SS William A. Irvin
by Susan Rissi Tregoning
Title
SS William A. Irvin
Artist
Susan Rissi Tregoning
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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This is my neighbor; she’s all that I see when I look out my bedroom window unless I look straight down at the parking lot. I thought that I should get her picture before she’s moved since that will happen sometime in September.
She’s been moored here for 30 years but she needs to be moved by October 1, so the environmental workers can complete their industrial pollution cleanup of the harbor. There’s one big problem, she’s just 12 inches narrower than the blue pedestrian Minnesota Slip drawbridge. Shipping officials claim they can do it without damaging either the ship or the bridge. I’m just hoping I can be around to photograph it while it’s happening.
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 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 has been refurbished and is moored 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 4th, 2018
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