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From: Marc Vander Meulen
Location: Holland, MI
email: mandj@sirus.com
Remote Name: 66.184.60.130
Date: 11.28.06
Time: 10:36:44 AM
The Edmund Fitzgerald and Arthur B. Homer both had a solid bulwark above the pilot house visor. The Edward L. Ryerson has a similar bulwark, but no visor. Was this evolution a functional change or styling. Did the visor become unnecessary when radar and other technologies allowed the captain to move out of the open center window?
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