Bulk Carrier 🇺🇸 USAActive

H.LEE WHITE

Built by Bay Shipbuilding Company in 1974

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IMO: 7366362
MMSI: 366938770
Call Sign: WZD2465

Technical Specifications

Key Figures

Gross Tonnage

14,499GT

Deadweight

35,019DWT

Length Overall

214.58m

Beam

23.77m

Draught

8.7m

Year Built

1974

Overview

About This Vessel

M/V H. Lee White is a diesel-powered Lake freighter owned and operated by the American Steamship Company (ASC). This vessel was built in 1974 at Bay Shipbuilding Company, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin and included self-unloading technology. The ship is 704 feet (215 m) long and 78 feet (24 m) wide, with a carrying capacity of 35,400 tons (at midsummer draft), limestone, grain, coal or iron ore.

Live Tracking

Current Position

Live AIS · just now

Track · last 14 d

Position

42.517°N · 82.684°W

Speed

10.5 kn

Course

64°

Status

Under way using engine

Destination CALCITEETA Oct 10, 11:30 PMLaden · 8.7 m

Where it waited most

Most time stopped at Duluth: 3 d across 5 stays.

1
Duluth3 d · 5×
2
Calcite36 h · 2×
3
Mackinac Island32 h · 2×
4
Superior29 h · 3×
5
Bay City9 h · 2×
6
Sault Ste Marie8 h · 13×
7
Erie8 h
8
Monroe7 h
9
Rouge River3 h
10
Toledo1 h

Derived from the AIS track: runs of near-zero speed (anchored, moored or drifting) snapped to the nearest port. Builds up as we observe the vessel.

Underway to

Toledo

USAAIS: TOLEDO

Distance

7641 nm

sea route

Off the port

9 Nov 2026

steaming at 10 kn

Speed now

10.1 kn

Under way using engine

Crew ETA

9 Oct 2026

Resolved from the live AIS destination. Distance is the real sea route (around land and through canals). The computed ETA is steaming time at the vessel’s passage speed, and does not include any wait for a berth. A destination is the crew’s stated intent, not a confirmed fixture.

Intelligence

Risk & Sustainability

Risk scoreHigh

58/ 100

Safety38

Compliance95

Environment38

Recent port calls

Toledo
Oct 9, 2026
0.3 d
Sault Ste Marie
Oct 7, 2026
0.0 d
Superior
Oct 6, 2026
0.4 d
Duluth
Oct 5, 2026
0.1 d
Duluth
Oct 5, 2026
0.3 d

AIS-derived from our live feed.

Compliance

Safety Record

Marine casualties3

Damage/UnseaworthySerious
Jan 18, 2023Ross Point, ONTARIO (ON)
On 18 January 2023, the bulk carrier "H. LEE WHITE" reported a small ingress of water in one of its ballast tanks while anchored off Cockburn Island on Lake Huron, ON. The vessel continued to Buffalo, NY, U.S. for winter layup.
Near-MissMinor
Oct 5, 2016Maskinongé, QC, QUEBEC (QC)
On 05 October 2016, the bulk carrier "H. LEE WHITE" reported a close quarters situation with the pleasure craft "QC4172004" on Lake Saint-Pierre 5 nautical miles SE of Maskinongé, QC. The bulk carrier took evasive actions to prevent a collision.
CollisionModerate
May 23, 2015River Rouge, MI, USA, Outside Provincial Boundaries
On 23 May 2015, the bulk carrier "ALGORAIL" collided with the bulk carrier "H. LEE WHITE" while entering the Rouge River near Detroit, MI, USA.

Recorded marine occurrences naming this vessel.

Operational Status

Activity

Idle / at anchorFix within the last day

Stopped, anchored or moored on its latest broadcast: parked, not necessarily withdrawn.

Speed

0.3 kn

Nav status

Under way using engine

Last broadcast

within the last day

Hull age

52 yr

Read from the single most-recent AIS broadcast we hold for this hull. We keep no position history, so this is a point-in-time posture, not a dwell inference. Derived in-house from our own AIS feed; weight it by the broadcast age above.

Port calls

28 recent · AIS-detected

Arrivals, time in port and the load/discharge inferred from the draught change, detected from AIS track history. An open call means the vessel is still in port (no departure observed yet).

Calcite
op. unknown
In port since
Monroe
no cargo change
→ · 10 h in port· draught 8.7→8.7 m
Toledo
no cargo change
→ · 14 h in port· draught 8.7→8.7 m· medium confidence
Sault Ste Marie
no cargo change
→ · 3 h in port· draught 8.7→8.7 m
Sault Ste Marie
no cargo change
→ · 2 h in port· draught 8.7→8.7 m
Duluth
no cargo change
→ · 2.0 days in port· draught 8.7→8.7 m
Bay City
no cargo change
→ · 11 h in port· draught 8.7→8.7 m
Calcite
no cargo change
→ · 20 h in port· draught 8.7→8.7 m· low confidence
Calcite
no cargo change
→ · 26 h in port· draught 8.7→8.7 m
Sault Ste Marie
no cargo change
→ · 3 h in port· draught 8.7→8.7 m
Duluth
no cargo change
→ · 31 h in port· draught 8.7→8.7 m
Superior
no cargo change
→ · 13 h in port· draught 8.7→8.7 m
Sault Ste Marie
no cargo change
→ · 2 h in port· draught 8.7→8.7 m
Rouge River
no cargo change
→ · 4 h in port· draught 8.7→8.7 m
Erie
no cargo change
→ · 8 h in port· draught 8.7→8.7 m
Rouge River
no cargo change
→ · 4 h in port· draught 8.7→8.7 m
Toledo
no cargo change
→ · 6 h in port· draught 8.7→8.7 m
Duluth
no cargo change
→ · 12 h in port· draught 8.7→8.7 m
Rouge River
no cargo change
→ · 3 h in port· draught 8.7→8.7 m
Superior
no cargo change
→ · 12 h in port· draught 8.7→8.7 m
Duluth
no cargo change
→ · 14 h in port· draught 8.7→8.7 m
Buffington
no cargo change
→ · 13 h in port· draught 8.7→8.7 m
Rouge River
no cargo change
→ · 4 h in port· draught 8.7→8.7 m
Calcite
no cargo change
→ · 4 h in port· draught 8.7→8.7 m
Calcite
no cargo change
→ · 20 h in port· draught 8.7→8.7 m
Rouge River
no cargo change
→ · 3 h in port· draught 8.7→8.7 m
Gary
no cargo change
→ · 3 h in port· draught 8.7→8.7 m
Gary
no cargo change
→ · 9 h in port· draught 8.7→8.7 m

Method: each call is a run of fixes inside a port’s geofence confirmed by a stop (or an AIS gap); load/discharge is the sign of the draught delta over the call. Indicative: arrivals before our AIS history began read from the first observation.

Where it waits

11 ports · 12.7 days total

Time-in-port summed by port from the AIS-detected port-call history: the ports this vessel has spent the most time at, longest first.

Duluth· USA
4.4 days
4 calls · 26 h avg
Calcite· USA
3.0 days
4 calls · 18 h avg
Superior· USA
25 h
2 calls · 13 h avg
Toledo· USA
21 h
2 calls · 10 h avg
Rouge River· USA
18 h
5 calls · 4 h avg
Buffington· USA
13 h
1 call · 13 h avg
Gary· USA
12 h
2 calls · 6 h avg
Bay City· USA
11 h
1 call · 11 h avg
Monroe· USA
10 h
1 call · 10 h avg
Sault Ste Marie· USA
10 h
4 calls · 3 h avg
Erie· USA
8 h
1 call · 8 h avg

Based on 27 completed calls observed since . Open calls (no departure yet) are excluded. The distribution sharpens as AIS history accrues.

Composite Risk

Risk Score

89/100

High risk40% component coverage

Strong, corroborated adverse evidence: a detention, sanctions exposure or an AIS-gap / behavioural signal.

PSC detentionsno data

Sanctions exposureno data

AIS-gap & behaviour80

Hull age100

Flag registerno data

A coverage-weighted blend of the 2 components we could read for this hull; the weights renormalise over only the components present, so a thin read is never inflated and a hull is never credited a “safe 0” for a signal it has no row for. Higher means riskier. Derived in-house from government-open port-State-control, flag, sanctions and our own vessel data; weight it by the coverage above.

Estimated

Capacity & Classification

Cargo capacity at draughtMedium confidence

~35,019t at summer draught

Bulker · summer draught 8.7 m · 42.6 t per cm immersion

Estimated intake by draught

6.09 m~23,911 t

6.52 m~25,762 t

6.96 m~27,614 t

7.4 m~29,465 t

7.83 m~31,316 t

8.26 m~33,168 t

8.7 m~35,019 t

Estimate only: modelled from deadweight (deadweight regression) using a first-principles hydrostatic model, not measured hydrostatic tables. The design draught it is anchored to is unreliable across the fleet.

Type classificationConflict

Declared

Bulker

→

Inferred from size

Bulker

density DWT/GT=2.42 is physically implausible for any cargo ship (declared bulker) — likely a tonnage data error

DWT/GT 2.42Beam/LOA 0.111Declared type: Bulk Carrier

The declared type conflicts with the class implied by the vessel’s size signals: a possible mis-declaration. Inferred via our shared size-based classifier.

Transparency

Risk signals

Behavioural flags raised against this vessel, each shown with the raw evidence behind it. Derived in-house from data we are entitled to publish; informational, not a determination of wrongdoing.

Type vs. size mismatchhighstrength 0.95

Declared type contradicts the size-implied class

Jun 23, 2026

Audit Confidence: 0.95
Beam Loa Ratio: 0.111
Deadweight: 35,019
Declared Class: BULKER
Declared Type: Bulk Carrier
Dwt Gt Ratio: 2.415
Gross Tonnage: 14,499
Reason: density DWT/GT=2.42 is physically implausible for any cargo ship (declared bulker) — likely a tonnage data error
Size Implied Class: BULKER

Method: declared type vs size-implied class (DWT/GT density + beam/LOA fullness). Source: vessel_type_audit (sibling P3#3 job; shared coarse_class classifier).

Signals are a current-state view: a flag clears once the vessel stops tripping its detector. These are screening indicators, not a substitute for your own due diligence.

Full compliance dossier

Commercial

Voyage Planning

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Segment: Dry bulk
Deadweight: 35,019 DWT
Speed: 12.5 kn
Fuel 1 at sea: 22 t/day

Typical Handysize speed and burn. Replace them with the ship's own figures in the planner.

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