NOTE: For the month of March 2024, I will be uploading footage I recorded during the 2023 shipping season but haven't previously posted. Early in the shipping season, I made the decision to reserve some video clips so we would all have something to enjoy during the off-season while we wait for ships to return to action. If you haven't seen it already, I recently posted my video showing the highlights of the 2023 shipping season. It can be viewed here: • 35 Great Lakes Freight...
Here is the American Integrity arriving in Duluth, Minnesota just before 3am on the November 27, 2023. She was arriving empty and would first make a stop for fuel at the Cenovus dock before moving over the Canadian National dock to load taconite pellets. She would depart loaded on the morning of November 29, bound for Conneaut, Ohio.
The American Integrity withheld the customary exchange of salutes with the Aerial Lift Bridge given the late hour of her arrival. This is not unusual, though captains can (and sometimes do) salute at any hour of their choosing. But with most of the city asleep and very few people aware of her arrival (other than a single photographer on the pier), it made sense to let people enjoy their slumber. There would be plenty more opportunities in the future to greet Duluth with a loud salute!
The 1000-foot American Integrity was launched in 1978 as the Lewis Wilson Foy. She was renamed the Oglebay Norton in 1991 when she was sold to the company of the same, then finally renamed the American Integrity in 2006 when she was sold to the American Steamship Company. According to the Boatnerd website, she is "powered by 4 GM Electro-Motive Division 20-645-E7 V-20 cylinder two stroke cycle, single acting 3,600 b.h.p diesel engines burning marine diesel oil. The power is fed through Falk single reduction gears to 2 controllable-pitch propellers giving the vessel a service speed of 18.4 m.p.h. She is equipped with both bow and stern thrusters. The vessel's 37 hatches feed into 7 holds where she is capable of carrying 78,850 tons at her mid summer draft of 34' 00". Her self unloading system feeds a stern mounted 250' discharge boom that can be swung 92 degrees to port or starboard and unload at a rate of up to 8,930 tons (10,000 net tons) per hour."
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