Duluth Harbor Boat Traffic for Sunday 11/11/2012

Marietje Deborah Arrival

Cason J. Callaway departed at 01:40
American Integrity departed at 03:55
Lakes Contender/tug Ken Boothe, Sr. arrived at 07:05
Hon. James L. Oberstar arrived at 12:00
Marietje Deborah arrived at 16:40
James R. Barker arrived at 17:30
Lakes Contender/tug Ken Boothe, Sr. departed at 22:10

Harbor History: November 10, 1975: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

 A postcard of the Edmund Fitzgerald. (Image: X-Comm.)

This day on Lake Superior in 1975, as most readers are aware, the ore boat Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, taking all twenty-nine hands down with her. The previous day she had loaded 26,000 tons of taconite pellets at the Burlington Northern dock in Superior, Wisconsin, and left port at  2 p.m. that day, taking its cargo to Zug Island on the Detroit River. Just 39 minutes later, the gale warnings came in. It took the Fitzgerald until 1 a.m. to get 20 miles south of Isle Royale, battling 52-knot winds and ten-foot waves. At 7 a.m. the Fitzgerald reported 35-knot winds and ten-foot waves. At 3:30 in the afternoon, Fitzgerald Captain Ernest McSorley radios the Arthur Anderson, who is trailing the Fitz, and tells Captain Cooper his vessel had sustained “some topside damage.” and asked the Anderson to keep the Fitz in her sights. Forty minutes later the Fitz radioed the Anderson once again, announcing that her radar equipment had failed and asking for the Anderson’s assistance. Things got steadily worse for the Fitzgerald, and by 6 p.m. it was listing badly. At 7:10 the Fitzgerald told the Anderson “We are holding our own.” At 7:25 the Edmund Fitzgerald disappeared from the Anderson’s radar. For more information on the Fitzgerald sinking, visit S. S. Edmund Fitzgerald Online.

Tony Dierckins | Zenith City 

Duluth Harbor Boat Traffic for Friday 11/9/2012

Alpena arrived at 04:11
Kaye E. Barker departed at 08:00
Cason J. Callaway arrived at 16:15
Alder arrived at 17:00

Duluth harbor Boat Traffic for Thursday 11/8/2012

Herbert C. Jackson departed at 01:00
Frontenac arrived at 14:00
Roger Blough departed at 14:50
Frontenac departed at 23:35

Duluth Harbor Boat Traffic for Wednesday 11/7/2012

Paul R. Tregurtha arrived at 00:16
Indiana Harbor departed at 07:55
Alder departed at 10:43
Roger Blough arrived at 11:28
Paul R. Tregurtha departed at 18:30
Mesabi Miner departed at 18:30
Herbert C. Jackson arrived at 19:00