Bulk carrier
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A bulk carrier or bulker is a merchant ship specially designed to transport unpackaged bulk cargo, typically grain, coal, ore, forest products, steel coils, or cement, in its cargo holds.
Sabrina I is a modern Handymax bulk carrier
Bulk carrier and loading apparatus, Seattle (2010)
Bulk carriers in the Port of Liverpool (2018)
Federal Margaree on the Great Lakes (2005)
Lake freighter
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Lake freighters, also called lakers, are bulk carriers operating on the Great Lakes of North America. Freighters typically have a long, narrow hull, a raised pilothouse, and the engine located at the
Bulk carrier
…which used seawater instead of sandbags. These features helped her succeed in the competitive British coal market. The first self-unloader was the lake freighter Hennepin in 1902 on the Great Lakes. This greatly decreased the unloading time of bulk carriers by using a conveyor belt to move the cargo. The first…
SS Arthur M. Anderson, with pilothouse forward and engine room astern, also equipped with a self-unloading boom.
The State Lock at the Michigan State Locks (now Soo Locks)
The R. J. Hackett, the first modern Great Lakes bulk freighter
Whaleback Joseph L. Colby