by import2 | July 25, 2022 | Boatnerd News
Museum features Detroit company’s 74-year history of ‘pail mail’ In a world where technology is growing by leaps and bounds, old-fashioned mail service continues to be a mainstay on the Detroit River not far from the west end of Lake Erie. The J.W....
by import2 | July 25, 2021 | Boatnerd Archives
In 1991 the 16-man crew of the ocean-going tug PACIFIC TIDE NO 3 were arrested at Montreal on charges of smuggling drugs. The tug had arrived from the Philippines to tow the damaged Spanish vessel MILANOS to Spain. Algoma Central Marine’s former ALGOCEN departed...
by import2 | July 25, 2021 | Port Report Archive
Duluth-Superior – Scott Bjorklund Duluth Entry: Joseph L. Block arrived at 23:22 (CST) Friday night to unload limestone at CN#6. Mesabi Miner departed at 00:10 Saturday morning with iron ore pellets. American Century arrived at 06:23 to load coal at SMET. Floragracht...
by import2 | July 25, 2021 | Boatnerd News
Manistee-based museum ship receives Steamship Society award Manistee, MI – The former Lake Michigan car ferry SS City of Milwaukee in Manistee, Mich. has recently been announced as the winner of the Steamship Historical Society’s Museum Ship of the Year award....
by import | July 25, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1875 The wooden lumber tug CYGNET, which worked on the Shiawassee and Bad Rivers and Lake Huron, was destroyed when her boiler exploded in “Blow-up Bayou” on the Shiawassee River. 1882 The wooden bulk freighter D.C. WHITNEY was launched at Langell’s...
