by import2 | September 16, 2021 | Port Report Archive
Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net Duluth-Superior – Scott Bjorklund Duluth Entry: Ebroborg departed at 22:25 (CST) Monday night with wheat for Ravenna, Italy. Paul R. Tregurtha departed at 08:25 Tuesday morning with low sulfur coal for St. Clair. Algoma...
by import2 | September 16, 2021 | Boatnerd Archives
At about 8:30 a.m. Sunday, September 16, 1990, the inbound motor ship BUFFALO passed close by while the tanker JUPITER was unloading unleaded gasoline at the Total Petroleum dock in the Saginaw River near Bay City, Michigan. As the BUFFALO passed the dock’s aft...
by import2 | September 15, 2021 | Port Report Archive
Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net Two Harbors-Silver Bay – Gary A. Putney Due Two Harbors on 9/15 are the Presque Isle, Edwin H. Gott, and the Manitoulin. NorthShore Mining in Silver Bay saw the arrival of the James R. Barker at 03:27 on 9/14. As of 18:00...
by import2 | September 15, 2021 | Boatnerd Archives
On 15 September 1886, F. J. KING (wooden schooner, 140 foot, 280 tons, built in 1867, at Toledo, Ohio) was carrying iron ore from Escanaba, Michigan, to Chicago, Illinois. She sprang a leak and sank in a heavy southwesterly gale three miles off Rawley Bay, Wisconsin....
by import2 | September 14, 2021 | Boatnerd News
J.W. Westcott, Detroit River mail service, hosts first wedding in 147-year history Detroit, MI – Weddings are always significant occasions but the ceremony performed on the Detroit River Sunday was something special. Or in the words of the groom, “today was...
