#whaleback

[capewolfe]

Whaleback freighter John Ericsson at Port Huron Mi May 1958 Photo by Richard Duncan, from the Lake Huron Lore collection. 

http://www.mhsd.org/publications/glswr/ericsson.htm

[route22ny]

A whaleback barge enters the Weitzel Lock at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.

Photo taken circa 1910 by Detroit Publishing Company via shorpy,com

[onceuponatown]

Chicago, Illinois. The Passenger Steamer SS Christopher Columbus at the Columbian Exhibition, 1893.

[jeff-foliage]

Determination by Jeff Folger https://buff.ly/2IgF3wa #Whaleback #Lighthouse from New Castle New Hampshire #NEPGuild #igMaine #USPixels⠀⠀ #landscapephotography #landscapelover #landscape_captures #landscapes #landscape_photography #pixel_ig #landscape_hunter #landscape_lovers #landscapecaptures #landscapestyles_gf #landscape_specialist #landscapeporn #getlost #landscapephotomag #ig_landscape #trapping_tones #ig_masterpiece #ig_podium #splendid_earth #gramslayers #optoutside #discoverearth #exploretheglobe #nakedplanet #places_wow

[benjaminwilliamsonphoto]

We see sea smoke by the sea shore. Y’all are probably getting tired of all the sea smoke photos everyone is posting. I have been out the past couple of mornings, but don’t have much time to work on those images. So, here’s a favorite from a few years ago. #newhampshire #whaleback #seasmoke #lighthouse (at Whaleback Light)

[apostlesofmercy]

A low-flying Royal Air Force Hurricane directs a Type Two HSL Whaleback rescue craft to an American pilot downed off the North Africa Coast, 1943. RAF Whalebacks were essentially stripped down PT boats, good for around 36 knots.

[capewolfe]

Great Lakes Whaleback steamer Christopher Columbus. She ran from 1893 to 1933.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Christopher_Columbus

[capewolfe]

Whaleback tanker SS Meteor on the Keweenaw Waterway. Upper Peninsula of Michigan in 1969. She is now a museum in Superior, Wisconsin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Meteor_(1896)