Duluth Harbor Boat Traffic for Tuesday 11/13/2012

American Century Departure

Walter J. McCarthy Jr. departed at 05:30
Algoma Quebecois arrived at 08:45
Marietje Deborah (Dutch) departed at 10:08
Algosoo departed at 13:45
Indiana Harbor arrived at 15:40
American Century departed at 16:05
Mesabi Miner arrived  at 16:30
Vlieborg departed at 17:45
Vikingbank arrived at 18:00

Duluth Harbor Boat Traffic for Tuesday 11/12/2012

American Integrity arrived at 02:20
James R. Barker departed at 06:30
Great Republic arrived at 07:00
American Century arrived at 11:55
American Integrity departed at 17:30
Great Republic departed at 17:30
Algosoo arrived at 21:30

New "Live Stream" camera feature

I am trying out a new video streaming service that may provide us a view from the LaFarge Camera that gives us a real-time view with little delay.  The new display can be selected from the "Live Stream" image at the top of column to the right.

Please take a look at the view. I would appreciate any feedback as to whether or not the service would be worthwhile for me to purchase.

If it is something that works for most of us, then I will take a look at adding it to the other cameras in addition to the existing views.

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