by import2 | January 21, 2022 | Boatnerd News
Winter Fleet gathering in Sturgeon Bay Sturgeon Bay, WI – It’s a busy time at Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding in Sturgeon Bay. As freighters dock, work gets underway. On a very cold Sunday morning in the Sturgeon Bay chipping channel, the 680-foot-long John J....
by import2 | January 21, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
On 21 January 1895, CHICORA (wooden propeller passenger/package freight vessel, 199 foot, 1,123 gross tons, built in 1892, at Detroit, Michigan) was bound from Milwaukee for St. Joseph on a mid-winter run when he foundered with little trace. All 25 on board were lost....
by import2 | January 20, 2022 | Port Report Archive
Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net Northern Lake Michigan Straits of Mackinac: Wednesday, USCG Mackinaw continued ice operations on the Lake Michigan side of the Straits of Mackinac and escorted CSL Assiniboine for Milwaukee through the heavier ice. ...
by import2 | January 20, 2022 | Boatnerd News
Mate killed in accident aboard Walter J. McCarthy Jr. Richard Gray, second mate on the American Steamship Co. 1,000-footer Walter J. McCarthy Jr., died Monday night in a shipboard accident. The vessel was anchored offshore at Gary, IN, at the time and getting ready to...
by import2 | January 20, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
20 January 1980 – The E. M. FORD (406 foot, 4,498 gross tons, built in 1898, at Lorain, Ohio as a bulk freighter, converted to self-unloading bulk cement carrier in 1956, at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin) was raised at her dock in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She sank on...
