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trucks to trans-
Handy Guide port that same
helps you
‘Know Your Ships’ tonnage?
• The coal DTE
HAPPY 60TH BIRTHDAY! uses to make
your electricity
is delivered to
power plants by
Clinton River on Race Night Have you ever been out freighter?
on Lake St. Clair, the St. • The salt keeping you
The weather Clair River or the Detroit from slipping and sliding
was pretty bad River, spotted a passing on icy roads might have
for last season’s freighter, and wondered come by laker from God-
Jobbie Nooner, what ship it was, how big it erich or Detroit?
so this was my was, or where it was from? • The steel used in your car
best photo ..... The answers to those ques- probably began as taco-
The day before tions – and probably more nite ore pellets mined near
at Walmart in you didn’t know you had – Lake Superior and moved
can be found in the handy down through the Soo
Chesterfield field guide “Know Your Locks by boat?
near Ships,” now in its 60th year. • There are about 125 major
Lake St. Clair’s Did you know: freighters, barges and tank-
Selfridge DNR • There are 13 vessels ers engaged almost exclu-
Launch Ramp on the Great Lakes that sively in the Great Lakes
measure 1,000 feet long and Seaway trade? That
Endless Entertainment at the “Moot” a.k.a. Muscamoot Bay and can carry as much number is increased by a
as 75,000 tons of cargo in variety of saltwater vessels,
one trip? nicknamed salties, which
• It would take about 700 enter the system during the
rail cars or 2,800 250-ton season.
Each year, freighters That last detail might
make 1000s of trips be one reason why “Know
back & forth through Your Ships” has remained
Lake St. Clair via the popular for six decades. To
borrow from baseball – you
Detroit and can’t follow a team without
St. Clair Rivers knowing all the players.
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