A ship that sank in 1881 is found nearly intact in Lake Michigan
On the early morning of May 11, 1881, Capt. John Higgins and his eight-man crew scurried onto a lifeboat and caught a final glimpse of their schooner, Trinidad, as it disappeared into the icy waters of Lake Michigan.
After 142 years, its wreckage has finally been discovered.
In July, the shipwreck hunters Brendon Baillod and Robert Jaeck found the impressively intact wreckage of Trinidad lying underneath roughly 300 feet of water, about 10 miles off the shoreline of Algoma, Wis. That concluded a two-year search for the little-known vessel Mr. Baillod said was “little more than a floating coffin” at the time of its final voyage.
Trinidad was built at Grand Island, N.Y., in 1867 and was used as a cargo ship in the lucrative grain trade between Milwaukee, Chicago and Oswego, N.Y., according to a news release.
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Click here for full article – The New York Times
Still tickets left for MHSD’s Detroit River cruise this Saturday
Join members of the Marine Historical Society of Detroit aboard the passenger vessel DIAMOND QUEEN (captained by the MHSD’s very own Mike Nicholls and with MHSD member Ken Borg as narrator) for a Detroit River cruise 1-4 p.m. Saturday, September 9. We will do our best to get up close to freighter traffic. Snacks and refreshments will be available on the boat.
Tickets are $30 at the dock (cash or check only) if space is still available. We are limiting the number to 100 passengers so there will be plenty of room to move about the boat. The cruise leaves at 1 sharp from the Stroh River Place Dock located at 2680 Atwater St, Detroit, MI 48207 at the foot of Joseph Campau St., one block east of Chene St. and Chene Park (approximately half way between GM Renaissance Center and Belle Isle).
**Please check local listing for up-to-date construction reports**
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Focus: Inside Cleveland-Cliffs’ bid to keep U.S. blast furnaces smelting
NEW YORK/CHICAGO, Sept 5 (Reuters) – High costs and environmental opposition have prevented the construction of blast furnaces at steel mills in the United States since 1980. Cleveland-Cliffs Inc (CLF.N) CEO Lourenco Goncalves is on a mission to snap up all that are left.
Since joining the U.S. steelmaker in 2014 as part of an activist hedge fund’s board takeover, Goncalves has made blast furnaces a hallmark of his strategy, positioning Cliffs as an outlier in an industry shifting towards cheaper and more environmentally friendly electric arc furnaces.
A 65-year-old Brazilian metallurgical engineer, Goncalves transformed Cliffs from an iron ore and coal miner into the largest supplier of steel to the automotive industry in North America by acquiring companies that own blast furnaces to smelt the pig iron it produces.
Now, he has his sights on acquiring U.S. Steel Corp (X.N), the other remaining U.S. blast furnace operator, which has been gradually moving into electric arc furnaces, known as mini-mills. Should his $7.3 billion cash-and-stock bid prevail, Cliffs would break into the world’s top 10 steel producers, which are mostly from Asia.
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Click here for full article – Reuters
