Port Reports – November 6, 2022

Port Reports – November 6, 2022

Port and vessel activity from November 5, 2022. Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Joshua Hebeisen Gale warnings have now been extended through the weekend and into the start of the week, once again impacting traffic on the...
Today in Great Lakes History –  November 6

Today in Great Lakes History –  November 6

The US266029, a.) WILLIAM CLAY FORD was towed from Nicholson’s River Rouge dock November 6, 1986, by tugs TUSKER and GLENADA to Port Maitland, Ontario for scrapping. On 06 November 1880, the W. R. HANNA (2-mast scow-schooner, 86 foot, 103 gross tons, built in...
Boatnerd News – November 5, 2022

Boatnerd News – November 5, 2022

DTE speeds coal exit, adds natural gas and renewable energy under 2042 plan Under a new 20-year plan, DTE Energy Co. would accelerate the retirement of its remaining coal plants and replace them with more natural gas and renewable energy production to balance...
Port Reports – November 5, 2022

Port Reports – November 5, 2022

Port and vessel activity from around the Great Lakes on November 4, 2022. Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Joshua Hebeisen The Gales of November have wasted no time in rearing their ugly head across Lake Superior and beyond...
Today in Great Lakes History –  November 5

Today in Great Lakes History –  November 5

At 2 a.m. 05 November 1884, the steamer GRACE GRUMMOND (iron side-wheel excursion steamer, 138 foot, 250 tons, built in 1856, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the survey steamer JEFFERSON DAVIS, specifically for the survey of the Great Lakes) burned at Grand Haven,...