Lightering operations have been planned for the Great Lakes freighter hard aground on a reef in Lake Superior, but it's likely to be several more days before the vessel can be freed. [3], Blough attended Susquehanna University and was a member of Phi Mu Delta fraternity. Shes a unique ship, Dietman said. He was 81. As of 2018 this vessel remained in service. Crews were going to make entry (from) the main deck, and when they got to the aft end and opened a starboard door, they were met with heavy, thick black smoke from ceiling to floor, Dietman said. The cause of the fire remains under investigation. Key Lakes did not respond to inquiries about what it might have planned for the ship. [13] Starting off on June 11, 2016, the Roger Blough was escorted by the tug Candace Elise to Bay Shipbuilding, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin for repairs.[14]. By Tanda Gmiter of mlive.com - July 9, 2020 She was able to run the remainder of the season on one engine, with the blown one being replaced while she was in winter layup at the Duluth Port Terminal. Soon afterward, they saw heavy smoke coming from the ships stern. MV Roger Blough is a ship built in 1972 by American Ship Building Company in Lorain, Ohio. 188. The 20 members of her crew were all safely rescued by a good samaritan vessel, and no injuries were reported. In 1972, the group merged with March Group and the Labor Law Study Group (LLSG) to form Business Roundtable. Discover the vessel's particulars, including capacity, machinery, photos and ownership. Between issues, check the Newsfeed page for other updates. The recently-built tanker Princess Empress partially sank off Balingawan Point on Tuesday after losing power in rough seas. On February 1, 2021, a fire broke out onboard the Roger Blough while she was in winter layup at Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding in Sturgeon Bay, WI. The American Mariner and John J. Boland were on the other side of the Blough. The Blough was freed and departed for Sturgeon Bay under her own power on June 11, being escorted by the tug Candace Elise. Greenwoods Guide to Great Lakes Shipping 2016, Harbor House Publishers, 2016. 1 Current boats. The Blough was the second of four boats stacked and bound to one another, with the James Barker anchored to the dock, with the Blough bound to it. Welcome to the online home of Freighters Newsletter, the bi-monthly publication of Shipwatcher News. Flames burned a third of the ore boat at the Bloughs aft end, affecting living quarters, the kitchen, or galley, and down into the engine room, Dietman said. It is sepculated that the cause was a high intensity lightbulb that ignited leaking fuel from a faulty hose seal. John F. Devendorf, 1996. Wayne State University Press, 1999. 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Munson #65 Freighters September-October 2022 Download Freighters Newsletter #64 Freighters July-August 2022 Posted on September 10, 2022 by Shipwatcher News The News is in! The same name may apply to four or even five different ships. The ship is owned by Great Lakes Fleet, Inc. and is named for the former chairman of U.S. Steel, Roger Blough . The Speer then took the Blough to Sturgeon Bay for repairs. [9] She remained aground on May 29, 2016 near Gros Cap Reefs Light with the United States Coast Guard vessel USCGCMobile Bay on station monitoring the situation and enforcing a 500-yard (460m) safety zone around the vessel. The Maritime Executive. Your session was unable to be renewed and will be . Roger M. Blough, who in 1962 locked horns with President Kennedy over a price increase by the United States Steel Corporation, died Tuesday at the family home in Hawley, Pa. She hauled a lot of salt in her final years, which really does eat away at the innards of those things, he said. Its pretty severely affected, he said, comparing it to a similar fire at the same Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding site in 2015, when the 519-foot Alpena absorbed a similar aft-end burn which saw the vessel recovered to continue sailing. [3][4] However, on June 24, 1971, the ship suffered a major engine room fire which killed four and caused serious damage. Roger M. Blough (January 19, 1904 October 8, 1985)[2] was the chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the United States Steel Corporation for 13 years, from May 1955 through January 1969. Vessels owned by American Steamship Co., bareboat chartered by Grand River Navigation, Cement barges under cargo contract to St. Marys Cement, Vessels owned by St. Marys Cement Inc., Toronto, ON. [4] He served as Chairman of The Business Council in 1961 and 1962. MV Roger Blough is a ship built in 1972 by American Ship Building Company in Lorain, Ohio. Vessels owned by Lafarge Holcim, managed by Inland Lakes Management. The bulker St. Clair caught fire in February 2019 in the Port of Toledo, Ohio, and burned for nearly 36 hours. At about 1:30 a.m., fire broke out on the bulk carrier Roger Blough. The shipbuilding company said it was awaiting the results of the investigations. Just weeks ago, the Roger Blough caught fire while laid up at Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. The vessel ROGER BLOUGH (IMO: 7222138 ) is a Self Discharging Bulk Carrier built in 1972 (50 years old) and currently sailing under the flag of Unknown. The bulker St. Clair caught fire in February 2019 in the Port of Toledo, Ohio, and burned for nearly 36 hours. Roger Blough arrived at Bay Shipbuilding last summer. He was 81 years old. Her fleetmate Edgar B. Speer, also bound for Gary, arrived on August 9, towing the Blough side-by-side to Gary where they unloaded. They were able to extinguish belt fires in some areas despite flames and high heat. Roger Blough towed to Conneaut Are forward accommodations rising back to the top of ship design trends? Tunnels added to stern section for better water flow to propeller. The Mississagi was among the last ships of its era on the Great Lakes. Great Lake Freighter Roger Blough Photo Coasters For Boat Fans. Check back often for new listings! The Great Lakes freighter Roger Blough may have carried its last load. Sign up for our Daily Electronic Newspaper! Mar 1, 2023 10:34 PM by 620-foot freighter cruises past Bay City tall ships, Mississagi re-floated after grounding near De Tour, Scrapyard in the sky awaits 111-year-old freighter, New Soo Lock gets $480M in presidents 2022 budget, Wreck of the Contest re-emerges from Lake Michigan, Deep in Lake Michigan, divers find ship lost in 1899, 17 miles to safety: Numbers tell story of the Fitzgerald, Diver recalls record scuba descent to Edmund Fitzgerald, Why the Fitzgerald tragedy sticks with us. NTSB recommended that the U.S. Coast Guard and ABS should develop standards for furnace installations in line with the NFPA guidelines. Roger Bloughs ship keeper was asleep in his room at the time but escaped without injury, Sturgeon Bay Fire Chief Tim Dietman said. She punctured her hull and flooded her forward ballast tanks. The firefighters started arriving 4 minutes after they were paged. A native of Ashland, he said he knows the port of Duluth-Superior well. She was renamed for the Mississagi Strait in northern Lake Huron after being sold in 2001 to Lower Lakes Towing of Port Dover, Ont. Following college he was basketball coach and math teacher. Launched amid World War II, the 620-foot ship would have been eligible to collect social security checks about 15 years ago were it a person. Investigations by the fire department locally, and also the United States Coast Guard were wrapping up. On November 11, 1975, the morning after the sinking, the crew of the Roger Blough recovered a 25-person life raft from the Edmund Fitzgerald. The stern accomodations and engineering block had to be repaired and refinished, and her engines replaced, a task that added $13 Million to the project. The Blough suffered a major engine room fire on June 24, 1971, resulting in the destruction of the aft section of the ship and the deaths of four shipyard workers. Published [6] President Kennedy believed that this price increase violated an unwritten agreement that he had brokered between the industry and the United Steel Workers union, and called a press conference in response, held on April 11, 1962. The man was able to self-rescue, Dietman said. Originally set to be launched in 1971, an engine room fire killed four people and damaged the ship before it could even take its trial runs. The sole caretaker on board safely escaped to the pier, and no pollution was reported. List of people on the cover of Time magazine (1950s), "Edwin H. Gott, 78, Is Dead; U.S. Steel's Retired Chairman", "Roger M. Blough, 81, Dies. Boatwatchers converged on the St. Clair River and St. Marys River as the Mississagi departed under tow from Sarnia, Ont. on Sunday, Oct. 10. Banner Graphics designed by Free Eyes FM, Fred Miller III, Design a site like this with WordPress.com, https://www.greatlakesvesselhistory.com/histories-by-name/b/blough-roger, http://boatnerd.com/pictures/fleet/RogerBlough.htm. The Roger Blough fire is the second major incident involving a laid-up laker in two years. Crews used a cutting torch to open holes above the ships 01 deck, allowing hose teams to spray water inside. Real-time and current position of ROGER BLOUGH (Self Discharging Bulk Carrier, MMSI: 366972030, IMO: 7222138) on ais live map is in --- with coordinates 45.95564 / -83.89415 and speed 12.2 knots as reported on 2020-07-05 21:17 by AIS live data. Read more After construction on the Poe Lock began, officials at United States Steel Corporation looked to Marine Consultants & Designers of Cleveland to design a new freighter that took advantage of the increase in size limitations. She was a busy boat right up to the end, said Roger LeLievre, editor and publisher of the annual Know Your Ships guide to Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway boat-watching. Berry, Sterling P. Blough, Roger. The Blough holds a special place in Great Lakes maritime history, as it was one of the ships that helped to search for the Edmund Fitzgerald after that famous freighter sank on Nov. 10, 1975. Marie, Ont. The 858-foot-long, self-unloading freighter was supposed to launch in July 1971, but an engine room fire that . [12], In December of 1965, Blough purchased a plot of land in town of Hawley and gifted the funds needed to create a new building for the Hawley Public Library. George Wallace had promised to block by standing in the schoolhouse door. SAULT STE. The origin of the fire was in the engine room near a winter furnace, Dietman said, adding that the specific cause remains under investigation. On February 1, 2021, a fire broke out onboard the Roger Blough while she was in winter layup at Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding in Sturgeon Bay, WI. The aft section was repaired and engines replaced at a cost of $13 Million. On February 1, firefighters worked to put out a fire aboard the MV Roger Blough. Rumors heard that the price to repair the ship was more then what it was worth due to its bad fires it had onboard. The fire aboard the 47-year-old M/V Roger Blough was reported at around 3AM Monday. Photo courtesy of DRE Designs owner Andrea Guerriero. What they found was a boat on fire that was sandwiched by others. Investigators said there was about $20 million in damage. A tugboat shifted the vessel about 20 feet to port, creating separation on the starboard side for better access. The Roger Bloughs history includes a fire that occurred before its maiden voyage in 1971 and the rescue of a 25-person life raft from the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975. Roger Blough transiting down St. Mary's River. Self-discharging bulk carrier ROGER BLOUGH caught fire on Feb 1 in Wisconsin shipyard, Sturgeon Bay, Lake Michigan, USA, where the ship was docked for a winter lay-up. It takes a while to cool the steel enough so you dont get reignition and to operate within it. The burner assembly's mounting coupling broke, and the burner dropped and fractured its own fuel line, igniting a fire. The remaining portion of her ballast tanks were added bringing the vessel to its full width. Dietman said he expects to address the cause and specifics of the fire next week, saying his department concluded its investigation Thursday and is preparing its findings. Vessels operated by three subsidiaries, Interlake Steamship Company managing the bulk cargo movements, Interlake Logistics Solutions managing the small River class and niche markets, and Lake Michigan carferry managing the Lake Michigan cross-lake ferry service. They attempted entry but it was so thick they had to back out.. The Roger Blough was finally launched on June 3, 1972 and entered service on June 15th. [10] At 5:45 AM on June 3, the Roger Blough began offloading some of its taconite cargo to the SS Philip R. Clarke to lift the ship off the reef. 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They are organized by fleet owner/operator. It was launched in 1972 after a delay of nearly a year caused by an engine fired that resulted in the death of four workers who asphyxiated. Her original propeller was eventually replaced with a skewed propeller to help smoothen her ride. St. Clair was undergoing repairs when the fire started. The final Canadian laker to be built in the traditional style was the Algosoo of 1974. Vessels owned by Occidental Chemical Corp., operated by Andrie, Inc. Regular price $13.95 . We treat them like dead-in-the-water floating vessels, Dietman said. 6.1k members in the Ships community. Keystone officials at the time attributed the layup of the ship and two other bulk carriers, Philip R. Clarke and Edgar B. Speer, to the pandemic-related economic slowdown. A sunken tanker is spilling petroleum into the water off the coast of Balingawan Point, Mindoro, in the Philippines' Tayabas Bay. The Maritime Executive. Firefighters tried other ways to get into the ship, including through a cargo tunnel, but they were turned back. Copyright 2021 Maritime Publishing. The NTSB incident report released on August 17th, 2022, said, the probable cause of the engine room fire on the Roger Blough was likely the repeated removal and reinstallation of the furnaces burner that led to the failure in its mounting coupling. The fire resulted in the NTSB recommending that the U.S. Coast Guard and ABS should develop standards for furnace installations in line with the National Fire Protection Associations guidelines to MarineLink.com. She serves as a lake freighter on the Great Lakes. The building, named after Blough's wife, was dedicated on October 30, 1966. Throughout the 1970s, engineers studied the vessel and worked out a solution to these problems. Listed below is the current fleet of Great Lakes ships. The 858-foot bulk carrier caught fire early on Feb. 1 while docked at Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding in Sturgeon Bay, Wis., for an extended layup. She was christened the George A. Sloan and carried iron ore and other cargos for U.S. Steel fleets under that name until 2001, according to a Boatnerd.com history. In the month leading up to the fire, the chief engineer and an OEM service tech had removed and reinstalled the burner multiple times while troubleshooting; the repeated removal likely damaged the burner's mounting coupling, leading to its failure, NTSB determined. The Roger Blough was one of the few ships which are left who went out in search of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Great Lakes & Seaway Shipping - BoatNerd.Com www.BoatNerd.Com 50th anniversary of Roger Blough fire The Blough ran aground on the upper St. Marys River on May 27, 2016 near Gros Cap Reef lighthouse. The cargo-unloading conveyor. The Roger Blough was constructed over the course of three years for the United States Steel Corporations Marine Division. Stop the. The ship master and "an observing captain" entered the pilothouse of the Roger Blough seven minutes before she ran aground on May 27, 2016. The Roger Blough was built with a new shuttle-type unloading boom mounted aft. The ship's launch was originally planned for July 1971. Initially powered by a steam engine, the vessel was converted to diesel power in 1985. Title: Microsoft Word - ^N63 Freighters May-June 2022 Author: brend Created Date: 7/6/2022 11:29:10 AM [5], The Roger Blough assisted in the search for SSEdmund Fitzgerald. There was no repair work happening on the ship when the fire started, according to Todd Thayse, vice president and general manager at Bay Shipbuilding. Vessels owned by Indiana Harbor Steamship Company, managed by Central Marine Logistics, Griffith, IN under charter to Cleveland-Cliffs. San Diego, CA 92110. Roger Blough on the way to the scrapyard 1 / 4 Roger Blough last trip though the Straits of Mackinac 35 8 8 comments Add a Comment big-rigging-hours 2 mo. Thu Aug 18 17:43:27 CEST 2016 Timsen. Investigators looked at several factors, including VTS activities and the role that squat played in the accident. Days after a fire consumed one of the lake freighters most well-known to the Twin Ports, its still too soon to know what its prognosis is. 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Published The Blough suffered a major engine room fire on June 24, 1971, resulting in the destruction of the aft section of the ship and the deaths of four shipyard workers. The U.S. Coast Guard captain of the port, Sault Ste. Fast forward a half-century, when fire consumed Blough once again. Miller, Al. And at that point we knew we had a belt fire, Dietman said, referring to the thick rubber conveyor belt. Mar 1, 2023 9:01 PM by [2], Blough grew up in Hawley, Pennsylvania. [8][3], On May 27, 2016, while under operation of the Keystone Shipping Company, the Roger Blough ran aground on Gros Cap Reef in Whitefish Bay, Lake Superior with some minor flooding reported. ROGER BLOUGH Current Position Where is the current position of ROGER BLOUGH presently? The ship grounded in the Straits of Mackinac in 1966 and again near Drummond Island in 2015. Plus, Get the latest updates for Local Sports, Obituaries and more delivered to your inbox! ROGER BLOUGH is something of an iconic laker, being popular among ships photos fans, and being a part of Great Lakes shipping history. It caught fire while in harbour in Wisconsin yesterday. The new ship would be built as a self-unloader to service U.S. Steels Gary and South Chicago steel mills. [13], MVRoger Blough, an iron ore bulk carrier vessel built for U.S. Steel in 1968-72 and used starting in 1972 in Great Lakes service to transport taconite pellets from Lake Superior to ports on Lake Erie and Lake Michigan, was named in his honor. From $18.95 3pc Panoramic Set ~ Edwin Gott -2723. The Roger Blough lost her rudder in the lower St. Marys River in August 2006 while downbound with ore for Gary, Indiana. The NTSB's investigators determined that the fire started with a diesel furnace which had been installed in the engine room to keep it warm overwinter. Travelled distance : Port Calls: 14: Average / Max Speed : Min / Max Draught (m) We see that you have javascript disabled. Lester Sherman Has Lucky Star Orer 500 Days of Actual Combat With Famed 32nd DiTition Sergeant Technician Lester L Sherman Bon of Mr and Mrs Grant Sherman Route 2 Lowell We were very fortunate, Sturgeon Bay Fire Chief Tim Dietman told the News Tribune on Friday. Workers at Bay Shipbuilding reported the fire at 0138 after noticing thick black smoke rising from the stack. Thankfully, there were no injuries and the fire was contained to just the one ship, Fincantieri Marine Group spokesman Eric Dent wrote the News Tribune from Washington, D.C., calling it premature to speculate on the Bloughs future operational availability.. Can Europe. She survived a 2015 fire after welding sparks ignited while docked in Hamilton, Ont. The Maritime Executive, Published If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation. A wider drydock was under construction at that point in time. Sep 1, 2022 9:33 PM by Neither of those ships caught fire, but James R. Barker sustained modest smoke damage in some aft internal spaces, Dietman said. He estimated total damage to the ship at more than $20 million. Seeing the Mississagi scrapped is a bummer, but boats wear out., It worked hard for years but salt just rots away at the innards.. Canadian National referred questions about the incident to Keystone, which did not respond to an inquiry. [12], Bough maintained a residence in the Mellon-U.S. Steel Building in Pittsburgh, PA as well as an apartment on Park Avenue in Manhattan. When Roger Blough reaches the top of the hill, his wheel is crooked. 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