by import2 | May 13, 2023 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity from May 12, 2023, unless stated otherwise. Please send future port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Editor’s Note: Thank you once again for your patience with the lack of posts this month. A loss in the family and college finals forced me...
by import2 | May 13, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
Delivered May 13, 1943, THOMAS WILSON departed under the command of Captain Henry Borgen on her maiden voyage from Lorain, Ohio, bound for Duluth, Minnesota, to load iron ore. The tanker JUPITER made her maiden voyage May 13, 1976 from Smith’s Bluff, Texas...
by import2 | May 12, 2023 | Boatnerd News
Boatnerd port reports Due to a death in his family, the volunteer compiling the port reports has had to take a few days off. He promises the reports will return soon. U.P. town builds $5M pier big enough for cruise ships HOUGHTON, MI – A small Upper Peninsula...
by import2 | May 12, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
1978 – PHOTINIA ran aground off Milwaukee in rough seas and the crew was rescued. The ship was refloated but declared a total loss. It was towed to various Lake Michigan ports in the next two years and was eventually dismantled at Kewaunee, Wis., in 1981. The CABOT...
by import2 | May 11, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
On May 11, 1953, the HENRY STEINBRENNER went down in Lake Superior near Isle Royale with 17 of her 31 crewmembers. The storm followed an unseasonably warm and humid stretch of weather in northern Minnesota for that time of year, which fueled the storm’s fast...
