Port Reports – January 22, 2023

Port Reports – January 22, 2023

Unless where otherwise noted, port and vessel activity from January 21, 2023. Please send future port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Joshua Hebeisen As of 16:21 on Saturday, January 21, the Twin Ports are officially finished with engines for...
Today in Great Lakes History –  January 22

Today in Great Lakes History –  January 22

The c.) WOODLAND, a.) FRENCH RIVER) was sold to International Capital Equipment of Canada and cleared the lakes from Montreal January 22, 1991, under the Bahamian flag with the modified name to d.) WOODLANDS. GOLDEN HIND was sold on January 22, 1973, to Trico...
Boatnerd News – January 21, 2023

Boatnerd News – January 21, 2023

Mississagi scrapping update   Sault Ste. Marie, ON – Images on social media this week  show scrapping is proceeding on the 1943-built vessel Mississagi at the Purvis west dock near Algoma Steel. She has been turned so her stern is at the end of the slip and her...
Today in Great Lakes History – January 21

Today in Great Lakes History – January 21

On 21 January 1895, CHICORA (wooden propeller passenger/package freight vessel, 199 foot, 1,123 gross tons, built in 1892, at Detroit, Michigan) was bound from Milwaukee for St. Joseph on a mid-winter run when he foundered with little trace. All 25 on board were lost....
Port Reports – January 20, 2023

Port Reports – January 20, 2023

Unless where otherwise noted, port and vessel activity from January 19, 2023. Please send future port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Joshua Hebeisen Wednesday, January 18, saw Saginaw clear Superior at 01:24, embarking on yet another...