by import2 | March 19, 2022 | Boatnerd News
Soo Locks to open March 25 for 2022 shipping season Sault Ste. Marie, MI – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District, Soo Area Office will open the Poe Lock at 12:01 a.m. March 25, marking the 2022 Great Lakes shipping season start. The operating season is...
by import2 | March 19, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
W.R. STAFFORD (wooden propeller bulk freighter, 184 foot, 744 gross tons, built in 1886, at W. Bay City, Michigan) was freed from the ice at 2:00 a.m. on 19 March 1903, by the Goodrich Line’s ATLANTA. When the STAFFORD was freed, the ice then closed around the ATLANTA...
by import2 | March 18, 2022 | Port Report Archive
Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net Milwaukee, WI – MKE Marine Reports Now pushing St. Marys Conquest, Bradshaw McKee arrived from Charlevoix at 18:16 Wednesday with cement for the Kinnickinnic River terminal. Bradshaw McKee spent winter at the St....
by import2 | March 18, 2022 | Boatnerd News
Icebreakers bound for Lake Superior, will head through Soo Locks on Monday Duluth, MN – The Soo Locks will open sooner than expected this month, allowing a team of mostly U.S. Coast Guard vessels to establish a commercial shipping track on Lake Superior in time for...
by import2 | March 18, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
In 1967, under the command of Captain Ray I. McGrath, the Columbia Transportation Company’s HURON (steel propeller self-unloader bulk freighter, 415 foot, 4,810 gross tons, built in 1914, at Ecorse, Michigan) cleared Fairport, Ohio, and headed to Toledo, Ohio...
