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The Detroit Marine Historian Journal of Marine Historical Society of Detroit Volume 20, No. 11 |v August, 1967 GEORGE A. SLOAN (US 243416) Photo Courtesy Wes Harkins FRESH FROM the Fraser Shipyards at Superior is the former Pittsburgh Fleet straight-decker, now converted to a self-unloader for service with the Bradley Fleet. The switch was made just as the two fleets were combined into U.S. Steel Corporation's Great Lakes Fleet. SLOAN (asHILL ANNEX) has been provided with a 250-foot boom for the lime- stone trade. She measures 620'6" (OA) x 60' x 35' with a capacity of 14,850 tons at midsummer draft of 24'7",. Built in 1943 at Great Lakes Engineering Works, River Rouge, under war-time Maritime Commission order, she was launched as HILL ANNEX but was rechristened SLOAN be- fore entering service. assianed to the Pittshurah fleet aneratian.