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Kaye E Barker - Great Lakes Freighter - Marine City, MI (2019-01-04)

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Constructed in 1951-51, for the Cleveland Cliffs Steamship Company, the Edward B. Greene was the first vessel in the history of the Great Lakes to be built completely in drydock, She was 1 of 8 of the new AAA-Korea class boats to be built for the ore and coal trades. The design was so well liked by naval architects, the Canadian shipbuilders built lakers similar to the specs of the AAA's.

The Greene was built from the keel up in drydock at the American Shipbuilding Company's yard in Toledo, Ohio. She was christened on January 10, 1952 and her sea-trials commenced on June 18, 1952. She did not depart Toledo for Marquette until July 29th, due to a Steelworkers strike, there she loaded 19,788 tons of iron ore for Cleveland.

The AAA's were all 647-feet in length, with a beam of 70-feet and had a mid-summer capacity of 20,150 tons of ore. They shared the same power plant, a 7,700 horsepower 2 cylinder steam turbine engine. In the winter of 1975-76, Cleveland Cliffs contracted the Fraser Ship Yard of Superior, Wisconsin to lengthen the Greene 120-feet to 767-feet overall. This increased her capacity to 26,750 tons. In the winter lay-up of 1980-81, she was back in the Toledo yard to be converted to a self-unloader. A 250-feet aft mounted boom was installed, only decreasing her capacity to 25,900 tons, but her obvious turn-around times would be greatly increased.

Cleveland Cliffs sold the Greene to the Rouge Steel Corporation, a division of the Ford Corporation and renamed her the Benson Ford (III). Now the Benson Ford was on the run from Marquette to Detroit, making the slow, winding trip up the Rouge River to the Ford Plant. With the dissolvement of the Ford fleet in 1989, the Interlake Steamship Company purchased the remaining Ford boats and signed an exclusive contract to haul iron ore to the Rouge Steel plant, thus creating the Lakes Shipping Company, a division of Interlake. Renamed the Kaye E. Barker, she was christened on August 2, 1990 in honor of the wife of James R. Barker of the Interlake/Mormac Group. (www.boatnerd.com)
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