And now for something completely different.
Received the following via email. Posting consists of two emails.
Subject: Largest Freighter on Great Lakes is Hard Aground
Crews working to free grounded 1,013-foot coal freighter blocking outbound channel of St. Marys River, linking lakes Superior and Huron.
Article includes a photo showing stern of the stranded, 1,013'-long, self-unloading vessel Paul R. Tregurtha, largest on the lakes:
http://www.cheboygannews.com/features/x821892477/Vessel-runs-aground-blocks-shipping?photo=0
This is not the first...nor even second...time that the enormous, reigning “Queen of the Lakes” has run aground (linked site also features dozens of photos of her throughout her sailing career):
http://www.boatnerd.com/pictures/fleet/prtrgrth.htm
Subject: Freighter stuck in St. Marys River
1,000-foot coal freighter stuck in St. Marys River
SAULT STE MARIE, Mich. (AP) The U.S. Coast Guard says crews are working to free a 1,000-foot coal freighter grounded in the outbound channel of the St. Marys River that links lakes Superior and Huron.
The Coast Guard says the grounding happened about 3 a.m. Wednesday. It says there are no reports of injuries or pollution but says the vessel has sustained damage.
It says the Paul R. Tregurtha is owned by Interlake Shipping Co. of Richfield, Ohio, and carried about 62,000 tons of coal. The ship is grounded on the west side of Neebish Island in the channel that leads
to Lake Huron.
The Coast Guard says its personnel are working closely with the freighter's owners and others to determine the safest approach to re-floating the vessel.