by import2 | December 19, 2022 | Boatnerd News
Coast Guard Begins Icebreaking Operations in Western Great Lakes SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. – U.S. Coast Guard Sector Sault Sainte Marie has commenced OperationTaconite, the Coast Guard’s largest domestic icebreaking operation, in response to expanded ice growth in the...
by import2 | December 19, 2022 | Port Report Archive
Unless where otherwise noted, port and vessel activity from December 18, 2022. Please send future port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Joshua Hebeisen With finals week over, let’s get caught up with Twin Ports traffic over the past...
by import2 | December 19, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
ASHLAND was launched December 19, 1942, as the L6-S-B1 class bulk carrier a.) CLARENCE B. RANDALL (Hull #523) at Ashtabula, Ohio, by Great Lakes Engineering Works. She laid up for the last time on the same day in 1979. On December 19, 2000, the tug MEREDITH ASHTON,...
by import2 | December 18, 2022 | Port Report Archive
Unless where otherwise noted, port and vessel activity from December 17, 2022. Please send future port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Milwaukee, WI – MKE Marine Reports John D. Leitch arrived at 23:04 Friday with slag from the Stelco Lake Erie Works, Nanticoke. This...
by import2 | December 18, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
Canada Steamship lines GEORGIAN BAY (Hull#149) was launched during a snowstorm on December 18, 1953, at Collingwood, Ontario by Collingwood Shipyards Ltd. The 425-foot Finnish tanker KIISLA ran aground while transiting the North Entrance of Buffalo Harbor on the 29th...
