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Edmund
Fitzgerald - Gitche Gumee
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Date 9-19-05
- The vessel had a 860,950-cubic-foot
cargo hold divided by two nonwatertight transverse "screen"
bulkheads.
- The FITZGERALD was carrying
about 26,116 long tons of National Taconite Pellets. Taconite pellets
are manufactured by a process known as "oxide pelletizing.Taconite
pellets weigh from 127 to 140 pounds per cubic foot, will absorb approximately
8 to 9 pounds (6 to 7 percent by weight) water per cubic foot, can
contain up to 27.5 pounds of water in the interstitial void spaces
in each cubic foot of pellets, and exhibit an angle of repose (the
angle between the horizontal and the slope of a freestanding pile
of the material) of approximately 260 either wet or dry.
- On November 9, 1975, the
S.S. EDMUND FITZGERALD began loading 26,116 long tons of taconite
pellets at Burlington Northern Railroad Dock No. 1 in Superior, WI.
- Drafts were taken after
receipt of the taconite pellets and 50,013 gallons of No. 6 fuel oil,
delivered by a barge which came alongside while the taconite pellets
was being loaded.
- Cylinder Water Tanks was
also part of the ship weight.
See Ship Blue Prints for
measurements:
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