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BENSON fog} "* BENSON FORD (ii) Rouge River 12/8/83 Photo by Mike Nicholls Steel bulk renmtes (us 265508) built in 1953 at Bay City, Michigan by Defoe Ship Building Company (Hull#424) as a.) RICHARD vl MARS HALL for Great Lakes Steamship Company: 629.6 X 67 X 30. 6 gross tons. preetes y JOSEPH S WOOD in 1958. _Bougnt by Ford in 1966 renamed c.) JOHN DYKSTRA (i) and d.) BENSON FORD (ii) in 198s Renamed e.) U.S.265808, in 1986, she was sold for scrap and arrived at Ramey's Bend on November 30, 1986. She was used for a storage ‘of salt cake at Thorold in the winter of 1986-7 and departed Wharf 6 on June 12, 1987 for Sorel. She was outbound at Les Escoumins on August 7, 1987 with T W ROBINSON under tow of tug JANTAR and arrived at Recife, Brazil on September Ne 22 for scrapping. BENSON FORD (iii) Rouge River 4/13/85 Photo by Mike Nicholls Steel bulk freighter (U.S.263980) built in 1952 at Toledo, Ohio by the American phe cueg Company (Hull#189) as a) EDWARD B GREENE for the Cleveland Cliffs Steamship Company: .25 X 70 X 31.3; 11,726 gross tons. She was lengthened to 749° by Fraser Shipyards in 1976, new tne tonnage 13, 899. She was converted to a self unloader by American Ship Building, Toledo in 1980. Purchased by Ford in el 1985 and renamed b.) BENSON FORD (iii). Renamed c.) KAYE E BARKER in 1989. 43-11-2