by import2 | December 21, 2022 | Port Report Archive
Unless where otherwise noted, port and vessel activity from December 20, 2022. Please send future port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Joshua Hebeisen A cold, windy day on Lake Superior froze up photographers and the frigid waters but not...
by import2 | December 21, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
In 1987, ASHLAND and THOMAS WILSON departed Quebec bound for a Taiwanese scrap yard. The tow line parted on 12/30 and the THOMAS WILSON sank on 12/31 off the coast of North Carolina. The ASHLAND was found 300 miles off course on January 2 1988. Due to sustained...
by import2 | December 20, 2022 | Boatnerd News
Saltie BBC Kwiatkowski aground in Seaway The cargo ship BBC Kwiatkowski ran aground Sunday afternoon off Montreal-East. Tuesday morning, December 20, she had not yet been refloated. She is on the south side of the St. Lawrence River near Dufault Island, part of the...
by import2 | December 20, 2022 | Port Report Archive
Unless where otherwise noted, port and vessel activity from December 19, 2022. Please send future port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Joshua Hebeisen The only Monday traffic in the Twin Ports was the departure of Polsteam’s Jamno,...
by import2 | December 20, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
On 20 December 1944, the icebreaker MACKINAW (WAGB-83) was commissioned in the U. S. Coast Guard. The b.) SAMUEL MATHER, a.) WILLIAM MC LAUGHLIN was towed from Ashtabula, Ohio on December 20, 1975, to Port Colborne, Ontario where her boilers were converted to...
