Port Reports – February 9, 2023

Port Reports – February 9, 2023

Port and vessel activity from February 8, 2023, unless stated otherwise. Please send future port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Calumet Harbor, IL – Joshua Hebeisen CSL’s Whitefish Bay made port at 12:07 with salt for Compass Minerals, later shifting farther down...
Today in Great Lakes History – February 9

Today in Great Lakes History – February 9

The ALEXANDER LESLIE was launched February 9, 1901, as a.) J T HUTCHINSON (Hull # 405) at Cleveland, Ohio by American Ship Building Co. HOMER D. WILLIAMS suffered extensive fire damage to her side plating and forward lower cabins during her lay-up at Toledo, Ohio on...
Port Reports – February 8, 2023

Port Reports – February 8, 2023

Port and vessel activity from February 7, 2023, unless stated otherwise. Please send future port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Milwaukee, WI – MKE Marine Reports Algocanada arrived at 07:03 Saturday with petroleum products from the Imperial Oil Refinery in Nanticoke....
Today in Great Lakes History – February 8

Today in Great Lakes History – February 8

While in lay-up on February 8, 1984, a fire broke out in WILLIAM G. MATHER’s after accommodations killing a vagrant from Salt Lake City, Utah, who started the fire that caused considerable damage to the galley. On 8 February 1902, ETRURIA (steel propeller...
Boatnerd News – February 7, 2023

Boatnerd News – February 7, 2023

American Lakers Invest $126 Million in the Great Lakes States CLEVELAND, OHIO (February 6, 2023) – U.S. shipping companies operating exclusively on the Great Lakes transitioned from sailing to the annual process of repairing, maintaining and modernizing their fleet of...