Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company

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This collection contains files of the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company that are primarily concerned with discussions of extending the length of the navigation season occurring from 1935-1981. Subject files, log books, symposia papers, and news clippings offer a number of perspectives on the movement among shipping companies toward implementing longer navigation seasons. The logbooks are from the S.S. CADILLAC for 1944-1948, 1972-1973, and 1976-1981.

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Records of overtime pay received by sailors aboard the H.L. GOBEILLE for two months in 1960 and various time spans for the ISHPEMING in 1956-1958 and 1960.

Scope and Contents The first portion of this collection consists mainly of agreements between maritime labor unions and steel production and shipping companies spanning 1914-1983, with most falling in the 1960s-1970s. Many large companies including Inland Steel, U.S. Steel, Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company, and American Shipbuilding Company are represented. Major unions featured include the National Maritime Union, Seafarer's International Union, Licensed Tugmen's Protective Association, and the United Steel...

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This collection is composed photographs and slides of Great Lakes vessels and assorted manuscript materials pertaining primarily to Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company and its Great Lakes vessels. Photos in this collection date mostly from the 1990s to the 2000s. The collection’s wide range of manuscripts ranges from newspaper articles to vessel crew listings and provides ample information pertaining to Cleveland-Cliffs vessels and operations.

Scope and Contents This collection contains over 500 logbooks from at least 100 different vessels. The number of logs available for each varies widely, with some vessels represented by individual logs. The best documented vessels include the B. F. AFFLECK, ARMCO, BLACK RIVER, PAUL H. CARNAHAN, CHAMPLAIN, LEON FALK, JR., E. G. GRACE, G. M. HUMPHREY, SARNIA, and JOSEPH H. THOMPSON. Record types mainly include standard logs, captain's or master's logs, radio telephone logs, trip logs, engine room logs, engineer's...

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Log of a ship owned by Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company, possibly written by B.H. Otten while in training on a merchant vessel during World War I with the U.S. Naval Auxiliary Reserves; includes numerous sketches of the Marquette and notes on seamanship along with some printed pamphlets. Ship originally built for the Dearborn Transit Company as the E.L. WALLACE and operated by them between 1906 and 1915.

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Interoffice memos dealing with structure of Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company and ore storage prospects.

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Transcripts done by Walter Lewis from originals at the Saginaw River Marine Historical Society, made available by Dave Swayze, excerpted from the website of the Maritime History of the Great Lakes, dealing specifically with first-person accounts of the Great Lakes Storm of 1913.

Abstract The WILLIAM P. SNYDER, JR. was built by the Great Lakes Engineering Works at Ecorse, MI and launched in 1912. The items compiled here were acquired by the SNYDER's chief engineers between 1932 and 1980. A series of catalogs and one of briefer sales brochures illustrate the choices available to engineers purchasing equipment and parts, and a series of manuals provide the information needed to operate the purchased equipment. A final series containing log books provides information on the...

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Material from many of the major Great Lakes fleets giving winter mooring lists, appointments, retirements, and deaths for the year, including Amoco, Upper Lakes Shipping, Pickands Mather, Halco, Algoma, Ford, Cleveland Cliffs, Hanna, and others; compiled by Richard Wright.