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Great Lakes’ Oldest Freighter Likely To Be Transformed Into Barge
It’s appearing more and more likely that the end is at hand for the Great Lakes’ oldest freighter, a ship with a unique tie to Chicago. Bay Shipbuilders is referring all calls on the future of the ship once known as the Medusa Challenger to its owner, Port Cities Steamship Services, of Muskegon, Mich. Port Cities has not returned WBBM’s calls. The Door County Advocate newspaper is reporting that Port Cities has awarded Bay a contract to transform the 107-year-old ship, now known as the St. Marys Challenger, into an un-engined barge. The Advocate said its future is as an articulated tug barge that would be pushed by a tug in the future. More at http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/10/31/great-lakes-oldest-freighter-likely-to-be-transformed-into-barge/
Fatality listed as accident
The death of a Superior man on November 12, 2011 was caused by his arm having been severed after it got caught in a moving conveyor belt in Milwaukee at 9:15 a.m. The "St. Mary’s Challenger" was docked near Kinnickinnic Avenue. The man was working alone by the conveyor belt three decks below the main deck when his arm became caught in the conveyor belt, causing it to be severed at the shoulder. The ship logs revealed that there was a hydraulic oil leak when the man asked other crew members to shut down the engine and turn it back on. The engines were shut down and restarted, before he requested that they be shut down again. According to the log, he never asked for another start-up but the engines were restarted, and were running when he became caught in the conveyor belt. Accident investigators have listed the fatality as an “accident.”
Man Dies Unloading Concrete From Ship
Milwaukee police said a man died late Saturday night while unloading concrete from a ship that was docked at the lakefront. Police were called to 2006 S. Kinnickinnick Ave. in Bay View around 10 p.m. for an industrial accident. "He was working with some machinery, a conveyer belt in particular, and had an accident that caused his death," said William Jessup, Deputy Inspector of Police with the Milwaukee Police Department. The victim, police said, was around 60-years-old and not believed to be from the Milwaukee area. Detectives interviewed other workers on the ship, called St. Mary's Challenger, out of Superior. Read more: http://www.wisn.com/news/29757535/detail.html#ixzz1dZlK0p00
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