat like a submarine and was
designed so that the decks would be awash in rough
seas.
This whaleback Great
Lakes ship was 396' long with a 48' beam. Displaced
3200 tons, she was a good freight hauler but not
popular with all skippers because it was difficult
to handle her in the wind.
Whaleback John Ericsson served
for 67 years, carrying iron ore and then
grain from the Lakehead to Sarnia. When she retired
in 1963, she was the penultimate whaleback ship and the
only one with bridge forward. Upper Lakes Shipping
offered John Ericsson as a museum ship to the City
of Hamilton. She was towed to a berth in
Confederation Park arriving on June 7th, 1966. The
necessary funding was not forthcoming and she was
eventually scrapped in 1967-68.
Between 1888 and 1898, the shipyards at the western
end of Lake Superior built 39 of a unique kind of
steamer featuring whaleback design in which the hull
curved inwards from the water line to reduce the
wave resistance of the hull. The final whaleback,
the Meteor, is preserved as a museum ship in
Superior, Wisconsin.
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Learn more
about whaleback freighter here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaleback
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