by import2 | August 3, 2022 | Port Report Archive
Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Coming soon: Interactive port facilities map! Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Joshua Hebeisen In the quiet darkness of a midsummer night, steamer Arthur M. Anderson departed the Duluth Entry with blast furnace trim for Gary,...
by import2 | August 3, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
On this day in 1960, EDWARD L. RYERSON, new flagship of the Inland Steel fleet, successfully completed her sea trials. Under tow, the AVONDALE, a.) ADAM E. CORNELIUS of 1908, in tandem with former fleet mate FERNDALE. a.) LOUIS R. DAVIDSON of 1912, arrived at...
by import2 | August 2, 2022 | Port Report Archive
Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Coming soon: Interactive port facilities map! Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Joshua Hebeisen Although the duty of hosting the Lake Superior Parade of Sail falls to Two Harbors, Minnesota this year, the Twin Ports were still...
by import2 | August 2, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
AMERICAN MARINER (Hull#723) was launched on August 2, 1979, at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin by Bay Shipbuilding Co. for the Connecticut Bank & Trust Co., (American Steamship Co., Buffalo, New York, mgr.). She was to be named CHICAGO, but that name was removed before...
by import2 | August 1, 2022 | Boatnerd News
Could the Great Lakes solve US shipping woes? Lake Erie – one of five connected bodies of freshwater that make up the Great Lakes system along the US-Canada border – might not seem like a solution to America’s supply chain issues. But it might just...
