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| Friday, May 1, 2009
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| The American Century was built in 1981 by the Bay Shipbuilding Corporation of Sturgeon Bay as the Columbia Star, in part, for the brig Columbia, a ship that in 1855 carried the first iron ore through the locks now known as the Soo. In 2006, she was purchased from Oglebay Norton by American Steamship Company in Buffalo and received her current name. She is 1,000 feet long and is operated with 4 General Motors diesel engines. She has a 260-foot self unloading boom on her deck. She averages about 40 trips a year to Duluth Superior, usually loading coal at Midwest Energy Resources in Superior. |
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| Friday, December 7, 2007
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| Friday, December 7, 2007
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| Friday, December 7, 2007
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Saturday, July 14, 2007: The American Century departs Duluth going under the Duluth Aerial Lift Bridge
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| Sunday, October 8, 2006
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| Wednesday, December 22, 2004
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| Wednesday, July 14, 2004
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| Tuesday, October 1, 2002
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Saturday, June 8, 2002: approaching the Duluth Aerial Lift Bridge
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Sunday, October 21, 2001: approaching the Lift Bridge
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Tuesday, August 14, 2001: entering the Duluth harbor
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| Tuesday, May 8, 2001
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Wednesday, September 29, 1999: She enters the Duluth ship canal to go under the Duluth Aerial Lift Bridge and into the Duluth harbor.
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