McKee Sons

The self-unloading barge McKee Sons was built in 1945 as a type C4-S-B2 fast troop transport by Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Chester, PA, christened as the Marine Angel. Her overall length was approximately 510 feet with power coming from a 9,900 shp steam...

Algoma Provider

(Murray Bay (2) 1963 – 1994, Canadian Provider 1994 – 2011)by George Wharton  The keel was laid for this classic straight-deck bulk carrier in August, 1962 at Collingwood Shipyards Ltd., Collingwood, ON as their hull # 177.  Nine months later, on May...

Muskegon

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]By Mark Taylor 6-10 Tug Candice Elise Grand Trunk ferry dock. 6-10 Herbert C. Jackson Verplank Lakeside dock aggregate. 6-6 Alpena Lafarge cement. 6-5 Barbara Andrie Verplank salt dock. 6-5 John J. Boland Verplank aggregate. 6-3...

Saginaw

  By Todd Shorkey  April 16, 2021 Friday afternoon saw BBC Oregon departing the Port Fisher dock in Bay City, with the assistance of the tug Manitou. BBC Oregon had arrived on the Saginaw River on April 12th to unload wind turbine tower sections. April 12,...