MV American Republic

The American Republic was built in 1981 for the American Steamship Company by Bay Shipbuilding Co. of Sturgeon Bay, Wis. To aid her in her usuall shuttle run from Lorain, OH to the LTV steel plants up the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland she is equipped with both bow and stern thrusters as well as four steering rudders, fixed Kort nozzles, and four flanking rudders

• Downbound Cuyahoga River - January 1995
• Arriving Cleveland with the Olympic Flame Outside the breakwall
• Arriving Cleveland with the Olympic Flame Inside the breakwall
• Olympic Flame visible just above the "C"
• A few people at Voinovich Park to greet the vessel and flame
• Tied-up, old CBS Dock sporting the billboard lettering painted on her hull when she carried the Olympic Flame.
• Waiting out high water at the Medusa Dock. Note the "ASC-GATX" on her hull.
• Lay-up in Toledo, 1997

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