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Back in November 2015, I did posts almost exclusively about ports of all sizes. Two in a row GL port posts fit into this set. Today, it’s a busy day in Port of Cleveland.
It’s always a treat to see Wilfred Sykes. I’ll devote tomorrow’s post to this vessel.
Imke was still in port.
In the next spot, it’s Muskegon’s Meredith Ashton. Some folks from the sixth boro may recognize this tugboat. Enjoy these photos and see if you come up with a previous name. She’s made up to the barge BMI 192.
Farther east is Manitou, formerly WYT-60, with some wayback history on the Hudson.
Manitou is looking good for an octogenarian, here moving some large assemblies propped up by Mammoet…
aboard AM 3600.
In closing, here’s another shot of Meredith Ashton, ex-C. Angelo!!
All photos, any errors, WVD.
Commercial shipping has happened here since 1749. Note the two vessels at city front here, green hull with Caribbean sugar for Redpath, and brown hull with Algerian rebar.
Sheri Lynn S appears to be moving harbor dirt out.
Rainy morning notwithstanding, Torontonians were out in numbers.
The police boat had folks in civvies onboard.
Once light, Navarone’s handy size bulker Mottler made its way up the Lakes for her next cargo.
And a real treat to see heading out for an excursion,
Former deep-sea tugboat now schooner carries a SRO set of merrymakers onto Lake Ontario.
Surely Empire Sandy deserves attention as a “second-lives” post, one of these years.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who’s now heading back up the Lakes.
The Welland is a strip less than 30 miles long parallel to the Niagara River, about 20 miles west of the NYS border. Call it part of the St. Lawrence Seaway or not, it determines what enters and leaves the upper Lakes.
I start this post of this busy waterway at Port Colborne, the Lake Erie-side terminus.
As Algoma Innovator gets turned around, a crewman photodocuments the condition of the boom.
Algoma Buffalo arrives from Cleveland, and you’ll see why in a moment.
Federal Frontier exchanges pilots as it heads upbound into Lake Erie.
Up goes the pilot’s gear and baggage.
Barbro G heads down bound just before we get underway, guaranteeing that we’d have a longer wait than had we gotten ahead of this bulker.
Well, Barbro G is the current name.
Algoma Innovator discharges right next to the Canal.
Discharging thousands of tons an hour, it certainly beats shoveling.
Algoma Buffalo was doing the same.
Insomnia and a loud bow thruster kept me up most of the night, permitting an attempt at photos of CSL Tadoussac and
Frontenac.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
Call this 24 hours of traffic, with a fair amount of time in port of Cleveland and sailing in darkness.
We’ll start with McKeil’s Harvest Spirit. Click here for some background.
American Courage appears to be loading lakefront ore to shuttle it up the Cuyahoga.
Cleveland port was quite busy yesterday. I’m not sure what cargo Federal Cedar transferred.
See Courage . . .
and Harvest Spirit?
Algoma Buffalo here was backing around Whiskey Island.
This morning westbound for Cleveland was Imke.
Also westbound was CSL Welland bound for Ashtabula.
And we’ll hold it up here. Unfortunately last night we passed Northstar Challenger at quite a distance. It would have been nice to meet her in the Welland canal.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
Today’s photos I took in the Detroit River, the River Rouge and the Cuyahoga.
For more info on each, refer to the GLtugs site for most particulars. Samuel de Champlain is from 1975.
Victory dates from 1981.
In the Rouge, I caught these three, the third might be the 1963 Ontario. I’m sure I’ll be corrected.
Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are both products of 2020.
Enduring Freedom is from 2001.
Ohio, here assisting Petite Forte out of the Cuyahoga, dates from 2018.
It’s always a joy to see the skill of Cuyahoga River mariners.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
. . . the Soo version, this has some obscure tugs in it. Let’s start with W. D. McCosh. More about this 1955 boat here.
Katmai Bay, Wyoming, and Iowa have appeared here before, but not from this angle, I believe. I took it from Tower of History.
Again, with identification thanks to Isaac’s GLtugs site, here’s Superior Pilot and its history.
It’s not a great shot, but I certainly read “Maria Christine of Bay Mills MI” on the stern of this fish tug. I don’t find that name on this roster of fish tugs.
I saw the 1927 Missouri still up on the floating dry dock here two days ago.
Hidden in the USACE yard, it’s the 1953 USACE Whitefish Bay, small tugboat.
Here’s Shirley Ann in Kokosing or Durocher livery.
Olive L. Moore had her barge docked in Ontario loading slag, maybe.
Anglian Lady is still on the dry dock.
And let’s end this installment with a mystery tug, at least not identifiable by me.
All photos, any errors, earlier this week, WVD.
DeTour Village here is a Michigan location. And these photos were all taken within 18 hours from meeting the St Marys Pilot.
Daybreak saw this vessel ahead of us . . .
Arthur M. Anderson.
Once we tied up, Hon. James L. Oberstar passed us by.
Manitoulin exited the Poe, followed
by Walter J. McCarthy Jr.
We dipped a toe or two into Izaak Walton Bay and then turned back and met CSL St Laurent and
Stewart J. Cort and later by
Federal Kumano.
A treat was getting to John Sherwin and
John W. Boardman before the sun set.
In fading light, the St Marys Pilot came out again for an exchange and I caught
that same faint setting sun behind DeTour Reef light.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
Serendipity put me in the right place at the right time yesterday, as this ketch was first to cross the finish line of a 333-mile race from Chicago, crossing first after trailing for 288 of those miles, as reported here.
I figured White Hawk was a contender, at least, since they had were flying all sail as they came under the Mackinac Bridge.
Eagle One, apparently, led from the start and for most of the race.
Well done all. The surprise for me was that I’d seen White Hawk before . . . and if you’re a regular reader so have you. . . .
. . . since it arrived on the Great Lakes from sea via the Hudson and NYS’ very own Canals system.
Credit for that last photo goes to Jeff Gritsavage, who got that and others here as he was delivering a yacht from sea to the Great Lakes at the same time back in 2019.
All other photos and any errors, WVD.
In this post from 2018, I posted photos of the CYC clubhouse on city front Chicago.
All the July 2023 posts should be marked LL3, whether I did so or not, and LL3 continues and will do so until early August. Which one of these is not like the others? Answers follow.
So just photos today starting with Algoma Innovator, 2017.
Spruceglen 1983,
Rt. Hon. Paul J. Martin 1973,
John G. Munson 1952,
Whitefish Bay 2013,
Algoma Compass 1973,
H. Lee White 1974,
Philip G. Clarke 1976,
John D. Leitch 1967,
James R. Barker 1976,
Atlantic Huron 1984, with a bruised
nose. Anyone know the story? I don’t. And finally . . .
Stewart J. Cort 1972
All photos, any errors, WVD.
Fitzgerald, of course, is the only one that has sunk.
Tregurtha is the only one with the superstructure on the stern.
Ryerson is the only one that has spent time in long-term layup.
Of course, I’ve posted many photos of Great Lakes tugboats over the years, but I’ve never used this title, which from now on might serve a purpose. Of course, if you want a searchable (by company) database of Great Lakes tugs, click here.
At a great distance, David R. Shanock might have completed its work in southern Lake Michigan and now tows its work barges back north.
its work barges back north.
Steel coil seems a frequent cargo, with Sharon M I pushing
Huron Spirit heavily loaded to a lower Lake.
A veteran Adanac III heads over to the steel plant at the Soo.
Wilfred M. Cohen
had a load off the coils on PML 9000
through the lock at the Soo.
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Valerie B
appears to be quite the busy tug at the lock project.
Here she backs a barge out of the loading zone above the project and
transports some equipment of the work island.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
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