MV ''Calumet'' is Great Lakes bulk freighter currently in operation.

Ship history

The ship was built in 1973 by the

American Ship Building Company The American Ship Building Company was the dominant shipbuilder on the Great Lakes before the Second World War. It started as Cleveland Shipbuilding in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1888 and opened the yard in Lorain, Ohio, in 1898. It changed its name t ...

Lorain, Ohio Lorain () is a city in Lorain County, Ohio, United States. It is located in Northeast Ohio on Lake Erie, at the mouth of the Black River (Ohio), Black River about west of Cleveland. It is the List of cities in Ohio, ninth-most populous city in O ...

as the ''William R. Roesch'' for the Union Commerce Bank, Ohio, and managed by Kinsman Marine Transit. The ''Roesch'' sailed for the subsidiary of Oglebay-Norton Marine, the Pringle Transit Company, from 1976 to 1994, when she was transferred to Oglebay-Norton, which also marked the end of Pringle Transit. She was renamed ''David Z. Norton'', after company founder David Zadock Norton on March 31, 1995. In 2006, Oglebay-Norton sold its fleet of River class ships to Grand River Navigation and the Wisconsin and Michigan Steamship Company of Avon Lake and Lakewood, Ohio. The ''Norton'' went to the WAMSC, along with ''Earl W. Oglebay'' and ''Wolverine'', and was renamed ''David Z.''. The ship was sold to Rand Logistics in 2008, being renamed ''Calumet'', after the original ''Calumet'', built in 1929 for US Steel, which was scrapped in 2007. On October 21, 2021 MV Calumet ran aground near the

Lake State Railway Lake State Railway is a railroad operating in the Saginaw River, Saginaw Valley and northeastern quadrant of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. The railroad moves large quantities of aggregate and limestone, as well as coal, grain, and chemical p ...

swing bridge across the Saginaw River in Bay City but was quickly freed by tugs.

References

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