by import2 | November 4, 2022 | Port Report Archive
Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Marquette, MI – Arthur Pickering The James Oberstar visited Marquette’s ore dock earlier this week. Scheduled for today (November 3) is the Great Lakes Trader and the Maumee. The Lee Tregurtha is scheduled to visit...
by import2 | November 4, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
The Great Lakes Steamship Company steamer NORWAY passed downbound through the Soo Locks with 6,609 tons of rye. This cargo increased the total tonnage transiting the locks in 1953 to 120,206,088 tons – a new one-season tonnage record. Renamed b.) RUTH HINDMAN in 1964,...
by import2 | November 3, 2022 | Boatnerd News
Lakes Limestone Up 10.7 Percent in October CLEVELAND — Shipments of limestone on the Great Lakes totaled 3.9 million tons in October, an increase of 10.7 percent compared to a year ago. Limestone cargos were also above the month’s 5-year average by 10.9 percent....
by import2 | November 3, 2022 | Port Report Archive
Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Manitowoc, WI – Timothy Keefe Saginaw was in port to deliver grain to Briess Malt from (I believe) Thunder Bay. This is the second grain delivery by laker to Briess since they resumed receiving via this mode of transport...
by import2 | November 3, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
On 03 November 1907, tug ESCORT (wooden propeller, 45 foot, 40 gross tons, built in 1894, at Port Colborne, Ontario) tried to pass the barge BENJ HARRISON at the mouth of the Niagara River. In a navigational error, the tug sheared under the barge’s bow, was run over...
