by import2 | June 20, 2022 | Port Report Archive
Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Joshua Hebeisen 6,400 sacks of quartz were inbound Duluth aboard Spliethoff’s Houtmangracht at 03:12 Sunday morning. With the assistance of the tug Missouri, the saltie tied up at Berth 2 of...
by import2 | June 20, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
1953 – The Paterson steamer SCOTIADOC sank in Lake Superior near Trowbridge Island after a collision in wind and fog with the BURLINGTON of Canada Steamship Lines. One man was lost when the starboard lifeboat was swamped after being launched. On this day in 1943, the...
by import2 | June 19, 2022 | Boatnerd News
MacArthur Lock rewatered Saturday UPDATE: The MacArthur Lock was back in service Sunday morning. SAULT STE. MARIE, MI – The MacArthur Lock, which has been out of service while crews continued winter repairs which included replacing the tainter valve machinery, was...
by import2 | June 19, 2022 | Port Report Archive
Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Trifecta! – Joshua Hebeisen As luck would have it, Saturday, June 18 saw three favorite lakers in their namesake ports at the same time: Alpena loading cement at Alpena, Saginaw discharging stone in Saginaw, and Burns...
by import2 | June 19, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
On 19 June 1889, NORTH STAR (steel propeller freighter, 299 foot, 2,476 gross tons, built in 1889, at Cleveland, Ohio) collided with CHARLES J. SHEFFIELD (steel propeller freighter, 260 foot, 1,699 gross tons, built in 1887, at Cleveland, Ohio) about sixty miles west...
