by import2 | December 23, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
1885: On 23 December 1885, MARY MARTINI (wooden propeller passenger-package freight vessel, 85 foot, 91 gross tons, built in 1877, at W. Bay City, Michigan) stranded on Brule Point, 13 miles east of Grand Marais, Minnesota, on Lake Superior in fair weather. A...
by import2 | December 22, 2023 | Boatnerd News
From Canada to Ireland: Cocaine Bust Aboard Arriving Bulker A bulker arriving in Ireland from Canada is part of an ongoing operation as the Irish police and revenue service search the vessel for illegal drugs. The first phase of the search turned up at least 300 KG of...
by import2 | December 22, 2023 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity from Thursday, December 21, 2023, unless stated otherwise. Please send future port reports and pictures to news@boatnerd.net PORT REPORT 12/22/2023 SARNIA, CANADA-Tom Geiger 12/22/2023 Algonova-ETA-UNKOWN UNKNOWN Algotitian-ETA THUNDER BAY,...
by import2 | December 22, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
1920: LIGHTSHIP 103 was commissioned December 22, 1920. 1922: On 22 December 1922, CORNELL (wooden propeller tug, 72 foot, 66 gross tons, built in 1888, at Buffalo, New York) foundered somewhere between Cleveland and Erie, Pennsylvania while enroute to new owners in...
by import2 | December 21, 2023 | Boatnerd News
Errant research boat completes solo journey across Lake Michigan PORT WASHINGTON, WI — The autumn sun was out as Chelsea Volpano lugged her Bathycat, a small orange catamaran filled with scientific instruments, down to the beach. Volpano, 29, a geoscience doctoral...
