by import2 | August 1, 2023 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity from Monday, July 31, 2023, unless stated otherwise. Please send future port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Scott Bjorklund Duluth Entry Michipicoten arrived in Duluth at 23:50 (Central) late Thursday night to fuel...
by import2 | August 1, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
1849 CHICAGO (wooden passenger-package freight vessel, 95 feet, 151 tons, built in 1842 at Oswego, New York) burned in Buffalo Harbor. No lives were lost. 1862 UNION (wooden propeller passenger-package freight steamer, 163 feet, 434 tons, built in 1861 at Manitowoc,...
by import2 | July 31, 2023 | Boatnerd News
Farms resident flips freighters into homes Tony Gatliff, a 42-year Grosse Pointe Farms resident, has taken on the unique project of creating cottages out of the pilot house of a freighter. The former ship’s officer and pilot aboard the Ford Motor Co. Fleet said a...
by import2 | July 31, 2023 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity from Sunday, July 30, 2023, unless stated otherwise. Please send future port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Thunder Bay, ON – Joshua Hebeisen Cool Tim S. Dool was outbound for the pool at 20:40 Sunday evening, wrapping up what was a rather...
by import2 | July 31, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
1849 ACORN (wooden schooner, 84 feet, 125 tons, built in 1842 at Black River, Ohio) was struck amidships by the propeller TROY near West Sister Island in Lake Erie. She sank quickly, but no lives were lost since all hands made it to the TROY. 1850 AMERICA (wooden...
