Port Reports – February 20, 2023

Port Reports – February 20, 2023

Port and vessel activity from February 19, 2023, unless stated otherwise. Please send future port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Joshua Hebeisen It will be a few weeks before vessels start moving in the harbor, but preparations for the new...
Today in Great Lakes History – February 20

Today in Great Lakes History – February 20

On February 20, 1959, Interlake Steamship Co.’s HERBERT C. JACKSON (Hull #302) was launched at Great Lakes Engineering Works in River Rouge, Michigan. The Canadian Coast Guard Icebreaker DES GROSEILLIERS (Hull #68) was launched February 20, 1982, at St. Catharines,...
Boatnerd News – February 19, 2023

Boatnerd News – February 19, 2023

The CSL Group and Algoma Central Corporation order a new generation of Kamsarmax-based ocean belt self-unloading ships The CSL Group and Algoma Central Corporation, who together form the CSL International Pool, today announced a newbuild order with Jiangsu...
Port Reports – February 19, 2023

Port Reports – February 19, 2023

Port and vessel activity from February 18, 2023, unless stated otherwise. Please send future port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Sturgeon Bay, WI – Anonymous The Walter J. McCarthy Jr. was floated out of the graving dock on Friday and the Indiana Harbor has gone in....
Today in Great Lakes History – February 19

Today in Great Lakes History – February 19

  The b.) TROY H. BROWNING, c.) THOMAS F. PATTON was towed from the James River with two other C4s, LOUIS MC HENRY HOWE, b.) TOM M. GIRDLER and MOUNT MANSFIELD, b.) CHARLES M. WHITE, to the Maryland Dry Dock Co., Baltimore, Maryland, February 1951, to be converted to...