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The Montrealais lost five of her hatch-covers over the side on October 21, 1993, after departing Burns Harbor, and while the crew was cleaning the hold. I don't know if it was due to the high winds (a strong cold front was sweeping through at the time) or if she was caught in the troughs and was rol...

From the May/June 1972 Telescope magazine's news section: "Feb. 11 ...Cleveland's first black law firm has announced it is forming the first black-owned shipping company on the Great Lakes. Operations are to begin this spring (1972). The company, Marine Transit, Inc., has commitments to purchas...

Champlain broke her moorings April 5, 1957 and struck the Fasset Street bridge during high-winds.

I talked to Capt. Jimmie Hobaugh back in 1988 and he related to me how the waves were from the west-northwest the night the Fitz went down and that they would get reflected off the Canadian shoreline come back into the lake interfering with the waves from the west-northwest. Marine meteorologist's w...

Some one asked asked earlier what direction the bow is facing relative to the course they were steering. The Fitzgerald was on a course of 141 degrees and the bow on the bottom is 125 degrees, a difference of 16 degrees. The stern is at 255 degrees. This is all according to the US Coast Guard drawin...

No two shipwrecks are ever the same. While the Daniel J. Morrell broke on the surface, and the stern was found miles away, the Carl D. Bradley also broke on the surface but both pieces are close together. The bow nose-diving with the propeller still turning cannot account for the large amount of tac...

Folks might want to check out the results from the International Marine Forensics Symposium of April 2012 http://www.maritimetv.com/FeaturedContent/MaritimeTVUpcomingandRecentWebcastEvents/2012InternationalMarineForensicsSymposium.aspx?VID=maritime/120405_Maritime_1420_Smith_Garzke.flv#anchor and cl...

There was talk back in April in the trade publication "Metal Bulletin" that Severstal Dearborn was mulling the rebuilding of the "B" blast furnace that was damaged a few years ago. If so, than the John Sherwin would be reactivated.

There is talk Arcelor-Mittal is banking the blast furnaces at Burns Harbor, perhaps due to the labour contract that ends on the 31st. Does this mean that Stewart J. Cort and Burns Harbor will go into layup? How will this affect other vessels. Are other mills planning on banking their blast furnaces ...

I have an article from the Toronto Star, from July 1987 (the actual date has been cut off the top of the clipping) which mentions steel from the Arthur B. Homer was being used to create "protection walls and as piers." "The three-quarter-inch-thick steel plates of the hull are cut int...

Bethlehem Steel had an option with Litton for up to five thousand-footers with Litton. When the company tried to exercise their option for two thousand-footers in November 1973, and one in December 1973, Litton refused to build the ships. The 70s were a time of high inflation, and from the time the ...

CSL Spirit is far too large for the St. Lawrence Seaway. She has a capacity of over 70,000 tons according to the CSL website.

Early reports indicate that a tornado has struck Goderich this afternoon and that some damage has occurred to the salt mine and the downtown area.

I believe the photo was taken January 11, 1979 in the Livingstone Channel, Detroit river. There had been an ice jam in the Detroit river and the USCG had tried to use the Roger Blough to break the jam. Instead she was nearly pushed ashore due to the ice that reportedly was anchored to the river bott...

Perhaps GLF has to set up another company, much as Columbia had to set up Pringle Transit because of the different unions. GLF boats are USW and BoCo boats are SIU.

Halifax's Canadian registry was closed April 21, 2011, according to Transport Canada's website.

In today's news photos there are from what I count 5 hull sections in the foreground. Are they for new construction, or hull replacement on an existing ship such as the American Courage?

Any photos of the Joseph Block in Inland Steel colors? Preferably color.

Here you go http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=stdm4

Gearless means that the ships won't have self-unloading equipment, that is they are straight-deckers. I have no idea what the bidding process was like but I'm quite sure that Canadian shipbuilders couldn't bid competitively on this contract. The days of Canadian shipbuilders building lake freighters...