by import2 | September 18, 2021 | Port Report Archive
Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net Duluth-Superior – Scott Bjorklund Duluth Entry: Algoma Discovery departed at 23:11 (CST) Thursday night with iron ore pellets for Hamilton. American Century arrived at 05:58 Friday morning to load iron ore pellets at...
by import2 | September 18, 2021 | Boatnerd Archives
On September 18, 1855, SEBASTOPOL (wooden side-wheel steamer, 230 foot, 863 tons, built in 1855, at Cleveland, Ohio) was sailing on Lake Michigan in a gale. Her cargo included copper, tin, lead and iron ingots, safes and general merchandise. Her skipper misread the...
by import2 | September 17, 2021 | Boatnerd News
Retired lakers Manistee and St. Clair to be scrapped at Port Colborne Port Colborne, ON – Marine Recycling Corp of Port Colborne, ON, has agreements to recycle both the Manistee and St Clair. Plans are to tow both vessels to Port Colborne this fall for recycling. St....
by import2 | September 17, 2021 | Port Report Archive
Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net Duluth-Superior – Scott Bjorklund|Duluth Entry: Federal Churchill arrived at 22:27 (CST) Wednesday night to unload cement at CRH. As of Thursday late afternoon, Algoma Discovery was waiting at CN#6 due to high winds on the...
by import2 | September 17, 2021 | Boatnerd Archives
Tragedy struck in 1949, when the Canada Steamship Lines cruise ship NORONIC burned at Pier 9 in Toronto, Ontario. By morning the ship was gutted, 104 passengers were known to be dead and 14 were missing. Because of land reclamation and the changing face of the harbor,...
