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My question is how can one access the ship's manifest to search for the names of people who did not survive? I am searching for people with the surname of Hingston! About 30 days after the sinking of the Griffith, several people named Hingston were buried the same day in Canada. [/i]

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With trumps tariffs on Canadian Steel has also affected and indirectly laid off Americans, and thus fast tracked the transition over to scrap Electric Arc Furnaces from using Blast Furnaces. The portion of sales of steel that sold to USA was a small amount as compared ...

I do recall that in the early-1990s iron ore pellets from the Mesabi Range were railed to Geneva Steel in Utah by Southern Pacific via the former Rock Island Spine Line, without any movement by self-unloaders for part of the trip. I would think that the new mill steel mill in Iowa will use a ...

Some of the online vessel plotting map agencies are commercial adventures that require membership frees to use their restrictive extra features, as they use commercial satellites. AIS.boatnerd.com compiles data from volunteers hosting shore based ais stations, the more stations the better coverage ...

You can find a list of vessels passing by any location or port by going over to the Boatnerd AIS website.

From the menu, select Vessel Passage, and select Port, from the menu. All the vessels are timestamped, and you can also search by vessel. The only thing missing is an entry for a date range ...

I wish to say Thank You , to the all persons who helped out for the Boatnerd Picnic event in; organizing, setting up, cooking, and with meal preparations. The table with free boat books was interesting as well, sort of a library that you can exchange with for next year. There was some merchandise as ...

Some webcams while watching the fighters have a online chat mode which makes it more interesting and hold folks attention while waiting, gets 500 viewers at a time, but requires heavy moderation to prevent abuse.

Suggestion: To promote more why not display on the ais.boatnerd.com on the left menu ...

I am new to the facebook world as never had data on my cell phone till this fall. (Yah i'm cheap, its too expensive.)

Correct me if I am wrong but now looking at Boatnerd's post on facebook (with no login in, only using a computer web browser, from a google search) notice;

https://www.facebook ...

This winter broke the 80 year old historical snowfall amount at Sault Ste. Marie. Hence will also have a big impact on ice conditions.

Currently there are 8 Ice breakers in the St Mary's River and co-areas, with the 9th ice breaker Vincent Massey now heading back home. When the ice piles up and ...

Hello Everyone,

I have added new webcams, corrected some that the links have changed, and removed a few that became defunct.

We now have 19 working webcams in the Sault Ste Marie, St. Marys River, Mackinaw Straits, Beaver Island, and Whitefish Point areas.

Watch the freighters pass by the ...

I do like the new simple layout of the home page of boatnerd 3.0 over 2.0 even though there many not be allot of photo as before. But the reading of articles is so much easier now, cleaner, and faster.

Suggestion 1: insert on the right side under passages, and on this day, etc, a new box that pulls ...