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Arctic arrived at Duluth 28 April 1980. It was also downbould at the Soo 27 May 1979, but no indication it had sailed from Duluth., so I assume Thunder Bay. That craft had some good power for the day, MAN 14-cylinder MAN 14V52/55, 14750-bhp. The Canada Trust Company owned it under mortgage while ...

I seem to remember another ship in that fleet called the Liquilady.

Liquilady was launched as Busen Rolllo 4 April 1950 at Greenock by Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Co., Ltd., a large motor tanker, for St. Helier Shipowners Ltd., London. Later Jarabella and San Stefano , Porter chartered it ...

Surveying agencies, classification societies, underwriters, and marine safety organizations have historically deferred to tanker operators in maintaining a low freeboard for their vessels for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is tankers providing optimal metacentric height to the hull ...

Liquifuels, Ltd., was created by Weaver Coal Co., Ltd., and Fuel Oil & Equipment, Ltd., in 1949 as an independent fuel oil distributor, its first terminal built in summer 1950 at Toronto. It later became a division of the consortium Canadian Fuel Marketers Group, Ltd., which was taken over by ...

I imagine Bay Shipbuilding's 1979 $100 million libel suit filed against United States Steel would have cooled that proposal significantly, as well as another Bayship suit claiming United States Steel still owed the firm $1.6 million for the Gott.

The plant is to be in Lee County, and I assume in the northern portion along the Mississippi since that is where more open land is available. The mine is at Nashwuk, near Hibbing. A water route to the plant would necessitate rail to Superior (Canadian National?) for loading on self unloaders. These ...

There are some scattered through the Silversides Museum on Facebook . Scroll down from the current postings.

https://www.facebook.com/silversidesmuseum

The answer to both questions, the formation of Canada Interlake Line, Ltd.., and the preference for British shipbuilders to supply Canadian shipping, revolves primarily around one economic concept: scales of economy. Norcross's experience as master and manager proved to him that a large fleet of ...

"Year Unknown" for the plight of the barge John F. Ritchie discussed in the Great Lakes and Seaway History section today is 1871.

I did a search this evening, and saw that Mac Mackay had a notice posted to his blog on December 8, 2025 about having computer woes, and that Shipfax would be offline until further notice

I saw that, too, when first posted, but the complete lack of any status updates in the months since is ...

I've been scanning the Halifax newspapers the past few months and nothing has been said about Mr. Mackay, nor, as you have probably discovered, anything on Google or his FB page. I suppose that is a positive sign, though not necessarily a good sign.

Can anyone explain why the Norwegian tanker Prime has been sitting in the DeTour anchorage for a week? It's being used to ship CaCl east from Ludington, so that seems to be a strange place for it, and especially to remain there for that long.

In today's history section the tanker Wilhelmine is cited as having grounded near Port Colborne on this date. The year was 1934, not 1933. The Essberger interests of Hamburg purchased the elderly vessel 25 September 1933 specifically to haul liquified lard rendered at the Chicago stockyards to ...

Of little significance, but today's history page states "[t]he 71-foot tug and patrol boat CARTER H. HARRISON was launched at Chicago, Illinois, for the City of Chicago Police Department." The vessel was launched from slip A, near the Illinois Central elevators on the south bank of the Chicago River ...

On 12 December 1941 Roosevelt issued Executive Order EO 8976, "Authorizing the Secretary of Commerce To Waive Compliance With the Navigation and Vessel Inspection Laws for War Purposes," which also put the Jone Act in abeyance for the duration. During the war this allowed Canadian lake vessels to ...

The vessel shown on today's history page is Pere Marquette 6, the former steam barge Mark B. Covell. Attached is Pere Marquette 4, the former F & PM No. 4.

Yes. Grand Trunk sold Grand Haven to the West Indies Fruit & Steamship Company on 16 September 1945 for around $100000. It had been idle since 1930 at Manitowoc except for a short stint in 1937, and the fleet's smallest carrier. After numerous delays the vessel left Port Everglades on its first trip ...

Did the Carol have General Electric steam turbines?

Yes, 9350-shp.

The last vestige of South Chicago steelmaking is the former Acme Steel sheet rolling plant at "Acme Bend" on the Little Calumet just west of the old Chicago Regional Port District facility on south Lake Calumet, once part of Interlake Iron Company, later owned by ISG, Arcelor/Mittel, and now ...

Speaking of Tugfax, Mr McKay hasn’t posted in a while. Hope he is well.

This recently appeared on LiveJournal under Shipfax. Mr. Mackay has had computer problems before posting from his remote Québec vacation home. I assume this is related, and applies to Tugfax, as well.