by import2 | February 7, 2023 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity from February 6, 2023, unless stated otherwise. Please send future port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Joshua Hebeisen Fast Eddie awakens! For the first time in 14 years, steamer Edward L. Ryerson’s AIS...
by import2 | February 6, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
On 06 February 1952, the LIMESTONE (steel propeller tug, 87 foot 10 inches) was launched at Bay City, Michigan, by the Defoe Shipyard (Hull #423) for the Michigan Limestone and Chemical Company. Later she was sold to U.S. Steel and in 1983, to Gaelic Tug Company who...
by import2 | February 5, 2023 | Boatnerd News
Steamer Alpena completes 81st year of service The longest running vessel in service on the Great Lakes, the steamship Alpena, just completed its 81st overall year of service. Originally built by the Great Lakes Engineering Works Corporation in 1942 as an iron ore...
by import2 | February 5, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
ASHLAND, in a critically leaking condition, barely made Mamonel, Colombia, on February 5, 1988, where she was scrapped. February 5, 1870 – Captain William H. Le Fleur of the Pere Marquette carferry fleet, known as “the Bear” was born in Milwaukee,...
by import2 | February 4, 2023 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity from February 3, 2023, unless stated otherwise. Please send future port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Milwaukee, WI – MKE Marine Reports Algoma Intrepid arrived at 22:15 Monday with deicing salt from Compass Minerals, Goderich. She tied up at...
