Bardelmeier and Jones Return to Great Lakes – Buy Ashland Fleet

We don’t mean to make it sound like a trip down memory lane, but Roger Jones Sr. and William Bardelmeier are returning to the Great Lakes by participating in the acquisition of Ashland Oil Co.’s Cleveland Tanker fleet.

The two began their maritime careers while in school sailing on the Great Lakes in the 1940′s and worked together at Oglebay Norton’s Columbia Transportation division before later joining US Steel and forming Jones, Bardelmeier & Co. Ltd. in the 1960s.

Now Ashland has agreed to sell their Great Lakes fleet – two self-propelled tankers and a barge – to a private company called Patriot Shipping Inc. which has the same partners as Jones, Bardelmeier. The deal is subject to approval by the US Maritime Administration.

Besides Mr. Jones and Mr. Bardelmeier, the other partners of Patriot are William Braithwaite, Walter Mitchell, and Roger Jones Jr.

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