by import2 | November 19, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
American Steamship’s SAM LAUD (Hull#712) was launched on this date in 1974 at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. On this day in 1939, in a 24-hour-period, there were 132 transits of the Soo Locks. There were 71 upbound passages and 61 downbound passages. On this day in...
by import2 | November 18, 2022 | Port Report Archive
Editor’s Note: Due to college midterms, my personal port reports will resume in tomorrow’s posting. Posting times should also become more consistent. Thank you for your patience, and my apologies for the inconvenience! Unless where otherwise noted, port...
by import2 | November 18, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
The CARL D. BRADLEY was lost in a violent storm on Lake Michigan on November 18, 1958. On 18 November 1869, EQUATOR (wooden propeller package freighter, 184 foot, 621 tons, built in 1857, at Buffalo, New York) was trying to pull the schooner SOUTHWEST off a reef near...
by import2 | November 17, 2022 | Boatnerd News
Great Lakes shipping cargoes remain down for 2022 Great Lakes shipping remains down, depressed by 5.15% so far this year despite an increase in transits. Total cargo on the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence Seaway totaled 27.55 million tons through the end of October,...
by import2 | November 17, 2022 | Port Report Archive
Unless where otherwise noted, port and vessel activity from November 16, 2022. Please send future port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Marquette, MI – Arthur Pickering The Maumee is due into the ore dock in Marquette’s upper harbor early Thursday morning. Thursday...
