Norisle Scrap Tow Resumes After Weather Delay
After a layover at Windsor, ON, for high winds, the Norisle scrap tow to Port Colborne, ON, scrapyard has resumed. Tuesday late evening they were approaching Lake Erie’s Pelee Passage. Rack them on AIS by searching for her tug, Ecosse.
Norisle was built at Collingwood, ON, in 1946 and shuttled people and vehicles between Tobermory and Manitoulin Island from 1947 to 1974 before being replaced by the current ferry Chi-Cheemaun. She was used as a floating museum in Manitowaning, ON, since the Township of Assiginack purchased it for $1 in 1975. Various efforts to preserve the vessel were unsuccessful.
McKeil’s New Northern Venture Unloads First Cargo
McKeil Marine’s newest addition to its fleet (and its first self-unloader) Northern Venture has entered service after a successful delivery trip from Japan. Her first unload is blast furnace slag from Japan which she was unloading at Picton, ON, Tuesday.
Tug John Purves to go to dry dock this winter
Surgeon Bay, WI – You only will have a couple of more weeks to check out the Tug John Purves before it heads across the bay for some much-needed tender, loving care. The Door County Maritime Museum, which began offering tours of the tug boat in 2008, secured the last piece of funding needed to make a number of repairs to the vessel’s hull among other improvements. Deputy Director and Development Manager Sam Perlman says it is important for the Tug John Purves to be preserved for future generations to tour, something over 70,000 people have already been able to experience.
Perlman says the plan right now is for the Tug John Purves to be towed by Roen Salvage across the bay to Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding where it will be put in dry dock for its repairs as other visiting vessels come to Sturgeon Bay for the winter fleet. The tug will return to its rightful spot by the Door County Maritime Museum in time for the start of the 2024 season in May.
Dorr County Daily News
$31M deep-water port under construction at Soo
SAULT STE. MARIE, MI – A major maritime shoreline revitalization project in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula will bring both economic and climate benefits when it expectedly reopens to the public next summer.
The multi-million-dollar project involves repairs at the old Union Carbide Dock seawall in Sault Ste. Marie, cleanup of legacy pollution from calcium carbide manufacturing, improvement of mooring and bulk storage abilities, and the reopening of a community park and boardwalk with public access to the St. Marys River.
Work remains underway on the $31 million project and when finished in July 2024, the upgraded site will provide a valuable deep-water port on the lower St. Marys River for freighters or cruise ships within walking distance of the Soo’s downtown.
There will be an improved seawall and mooring space to accommodate boats and ships from pleasure craft to 1,000-foot bulk freighters. The dock will be open for vessel maintenance, refueling, and dumping wastewater.
Read more at this MLive link: https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2023/10/31m-deep-water-port-in-the-works-on-sault-ste-marie-waterfront.html?fbclid=IwAR3yJMQ2IUwJRF83TwuJvFgONE7BcWkXqmiiHKbNzwYYkpyVKZm_E3anqQA
Authors, Artists Saturday at Port Huron Maritime Center
Featuring
Roger LeLievre – “Know Your Ships” + the new Extra Magazine
Roger P. Hulett – Author of “A Lot More To Do,”the story of his friend Frank Mays’ Survival of the tragic Carl D. Bradley sinking and Frank’s remarkable life
Plus
Artist Harry McTaggart
Photographer Mary Truchan
See the flier below for details.
