Port Report  January 27, 2025

Port Report January 27, 2025

Port and vessel activity for Sunday, January 26, 2025, 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 ...
Today in Great Lakes History – January 27

Today in Great Lakes History – January 27

1893 1893:  On 27 January 1893, Charles Lonsby and Louis Wolf purchased the 161- foot wooden steam barge THOMAS D. STIMSON for $28,000. The vessel was built in 1881, by W. J. Daley & Sons at Mt. Clemens, Michigan, as a schooner and was originally named VIRGINIUS....
Boatnerd News – January 26, 2025

Boatnerd News – January 26, 2025

Free at last! Manitoulin under own power heading |away from Buffalo, following icebreaking vessels Buffalo, N.Y- Free at last. The 663-foot lake freighter Manitoulin was freed from the growing Lake Erie ice field Saturday after four U.S. Coast Guard and Canadian Coast...
Port Report  January 26, 2025

Port Report January 26, 2025

Port and vessel activity for Saturday, January 25, 2025, 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 ...
Today in Great Lakes History – January 26

Today in Great Lakes History – January 26

1898 1898:  On 26 January 1898, the CITY OF DULUTH (wooden passenger/package freight vessel, 202 foot, 1,310 gross tons, built in 1874, at Marine City, Michigan, as a passenger vessel) was carrying passengers, corn, flour and general merchandise from Chicago to St....