by import2 | February 12, 2024 | Boatnerd Archives
1944 1944: RED WING was launched February 12, 1944, as a.) BOUNDBROOK (Hull#335) at Chester, Pennsylvania by Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., a T2-SE-A1 Ocean Tanker. She was renamed b.) IMPERIAL EDMONTON in 1947. In 1959, she was brought to Port Weller Drydocks...
by import2 | February 11, 2024 | Boatnerd News
U.S. Coast Guard honors family, boat crew in Detroit River rescue DETROIT, MI – The United States Coast Guard gave special honors for two rescues that occurred last summer. It was a typical summer day along the Detroit River when the George family saw a worker...
by import2 | February 11, 2024 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity from Thursday, February 10, 2024, unless stated otherwise. Please send future port reports and pictures to news@boatnerd.net PORT REPORT 2/11/2024 NANTICOKE, ONTARIO-Bill Kloss Algocanada arrived 05:06 at Imperial Oil, followed by Algoluna...
by import2 | February 11, 2024 | Boatnerd Archives
1826: Albert Edgar Goodrich, the founder of the Goodrich Steamboat Line, was born in Hamburg, New York, near Buffalo on 11 February 1826. 1911: BEN W. CALVIN (Hull#388) was launched in 1911, at Lorain, Ohio by American Ship Building Co. 1918: February 11, 1918...
by import2 | February 10, 2024 | Boatnerd News
There is barely any ice in the Great Lakes due to warm winter temperatures. Record warm winter weather is having severe ramifications on the ice cover that typically engulfs the Great Lakes at this time of year. Just 5.9% of the Great Lakes are currently...
