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William G. Mather Steamship Photographs

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Title	William G. Mather Steamship Photographs
Subject	Transportation Geography and Natural Resources Steamboats Ships Coal
Place	Cleveland (Ohio) Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
Description	These two photographs dating from the late-1920s to the 1930s show the original configuration of the steamship William G. Mather. The first photograph shows the Mather being loaded with 14,000 tons of iron ore. The photographs measure 4.5" x 3" (11.43 x 7.62 cm) and 2" x 3" (5.08 x 7.62 cm). The steamship William G. Mather was built in 1925 by the Great Lakes Engineering Works in Ecorse, Michigan. As the flagship for the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company (now Cleveland-Cliffs Inc.), the ship was state-of-the-art with respect to capacity, power, and accommodations, and was noted for its elegant passenger quarters. A straight-deck bulk carrier with a 14,000 ton capacity, the Mather is 618 feet long, 62 feet wide, and 32 feet deep (molded depth). For 55 years (1925-1980) the Mather operated as a Great Lakes freighter. In 1946, it became one of the first commercial Great Lakes vessels to be equipped with radar, and in 1964, became the first American vessel to have an automated boiler system, manufactured by Bailey Controls of Cleveland. In 1980, the steamship was laid up in Toledo, Ohio and was the last ship owned by Cleveland-Cliffs, Inc. as it divested itself of its Great Lakes shipping interests. The steamer was named in honor of the president of the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company, William Gwinn Mather. Mather was a leader in the mining and shipping industry for six decades and was known in Cleveland for his philanthropic work. On December 10, 1987, Cleveland-Cliffs, Inc. donated the steamer William G. Mather to the Great Lakes Historical Society to be restored and preserved as a museum ship and floating maritime museum. On May 23, 1991, the Steamship William G. Mather Museum opened to the public as northeast Ohio's only floating maritime museum. The Mather is listed in the International Register of Historic Ships. It is also referenced in Delegato and Clifford's Great American Ships, published by the National Trust for Historic Preservation (1991). On July 30, 1995 the Steamship William G Mather was dedicated as an American Society of Mechanical Engineers National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark for the 1954 installation of a single marine boiler and steam turbine engine, and the 1964 installation of the Bailey 760 Boiler Control System and dual propeller bow thruster, both firsts for U.S.-flag Great Lakes vessels.
Date of Original	1925 - 1940 circa
Source	Audiovisual material OM1
Submitting Institution	Steamship William G. Mather Museum
Type	StillImage
Format	picture

Title	Om1947_2815168_005
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om1947_2815168_005.tif
Image Height	584
Image Width	896
File Size	53.491 KB

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