by import2 | July 28, 2022 | Boatnerd News
Mark W. Barker embarks on maiden voyage STURGEON BAY, WI – Nearly three years after the first cut of steel for the first Great Lakes freighter in nearly 40 years, the 639-foot M/V Mark W. Barker embarked on her maiden voyage Wednesday from Fincantieri Bay...
by import2 | July 28, 2022 | Port Report Archive
Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Coming soon: Interactive port facilities map! Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Joshua Hebeisen Making her first Twin Ports visit of the season at 10:33 Wednesday morning was American Steamship Company’s 1,004-foot...
by import2 | July 28, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
On July 28, 1973, the ROGER M. KYES (Hull#200) was christened at Toledo, Ohio by American Ship Building Co. by Mrs. Roger Kyes for the American Steamship Co. Renamed b.) ADAM E. CORNELIUS in 1989. B.A. PEERLESS (Hull#148) was launched July 28, 1952, at Collingwood,...
by import2 | July 27, 2022 | Port Report Archive
Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Coming soon: Interactive port facilities map! Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Joshua Hebeisen At 08:19 on Sunday, July 24, Mesabi Miner departed Duluth for Indiana Harbor after a quick load of pellets at the CN Dock 6...
by import2 | July 27, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
On 27 July 1884, ALBERTA (steel propeller passenger/package freight vessel, 264 foot, 2,282 gross tons, built in 1883, at Whiteinch, Scotland, by C. Connell & Co.) collided in fog six miles north north west of Whitefish Point on Lake Superior with the JOHN M....
