Calumet (1973 ship)

MV Calumet is Great Lakes bulk freighter currently in operation.

The ship was built in 1973 by the American Ship Building Company at Lorain, Ohio as the William R. Roesch for the Union Commerce Bank, Ohio, and managed by Kinsman Marine Transit.

[1] In 2006, Oglebay-Norton sold its fleet of River class ships to Grand River Navigation and the Wisconsin and Michigan Steamship Company of Avon Lake and Lakewood, Ohio.

The Norton went to the WAMSC, along with Earl W. Oglebay and Wolverine, and was renamed David Z..

[2] On October 21, 2021 MV Calumet ran aground near the Lake State Railway swing bridge across the Saginaw River in Bay City but was quickly freed by tugs.