by import2 | December 4, 2022 | Port Report Archive
Unless where otherwise noted, port and vessel activity from December 3, 2022. Please send future port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Joshua Hebeisen Windy weather continues to be the story on Superior, though some boats (and a moose) who...
by import2 | December 4, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
At 0210 hours on December 4, 1989, the U.S.C.G.C. MESQUITE ran aground in 12 feet of water at a point one-quarter nautical mile off Keweenaw Point. After a struggle to save the ship, the 53 persons aboard abandoned ship at 0830 hours and boarded the Indian salty...
by import2 | December 3, 2022 | Boatnerd News
Giant wave kills passenger and injures four on new Viking Polaris cruise ship A huge wave has smashed into a Viking Ocean Cruises vessel off Argentina, killing one person and injuring four more. The accident involving the 378-berth Viking Polaris (built 2022) happened...
by import2 | December 3, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
1850: On 3 December 1850, HENRY CLAY (2-mast wooden brig, 87 foot, 163 tons, built in 1842, at Huron, Ohio) was driven ashore at Point Nipigon in the Straits of Mackinac. She suffered little damage, but she was high and dry and unsalvageable. Her crew and passengers...
by import2 | December 2, 2022 | Boatnerd News
Mark W. Barker honored as one of 10 Significant Boats of 2022 Wednesday night, we accepted the honor of our new build, the M/V Mark W. Barker, being named by WorkBoat as one of the 10 Significant Boats of 2022. Craig Perciavalle, VP and GM of Fincantieri Bay...
