Fry
August 10, 2007, 11:56am
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Lets start a new hockey team based on a big ship in the lake. Are there international waters on the lakes? I doubt it, but I’m thinking of that Simpson’s (?) episode where they cut away to a boat on international waters where everything’s legal. :poke: We could call the team the Lake Sturgeons. :gay:
JayS
August 10, 2007, 12:09pm
102
IB4 they find the gas leak over at Praxair that is affecting James.
Fry
August 10, 2007, 12:12pm
103
:lol: Friday afternoon + Claritin = :loopie: I’m meeting a friend for beers after work. That oughta clear things up.
Fry
July 13, 2010, 7:59am
104
I have no idea why this crossed my mind. But anyways it was scrapped in Aliaga, Turkey.
In my last post on the Aquarama/Marine Star, I had lifted two still photos of the ship being scrapped from a YouTube video. Peter Hartung, creator of the video, was kind enough to send me the hi-re…
Mike93
July 13, 2010, 8:08am
105
Solid bump:tup:
That looks like it would have been a great looking boat back in its prime.
Is that the ship deconstruction yard that’s recgonized as one of the most dangerous and toxic places to work or am I thinking of a place in India?
Wahoo
July 13, 2010, 8:56am
109
That was a cool ship! Didn’t know it had so much history.
Paulo
July 13, 2010, 9:07am
110
Someone scanned a booklet from it’s innaugural cruise.
No idea that is what the ship was… real cool to see it’s history and pictures. Nice find.
Fry
July 13, 2010, 10:09am
113
Oh, that’s what reminded me of this. There’s an article on CNN today about the ship wrecking yards in Bangladesh.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/07/12/bangladesh.hasan.shipyards/?hpt=Sbin&fbid=ouTvxXhx4mK
Little more on this ship if you’re interested
The SS Aquarama, formerly known as the SS Marine Star, was a World War II troop ship for the United States Navy. In 1952, it was converted into the largest passenger ship ever to operate in the Great Lakes. Originally named the Marine Star, the Aquarama was built in 1945 in Chester, Pennsylvania as a United States Maritime Commission C4-S-B5 type of ship. Designed as a transoceanic troop carrier, the ship made one trip across the Atlantic before combat ceased.
The Type C4 class ship were the largest cargo ships built by the United States Maritime Commission (MARCOM) during World War II. The design was originally developed for the American-Hawaiian Lines in 1941, but in late 1941 the plans were taken over by the MARCOM. Eighty-one ships were built as cargo or troopships in four shipyards: Kaiser Richmond, CA (35 ships), Kaiser Vancouver, WA (20 ships), Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock in Chester PA (20 ships) and Bethlehem Steel Sparrows Point MD (6 ships)....
JayS
July 13, 2010, 10:23am
115
It’s sad that Buffalo will fight so much to save a grain mill but have no problem with sending something like this off to be scrapped. That ship had REAL history with the Great Lakes. Don’t get me wrong, it’s been an eyesore in the harbor for decades and I’m glad it’s gone, but if I were one of these “everything is historic” assholes that hold up any development in Buffalo I think I would have been a little more upset about this.
Wahoo
July 13, 2010, 10:41am
116
They could have painted the ship.
Fry
July 13, 2010, 10:58am
117
JayS:
It’s sad that Buffalo will fight so much to save a grain mill but have no problem with sending something like this off to be scrapped. That ship had REAL history with the Great Lakes. Don’t get me wrong, it’s been an eyesore in the harbor for decades and I’m glad it’s gone, but if I were one of these “everything is historic” assholes that hold up any development in Buffalo I think I would have been a little more upset about this.
Funny how they pick the worn out trash to keep. Too bad they can’t tug the grain elevators to Eurasia for scrapping.
JayS:
It’s sad that Buffalo will fight so much to save a grain mill but have no problem with sending something like this off to be scrapped. That ship had REAL history with the Great Lakes. Don’t get me wrong, it’s been an eyesore in the harbor for decades and I’m glad it’s gone, but if I were one of these “everything is historic” assholes that hold up any development in Buffalo I think I would have been a little more upset about this.
I dont know that you could stop someone from sending their privately owned boat to a scrapyard the same way you can stop them from demolishing a historic building in the city.
that being said I’m one of those assholes and if I wasnt 18/unaware of its existance when this happened I would have been involved in the effort
Paulo
July 13, 2010, 1:16pm
120
^ You’re one of those assholes that wants to keep the grain mills on the waterfront?
