This super long ship has two names, Lakes Contender and Ken Boothe, Sr. She belongs to the American Steamship Co. I saw her in Marquette's Upper Harbor port on June 3, 2014. Notice the lack of ice. The icebergs left sometime between June 1st and 3rd and have not been seen again since.
A clear picture of the bilge pump that also shows the two names. Lakes Contender is 845 feet in length, and has a beam of 78 feet. It's Per-Trip Carrying Capacity is 39,766 tons of ore. and it's Capacity per foot of Draft is 1,812 tons.
Addendum: My cousin Dan Liberty told me that this is one of the ships that is actually two ships. One is a steam tug boat style ship and the other is the ore carrier. That's why it has two names. They are linked together and the tug (Ken Boothe, Sr.) is the power source for the larger ship (Lakes Contender). Theoretically, they can separate like the saucer section of the Star Trek Enterprise "D", and the tug could pull another ship while the Lakes Contender stands by.
A close-up of the bow showing the name and the fact that it has not yet loaded due to the fact that it is sitting so high in the water.
The train engine hauls the train cars up onto the dock where they dump the ore pellets into the shoots which fold down to the holds on the ship. The big arm scaffold swings out and around to counter-balance the ship while the load is uneven so that the ship won't capsize. See the above photos of the scaffolding arm.
These are the pellets of Iron Ore that are loaded into the ships holds. I found them on the beach where they had been dredged out of the lake.
They are littering the beach adjacent to the docks where the dredging takes place.
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