by import2 | March 23, 2024 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity from Thursday, March 22, 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 | March 23, 2024 | Boatnerd Archives
1850: On 23 March 1850, TROY (wooden side-wheel passenger/package freighter, 182 foot, 546 tons, built in 1845, at Maumee, Ohio) exploded and burned at Black Rock, New York. Up to 22 lives were lost. She was recovered and rebuilt the next year and lasted until 1860....
by import2 | March 22, 2024 | Boatnerd News
Joseph L. Block to open Soo Locks shipping season today SAULT STE. MARIE, MI – The motor vessel Joseph L. Block arrived in Soo harbor in the early afternoon Thursday. Today at 6 p.m. she will lock upbound as the first vessel of the new shipping season. The locks...
by import2 | March 22, 2024 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity from Thursday, March 21, 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 | March 22, 2024 | Boatnerd Archives
1871: On 22 March 1871, Engineer George Smith and two firemen were badly scalded on the propeller LAKE BREEZE when a steam pipe they were working on blew away from the side of the boiler. They were getting the engines ready for the new shipping season. 1873: On 22...
