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CASON J CALLAWAY Photo by Al Ballert Steel bulk freighter (U.S. 264349) built in 1952 at nner Rouge, peeagas by Great panes Engineering Works (Hull#297) for the Pittsburgh Steamship Company: 647 x 70 x 36; 11,591 gross tons. Lengthened 120 feet yy Fraser Shipyards, Superior, WI in 1974. Ciena to a pA cl at Fraser during the winter of 1982. Currently in service. Al Ballert's photo above shows the CASON J CALLAWAY downbound in the MacArthur lock at Sault Ste. Marie on March 1, 1975. Al includes the following information about the photo and the CALLOWAY. CASON J CALLAWAY was the first vessel over 730 feet to enter the MacArthur lock and also the first vessel to enter the system as late as the outset of March. Transiting the 767-foot vessel through the 800-foot lock resulted from the closure of the Poe lock for maintenance work at the end of February. The sisterships of the CALLAWAY, the PHILIP R CLARKE and ARTHUR M ANDERSON, were both completed in Lorain, Ohio in 1952 and have had identical changes in size and function. Lengthening of the CALLAWAY increased her capacity by about 5,000 gross tons. Her initial trip after being lengthened was made on May 31, 1974 with 26,632 tons of pellets. in 1966, her average for 27 trips with ore through the Poe lock was 24,149 gross tons (27,047 short tons). The reduction resulted from the installation of a hopper-type bottom in the cargo hold with 74 gates to feed ore onto the 78-inch loop conveyor belt. As a self-unloader, the area of the five holds is listed as 783,500 cubic feet. Ore discharge time is approximately 6 hours. CASON J CALLAWAY began the 1986 season on March 21 and made her first trip through the Soo locks with ore on March 27. Her final transit with ore through the locks was on January 15. During the fall of 1988, September through November, the CALLAWAY’s cargo was principally coal and limestone. The latter product, now being used for fluxed pellets, provided a return cargo to a Duluth-Superior on a number of trips for iron ore. Three of the CALLAWAY'‘s coal trips were from q Superior to Marquette with low-sulphur fuel from Montana. All in all, the vessel and crew had a very busy and diverse series of trips during the past season. 42-8-4