Sam Laud

Sam Laud was built in 1975, is 635 feet long and flies a U.S. flag

The late seventies was a time when the Great Lakes shipping business saw the first of thirteen 1,000-foot lakers built and launched. Most of them come to the Twin Ports on a regular basis and all get here each shipping season. The late 70′s also was a time for building smaller boats, such as the Sam Laud. The Laud is one of several smaller boats that take cargo up rivers and to ports that the larger boats cannot get to. She spends a lot of time on the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland shuttling taconite to steel mills up river. If you want to see the Great Lakes, get a job on the Sam Laud. Here are just a few of the many ports the boat visits: Cleveland, Stoneport, Conneaut, Alpena, Calcite, Zug Island, Lorain, Erie, Waukegan, Toledo , Muskegon, Holland, Sandusky, Green Bay, Bay City, Burns Harbor, South Chicago, Manistee, St. Joseph, Windsor, Milwaukee, Ashtabula, Marblehead, Ludington, Detroit, Saginaw and Benton Harbor. Click here for other pages featuring the Sam Laud. Picture above taken Thursday, November 8, 2007
Picture above taken Thursday, November 8, 2007
Picture above taken Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Picture above taken Monday, September 2, 2002
Picture above taken Friday, December 14, 2001