by import2 | April 12, 2023 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity from April 11, 2023, unless stated otherwise. Please send future port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Scott Bjorklund Duluth Entry Michipicoten departed at 06:45 (Central) Tuesday morning empty to load in Two Harbors....
by import2 | April 12, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
On 12 April 1896, PETER DALTON (propeller tug, 63 foot 49 gross tons, built in 1880, at Grand Haven, Michigan) caught fire off Grosse Pointe, Illinois, while returning to Chicago with the salvaged schooner A.J. DEWEY in tow and the boiler of the JOHNSON. The fire...
by import2 | April 11, 2023 | Boatnerd News
Michigan History in the Making: The Legacy of the Great Lakes Maritime Industry in the Tri-Cities Join us for a presentation on the Great Lakes Shipping Industry that explores local connections and contributions to the maritime industry, built upon the foundations of...
by import2 | April 11, 2023 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity from April 10, 2023, unless stated otherwise. Please send future port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Scott Bjorklund Duluth Entry Mesabi Miner departed at 02:47 early Saturday morning with low sulfur coal for DTE at...
by import2 | April 11, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
Pittsburgh Steamship Co.’s steamer ENDERS M. VOORHEES (Hull#288), of the Great Lakes Engineering Works, was launched on April 11, 1942. She was scrapped at Aliaga, Turkey in 1989. In 2015, 18 vessels that had been stuck in 35 square miles of crushed ice up to...
