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Hennepin (shipwreck)
The ''Hennepin'' is a shipwreck off the east coast of Lake Michigan, west of South Haven, Michigan. The ship was originally built in October 1888 and sank on August 18, 1927. Michigan Shipwreck Research Associates found the ship in 2006 and conducted several dives to assess the condition of the wreck.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=MSRA - The wreck of the Hennepin )〕 The wreck was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 1, 2008.〔 It is significant as the first self-unloading bulk carrier.
==Career==
The ship was originally built as the ''George H. Dyer'' by the firm of Wolf and Davidson in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was equipped with a steam engine at the time. The ship changed owners a few times, and in 1898, it was later the ''Hennepin'', after Louis Hennepin, an explorer of the Great Lakes.〔
On June 27, 1901, the ship caught fire in Buffalo, New York. The fire damaged most of the upper deck and most of the machinery. The ship was sold to the Lake Shore Stone Company, who fitted it with a conveyor belt and made it a self-unloading ship. This was the world's first self-unloading ship, and it provided the paradigm for the many self-unloading vessels in use today. The ship had a 1600 ton capacity. It was put to work loading stone from a quarry in Stone Haven, Wisconsin.〔〔
Later, in 1923, it was purchased by Construction Materials Corporation and put to use hauling construction aggregate from a quarry on the Grand River to Chicago. The hull was wearing out and becoming unstable, so the ship was converted to a barge by removing its engine. It was hauled by the tugboats ''Ufasco'' in 1926 and ''Lotus'' in 1927.〔〔
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