by import2 | November 8, 2025 | Boatnerd News
Rt. Hon. Paul J. Martin Freed SATURDAY 1 pm. UPDATE: Rt. Hon. Paul J. Martin has been freed thanks to the efforts of 5 tugs and rising water levels. Tugs Ohio and Minnesota were on the bow, with the Ontario, Patricia Hoey and Tenacious on the stern. Once freed, the...
by import2 | November 8, 2025 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity for Friday November 7. Port reports done by Tom Geiger unless otherwise noted. Please send future port reports and pictures to news@boatnerd.net You can Now visit Matt Miner’s Saltie page at ...
by import2 | November 8, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1874 1874: The NIMROD (3-mast wooden schooner, 184 foot, 559 tons, built in 1873, at Toledo, Ohio) was carrying 37,000 bushels of corn from Chicago to Buffalo. On 08 November 1874, she encountered thick fog on Lake Erie and the large double decked schooner MICHIGAN...
by import2 | November 8, 2024 | Boatnerd News
Lost Mariners Remembrance ceremony being held in Detroit this weekend on Edmund Fitzgerald anniversray The Edmund Fitzgerald sank on Nov. 10, 1975 in Lake Superior, in a violent storm on the lake. November can be a turbulent month for weather across Michigan,...
by import2 | November 8, 2024 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity for Thursday, November 7, 2024, compiled by Tom Geiger, unless stated otherwise. Please send future port reports and pictures to news@boatnerd.net You can Now visit Matt Miner’s Saltie page at ...
by import2 | November 8, 2024 | Boatnerd Archives
1874 The NIMROD (3-mast wooden schooner, 184 foot, 559 tons, built in 1873, at Toledo, Ohio) was carrying 37,000 bushels of corn from Chicago to Buffalo. On 08 November 1874, she encountered thick fog on Lake Erie and the large double decked schooner MICHIGAN collided...
by import2 | November 8, 2023 | Boatnerd News
Four tugs tugs pulled the American Courage free around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday The grounded American Courage was released Tuesday around 6:15 p.m. by a quarter of tugs after running aground on the St. Clair river off Marie City, MI, nearly 12 hours earlier.The Port...
by import2 | November 8, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
The NIMROD (3-mast wooden schooner, 184 foot, 559 tons, built in 1873, at Toledo, Ohio) was carrying 37,000 bushels of corn from Chicago to Buffalo. On 08 November 1874, she encountered thick fog on Lake Erie and the large double decked schooner MICHIGAN collided with...
by import2 | November 8, 2022 | Boatnerd News
Strong prairie grain harvest helps Thunder Bay port THUNDER BAY, ON – One of the best-ever prairie harvests means more work for people employed in the grainhandling and shipping sectors in Thunder Bay. The Thunder Bay Port Authority said grain shipments in October...
by import2 | November 8, 2022 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity from November 7, 2022. Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Joshua Hebeisen With the weather quieting and waves subsiding farther out on Lake Superior, vessels holed up over the weekend in the Twin Ports...
