by import | June 16, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
Great Lakes & Seaway Shipping Online Mariatown – St. Lawrence Seaway 7 Miles Down from the Iroquois Lock By Ron Beaupre Thanks to all who helped with vessel passages for 2011. Happy New Year! 30 December 2011 00:49 ALGOMA SPIRIT, up, ballast, for Hamilton....
by import | June 16, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
Great Lakes & Seaway Shipping Online Mariatown – St. Lawrence Seaway 7 Miles Down from the Iroquois Lock By Ron Beaupre 29 December 2012 Night passage: ALGOMA NAVIGATOR, up, ballast. 04:17 MANITOBA, up, ballast. 19:37 JOHN B AIRD, up, ballast. Thanks...
by import2 | June 15, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
On June 15, 1943, the D.M. CLEMSON collided with and sank the GEORGE M. HUMPHREY in the Straits of Mackinac. Both of these 600-footers recovered for long careers. The D.M. CLEMSON was sold for scrap in 1980. The GEORGE M. HUMPHREY was recovered over a year later,...
by import2 | June 14, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
On this day in 1985, Captain Edward Rogowski passed away. Captain Rogowski started sailing as a deckhand on the 514 foot JOHN SHERWIN in 1936. He retired in 1982 as the first captain of the largest freighter on the Great Lakes, the 1,013 foot PAUL R TREGURTHA. On this...
by import2 | June 13, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
On 13 June 2003, after completing her conversion from American to Canadian registry, Lower Lakes Towing’s newly-acquired MICHIPICOTEN, a.) ELTON HOYT 2ND, departed the Government dock at Sarnia, Ontario. First she went to the Shell Oil dock in Corunna, Ontario...
by import2 | June 12, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
“STUBBY”, the bow and stern sections of the STEWART J. CORT welded together, passed Port Colborne, Ontario on June 12, 1970, bound for Erie, Pennsylvania under her own power. STUBBY’s bow and stern sections were later separated at Erie Marine, Inc.,...
