Irvin in the Minnesota Slip
by Susan Rissi Tregoning
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Irvin in the Minnesota Slip
Artist
Susan Rissi Tregoning
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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One of my last daytime shots of the William A Irvin before she was moved from the Minnesota Slip.
She was moved so they can finish the new harbor wall and the environmental workers can complete their industrial pollution cleanup of the harbor. While she’s gone, they plan to repaint her so they will not have to move her again anytime soon. Hopefully, she’s be back home sometime before Spring 2019.
The SS William A. Irvin is a 610 foot long lake freighter, named for William A. Irvin, that sailed as a bulk freighter on the Great Lakes as part US Steel's lake fleet. She was the flagship of the company fleet from her launch in the depths of the depression in 1938 until 1975 and then was a general workhorse of the fleet until her retirement in 1978. The ship was moored in the Minnesota Slip in Duluth, Minnesota, as a museum ship.
She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 for her state-level significance in the themes of engineering, maritime history, and transportation.
Copyright 2018 Susan Rissi Tregoning
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September 27th, 2018
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