by import2 | April 1, 2023 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity from March 31, 2023, unless stated otherwise. Please send future port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Scott Bjorklund Duluth Entry Baie Comeau arrived early Wednesday morning at 00:29 (Central) to unload salt at...
by import2 | April 1, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
On 01 April 1887, W. T. Botsford & Company of Port Huron, Michigan bought the COLORADO (wooden propeller package freighter, 254 foot, 1,470 gross tons, built in 1867, at Buffalo, New York). She was added to their two other vessels: DEAN RICHMOND and ROANOKE....
by import2 | March 31, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
JOSEPH S. WOOD was sold to the Ford Motor Co. and towed from her winter lay-up berth at Ashtabula, Ohio, on March 31, 1966, to the American Ship Building’s Toledo, Ohio, yard for her five-year inspection. A 900 h.p. bowthruster was installed at this time. She...
by import2 | March 30, 2023 | Boatnerd News
Federal Dart sets first saltie of season record DULUTH — When the 656-foot Federal Dart passed under the Aerial Lift Bridge at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, it became the earliest oceangoing vessel to arrive in the port of Duluth-Superior. It beat the previous...
by import2 | March 30, 2023 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity from March 29, 2023, unless stated otherwise. Please send future port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Two Harbors, MN – Gary Putney Algoma Guardian departed Two Harbors at 17:19 for Hamilton. Defiance arrived Two Harbors after being anchored off...
