American Spirit - A Behemoth Rolls Through, Thrusters in Action
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Here is the American Spirit arriving in Superior, Wisconsin on the afternoon of March 31, 2025. She was coming in empty to take a delay at the Elevator M dock, while she waited for her turn to load in Two Harbors, Minnesota. The delay gives them an opportunity to take on supplies and get some maintenance work done before it's their time to load. Eventually they did make their way to Two Harbors, where they took on a load of taconite for delivery to Conneaut, Ohio.
This arrival through the Superior piers was a bit slower than we're used to seeing, but the Spirit was in no particular hurry either... as it wouldn't speed up the time when the loading dock would become available. As the bow of the Spirit passes in front of us, we can see her thruster in action, with water being stirred up right below the thruster symbol. While the thruster becomes less effective at higher speeds, this arrival was slow enough that it could be much more useful.
There was no salute for this arrival. Besides a couple of fishermen at the end of the pier, I was the only one to welcome the Spirit to Superior... so they may have been saving their horn for a larger crowd. Or they were too busy running the thrusters to keep her on course.
The 1004-foot American Spirit was the seventh of thirteen 1000-footers built for Great Lakes services. She was launched as the George A. Stinson in 1978, eventually being renamed the American Spirit in 2004. According to the American Steamship Company website she is "powered by two Pielstick 16-cylinder, 8000 horsepower (each), four cycle, heavy fuel-burning diesel engines. The vessel uses a conveyor system below its cargo holds to transport cargo to a "loop conveyor" system that elevates the cargo to the massive deck-mounted boom conveyor. For maneuvering in port, the vessel is equipped with a 1,000 HP bow thruster." She has a mid-summer capacity of 62,400 tons. Her 260-foot self-unloading boom can discharge cargo at a rate of 10,000 tons per hour.
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