by import2 | September 4, 2021 | Boatnerd Archives
On September 4,1889, the new steamer CHEROKEE (wooden propeller freighter, 209 foot, 1,002 gross tons) arrived in Port Huron, Michigan, from M. P. Lester’s yard in Marine City, Michigan, for the Phoenix Iron Works in Port Huron to installed the engine and...
by import2 | September 3, 2021 | Boatnerd News
Great Lakes iron ore, limestone trades up percent in August Cleveland, OH – Shipments of iron ore on the Great Lakes totaled 5.6 million tons in August, an increase of 55.9 percent compared to a year ago. Shipments were also above the month’s 5-year average by 1.5...
by import2 | September 3, 2021 | Port Report Archive
Duluth-Superior – Scott Bjorklund Duluth Entry: James R. Barker departed at 19:50 (CST) Wednesday night with iron ore pellets for Toledo. Wilfred Sykes arrived at 01:45 Thursday morning to unload limestone at Graymont. John G. Munson arrived at 02:25 to unload...
by import2 | September 3, 2021 | Boatnerd Archives
September 3, 1919, the WILLIAM A. McGONAGLE loaded a record 15,160 tons of soft coal at Toledo, Ohio for delivery to Gary, Indiana. The record lasted less than 24 hours as the D. G. KERR, Captain Harry Harbottle, loaded 15,532 tons of coal at the same Toledo dock for...
by import2 | September 2, 2021 | Boatnerd Archives
On 02 September 1902, the White Star Line’s TASHMOO (steel side-wheel excursion steamer, 308 foot, 1,344 gross tons, built in 1900, at Wyandotte, Michigan) hosted President Theodore Roosevelt when he came to Detroit, Michigan, to speak to Spanish American War...
