Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Drone footage from this weekend shows a Canadian freighter stuck in the ice on frozen Lake Erie near the shores of Buffalo, New York. The 663-foot ship called the Manitoulin was ...
The Manitoulin, a 663-foot (202-meter) Canadian vessel with 17 people on board, got stuck in the ice on Lake Erie on Wednesday after it dropped off a load of wheat in Buffalo, New York, and was heading back to Canada, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
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 recent arctic blast has pushed ice cover on the Great Lakes to levels not seen since 2022. Lake Erie in particular has become mostly ice covered in quick order. As of January 23, ice cover has ...
The size of a lake freighter determines where it may work. The shallow draft imposed by the St. Marys River and Lake St. Clair restrict the cargo capacity of lakers. [citation needed] Poe Lock at the Soo Locks is the largest deep lock at 1,200 feet (370 m) long and 110 feet (34 m) wide. [38]
[7] [4] [5] [6] In January 2000 the third ship to be named John J. Boland was sold and Charles E. Wilson was renamed John J. Boland. [9] [7] On January 2, 2018 John J. Boland was among the ships that became trapped in ice on Lake Erie. The ship was freed by United States Coast Guard vessels on January 4. [10] The ship is currently in service. [9]
On May 27, 2016, while under operation of the Keystone Shipping Company, the Roger Blough ran aground on Gros Cap Reef in Whitefish Bay, Lake Superior with some minor flooding reported. [9] She remained aground on May 29, 2016 near Gros Cap Reefs Light with the United States Coast Guard vessel USCGC Mobile Bay on station monitoring the ...