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Joel Dinda club

Posted: 12 Feb 2006

Taken: 23 Mar 1958

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Pittsburgh Steamship Winter Layups

Pittsburgh Steamship Winter Layups
"Monroe March 23 1958
Pittsburg Steamship Co. ship at winter berths
Saturday"

[Lots of good information in the [flickr] comments. Thanks, all.]

Six ships in last week's photo, not five....

The ships: Unknown, Unknown, A.H. Ferbert, Governor Miller, Unknown, and John Hulst. (If you've reasonable guesses at the Unknown ships, please share. Thanks.)

Winter layup's been a "feature" of Great Lakes shipping for as long as the lakes have hosted large ships. It's generally less uneconomical to park the ships than to keep the harbors ice-free, so most of the boats take to port from mid-January to late March.

This photograph's less sharp than most in the set, and I've cropped a lot of "dead air" from the photograph.

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