by Guest » October 3, 2017, 10:56 am
I remember in the early 80s a similar event was held at Marysville, and on at least one occasion at Marine City. I never when to the Marysville event, but I recall the Port Huron Museum at one time sold a cassette tape of the whistle blow as I believe it was called. While attending the Marine City event, I remember seeing one of the whistles have a problem as it was being blown when its sleeve (my definition) began to come loose and ride downwards before the operator stopped the blow. If memory serves me correct they may have been using compressed air to blow the whistles. Throughout the whole event only one ship went by (it was during the dark days of the early 1980s), which I believe was the tanker Eastern Shell, that ignored all attempts to elicit a response despite numerous salutes blown to acknowledge its passage.
I remember in the early 80s a similar event was held at Marysville, and on at least one occasion at Marine City. I never when to the Marysville event, but I recall the Port Huron Museum at one time sold a cassette tape of the whistle blow as I believe it was called. While attending the Marine City event, I remember seeing one of the whistles have a problem as it was being blown when its sleeve (my definition) began to come loose and ride downwards before the operator stopped the blow. If memory serves me correct they may have been using compressed air to blow the whistles. Throughout the whole event only one ship went by (it was during the dark days of the early 1980s), which I believe was the tanker Eastern Shell, that ignored all attempts to elicit a response despite numerous salutes blown to acknowledge its passage.