Port Report  June 4, 2024

Port Report June 4, 2024

Port and vessel activity for Monday, June 3, 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 ...
Today in Great Lakes History – June 4

Today in Great Lakes History – June 4

The Port Huron Times reported “The new trim and tidy tug, the P L JOHNSON, built for Capt. Sol Rummage, passed up last night with her first tow. She is of medium size and wears the national colors on her smokestack for which some of the boys call her a floating...

Boatnerd News – June 3, 2024

Former Trump casino boat on the move SARNIA, ON – The casino boat Majestic Star II has been towed from her home of the past two years, BayShip at Sturgeon Bay, by the tug John Marshall. The two, assisted by the local tug Welland, stopped at Sarnia on Sunday....
Port Report  June 3, 2024

Port Report June 3, 2024

Port and vessel activity for Sunday, June 2, 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 ...
Today in Great Lakes History – June 3

Today in Great Lakes History – June 3

1870:   On 3 June 1870, T.F. PARK (wooden side-wheeler, 170 foot, 450 tons, built in 1851, at Chatham, Ontario) caught fire and burned to the waterline at the dock near the Detroit & Milwaukee Grain Elevator at Detroit, Michigan. The hull was later removed after...