by import2 | March 12, 2024 | Boatnerd News
2024 “Know Your Ships” launches; book signing at Soo Locks March 23 SAULT STE. MARIE, MI – The new shipping season is at hand, and so is the release of the 2024 edition of Know Your Ships, the popular annual field guide to boats and boatwatching on the Great Lakes...
by import2 | March 12, 2024 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity from Thursday, March 11, 2024, compiled by Tom Geiger, unless stated otherwise. Please send future port reports and pictures to news@boatnerd.net PORT REPORT 3/12/2024 BAIE COMEAU, CANADA 3/13/2024 Thamesborg-ETA-8:40 AM QUEBEC, CANADA...
by import2 | March 12, 2024 | Boatnerd Archives
1883: On 12 March 1883, the steam barge R. MC DONALD was renamed IDA M. TORRENT. 1907: G.A. TOMLINSON was launched March 12, 1907, as a) D.O. MILLS (Hull#29) at Ecorse, Michigan, by Great Lakes Engineering Works for the Mesaba Steamship Co. 1910: The b.) RUTH...
by import2 | March 11, 2024 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity from Thursday, March 10, 2024, compiled by Tom Geiger, unless stated otherwise. Please send future port reports and pictures to news@boatnerd.net PORT REPORT 3/11/2024 BAIE COMEAU, CANADA 3/12/2024 Thamesborg-ETA-6:29 AM QUEBEC, CANADA...
by import2 | March 11, 2024 | Boatnerd Archives
1886: The tug RIVER QUEEN was sold to Ed Recor of St. Clair, Michigan on 11 March 1886. 1904: The wooden-hull Lake Erie car ferry SHENANGO NO. 1 caught fire and burned following an engine room explosion on March 11, 1904. The vessel had been frozen in the ice off...
