Before I get started on the pictures, I wanted to let all of you know that I found a great link to a tracking service. It's found at Boatnerd.com. I have the link to the right in my favorite links list. Once you go to their website click on the map and it will show you where all the ships are at the present moment and if you roll over one of them it will tell you all about the ship and it's current destination.
First off, I got some better pictures of the James L. Kuber. The ones I took previously, the ship half-burried in fog. These are just on an overcast day.
Once again, the Kuber is 807 feet long, 70 feet at the beam, 28,560 tons of capacity, and a capacity per foot of draft of 1,272 tons. In some records it is also referred to as the Victory.
The Pathfinder was in port making a delivery of limestone (we think) at the same time as the Kuber.
Pathfinder (a.k.a. Dorothy Ann) is 699 feet in length, has a beam of 70 feet, can carry 23,800 tons per trip, and it takes 1,344 tons to add one foot of draft to the ships hull.
I caught a crew member passing on top near the conveyor arm.
Conveyor arm depositing it's load.
This is the reason we thought it was limestone they were delivering.
I learn something new everytime I go out to the docks it seems. I ran across this gentleman as I was walking under the bridge. He is a Machinist who works on the railroad cars. His job is to make sure the shoots of the cars open properly to dump their loads into the ore shoots on the dock which then are directed into the ships. He graciously answered my questions about his job and gave me a little extra insight into what it takes to keep this whole operation running.
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