Mystery Ship
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posted by Ookpik at 4:09 PM
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
About Me
- Name: Ookpik
- Location: Michigan, United States
I began my interest in vernacular photography by a chance acquisition of over 10,000 negatives dating from the late 1920's through the early 1970's. Luckily, I knew what I had was something more than "someone's old pictures." This cache of old images became the impetus for me to create two Photoblogs: Ookpik’s Negativity and Mystery Ships Of The Great Lakes. Ookpik’s Negativity contains photos that I would like to know more about while Mystery Ships Of The Great Lakes features photos of ships that I am trying to identify.
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7 Comments:
The stack insignia looks like Hall Transportation. I'll let The Rock fill in the name.
I'm not sure that is a Hall boat, as their logo was a more extensive H than the one depicted.
Could be an older Hindman or even a Hutchinson fleet vessel. Whatever her name, she's an old-timer judging by that stack.
the rock
Hi Guys,
Close inspection of the negative reveals that the “H” may actually be an “M.” What fleet(s) used an “M” as a stack logo?
Two possibilities come to mind, though there may have been more.
McCarthy SS, out of Detroit is one, but their fleet were "car carriers", hauling Chryslers from the Detroit assembly plants to Cleveland, and they had specially constructed extra heavy, raised steel decks not depicted in the photograph. I photographed them when they tied up at the foot of Mt. Elliot.
Midland SS had an M but I thought it was either black or red rather than white.
Now if that was an N, I'd say we are looking at the old Perseus!!
But that tall, skinny stack puts this old timer back in the 20's or early 30's.
Guess I am really no help.
the rock
Hutchinson is who I was thinking of, not Hall.
Yeah that`s a Hutchinson laker from the 1930s . Hall had an H and a V chevon under it on the stack . I could not be much help either.
try frank billings or john stanton
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