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 James R. Barker seen departing Duluth, Minnesota on May 15, 2023. She had just loaded coal at the Midwest Energy Terminal in Superior and was outbound for Lake Superior, with her eventual destination being the power plant at St. Clair, Michigan. We didn't see the Barker doing many coal runs in 2023, as she mostly stuck to hauling taconite (iron ore) pellets for most of the season.
For this departure, we got one of the James R. Barker's trademark master salutes, well over a full minute in duration. The Aerial Lift Bridge does its best to answer back, but very little can beat the power of the Barker's horns in action. Unfortunately I wasn't in the greatest position to capture the entire salute from the Barker, as the last couple of blasts occurred after she had passed my position. So the power of those final blasts was somewhat diminished. If nothing else, it's a good illustration for how the sound of ships horns change relative to your position to the ship.
The James R. Barker is 1004 feet in length and was built in 1976 by the American Ship Building Company of Lorain, Ohio. According to the Boatnerd website, she is powered by "two 8,000 bhp V-16 cylinder, four stroke cycle, single acting, turbocharged Colt-Pielstick PC2V diesel engines, built by Fairbanks Morse Engine Division of Colt Industries, Beloit, WI driving through a Falk reversing gear box to two Bird-Johnson controllable pitch, stainless steel, four bladed propellers seventeen feet, six inches in diameter." She has a cargo capacity of 63,300 tons. She has the distinction of being the first self-contained 1000-footer to be built with the entire superstructure at the aft end of the vessel. This design would be the model the remaining 1000-footers to be built for Great Lakes service.
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