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If you are wondering about its location, it can be tracked in the Boatnerd AIS map (if in range.) Otherwise its most recent ports of call are ususally listed in the foreign vessel postion reports.  https://boatnerd.com/foreign-vessel-positions/

 

 

Please don't take offense if you receive an e-mail from Boatnerd stating that your submitted post has been denied.

As mentioned in the news a few days ago, users provided some 130 submissions via our Upload form that we were unaware of until recently. (Learning the details of WordPress have ...

Thanks for the feedback. We recently added a menu tab for Gatherings, so perhaps we added one too many tabs. I've reworked the menu tabs to combine a couple. Hopefully that will resolve the issue you have had.

One more thing to note. WordPress automatically adjusts things to the screen resolution ...

The old message board is still active. It is under the main "MESSAGE BOARD" tab, as "OLD SEARCH PAGE". Please provide more detail about how you typically access it if you can't find it. Are you using a computer browser? Mobile device. etc.

You might also be able to access it via this link: http ...

Here are links to the photos DudeSeriously submitted with the above posts.  I'm not yet sure why they won't post here, but am looking into the problem.

William Dolland/Princess

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AIS data shows that Canada's latest icebreaker, currently named Mangystau 2, has been in Sorel, Que since January 3rd. Built for ice breaking in shallow waters, it was built in 2010 in Romania and had been working in the Caspian Sea. It will supposedly be retrofitted in Canada with the intention to ...

Almost forgot that the Maritime History of the Great Lakes website has multiple editions available to download as PDF files.  This search found 27 editions (years) available.  There may be more.

Red Book Collection at the Maritime History of the Great Lakes website

It was a independent trade publication, geared towards people in the industry. Roughly half of each volume was advertising, usually marine related. U of M's collection available online through Hathi Trust, but you have to be affiliated with a member university to be able to see any that are still ...

It's posted (under Extra Tonnage)

Per the news item a few days ago, "please send reports of vessel lay-ups to news@boatnerd.net"

Its only a 5100 hp tug.  Most ATB tugs pushing bulk carrier barges on the lakes are in the 6000 to 10,000 hp range, so I don't think it would be very efficient.