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    VESSEL NAME:   J. B. Ford
    OTHER NAME(s): Edwin F. Holmes, E. C. Collins (1915)
    OFFICIAL NO:   200666
    DATE OF LOSS:  October, 2015
    CAUSE OF LOSS: scrapped
    LOCATION:      Azcon Metals, Duluth
    RIG TYPE:      Propeller, bulk freight
    HULL TYPE:     Steel
    BUILDER:       American Shipbuilding Co., Lorain, OH - 1903
    OWNER(S):      Lafarge-Holcim, based in Switzerland
    MASTER:        -
    TONNAGE:       4,787 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    440 x 50 x 28
    CASUALTIES:    0

                   After being used as a stationary cement storage and
                transfer vessel for two decades the J. B. FORD made her
                final trip on 9 October 2015 when towed to Azcon Metals for
                scrapping.

                   Three weeks after her launch the EDWIN F. HOLMES broke
                loose from her moorings due to flooding on the Black River
                and ended up with her nose buried in the opposite bank. It
                was nearly two weeks before she was released.

                   In 1905 the HOLMES was upbound on Lake Superior and
                survived the great storm in which 29 other vessels were
                lost or damaged. The greatest loss was the MATAAFA at
                Duluth.

                   The HOLMES was also thought to have been lost in the
                "Big Blow" of November, 1913. Again, she survived when
                other larger, newer vessels didn't.




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Sources: Merchant Vessel List - 1905, 1906
         Buffalo Evening News, 6 February 1904
         Duluth News Tribune, 8 October 2015