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Lumber hooker

Lumber hooker is a nautical term for a Great Lakes ship designed to carry her own deck load of lumber and to tow one or two barges. The barges were schooner barges: large old schooners stripped of their masts and running gear to carry large cargoes of lumber.

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Lumber hooker is a nautical term for a Great Lakes ship designed to carry her own deck load of lumber and to tow one or two barges. The barges were schooner barges: large old schooners stripped of their masts and running gear to carry large cargoes of lumber.1

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  1. *Boyer, Dwight (1996). Great Stories of the Great Lakes: Thrilling Tales of Tragedy, Humor, and Heroism. Cleveland, Ohio, USA: Freshwater Press, Inc. ISBN 0-912514-49-3.