by import2 | November 10, 2022 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity from November 9, 2022. Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Joshua Hebeisen Unfortunately, a rare visit by Saginaw to BNSF was obscured entirely in the darkness after a quick overnight load and subsequent...
by import2 | November 10, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
The EDMUND FITZGERALD foundered on Lake Superior during a severe storm November 10, 1975, at approximately 7:10 p.m. about 17 miles north-northwest of Whitefish Point, Michigan, at position 47 0’N by 85 7’W in Canadian waters. On this day in 1892,...
by import2 | November 9, 2022 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity from November 8, 2022. Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Joshua Hebeisen Interlake Steamship Company’s James R. Barker flawlessly threaded the Duluth Ship Canal at 05:50 Tuesday morning under the...
by import2 | November 9, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
On 9 November 1923, AZTEC (wooden propeller bulk freighter, 180 foot, 835 gross tons, built in 1889, at Marine City, Michigan) was destroyed by fire at her home port of Marine City. The wreck lay in the Belle River until dynamited in the 1930Ős, and what was left was...
by import2 | November 8, 2022 | Boatnerd News
Strong prairie grain harvest helps Thunder Bay port THUNDER BAY, ON – One of the best-ever prairie harvests means more work for people employed in the grainhandling and shipping sectors in Thunder Bay. The Thunder Bay Port Authority said grain shipments in October...
