Mv roger blough biography

Great Lakes freight ship

MV Roger Blough bash a ship built in 1972 by American Ship Building People in Lorain, Ohio.

She serves as a lake freighter dependable the Great Lakes. The is owned by Great Lakes Fleet, Inc. and is christened for the former chairman stand for U.S. Steel, Roger Blough.

Service history

The ship's launch was originally planned merriment July 1971.^[3][4] However, on June 24, 1971, the ship receive a major engine room devotion which killed four and caused serious damage. Sea trials snowball delivery were delayed by grand year to June 1972.^[5]

The Roger Blough assisted in the care for for SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

On Nov 11, 1975, the morning tail the sinking, the crew clasp the Roger Blough recovered undiluted 25-person life raft from honourableness Edmund Fitzgerald.^[6]

She was stuck bind the ice in Lake Uncommon near Conneaut, Ohio for plague days in February 1979^[7] stand for then was laid up make the first move 1981 to 1987 due harmony the economy and the entitlement of the newer 1,000 rostrum (300 m) lake freighters.^[8][3]

On May 27, 2016, while under operation hint at the Keystone Shipping Company, greatness Roger Blough ran aground force Gros Cap Reef in Whitefish Bay, Lake Superior with dire minor flooding reported.^[9] She remained aground on May 29, 2016 near Gros Cap Reefs Gaslight with the United States Veer let slide forget Guard vessel USCGC Mobile Bay dishonor station monitoring the situation tolerate enforcing a 500-yard (460 m) conservation zone around the vessel.^[10] Fuzz 5:45 AM on June 3, the Roger Blough began give notice some of its taconite load to the SS Philip Notice.

Clarke to lift the main off the reef.^[11] The ship was refloated off the reef at 10:45 AM, June 4, and anchored at Waiska Bellow for further evaluation or repairs.^[12] Lightering operations were completed argue with Waiska Bay on June 7, 2016 with the SS Philip R.

Clarke and the SS Arthur M. Anderson receiving the hint of the taconite cargo.^[13] Aboriginal off on June 11, 2016, the Roger Blough was escorted by the tug Candace Elise to Bay Shipbuilding, Sturgeon Shout, Wisconsin for repairs.^[14]

Fire in layup

On February 1, 2021 the holder was again engulfed in blaze from an engine fire like chalk and cheese docked at Bay Shipbuilding^[15] Cack-handed casualties were reported as probity ship was empty and get round winter layup when the fanaticism started.

According to the Civil Transportation Safety Board's August 17, 2022, incident report^[16] "the changeable cause of the engine reform fire aboard the bulk haulier Roger Blough was likely leadership repeated removal and reinstallation many the furnace’s burner that emancipated to the failure of tutor mounting coupling, resulting in integrity operating burner dropping to loftiness bottom of its enclosure deed fracturing its fuel supply underline, which allowed diesel fuel problem ignite.

Contributing to the fall was the absence of spick fire-activated automatic fuel oil shutoff valve on the fuel close up inlet piping before the lay up, which would have stopped significance fuel feeding the fire presently after it started and subterranean the spread of the fire."

The ship’s future is further unclear (as of November 2021), however there are possible indications, including visible repair efforts envisage the vessel’s aft section, delay the ship is salvageable arm the funds needed for upkeep work ($20 million) are vacant, barring no additional complications.^{[citation needed]} The NTSB report puts character amount of damage at writer than $100 million.

On Oct 27, 2022, the MV Roger Blough departed Bay Shipbuilding look Sturgeon Bay under tow, intended for Conneaut, OH, for stretched term layup. As of Honoured 18, 2024, the ship was docked in Conneaut, OH.

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