by import2 | October 18, 2021 | Boatnerd News
Mark W. Barker construction update update Steel production, capacity utilization fall Great Lakes steel production fell by 11,000 tons last week, while U.S. steel mills dipped under 85% capacity utilization, according to the American Iron and Steel Institute....
by import2 | October 18, 2021 | Port Report Archive
Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net Duluth-Superior – Scott Bjorklund Duluth Entry: American Century arrived at 09:58 Saturday morning to load low sulfur coal at SMET; they departed at 22:28 with low sulfur coal for St. Clair. Kaye E. Barker arrived at 04:49...
by import2 | October 18, 2021 | Boatnerd Archives
On October 18, 1869, GERALDINE (3-mast wooden schooner, 232 tons, built in 1856, at Wilson, New York as a bark) was carrying coal from Buffalo to Detroit in heavy weather. During the night, she collided with the schooner E. M. PORTCH five miles below “The...
by import2 | October 17, 2021 | Port Report Archive
Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net Two Harbors- Silver Bay – Gary A. Putney CSL Tadoussac departed Two Harbors on 10/16 at 02:01 for Nanticoke. The Edgar B. Speer arrived Two Harbors on 10/16 at 03:28. She departed on the same date at 13:06 for Conneaut....
by import2 | October 17, 2021 | Boatnerd Archives
On this day in 1936, the 252-foot sand sucker SAND MERCHANT rolled over and sank when a 50 mph gale swept across Lake Erie. The steamer THUNDER BAY QUARRIES, Captain James Healey, rescued three survivors and the steamer MARQUETTE & BESSEMER NO 1, Captain George...
