1973 Charles E. Wilson
Steel self-unloading Great Lakes bulk freighter
Built at Sturgeon Bay WI by Bay Shipbuilding Co., Hull 710
Launched March 10, 1973
680’ LOA, 666’ LBP, 78’ beam, 45’ depth
1 deck, arch cargo hold construction, hatches @ 24’, oil-fired diesel engines, 7000 BHP
Enrolled at
666.8 x 78.1 x 42.7, 20899 GT, 16749 NT US 550954 to:
Franklin Steamship Co., Buffalo NY, a subsidiary of Boland & Cornelius, Boland & Cornelius, Mgr. (home port Wilmington DE)
Entered service Sept 20, 1973 clearing Sturgeon Bay WI light for Escanaba MI
Renamed John J. Boland (4) 2000
IMO 7318901
In service 2011 for American Steamship Co.
7302
Well the boat sure has history with me got lost one time in a storm on the St Clair River somehow in the storm the boat turned around and almost an hour we came up on the boat for the second time and realized we got turned around it was a really bad storm we drove her awake is there a long time so we got back to where the boat would be parked but we ran out of gas