Drone Footage of Wilfred Sykes

The Wilfred Sykes was constructed in 1949 as a gearless bulk carrier by American Shipbuilding Company at their Lorain, Ohio, shipyard, for Inland Steel Company. The design staff at American Shipbuilding were given simple instructions when the Sykes was ordered, being told to design the largest possible ship to navigate the Great Lakes at the time, without consideration of past design practices. The new ship would prove to be very innovative, introducing design features that would influence Great Lakes ship design for over two decades.
The new design features in the Wilfred Sykes included a an aft deckhouse that extended to the limits of the hull at the stern, a poop deck with a deck house on top, a sleek stack, raked stem, and a tunnel that ran the length of the ship, allowing crew members to travel between any point on the ship without having to step foot on deck.
The Wilfred Sykes was originally constructed as a gearless bulk carrier, with large box holds designed for maximum efficiency for carrying iron ore and coal. She was converted to a self-unloader in 1975, and her self-unloading equipment consists of a single hold belt leading to an aft loop-belt system to a 250′ deck-mounted boom.
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