by import2 | March 15, 2022 | Boatnerd News
Coast Guard cutter Spar heading to work on Great Lakes Lake Superior – More than a year after it arrived at the U.S. Coast Guard Yard in Baltimore for a scheduled maintenance overhaul to prep it for its Great Lakes assignment, the 225-foot cutter Spar is on its way to...
by import2 | March 15, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
WESTCLIFFE HALL (Hull#519) was launched March 15, 1956, at Grangemouth, Scotland, by Grangemouth Dockyard Co. Ltd., for the Hall Corp. of Canada. March 15, 1949 – The Ann Arbor carferry fleet was laid up due to a strike called by the boat crews. The fleet was...
by import2 | March 14, 2022 | Port Report Archive
Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net Lake Erie Ports – Bill Kloss Cleveland: Dorothy Ann/Pathfinder is running the shuttles. Alpena departed for Detroit early Monday morning. Nanticoke: Algonorth departed for Sarnia at...
by import2 | March 14, 2022 | Boatnerd News
Harvest Spirit arrives at Soo, ON, to load steel coils The McKeil Marine cargo vessel Harvest Spirit arrived Sunday evening to load steel coils at the Purvis dock, where the tankers usually moor. USCG Katmai Bay and Neah Bay assisted her up the river, a process that...
by import2 | March 14, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
March 4, 1959 – The ANN ARBOR NO 6 returned to service as the b.) ARTHUR K ATKINSON after an extensive refit. In 1880, the harbor tug GEORGE LAMONT sank with her crew of three off Pentwater, Michigan after being overcome by weather during a race with her rival,...
