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By noon, after two hours of fighting the fire, Russia 's hull had been filled with water, finally extinguishing the fire and causing her to list 18 feet (5.5 m) to port. She was repaired in Buffalo, with the repairs costing $15,000. [34] On July 31, 1893, as soon as Russia left drydock, she collided with the freighter Thomas W. Palmer.
The Daniel J. Morrell, a 603-foot freighter broke in two during a large storm on Lake Huron off the coast of Port Hope on Nov. 29, 1966. The freighter encountered 35-foot waves, snow and winds at ...
She was towed to Port Colbourne, Ontario in fall of 2023 and scrapped. Lake Superior, former U.S. Army Corps of Engineers tug, built in 1943. Used as a museum ship in Duluth, Minnesota from 1996 - 2007. Abandoned after a 2022 sinking. USCGC Bramble, a former museum ship in Port Huron, Michigan. Sold and brought to Alabama in 2018, scrapped in 2023
CAM sailings were initially limited to North American convoys with aircraft maintenance performed by the Royal Canadian Air Force at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. CAM ships sailed on Gibraltar and Freetown convoys beginning in September 1941, after an aircraft maintenance unit was established at the RAF base at North Front, Gibraltar. No CAM aircraft ...
Officials said it took the combined efforts of two U.S. Coast Guard cutters and one Canadian Coast Guard cutter to break the freighter free. The video showed the ice-breaking technique used by the ...
On September 6, 1914 the Montana was heading from Detroit, Michigan to Georgian Bay to load lumber, when she caught fire, burned to the waterline and sank near North Point. [105] [106] [107: Not listed Monrovia: Steel ocean freighter 1943 1959 140 feet (43 m)
The vital shipping channel that connects Lake Erie to Lake Huron and includes the Detroit River has seen three ships go aground this year. Why do freighters keep getting stuck in Detroit, St ...
SS Leon Fraser in Duluth, Minnesota, in 1979. The Leon Fraser was launched on February 28, 1942. [1] [2] She was built by the Great Lakes Engineering Works at their River Rouge yards in Ecorse, Michigan [1] [3] and named for Leon Fraser, president of the First National Bank of New York and a director of United States Steel.