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Another World's Record Broken Over Half a Million Tons of Freight Carried—Forty-Six Cargoes of Ore and Coal Delivered in Seven Months and Seventeen Days—Record Made by a New Vessel Completed in April, 1924 OWHERE else in the world, it N is safe to say, has the business of transporting bulk cargoes been developed to such a remarkable degree of efficiency as on the Great Lakes. Considering their draft, very large ships have been built of a design to permit rapid handling of cargo. Every detail of dock equipment has been modernized with the view of re- ducing the time for loading and un- loading. The loading time for. these large vessels carrying around 13,000 tons is reckoned not in days nor hours but minutes. A cargo of ore of this tonnage has been loaded in 30 minutes. Under these conditions of exceptionally quick turn around applying more or less to all vessels it means unusual efficiency on the part of the manage- ment and the officers and men and in the mechanical features of the ship itself for one of them to set a new high record for the total amount of cargo carried during the season. This honor was won by the steamer WIL- LIAM K. FIELp, owned and operated by Reiss Steamship Co., Cleveland, com- manded by Capt. Alex Craigie and A. L. McLaren, chief engineer, during the season of 1924. In a period of seven months and 17 days she delivered a total of 552,014 net tons of ore and coal. This is a new high record never before equaled on the Great Lakes or ocean. The Wit1AM K. FIELp is a new vessel built by the Toledo Shipbuilding Co., Toledo, and completed in the spring of 1924. In design as may be noted from the accompanying illustration, she follows the standard lake bulk cargo carrier type, which is now practically a standard. Her dimensions are 600 feet in length, 60 feet in beam and 32 feet in depth and she has a gross tonnage of 8200 and a deadweight ton- nage of 13,000. She has a reciprocating engine of 2500 horsepower, scotch boil- ers, burns coal and has a speed of 12 miles per hour. Beginning the season at Toledo where she had just been completed, on April 19, 1924, she delivered between that date and December 6, 1924 when she discharged her last cargo at Duluth a total of 46 cargoes, 22 of 267,339 net tons of which were ore and 24 of 284,- 675 net tons of which were coal mak- ing a grand total of 552,014 tons. The runs were almost invariably from Ash- tabula to Duluth with coal, and from Allouez, Wis., back to Ashtabula with ore, though one trip was made from Ashtabula to Sheboygan, Wis., and one from Lorrain to Green Basin, Wis., with coal. So practically all the cargoes CAPTAIN ALEX CRAIGIE Commander of the Steamer William K. Field were to and from Lake Superior, and 529,666 tons of ore and coal were carried through the Soo river. Lake Michigan ports received only 22,348 tons. Cargoes were taken both ways on every trip until the last when she went in ballast from Green Bay, Wis. to Lake Erie for coal. Good dispatch was given and the stay in port was reduced to a minimum, The average STEAMER WILLIAM K. 93 draft for the entire season was 19 feet. After delivering her last cargo at Duluth Dec. 6, she proceeded to Fort William to load grain for spring delivery to Buffalo. Other previous high records for freight carried were made by the steam- er Cot. J. M. ScHooMAKER of the Shenango Furnace ‘Co., in moving 464,- | 725 net tons in the season of 1916 and by the steamer JAMES MacNAvuGHTON of the Wilson Transit Co., in deliver- ing 491,725 net tons in the season of 1923. The Field should get off for a good start in 1925 as her present charter calls for holding a cargo of grain at the Canadian head of the Lakes for spring delivery at seven cents a bushel. She has a capacity for more than 400,000 bushels. The captain, chief engineer and crew of this vessel deserve a great deal of credit for the splendid record made during the last season, and it is pre- dicted that it will take an especially well drilled and disciplined outfit to equal it. The steamer Witt1am K. Fietp has deservedly earned the title of cham- pion freight carrier of the world. In the navy the battleship making the best official record in marksmanship is al- lowed to fly a pennant denoting this fact. In big league baseball the champion team always flies a flag indicating its pre- eminence. Why shouldn’t the Fiextp fly a pennant or carry some other mark of dis- tinction to signify to all her friendly competitors that she holds the record. And as in the navy and in baseball this emblem of honors earned should be passed on to the one who can win it. FIELD BREAKS ALL RECORDS FOR FREIGHT CARRIED