Page 15: of Maritime Reporter Magazine (May 15, 1973)

The Great Lakes' largest boat beats the four minute mile.

Bethlehem Steel Corporation wanted an ore boat The Cort supplies half the iron ore for the Burns big and fast enough to supply a steel plant and Harbor steel plant. responsive enough to ply the Great Lakes. So The source Qf the Cort's power fits easily in a 75-

Litton Industries built one a fifth of a mile long f00t-square engine room. One man commands that makes 16 miles per hour, fully loaded with four General Motors 20-645E7 turbocharged 52,000 gross tons of iron ore pellets. Yet she can Djese, engines that satlsfy the boat's entire need stop dead from all ahead full within three times for power He can djrect a|, 14 000 h p to the twjn her own length, negotiate the tightest bends near screWs, or simultaneously channel each 3,500

Sault Ste. Marie unassisted, and self-unload in h p engjne to power any of the boars other func_ 21/2 hours. tions—from bow thrusters to ballasting to unload-

The Stewart J. Cort sails between Taconite Har- ing to ship's service generator, bor, Minnesota, and Burns Harbor, Indiana, 40 ,f you>d ,ike tQ know more about Generaj Motors times a year-a 1600 mile round trip in six days. versatile Diesel engines, please write us.