Port Reports – February 24, 2023

Port Reports – February 24, 2023

Port and vessel activity from February 23, 2023, unless stated otherwise. Please send future port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Port Huron, MI – Sarnia, ON – Joshua Hebeisen Big blue Algonova arrived at 19:38 with petroleum products from Nanticoke, ON. The vessel had...
Today in Great Lakes History – February 24

Today in Great Lakes History – February 24

The Pittsburgh Steamship Co.’s RICHARD V. LINDABURY (Hull#783) was launched February 24, 1923, at Lorain, Ohio by American Ship Building Co. Purchased by S & E Shipping (Kinsman) in 1978, renamed b.) KINSMAN INDEPENDENT. She was scrapped at Aliaga, Turkey in 1988....
Boatnerd News – February 23, 2023

Boatnerd News – February 23, 2023

It’s the end of an era for the Kinnickinnic Grain Elevator On Jan. 23, JOHN J. BOLAND arrived light at Milwaukee and headed up the Kinnickinnic River to COFCO. All grain (soybeans) remaining in the elevator was loaded onto the BOLAND and taken to COFCO’s Chicago...
Port Reports – February 23, 2023

Port Reports – February 23, 2023

Port and vessel activity from February 22, 2023, unless stated otherwise. Please send future port reports to news@boatnerd.net. St. Ignace, MI – Joshua Hebeisen USCGC Mobile Bay arrived U.S. Coast Guard Station St. Ignace at 10:58, tying up across from sister USCGC...
Today in Great Lakes History – February 23

Today in Great Lakes History – February 23

The e.) U.S.S. ROTARY (YO-148) was commissioned on February 23, 1943, at Sullivan’s Dry Dock & Repair Co., Brooklyn, New York and assigned duty with the Service Force, Third Naval District, Atlantic Fleet. The tanker was built in 1915 at Chatham, England by...