by import2 | May 18, 2022 | Boatnerd News
US Great Lakes shipping reports mixed results; signs for optimism U.S. Great Lakes ports reported mixed results for the start of the spring shipping season, with gains and losses heavily tied to global trading conditions and Lake Superior ice-breaking resources. U.S....
by import2 | May 18, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
On 18 May 1872, the 3-mast wooden schooner MARQUETTE was holed in northern Lake Huron by a floating log. The crew manned the hand-operated bilge pumps but could not keep up with the incoming water. The steamer ANNIE YOUNG took the MARQUETTE in tow even though she was...
by import2 | May 17, 2022 | Port Report Archive
Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Joshua Hebeisen Candace Elise/Robert F. Deegan made their way through the Superior Entry at midnight Monday morning loaded with calcium chloride from Ludington. After sailing up Superior Bay...
by import2 | May 17, 2022 | Boatnerd News
USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul arrives in Duluth DULUTH, MN – A naval ship to be commissioned by the U.S. Navy arrived in the port Monday morning. The USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul is scheduled for commissioning at 10 a.m. Saturday before it is moved to its homeport of...
by import2 | May 17, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
On 17 May 1887, WILLIAM RUDOLPH (wooden propeller “rabbit,” 145 foot, 267 gross tons. built in 1880, at Mount Clemens, Michigan) was raised from Lake St. Clair. She sank in the fall of 1886. She was towed to the Wolverine Drydock in Port Huron, Michigan where...
