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This weekend, Lake Erie's level at Buffalo is forecast to rise nearly 7 feet higher than before the storm, while at Toledo, Ohio, on the west side, levels will drop by 10 feet.
The freighter has to travel the rest of Lake Erie and then go up the Detroit and St. Clair rivers to Sarnia, Ontario, where it will spend the rest of the winter, Rivera told The Associated Press on Sunday. “There is ice through other portions of the lake and the rivers, but we have another cutter that will take it through there,” he said.
The U.S. and Canadian coast guards collaborated to free a large freighter that had been trapped in ice in the midst of Lake Erie for days. It took several icebreaking ships two days to Free the ...
MV Roger Blough is a ship built in 1972 by American Ship Building Company in Lorain, Ohio. She serves as a lake freighter on the Great Lakes . The ship is owned by Great Lakes Fleet , Inc. and is named for the former chairman of U.S. Steel , Roger Blough .
In August 1986, Indiana Harbor broke the Lake Erie record for loading coal by taking on 52,000 tons of coal at Toledo, Ohio. [6] Ten days later, Indiana Harbor ran aground in the St. Clair River. [7] On September 8, 1993, the ship collided with the Lansing Shoals Light Station.
The lake freighter SS Henry Steinbrenner was a 427-foot (130 m) long, 50-foot (15 m) wide, and 28-foot (8.5 m) deep, [1] dry bulk freighter of typical construction style for the early 1900s, primarily designed for the iron ore, coal, and grain trades on the Great Lakes.
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The American Ship Building Company built the ship in 1975 at Lorain, Ohio. Like her sister ships, MV James R. Barker and MV Paul R. Tregurtha, she is owned and operated by the Interlake Shipping Company. [2] In spite of its size the MV Mesabi Miner is able to maneuver, in harbor, without requiring assistance from tugboats. [3]