Meteor Voyage
Early on Meteor Voyage, Meteor voyage are historical ships that build for journey. The meteor voyage itself are reliable for discover water temperature studies, water samples, studies of marine life and atmospheric observations. Meteor voyage is 380 feet long overall with a 366-foot keel, and the other dimensions of this voyage include a beam 0f 45 feet and a depth of 26 feet. The Meteor Voyage start to begin their journey with her sister ship, called whalebacks. It was the first major boats on the Great Lakes with all accommodations, and the whalebacks ships only have a small room for the anchor windlass at the bow, and John Ericsson was the only whaleback with the pilot house at the bow. He was the last whalebacks on the ocean that travels with meteor voyage. The meteor voyage sailed on the Canadian side until 1964. The modern design of Meteor Voyage was created by Scottish captain Alexander McDougall, which enabled the ship to carry a maximum amount of cargo with a minimum of draft. Meteor voyage was built in 1896 in Superior, Wisconsin, United States, and, with a number of modifications, sailed until 1969. The meteor voyage are supported and built by the American Steel Barge Company at their yard in Superior, Wisconsin in the summer of 1896.
The Meteor entered the service in November 1924 and made the meteor become survey expedition between 20 January 1925 and 17 February 1925. The main first purpose of this ship was to check the equipment of the vessel. The Meteor voyage started the German Atlantic Expedition on 16 April 1925, and did not return to Germany until 2 June 1927. The ship has traveled and sailed for more than 67,500 miles and took cross sections of the South Atlantic between South America, and Africa. Since the vessel took cross sections, the ship was able to mapping the entire ocean, as the ship travelled further. From the journey, the Meteor Voyage has discovered a bank (seamount) that rises up to 560 m below sea level from a depth of 4,000m, and making this bank become “Meteor Bank”. As the journey continuing to Iceland and Greenland, where the ship performed survey work as well as fishery protection duties, the ship finally found another smaller bank in the South Atlantic Sea, and today that bank become famous with the name known as Great Meteor Seamount.
The Meteor entered the service in November 1924 and made the meteor become survey expedition between 20 January 1925 and 17 February 1925. The main first purpose of this ship was to check the equipment of the vessel. The Meteor voyage started the German Atlantic Expedition on 16 April 1925, and did not return to Germany until 2 June 1927. The ship has traveled and sailed for more than 67,500 miles and took cross sections of the South Atlantic between South America, and Africa. Since the vessel took cross sections, the ship was able to mapping the entire ocean, as the ship travelled further. From the journey, the Meteor Voyage has discovered a bank (seamount) that rises up to 560 m below sea level from a depth of 4,000m, and making this bank become “Meteor Bank”. As the journey continuing to Iceland and Greenland, where the ship performed survey work as well as fishery protection duties, the ship finally found another smaller bank in the South Atlantic Sea, and today that bank become famous with the name known as Great Meteor Seamount.
The Meteor voyage has the mission and purposes for the marine life and ecology, they joined their barges and steamers in the movement of iron ore from Lake Superior ports down to the steel mills of Lake Erie and coal back up the lakes. As the movement of the meteor voyage were aiming the observation and also protecting marine life, so the meteor voyage has things to do with the ocean, which are related to the importance marine biology.
In 2001, there are association and project called the S.S .Meteor Preservation and Stabilization Project that accept more than 50 volunteers who are willing to join and participate to the Great Lakes Shipwreck Preservation Society (GLSPS), Wisconsin Underwater Archeology Association (WUAA), Lake Superior Maritime Museum Association (LSMMA), and the Superior Public Museums (SPM). The project held for one weekend in April and the volunteers has completed 16 tasks of this project. The task that has be done were, Housekeeping, Power Washed Outside the ship of debris Bird and other animal droppings, Cleaned Jacking machine gear and measure to attempt to find another gear around the Great lakes region, Repairing and repaint Pilot House inside window, Build Railing in front of work shop in front cargo hold, Role up mooring lines and prepare for display in a different area, Remove rust on Main steam engines valve rods and reseal with mineral oil, Start cleaning and scraping old paint and priming rudder gear room, Start cleaning and scraping old paint and priming lower engine room, Paint port hole sills of crews cabins and mess hall on port side of ship, Paint double exit doors on starboard side of ship in Museum Area, Paint small areas in engine room that were omitted from previous years, Weld steel plating under port side cabin areas where water rusted a huge hole through floor, Weld two holes in forward cargo hold where restrooms use to be concrete and eight feet of sand was removed and is now a big hole, Cleaned rust off main steam engines valve rods and retreat with mineral, and the last action was paint ceiling overheads in two levels of the rear turret transfer steps. All of the 16 tasks that have been done are leading to the importance of marine biology and the ocean.]
Written By: Dicka Pramudya
In 2001, there are association and project called the S.S .Meteor Preservation and Stabilization Project that accept more than 50 volunteers who are willing to join and participate to the Great Lakes Shipwreck Preservation Society (GLSPS), Wisconsin Underwater Archeology Association (WUAA), Lake Superior Maritime Museum Association (LSMMA), and the Superior Public Museums (SPM). The project held for one weekend in April and the volunteers has completed 16 tasks of this project. The task that has be done were, Housekeeping, Power Washed Outside the ship of debris Bird and other animal droppings, Cleaned Jacking machine gear and measure to attempt to find another gear around the Great lakes region, Repairing and repaint Pilot House inside window, Build Railing in front of work shop in front cargo hold, Role up mooring lines and prepare for display in a different area, Remove rust on Main steam engines valve rods and reseal with mineral oil, Start cleaning and scraping old paint and priming rudder gear room, Start cleaning and scraping old paint and priming lower engine room, Paint port hole sills of crews cabins and mess hall on port side of ship, Paint double exit doors on starboard side of ship in Museum Area, Paint small areas in engine room that were omitted from previous years, Weld steel plating under port side cabin areas where water rusted a huge hole through floor, Weld two holes in forward cargo hold where restrooms use to be concrete and eight feet of sand was removed and is now a big hole, Cleaned rust off main steam engines valve rods and retreat with mineral, and the last action was paint ceiling overheads in two levels of the rear turret transfer steps. All of the 16 tasks that have been done are leading to the importance of marine biology and the ocean.]
Written By: Dicka Pramudya