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American Integrity-Departs Duluth, Minnesota; United States of America
The view is looking south that is the Pier B Resort with its Silo's Restaurant. That area used to be a cement plant built in 1917.
At the southeast corner of the hotel alongside the bay is an outdoor swimming pool and sun deck. Note the bridge spanning the end of the east slip. You can see a white yacht docked there. That bridge slides towards the hotel to open allowing power and sail yachts to enter the slip.
Please see:
http://zenithcity.com/archive/parks-landmarks/huron-portland-cement-terminal/
Those four Silo's are all that is left of the cement plant. Prior to the cement plant this entire area was two north south rows of very high piled coal with slips on both sides and four very tall bridge cranes running on railroad tracks on each slip.
Lets pretend that you slip behind the wheel of that white window van parked at the hotel main entrance. Drive north, as you pass the hotel sign, jog to the left and continue driving north. When you get almost to Railroad Street note the two metal contraptions sitting on both sides of the entry.
In that era cement was lifted in small bulk carriers. These gadgets were used to unload the cement. Plunging that pointed bottom gadget into the load when the gadget begins rising a door shuts at the bottom trapping the cement. When they wish to unload it a trip lever caused that bottom door to open and dump the cement.
Built in Duluth ex USCG # 404 cutter Sundew is now Jeff Foster's yacht. Jeff owns Jeff Foster trucking and is a part owner of the Pier B Resort. After Maria Jeff sent semi tractors with both package vans and tanker trailers to Puerto Rico.
The original URL with a length of 301 characters resulted in the following TinyURL which has a length of 28 characters.
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Launched on 8 February 1944 and commissioned on 24 August 1944. The original cost for the hull and machinery was $861,589. Sundew is one of 39 original 180-foot (55 m) seagoing buoy tenders built between 1942-1944. All but one of the original tenders, USCGC Ironwood, were built in Duluth.
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During WW II these tenders went off-shore around the world via the St. Lawrence Seaway. Now we all know that the present St. Lawrence Seaway opened in 1959. Prior to that there were a series of relatively smaller locks between Lakes Ontario and Erie - the Welland Canal - and more small locks on the St. Lawrence River that allowed cargo vessels, known as Canalers, the size of these buoy tenders; to transit from the sea to Duluth.
20180924-Piers1-American-Integrity-+69F.jpg
Departs the 300 ft wide Duluth Entry Ship Canal.
Note the open side port - known on the Great Lakes as gangways - on the port side hull aft beneath the ship's name. There is a man standing there wearing khaki's - possibly a Marine Engineer?
With new laws passed since 9/11 Home Land Security has locked down most USA ship's harbors. This likely is the closest the public can get to any operating ship anywhere in the USA?
To access any and all harbor facilities requires a Home Land Security Picture Credential. There are different color and size credentials for vessel crews and those who work the harbor ashore. No credential no entry. I only tried once. Since then if I run across a sign that says keep out I do.
Last summer I drove south out of Duluth on US Highway 53 through Superior to the Allouez Wisconsin Taconite Loading dock. Then I drove the Superior Wisconsin waterfront until it ended in Billings Park. I continued on through Billings Park, now home to waterfront multi-acre walled estates with wide power gates and mansions.
The next day my sister Peggy came along with me and we revisited the Duluth docks we grew up on. Peggy is more daring/pushy than me? At the CN dock we drove in and there were no keep out signs. But when we reached a vehicle garage and parking lot I was going to stop but ... well we did not stop. We drove out on the taconite pier, piles of taconite pellets everywhere including on the ground, treacherous footing. We saw a Security golf cart parked in front of an office building but no one was there so we drove by and out on the dock.
In my rear view mirror I saw a uniformed security guard run out of the building so I turned around and drove to meet him. First thing he said "You can't be here!"
Peggy and I got out and we talked. Turns out he like us grew up on these docks. His Dad worked on the ore docks for DM&IR and often took his son to work. He was 56 and planned to retire at 62. He tried sailing but did not like it.
DM&IR trained him as a dock maintenance mechanic. He said that he was just 'holding down the fort since there was no one else there' that day. He wore just a security officer shirt. He and his wife plan to buy a motor home and go see all the places they want to visit. Peggy and I grew up walking these mile long docks to access the vessel where our father was an engineer and in the second half of his career Chief Engineer.
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Greg Hayden
Vista, CA USA
American Integrity-Departs Duluth, Minnesota; United States of America
The view is looking south that is the Pier B Resort with its Silo's Restaurant. That area used to be a cement plant built in 1917.
At the southeast corner of the hotel alongside the bay is an outdoor swimming pool and sun deck. Note the bridge spanning the end of the east slip. You can see a white yacht docked there. That bridge slides towards the hotel to open allowing power and sail yachts to enter the slip.
Please see:
http://zenithcity.com/archive/parks-landmarks/huron-portland-cement-terminal/
Those four Silo's are all that is left of the cement plant. Prior to the cement plant this entire area was two north south rows of very high piled coal with slips on both sides and four very tall bridge cranes running on railroad tracks on each slip.
Lets pretend that you slip behind the wheel of that white window van parked at the hotel main entrance. Drive north, as you pass the hotel sign, jog to the left and continue driving north. When you get almost to Railroad Street note the two metal contraptions sitting on both sides of the entry.
In that era cement was lifted in small bulk carriers. These gadgets were used to unload the cement. Plunging that pointed bottom gadget into the load when the gadget begins rising a door shuts at the bottom trapping the cement. When they wish to unload it a trip lever caused that bottom door to open and dump the cement.
Built in Duluth ex USCG # 404 cutter Sundew is now Jeff Foster's yacht. Jeff owns Jeff Foster trucking and is a part owner of the Pier B Resort. After Maria Jeff sent semi tractors with both package vans and tanker trailers to Puerto Rico.
The original URL with a length of 301 characters resulted in the following TinyURL which has a length of 28 characters.
https://tinyurl.com/yc7o5zfq
Quote
Launched on 8 February 1944 and commissioned on 24 August 1944. The original cost for the hull and machinery was $861,589. Sundew is one of 39 original 180-foot (55 m) seagoing buoy tenders built between 1942-1944. All but one of the original tenders, USCGC Ironwood, were built in Duluth.
Unquote
During WW II these tenders went off-shore around the world via the St. Lawrence Seaway. Now we all know that the present St. Lawrence Seaway opened in 1959. Prior to that there were a series of relatively smaller locks between Lakes Ontario and Erie - the Welland Canal - and more small locks on the St. Lawrence River that allowed cargo vessels, known as Canalers, the size of these buoy tenders; to transit from the sea to Duluth.
20180924-Piers1-American-Integrity-+69F.jpg
Departs the 300 ft wide Duluth Entry Ship Canal.
Note the open side port - known on the Great Lakes as gangways - on the port side hull aft beneath the ship's name. There is a man standing there wearing khaki's - possibly a Marine Engineer?
With new laws passed since 9/11 Home Land Security has locked down most USA ship's harbors. This likely is the closest the public can get to any operating ship anywhere in the USA?
To access any and all harbor facilities requires a Home Land Security Picture Credential. There are different color and size credentials for vessel crews and those who work the harbor ashore. No credential no entry. I only tried once. Since then if I run across a sign that says keep out I do.
Last summer I drove south out of Duluth on US Highway 53 through Superior to the Allouez Wisconsin Taconite Loading dock. Then I drove the Superior Wisconsin waterfront until it ended in Billings Park. I continued on through Billings Park, now home to waterfront multi-acre walled estates with wide power gates and mansions.
The next day my sister Peggy came along with me and we revisited the Duluth docks we grew up on. Peggy is more daring/pushy than me? At the CN dock we drove in and there were no keep out signs. But when we reached a vehicle garage and parking lot I was going to stop but ... well we did not stop. We drove out on the taconite pier, piles of taconite pellets everywhere including on the ground, treacherous footing. We saw a Security golf cart parked in front of an office building but no one was there so we drove by and out on the dock.
In my rear view mirror I saw a uniformed security guard run out of the building so I turned around and drove to meet him. First thing he said "You can't be here!"
Peggy and I got out and we talked. Turns out he like us grew up on these docks. His Dad worked on the ore docks for DM&IR and often took his son to work. He was 56 and planned to retire at 62. He tried sailing but did not like it.
DM&IR trained him as a dock maintenance mechanic. He said that he was just 'holding down the fort since there was no one else there' that day. He wore just a security officer shirt. He and his wife plan to buy a motor home and go see all the places they want to visit. Peggy and I grew up walking these mile long docks to access the vessel where our father was an engineer and in the second half of his career Chief Engineer.
Attached:
20180924-American Integrity-Departs Duluth-1000 Feet LOA, Beam 105 feet, Depth 56 feet.jpg (117.2 KB)
20180924-Piers1-American-Integrity-+69F.jpg (123.7 KB)
Greg Hayden
Vista, CA USA
