“LST Squeaks Through Lock” from the January 19, 1954 Door County Advocate
LST Squeaks Through Lock
Like her sister, the LST1166, which rammed the railroad bridge here on trial run, the LST1167 has had her troubles with man-made structures along waterways.
Clippings from E. J. Mudd of St. Louis, a Whitefish Bay summer resident, show that the ship had a narrow squeak Jan. 12 getting through a temporary lock in the Missouri city.
The LST’s are 384 ft. long, the lock 360 ft., so the ’67 had to enter diagonally. Complicating the operations were big chunks of ice five inches thick.
To top it off, LST’s draw 8 ft. 1 in. and the lock had a maximum depth of 8 ft. 3. in. One St. Louis newspaper reported slight scraping.
Courtesy of the Door County Library Newspaper Archive
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