by import2 | September 19, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
When Cleveland Tankers’ new SATURN entered service and made her first trip to Toledo, Ohio, on September 19, 1974, she became the first of three tankers built for the fleet’s modernization program. EDGAR B. SPEER departed the shipyard on her maiden voyage for...
by import2 | September 18, 2022 | Port Report Archive
Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Joshua Hebeisen Twin Ports traffic had terminated by ten o’clock Saturday morning with just a trio of vessels moving through the piers. The first, Wagenborg saltie Reestborg, made port in...
by import2 | September 18, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
On September 18, 1855, SEBASTOPOL (wooden side-wheel steamer, 230 foot, 863 tons, built in 1855, at Cleveland, Ohio) was sailing on Lake Michigan in a gale. Her cargo included copper, tin, lead and iron ingots, safes and general merchandise. Her skipper misread the...
by import2 | September 17, 2022 | Boatnerd News
Optimistic Outlook for the Remainder of the Seaway Shipping Season During the month of August, 3.46 million tons of cargo moved through the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway system, bringing the year-to-date total to nearly 19.2 million tons shipped. While tonnage...
by import2 | September 17, 2022 | Port Report Archive
Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Marquette, MI – Oggdo Bogdo The American Spirit watched the Kaye E. Barker arrive the south side of the docks at 04:19, unload stone, load ore, and depart for Dearborn at midnight. Alas, being a thousand footer means...
