bigships.net - Stephen C. Host Photo: Ahh, the crown jewel of the great lakes freight fleet in 2017, the Alpena, about to turn between Buoys 1 and 2. What’s great about Sarnia is as the ships arrive, you’ll have a chance to shoot both sides and often in great light as they turn quite a bit; and my 400mm lens got a good workout! I’m glad to have finally got a steamship on camera, in my years passed I don’t think I managed to photograph one. A great looking ship, well maintained, as Neil Young would sing, long may she run.

Ahh, the crown jewel of the great lakes freight fleet in 2017, the Alpena, about to turn between Buoys 1 and 2. What's great about Sarnia is as the ships arrive, you'll have a chance to shoot both sides and often in great light as they turn quite a bit; and my 400mm lens got a good workout! I'm glad to have finally got a steamship on camera, in my years passed I don't think I managed to photograph one. A great looking ship, well maintained, as Neil Young would sing, long may she run.

Caption: Ahh, the crown jewel of the great lakes freight fleet in 2017, the Alpena, about to turn between Buoys 1 and 2. What's great about Sarnia is as the ships arrive, you'll have a chance to shoot both sides and often in great light as they turn quite a bit; and my 400mm lens got a good workout! I'm glad to have finally got a steamship on camera, in my years passed I don't think I managed to photograph one. A great looking ship, well maintained, as Neil Young would sing, long may she run.

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Date:	10/9/2017 (search)
Company:	Inland Lakes Management (search)
Ship Type:	Bulk Carrier (search)
Propulsion:	Steam (search)
Year Built:	1942 (search)
Country:	Canada (search)
Length/Width:	519,67
Registry	Cleveland OH (search)
Ship Name:	Alpena (search)

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headtailgrep says:

October 13, 2017 at 2:17 am

And I lied – turns out when I shot the Algoma Provider a few years back it was also steam turbine powered.. so I have two steam ships in my collection. Not too many, but glad to have ‘em.