by import2 | August 11, 2023 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity from Thursday, August 10, 2023, unless stated otherwise. Please send future port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Two Harbors, MN – Gary Putney Michipicoten departed Two Harbors at 22:57 on August 9 for Algoma Steel in the Soo. Both the Edwin H....
by import2 | August 11, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
1862 B.F. BRUCE (wooden propeller passenger steamer, 110 feet, 169 tons, built in 1852 at Buffalo, New York, as a tug) was carrying staves when she caught fire a few miles off Port Stanley, Ontario, in Lake Erie. She was run to the beach, where she burned to a total...
by import2 | August 10, 2023 | Boatnerd News
Reserve now for MHSD’s Detroit River cruise September 9 Join members of the Marine Historical Society of Detroit aboard the passenger vessel DIAMOND QUEEN (captained by the MHSD’s very own Mike Nicholls and with MHSD member Ken Borg as narrator) for a...
by import2 | August 10, 2023 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity from Wednesday, August 9, 2023, unless stated otherwise. Please send future port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – David Schauer Fast Eddie on the move… Although not so fast. Wednesday was moving day for the...
by import2 | August 10, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
1890 TWO FANNIES (three-mast wooden bark, 152 feet, 492 gross tons, built in 1862 at Peshtigo, Wisconsin) was carrying 800 tons of iron ore on Lake Erie when a seam opened in rough weather. The crew kept at the pumps to no avail. They all made it off of the vessel...
