by import2 | September 23, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
September 23, 1922, the 306-foot NEPTUNE loaded the first Head-of-the-Lakes cargo of pig iron at Zenith Furnace, Duluth, Minnesota. The 5,000 tons of malleable pig iron was delivered to Buffalo, New York. September 23, 1975, HERBERT C. JACKSON lost power while upbound...
by import2 | September 23, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
On September 22, 1958, the EDMUND FITZGERALD entered service, departing River Rouge, Michigan for Silver Bay, Minnesota on its first trip. The FITZGERALD’s first load was 20,038 tons of taconite pellets for Toledo. The vessel would, in later years, set several...
by import2 | September 21, 2022 | Port Report Archive
Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Joshua Hebeisen Returning to the Duluth-Marquette runs that have been her bread and butter in 2022, an empty Hon. James L. Oberstar was outbound Duluth at 00:24 on her way for pellets at the...
by import2 | September 21, 2022 | Boatnerd News
Nearly 100-year-old ship docked in Green Bay to be scrapped GREEN BAY, WI – The days are numbered for one of the oldest ships still floating on the Great Lakes, which has called Green Bay home for 25 years. The S.T. Crapo, built in 1927, has been docked at...
by import2 | September 21, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
On 21 September 1892, the whaleback steamer JAMES B. COLGATE (steel propeller whaleback freighter, 308 foot, 1,713 gross tons) was launched by the American Steel Barge Co. (Hull #121) at W. Superior, Wisconsin. She only lasted until 1916, when she foundered in the...
