by import2 | June 7, 2023 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity from Tuesday, June 6, 2023, unless stated otherwise. Please send future port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Two Harbors, MN – Gary Putney CSL Welland arrived at 17:41 on June 5 and departed at 10:21 on June 6 for Quebec City. Philip R. Clarke...
by import2 | June 7, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
1958, the largest freighter ever built on the Great Lakes slid down the ways at River Rouge, Michigan. The new freighter was christened by Mrs. Edmund Fitzgerald and named EDMUND FITZGERALD. The 729-foot FITZGERALD was owned by Northwestern Mutual Insurance Company...
by import2 | June 6, 2023 | Boatnerd News
Vantage Travel’s Ocean Explorer goes into layup; Great Lakes visits canceled Vantage Deluxe World Travel’s Ocean Explorer and Ocean Odyssey have gone into layup at Caen, France, for an unknown period. Ocean Explorer visited the Great Lakes in 2022 and had...
by import2 | June 6, 2023 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity from Monday, June 5, 2023, unless stated otherwise. Please send future port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Two Harbors, MN – Gary Putney Edwin H. Gott departed at 11:44 on June 4 for Nanticoke. American Spirit arrived at 11:58 on June 4 and...
by import2 | June 6, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
On 06 June 1891, BAY CITY (wooden propeller freighter, 152 foot, 372 gross tons, built in 1867, at Marine City, Michigan) burned to a total loss while being repaired at the foot of Rivard Street in Detroit, Michigan. She was loaded with 300,000 feet of white pine...
