by import2 | May 13, 2022 | Boatnerd News
CSL’s New Purpose-Designed Diesel-Electric Self-Unloading Ship Begins Service for Windsor Salt Montreal, QC – Earlier this week, Canada Steamship Lines’ new diesel-electric self-unloading vessel, MV Nukumi, successfully completed its inaugural loading and...
by import2 | May 13, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
Delivered May 13, 1943, THOMAS WILSON departed under the command of Captain Henry Borgen on her maiden voyage from Lorain, Ohio, bound for Duluth, Minnesota, to load iron ore. The tanker JUPITER made her maiden voyage May 13, 1976 from Smith’s Bluff, Texas...
by import2 | May 12, 2022 | Port Report Archive
Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Joshua Hebeisen After American Century vacated the harbor basin and tied up at Midwest Energy to load coal following her late-night arrival on Tuesday, Hon. James L. Oberstar cast off from...
by import2 | May 12, 2022 | Boatnerd News
S.S. Badger to make first Lake Michigan crossing of the season Ludington, MI – The S.S. Badger is set to make its first voyage of the season on Thursday. The 410-foot Great Lakes car ferry will sail 60 miles from Ludington to Manitowoc, Wisconsin sporting a...
by import2 | May 12, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
1978 – PHOTINIA ran aground off Milwaukee in rough seas and the crew was rescued. The ship was refloated but declared a total loss. It was towed to various Lake Michigan ports in the next two years and was eventually dismantled at Kewaunee, Wis., in 1981. The CABOT...
