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Looks like they may have had some kind of breakdown, as after passing the Apostle Islands they did an abrupt turn, and at about 3 KT's speed headed to Washburn, WI and are at a dock there next to the marina.

Duluth Marine Tech's tug Jean C and crane barge left Duluth today headed to the Keweenaw area. The rumor is that they will be salvaging a fish tug that sank earlier this year.

Noted that ships are avoiding mid Lake Superior, running up the north side for instance. The James R Barker is north of Michipicoten Island heading to Duluth. The wind is out of the northeast, 28 knots in mid-lake.

Heritage has been planning to have a tug based in Two Harbors for some time to assist vessels there. Maybe it finally happened.

Here is a picture of the Alfred Krupp taken in August 1974 at Hyman Michels scrapyard which evidently was scrapped there in 1975. Also another picture of the scrapyard which shows a pilothouse being used as an office or whatever there. Has anyone ever figured out what vessel it came from?

The American Spirit left its winter layup dock yesterday to load iron ore pellets at the CN dock in Duluth with the aid of 2 G-Tugs, which seemed to make sense as the CN slip likely was ice filled. Today she left the CN slip evidently as a dead ship tow with 2 G-Tugs, and returned to the Port Termin...

I see that the Irvin L Clymer celebrates its 100th birthday today. It was scrapped some time ago, but the pilothouse still exists in Duluth.

The USCG Alder was out Thursday March 16 on its initial icebreaking trip for the 2017 season. Aboard were guests from the Lake Superior Marine Museum and this 35 minute video, the link below, was shot on this trip. The attached picture shows the course that it ran, starting with moving a buoy that w...

The American Century, the American Spirit, and the Burns Harbor which spent the winter laid up at Duluth-Superior have turned on their AIS yesterday & today. Getting ready to go!

That tower was a support for an antenna wire that ran from the lighthouse building at the end of the pier to that tower. The antenna was for a radio-direction-finder station located there. In the days before Loran & GPS, this and many other RDF stations allowed ships to determine where they were...

Check out this link to a great aerial view of the Heritage Tugs at their dock in Superior. When you open the page, click on the picture to get the full view.

http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/4 ... slice-life

I was watching on AIS the G-Tug Huron helping the Burns Harbor into its layup berth in Superior, and noticed that it was no longer doing anything. Then a little later the tug North Carolina was helping the CSL Assiniboine leave the ore-dock in Duluth and helping it head out of the Duluth Entry. When...

This site has some video and some other information.

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Arca1

The ice covered Assiniboine entered Duluth about 2 PM today to unload salt in Superior. Check this video>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZazEk8Jg_xk&t=381s

This video taken this morning shows that 17 degrees below zero doesn't stop dedicated Duluth boatnerds from watching ships head out. The Algoway brought in a load of salt yesterday.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuQ_v7KRKXw

The Duluth harbor is quickly getting iced in. This evening the tug Nels J has been doing some ice breaking up river and looks like it will be escorting the Arthur M Anderson when it heads out in a while.

I see the Edgar B Speer came into Duluth very slowly this morning, and with tug assistance tied up to the Port Terminal dock. Thruster problem?

Although it is relatively calm here in Duluth, evidently it is pretty windy out in mid Lake Superior. There are 5 ships anchored just off Duluth this morning, Cason J Callaway, Edgar B Speer, Paul R Tregurtha, American Mariner, and the Walter J McCarthy Jr.

Thanks, Brian.

It is amazing that for a ship running under the name Vega for almost 30 years that there is practically zero information anywhere. I found only one other picture of it with that name in the Bowling Green State University Historical Collections.

I picked this picture up at a yard sale this last weekend. The ship is the Vega, home port is Fairport. The Vega is shown leaving through the Duluth entry on an unknown date. There is a Vega which was wrecked in a November 1905 storm, and the registry was closed in December 1905, and evidently was n...