MV Buffalo

Buffalo at Cleveland
History
US
Name:	MV Buffalo
Builder:	Bay Shipbuilding Company
Yard number:	721
Launched:	1978
Identification:	Call sign: WXS6134 IMO number: 7620653
Status:	In service as of 2015
General characteristics
Class and type:	Lake freighter
Tonnage:	11,619 gross tonnage 8,036 net tonnage
Length:	634 feet 10 inches (193 m) (overall) 615 feet (187 m)
Beam:	68.1 ft (20.8 m)
Draft:	27 ft 11.875 in (8.53123 m) (Midsummer Draft) 38 ft (12 m) (hull depth)
Propulsion:	two 3500 HP General Motors Electro Motive Division (EMD) diesel engines, 7,000 SHP

M/V Buffalo is a diesel-powered Lake freighter owned and operated by the American Steamship Company. This vessel was built in 1978 at Bay Shipbuilding Company, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin and included self-unloading technology.

The ship is 634 feet 10 inches (193.50 m) long and 68 feet (21 m) wide, with a carrying capacity of 24,300 Gross Tons (at midsummer draft), limestone, gypsum, coal or iron ore.

The ship was built for American Steamship in 1978 and named for Buffalo, New York, where the company was founded.

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