by import2 | March 26, 2023 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity from March 25, 2023, unless stated otherwise. Please send future port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Marquette, MI – Anonymous The first upbound visitor of the season was the John J. Boland, arriving at 14:37. She only made two visits in the...
by import2 | March 26, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
On 26 March 1922, OMAR D. CONGER (wooden passenger-package freight, 92 foot, 200 gross tons, built in 1887, at Port Huron, Michigan) exploded at her dock on the Black River in Port Huron with such violence that parts of her upper works and engine were thrown all over...
by import2 | March 25, 2023 | Boatnerd News
Edwin H. Gott leads the way as the Soo Locks open for the season Sault Ste. Marie, MI – At exactly 12:01 a.m. Saturday, the massive Poe Lock gates opened, allowing the 1,004-foot-long Edwin H. Gott to enter the chamber, thus becoming the first commercial passage of...
by import2 | March 25, 2023 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity from March 24, 2023, unless stated otherwise. Please send future port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Scott Bjorklund American Mariner departed Duluth under the Northern lights at 23:31 (Central) Thursday night with...
by import2 | March 25, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
HENRY G. DALTON (Hull#713) was launched March 25, 1916, at Lorain, Ohio by American Ship Building Co., for the Interlake Steamship Co., Cleveland, Ohio – the company’s first 600 footer. After a 10-week shut down for winter maintenance, the Soo Locks opened for...
