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The ''J. Pierpont Morgan'', named after legendary banking titan J. P. Morgan, was a
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steel-hulled, propeller-driven Great Lakes freighter that was a product of the Chicago Shipbuilding Company of
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. The ''Morgan'' hauled
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es such as
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,
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,
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and occasionally
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across the
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of
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. She served her whole career without any major incidents. She was the first of three identical sister ships, these were the ''
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'' and the '' Norman B. Ream''.


Queen of the Lakes

The ''J. Pierpont Morgan'' was the Queen of the Lakes, when launched – i.e. the longest ship on the Great Lakes. She was Queen of the Lakes from April 12, 1906, to August 18, 1906. According to Mark L. Thompson, author of '' Queen of the Lakes'', she was the first of the " 600-footers", a series of dozens of lake freighters built to her design. Thompson wrote that "the design of the ''Morgan'' represented a plateau of perfection in the endless evolution of the bulk freighter." According to Thompson, prior to the construction of the ''J. Pierpont Morgan'', vessel design re-use rarely extended for than three or four sister ships. But, he wrote, between 56 and 76 vessels were built to her design.


Name change and modifications

The ''Morgan'' was launched on April 28, 1906, as hull #68. She was built for the Pittsburgh Steamship Company of
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. The ''Morgan'' played an important role in
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shipping industry, because she was the first 600-foot vessel on the lakes. Because of her enormous size the ''Morgan'' was awarded the unofficial title " Queen of the Lakes". The ''Morgan'' had two new Babcock & Wilcox water tube boilers installed in April 1937. The ''Morgan'' had two hopper sides and a new tank top installed in April 1940. In 1952 the ''Morgan'' was purchased by
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. In November 1960 the ''Morgan'' was laid up in
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. She remained in layup until 1965 when the ''Morgan'' was purchased by the Canadian company, Comet Enterprises Ltd. of
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. The ''Morgan'' was rebuilt in 1965, in Port Arthur. She returned to the lakes in 1966, named ''Heron Bay''. On November 4, 1978, the ''Heron Bay'' was laid up in
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. That same year the ''Heron Bay'' was sold to the Union Pipe & Machinery Ltd. of Montreal, Quebec, where she was renamed ''Heron B''. On March 30, 1979, the scrapping of the ''Heron B'' began in
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. The scrapping was completed in late 1979.


See also

* 1940 Armistice Day Blizzard * Great Lakes Storm of 1913 *
List of storms on the Great Lakes Ever since people have traveled the Great Lakes (North America), Great Lakes, storms have taken lives and vessels. The first sailing vessel on the upper lakes, the ''Le Griffon'', was lost on its return from Green Bay (Lake Michigan), Green Bay in ...
*
Mataafa Storm The Mataafa Storm of 1905, was a storm that occurred on the Great Lakes on November 27–28, 1905. The system moved across the Great Basin with moderate depth on November 26 and November 27, then east-northeastward across the Great Lakes on Novemb ...
* Largest shipwrecks on the Great Lakes *
List of shipwrecks on the Great Lakes The Great Lakes, a collection of five freshwater lakes located in North America, have been sailed upon since at least the 17th century, and thousands of ships have been sunk while traversing them. Many of these ships were never found, so the exac ...
*
SS Edmund Fitzgerald SS ''Edmund Fitzgerald'' was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29 men. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America ...
*
SS Carl D. Bradley SS ''Carl D. Bradley'' was an American self-unloading Great Lakes freighter that sank in a Lake Michigan storm on November 18, 1958. Of the 35 crew members, 33 died in the sinking. Twenty-three were from the port town of Rogers City, Michig ...
*
SS Cedarville SS ''Cedarville'' was a bulk carrier that carried limestone on the Great Lakes in the mid-20th century until it sank after a collision with another ship, on May 7, 1965. Service history ''Cedarville'' was built in 1927 by the Great Lakes Engin ...
* SS ''Chester A. Congdon'' *
SS James Carruthers The SS ''James Carruthers'' was a Canadian Great Lakes freighter built in 1913. The ship was owned by the St. Lawrence & Chicago Steam and Navigation Company of Toronto, Ontario, with the official registry number 131090. The ''Carruthers'' was ...
* SS Henry B. Smith *
SS Emperor SS ''Emperor'' was a steel-hulled Canadian lake freighter in service between 1911 and 1947. She was built between 1910 and April 1911 by the Collingwood Shipbuilding, Collingwood Shipbuilding Company in Collingwood, Ontario, for Inland Lines, ...
* SS Isaac M. Scott (1909) * SS Charles S. Price * SS D.M. Clemson (1903)


References

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