Port Reports – March 21, 2023

Port Reports – March 21, 2023

Port and vessel activity from March 20, 2023, unless stated otherwise. Please send future port reports to news@boatnerd.net. St. Marys River – Joshua Hebeisen USCGCs Mackinaw and Biscayne Bay parted ways at Lime Island early Monday morning, with the former headed...
Today in Great Lakes History –  March 21

Today in Great Lakes History –  March 21

The c.) CHEMICAL MAR of 1966 sustained severe damage when sulfuric acid leaked into the pump room while she was discharging her cargo at the island of Curacao on March 21, 1982. Flooding occurred later and the vessel was declared a constructive total loss. She was...
Port Reports – March 20, 2023

Port Reports – March 20, 2023

Port and vessel activity from March 19, 2023, unless stated otherwise. Please send future port reports to news@boatnerd.net. St. Marys River – Joshua Hebeisen In what has become somewhat of a morning routine, a trio of U.S. Coast Guard cutters — Katmai Bay, Biscayne...
Today in Great Lakes History –  March 20

Today in Great Lakes History –  March 20

On 20 March 1885, MICHIGAN (Hull#48), (iron propeller passenger-package freight steamer, 215 foot, 1,183 tons) of the Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Railroad was sunk by ice off Grand Haven, Michigan. The sidewheeler NEW YORK was sold Canadian in 1877, hopefully...
Boatnerd News – March 19, 2023

Boatnerd News – March 19, 2023

Top hat ceremonies to kick off Welland Canal opening PORT COLBORNE, ON – A beaver fur top hat will be presented to the captain of the first downbound vessel on the Welland Canal when the 2023 shipping season kicks off in Port Colborne this week. The city’s annual top...