- IMO
- 7366362
- MMSI
- 366938770
- Call Sign
- WZD2465
Technical Specifications
Key Figures
Live Tracking
Current Position
Where it waited most
Most time stopped at Calcite — 6 h across 1 stay.
- 1Calcite6 h
- 2Gary3 h
- 3Rouge River2 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.
Resolved from the live AIS destination. Distance is the real sea route (around land and through canals); the computed ETA is at the vessel’s passage speed. A destination is the crew’s stated intent, not a confirmed fixture.
Intelligence
Risk & Sustainability
- Sault Ste Marie0.0 dJun 29, 2026
- Calcite0.3 dJun 27, 2026
- Rouge River0.1 dJun 25, 2026
- Gary0.1 dJun 20, 2026
AIS-derived from our live feed.
Compliance
Safety Record
- SUSTAINS DAMAGE RENDER UNSEAWORTHY/UNFIT FOR PURPOSE - Unfit for purpose - ice, weather, etc.SeriousJan 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.
- RISK OF COLLISION (near collision) - With another vessel or other floating objectMinorOct 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.
- COLLISION - Struck by vesselModerateMay 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
Making way at sea speed on its latest broadcast.
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
3 recent · AIS-detectedArrivals, 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).
- no cargo change→ · 20 h in port· draught 8.7→8.7 m
- no cargo change→ · 3 h in port· draught 8.7→8.7 m
- 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
3 ports · 32 h totalTime-in-port summed by port from the AIS-detected port-call history — the ports this vessel has spent the most time at, longest first.
- Calcite· USA20 h1 call · 20 h avg
- Gary· USA9 h1 call · 9 h avg
- Rouge River· USA3 h1 call · 3 h avg
Based on 3 completed calls observed since — open calls (no departure yet) are excluded. The distribution sharpens as AIS history accrues.
Composite Risk
Risk Score
Multiple adverse factors, or a hard ship-specific signal, lift this hull above the fleet norm.
A coverage-weighted blend of the 3 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
Bulker · summer draught 8.7 m · 42.6 t per cm immersion
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.
density DWT/GT=2.42 is physically implausible for any cargo ship (declared bulker) — likely a tonnage data error
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.
Declared type contradicts the size-implied class
- 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.
Commercial
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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.
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