The Speer then took the Blough to Sturgeon Bay for repairs. ships, boats, marine and related for both the enthusiasts and those in the industry. The Roger Blough fire is the second major incident involving a laid-up laker in two years. And at that point we knew we had a belt fire, Dietman said, referring to the thick rubber conveyor belt. 497 subscribers Subscribe 75 Share 2.1K views 1 month ago Not my pics No idea when the tow will be, or if shes really going to be. They are organized by fleet owner/operator. It was supposed to start carrying cargo a year. 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. Builder: American Shipbuilding Co., Lorain, OH, Laid Down: Bow Section: June 3, 1968; Stern Section: December 29, 1969, Launch Date: Bow Section: December 21, 1968; Entire Hull: June 3, 1972. The American Mariner and John J. Boland were on the other side of the Blough. She returned to service for the remainder of the 1987 season. By that point, the fire was already spreading. MV Roger Blough is a ship built in 1972 by American Ship Building Company in Lorain, Ohio. The Roger Blough, shown leaving Duluth in the summer of 2019 and heading out into Lake Superior. Edit- Also nice cats He was 81 years old. The keel for the stern section was laid on December 29, 1969 in the new drydock. On October 27, 2022, the Blough was towed from Sturgeon Bay, WI, to Conneaut, OH, by the tugs Meredith Ashton and Candace Elise, arriving at November 1, 2022. Investigators said there was about $20 million in damage. The Maritime Executive. Roger Bloughs crew ultimately recovered a 25-person life raft from the ill-fated ship. It takes a while to cool the steel enough so you dont get reignition and to operate within it. 2023 Advance Local Media LLC. The Roger Blough became the flagship of U. S. Steels Great Lakes Fleet upon entering service. We see that you have javascript disabled. 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. Due to the economic downturn of 1981, the Blough was laid up at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin from September 2, 1981 to September 27, 1987. The ships future is very unclear (as of November 2021), however there are possible indications, including visible repair efforts to the vessels aft section, that the ship is salvageable and the funds needed for repair work ($20 million) are available, barring no additional complications. 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 only locations the Blough is capable of unloading at are Gary, Indiana, and Conneaut, Ohio. by [6], She was stuck in the ice in Lake Erie near Conneaut, Ohio for eight days in February 1979[7] and then was laid up from 1981 to 1987 due to the economy and the capacity of the newer 1,000 feet (300m) lake freighters. Bow section: Keel laid Sept 3, 1968; launched Dec 21, 1968. Firefighters tried other ways to get into the ship, including through a cargo tunnel, but they were turned back. St. Clair was undergoing repairs when the fire started. Marine Historical Society of Detroit, 1996. Roger Blough, named for a former chairman of U.S. Steel, is part of Canadian National Railways Great Lakes fleet based in Duluth, Minn. . San Diego, CA 92110. The Roger Blough is another biggie. Between issues, check the Newsfeed page for other updates. He spent much of his free time in a large Victorian Home in Hawley, PA that had been passed down through his wife's family. [citation needed] The NTSB report puts the amount of damage at more than $100 million. Following college he was basketball coach and math teacher. Seeing the Mississagi scrapped is a bummer, but boats wear out., It worked hard for years but salt just rots away at the innards.. Marie, Michigan, on Aug 13 gave the "Roger Blough" permission Saturday to transit down the St. Marys River to anchorage in Potagannissing Bay in the vicinity of DeTour Village, Michigan. The U.S. Coast Guard captain of the port, Sault Ste. [5], As a consequence of this inflation, Blough told the White House in April 1962 that it was the intent of the U.S. steel industry to raise a basket of steel prices by a scale averaging $6.00/ton. The Blough was the final U.S. laker to be constructed in the traditional style, with the pilothouse and cabins forward and the engine room aft. Published Marie. 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 bow section was not built to the full designed width of 105 initially, as the graving dock at AmShips Lorain yard was not wide enough. Published 1972 Roger Blough. The burner assembly's mounting coupling broke, and the burner dropped and fractured its own fuel line, igniting a fire. 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. Crews used a cutting torch to open holes above the ships 01 deck, allowing hose teams to spray water inside. Dietman wouldnt speculate on when the Blough would sail again. It was published as Shipwatcher News from 2014 to 2018 and Great Lakes Shipping Chronicle from 2018 to 2020 before becoming Freighters in 2020. On Feb. 1, 2021, the Roger Blough was moored in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin in winter layup. 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. The 858-foot self unloading bulk carrier makes multiple trips through the Soo Locks each year carrying goods along the St. Lawrence Seaway. Led U.S. Steel for 13 Years", "ROGER M. BLOUGH, 81, DIES; LED U.S. STEEL FOR 13 YEARS", The Business Council, Official website, Background, "The Charlotte Observer 20 Aug 1972, page 65", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Roger_Blough&oldid=1138823900, Articles with unsourced statements from August 2014, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 11 February 2023, at 20:57. [3][4] However, on June 24, 1971, the ship suffered a major engine room fire which killed four and caused serious damage. Boatwatchers converged on the St. Clair River and St. Marys River as the Mississagi departed under tow from Sarnia, Ont. The Blough remained on her usual trade routes, with the only change being the addition of a black and grey diagonal stripe to either side of her bow. 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. [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. MV Roger 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. [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. Throughout the 1970s, engineers studied the vessel and worked out a solution to these problems. Sturgeon Bay isnt a transient port, like Duluth-Superior, with cargoes sailing in and out. Four years later, in November 1975, the bulker assisted in the search for the ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior. Roger Blough. Position & Voyage Data Add Photo. The Roger Blough burned for several hours early Monday, requiring a massive suppression effort at the Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, shipyard where it had been wintering. This was worse than that one, Dietman said. All Rights Reserved. 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. Everyone who's made a post or video has said something different. She serves as a lake freighter on the Great Lakes. Get the details of the current Voyage of ROGER BLOUGH including Position, Port Calls, Destination, ETA and Distance travelled - IMO 7222138, MMSI 366972030, Call Sign WDH7559 The bulker St. Clair caught fire in February 2019 in the Port of Toledo, Ohio, and burned for nearly 36 hours. Can Europe. By Tanda Gmiter of mlive.com - July 9, 2020 Vessels owned by U.S. Oil, operated by Andrie, Inc. Blu-tak can be seen under one of the passengers when Roger Blough's driver speaks to the stationmaster. The Mississagi nearly collided with a Port Huron seawall in 2004. One . The freighter that caught fire at Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding in February 2021 is heading for bluer waters. The fire aboard a wintering Roger Blough on Feb. 2 caused an estimated $20 million in damages, one-fifth the total cost of the $100 million lake freighter. Great Lake Freighter Roger Blough Photo Coasters For Boat Fans. Contents 1 Service history 1.1 Fire in layup 2 References 3 External links 188. When the laid-up boats are in Sturgeon Bay, most everything on board the boats is shut down. The Roger Blough will be scrapped at either Port Colborne or Escanaba. On February 1, firefighters worked to put out a fire aboard the MV Roger Blough. Devendorf, John F.Great Lakes Bulk Carriers, 1869-1985. Responders on May 30, 2016, place a protective boom around the stern of the freighter Roger Blough, which ran aground May 27, near Gros Cap Reefs Light in eastern Lake Superior. On Feb. 1, 2021, the Roger Blough was moored in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin in winter layup. Published That same year he re-joined White & Case as a partner[9] and founded the Construction Users Anti-Inflation Roundtable, "affectionately known" as "Roger's Roundtable". Pp. Please enable javascript and refresh the page to continue reading local news. National Transportation Safety Board investigators were unable to determine with certainty what caused the fire, which started in an engine room workshop. All rights reserved. Roger Blough arrived at Bay Shipbuilding last summer. The sole caretaker on board safely escaped to the pier, and no pollution was reported. Thu Aug 18 17:43:27 CEST 2016 Timsen. Once the fire started, a central alarm system went off and automatically notified a list of company contacts. The 858-foot-long, self-unloading freighter was supposed to launch in July 1971, but an engine room fire that . The keel was laid for the Bloughs bow section on September 3, 1968, and was launched on December 21, 1968. Total damage exceeded $150 million. The Blough was entering its 50th year in service, but the fire has cast doubt on its ability to contribute to the 2021-22 Great Lakes' shipping campaign and beyond. In 1972, the group merged with March Group and the Labor Law Study Group (LLSG) to form Business Roundtable. Mar 1, 2023 8:15 PM by 1.1 Classic lakers; 1.2 Modern boats. 3980 Sherman St., Ste 100 The Mississagi was built for $2.2 million at the Great Lakes Engineering Works in River Rouge for the U.S. Maritime Commission under a war supply chain program and launched on Dec. 23, 1942. As of 2018 this vessel remained in service.[14][15]. $100. Mar 1, 2023 10:34 PM by When Roger Blough reaches the top of the hill, his wheel is crooked. Repairs cost about $4.5 Million, and the incident was blamed on the Second Mates failure to navigate. 934 talking about this. [2], Blough grew up in Hawley, Pennsylvania. 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. LeLievre said the Mississagi carried her last cargo, wheat, through the Soo Locks in January and laid up in Hamilton, Ontario for the winter before traveling to Sarnia in April, where she was stripped for parts and equiptment. 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 serves as a lake freighter on the Great Lakes. The Mississagi was among the last ships of its era on the Great Lakes. The Blough also has a tragic fire in its very early history. YouTubes privacy policy is available here and YouTubes terms of service is available here. Ships of the Great Lakes | Unofficial!. Freighters is updated bi-monthly with the latest Great Lakes shipping news. 1 Current boats. The bow section was floated into the drydock on July 25, 1970, where it was joined with the stern section. She survived a 2015 fire after welding sparks ignited while docked in Hamilton, Ont. Oil dripped onto a lightbulb, causing . Roger Blough. The cargo-unloading conveyor belts then ignited, causing extensive damage throughout the aft section of the vessel. MV Roger Blough is a ship built in 1972 by American Ship Building Company in Lorain, Ohio. The World Trade Organization's research arm has confirmed the trend that container lines and shippers have been seeing on major trade lanes since the end of last year: the growth in world merchandise trade slowed in the fourth quarter, and the trend appears to be sticking for now - but there are some early signs of a possible turnaround. [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. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local. 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A frequent visitor to the Twin Ports, the Roger Blough is a de facto resident of the port of Duluth-Superior, given its inclusion in the Great Lakes Fleet of ore boats, a nine-vessel roster operated by Key Lakes Inc., of Duluth, and owned Canadian National Railway. Workers at Bay Shipbuilding reported the fire at 0138 after noticing thick black smoke rising from the stack. MARIE, ON The freighter Mississagi made its final voyage this week up Lake Huron to a scrapyard in Canada, where shell be cut up and recycled after a 78-year career hauling bulk cargo around the Great Lakes. Scrap metal can be turned into anything, he said. The firefighters started arriving 4 minutes after they were paged. [5], The Roger Blough assisted in the search for SSEdmund Fitzgerald. [citation needed], When Time magazine featured Blough in July 1959, they drew attention to the challenges facing the steel industry in the late 1950s, including inflation and competition from non-U.S. steel exporters. Great Lakes and Seaway Shipping Online. Salvage crews recover submerged tugboat in Juneau, AWO honors heroism of tug and towboat crews with new award, Coast Guard Foundation launches new logo, brand, Marine Highway Program offering $12 million in grants, St. Johns Bar Pilots order new launch from Gladding-Hearn. She finally entered service on June 15th, a little over a month after the first 1,000 footer Stewart J. Cort sailed on her maiden voyage. The cause of the fire remains under investigation. Greenwoods Guide to Great Lakes Shipping 2016, Harbor House Publishers, 2016. The ship is owned by Great Lakes Fleet, Inc. and is named for the former chairman of U.S. Steel, Roger Blough . N.d. Accessed 17 April 2020. "We're blessed by having [the Sturgeon Bay Fire Department] who are so responsive to the community," said Eric Dent with Fincantieri Shipyard. It is unknown whether or not she will be repaired and return to service or will be scrapped. As of 2018 this vessel remained in service. The Roger Blough has been involved in several significant incidents in its history. The building, named after Blough's wife, was dedicated on October 30, 1966. PCG's Visayas branch dispatched the patrol vessel BRP Malamawi, which arrived at the scene at 2330 Copyright 2023 The Maritime Executive, LLC. Firefighting teams responded, understood fire was extinguished, but extent of damages remains unknown. Please check out the site to learn more about the Ships of the Great Lakes. Once there, it could become anything from a car to a refrigerator. Update on Roger Blough Salvage By Joseph R. Fonseca June 2, 2016 The U.S. Coast Guard continues to monitor and respond to the motor vessel Roger Blough, Wednesday, after the vessel ran. ROGER BLOUGH is something of an iconic laker, being popular among ships . Your session was unable to be renewed and will be . Cook County Community Center log 4H building, Mitch Koslow told the Minnesota Star Tribune, whose Facebook page is a go-to spot for Great Lakes freighter enthusiasts. 324 N 1st Ave, Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235, USA 2021-Feb-01. Roger Blough entered service in 1972, a year later than expected, after a fire in its engine room left four people dead in June 1971. Others include the Alpena, launched in 1942; the Cuyahoga, launched in 1943; the Lee A. Tregurtha, launched in 1942; and the Wilfred Sykes, launched in 1949. Tunnels added to stern section for better water flow to propeller. Vessels owned by Occidental Chemical Corp., operated by Andrie, Inc. The remaining portion of her ballast tanks were added bringing the vessel to its full width. 213-215, 217-220, 269-270. Roger Blough damaged in Wisconsin fire New Soo Lock gets $480M in president's 2022 budget Wreck of the Contest re-emerges from Lake Michigan Deep in Lake Michigan, divers find ship lost in 1899. The Blough was nearing the end of its construction when fire broke out, killing four workers. by
She was repaired in drydock over two months, returing to service in August. A fire started in the engine room, then progressed to her unloading conveyor belts, which caught fire and . Photo courtesy of DRE Designs owner Andrea Guerriero. 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. Even before Blough was launched in 1972, the ore boat was exposed to the perils of its kind. Everyone in different parts of the Great Lakes has their different favorites. A fire killed four aboard the boat in 1971, delaying its arrival by a year, according to a history of the Blough on Boatnerd.com. The Great Lakes freighter Roger Blough may have carried its last load. The vessel, identified as the 19th-century schooner barge Ironton, was found within the boundaries of the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary in 2019, and its discovery was first announced on Wednesday. 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.. Mar 1, 2023 9:01 PM by The Maritime Executive. Vessels owned by Indiana Harbor Steamship Company, managed by Central Marine Logistics, Griffith, IN under charter to Cleveland-Cliffs. Local fire stations on scene and attempting to control the fire from other vessels. The Blough ran aground on the upper St. Marys River on May 27, 2016 near Gros Cap Reef lighthouse. The boat tracking websiteMarineTraffic does not show the final destination for the Roger Blough. Ironton was a 1,250 dwt "consort" barge built in 1873. Historical stocks and bonds, Autographs, Americana, Ephemera, Numismatics and all forms of paper collectibles specializing in Uncancelled bonds Those details and others were pulled. All posts to be in English The shipkeeper was not on the list, and he only woke up seven minutes later when the fire alarm in his cabin went off. Plus, Get the latest updates for Local Sports, Obituaries and more delivered to your inbox! What they found was a boat on fire that was sandwiched by others. Initially powered by a steam engine, the vessel was converted to diesel power in 1985. John F. Devendorf, 1996. Title: Microsoft Word - ^N63 Freighters May-June 2022 Author: brend Created Date: 7/6/2022 11:29:10 AM The National Transportation Safety Board has issued new recommendations for safe layup for ships on the Great Lakes, based on findings from the fire aboard the bulker Roger Blough last year. They were able to extinguish belt fires in some areas despite flames and high heat. Stop the. 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. The origin of the fire was in the engine room near a winter furnace, Dietman said, adding that the specific cause remains under investigation. No casualties were reported as the ship was empty and in winter layup when the fire started. Vessels currently undergoing scrapping or awaiting scrapping, Only large vessels are listed for this fleet, Vessel under cargo contract to Lehigh Cement. They attempted entry but it was so thick they had to back out.. Steel.'" Listed below is the current fleet of Great Lakes ships. [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. A wider drydock was under construction at that point in time. The Roger Blough lost her rudder in the lower St. Marys River in August 2006 while downbound with ore for Gary, Indiana. The ship is. Built in 1972, the MV Roger Blough is a 858-foot Great Lakes freighter that has had a history of near misses and tragedy. No one was injured. Conditions improved by daybreak and crews began attacking the fire from inside. 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. NTSB recommended that the U.S. Coast Guard and ABS should develop standards for furnace installations in line with the NFPA guidelines. You have to be smart about what youre doing in an extremely confined area where you have very little to look at and understand.. Roger Blough refloated a week and a half after the incident after its cargo was offloaded to the laker Philip R. Clarke. Her fleetmate Edgar B. Speer, also bound for Gary, arrived on August 9, towing the Blough side-by-side to Gary where they unloaded. In 2016, the Roger Blough anchored at Waiska Bay after running aground on a reef in . The ship was among just a few launched before 1950 still plying the lakes. The Maritime Executive. As a young freighter, the Roger Blough, in 1975, returned from its path to search for the sunken Edmund Fitzgerald on the eastern end of Lake Superior. Read more The Roger Blough burned for several hours early Monday, requiring a massive suppression effort at the Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, shipyard where it had been wintering. She hauled a lot of salt in her final years, which really does eat away at the innards of those things, he said. At the time of the incident, the Roger Blough was in winter lay-up at . Firefighters dispensed roughly 1.4 million gallons of water during the response. Regular price $13.95 . M/V Roger Blough Vessel Fire; 324 N 1st Ave, Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235, USA. The Philippine Coast Guard was alerted and activated its local stations for rescue duty. [2] While at U.S. Steel, he often started his day at 4 or 5 a.m. and rarely ended the before 7 or 8pm. Bulker assisted in the search for the remainder of the vessel to its full width,. 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