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      Mindemoya Now Is Yankcanuck

Only a comparatively few persons here have heard of the Yankcanuck Transportation Company or the ship of the same name. But the vessel has a close association to a group of person in Marinette.

The Yankcanuck a pulpwood carrier is owned and ...

      Naugatuck Conducting Ice Survey

The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Naugatuck left the Michigan Sault base today for an exploratory ice survey downriver.

The 110 foot craft was due to go as far down as Lake Nicolet, and possibly beyond to Neebish Island

It' s finding ...

      Long ships leave St. Mary's River until Spring.

The longest shipping season in this area since the end of the Second World War came to an end Sunday.

As the motor Vessel Yankcanuck, flagship of Yankcanuck Steamships Limited of the Sault locked through the MacArthur lock ...

      Freighter Manzzutti Moves Through Locks.

The navigation season at the Canadian Sault Canal was unofficially opened this morning at 7:15 when the Manzzutti locked up bound for the Algoma Steel dock.

Because the Manzzutti is home based, its Captain John B. Perry will not ...

      Skipper Lauds Seaway

Captain Joseph Meade is an enthusiastic champion of the St. Lawrence seaway.

Meade, a resident of North Wales, England, believes the new waterwaly will be "the salvation of mankind."

He reasoned that it will provide cheaper transportation for ...

      Manzzutti First Ship Through Canal Here Moving To Steel Plant.

First Vessel through the locks, for the 1954 navigation season, the Manzzutti, of the Yankcanuck Steamship Ltd., entered the Canadian canal about 8;15 a.m. today.

It docked at the Algoma Steel Corporation ...

     

According to a recent decision of the Court of Appeals, seamen are not entitled to extra pay when throwing overboard in order to lighten a cargo off a reef. This decision is the result of a suit brought against the steamer C. F. Bielman by James Gilbraith, John Welmer and ...

     

West Superior May 17

C.E. Dickson who was head waiter on the steamer Bon Voyage which burned at Houghton a few days ago, has arrived in the city and tells an interesting tale of the burning of the boat. He tells a particulary interesting story of the loss of the ...

      Shipbuilder James Davidson of West Bay City may have been amused by the irony of this accident, as he had built the 2040 gross ton ARMENIA (US#107219) in 1896, while his just-down-the-river rival Frank W. Wheeler was builder of the 1054 gt ELFINMERE/PACKARD (US#135940). The ARMENIA had struck Colchester Shoal ...

      It is debatable whether this medium-sized tug (110 ft., 123 t.) was named W. R. MUIR or W. K. MUIR. There was another tug named W. K. MUIR, operating out of Milwaukee at this time. Extracts of official records show the spelling W. R. MUIR though she always shows in ...

      ELEVATOR GLUT SLOWS SHIPPING

The freighter Mancox is tied up at the C.P.R. dock here waiting improvement of the seasonal slowing up of grain movements, both form the Lakehead ports, of Port Arthur and Fort William, and the shipping of grain from Montreal ...

      Canadian Steamer Brings Lumber Cargo to City Firm

The first shipload of foreign lumber ever to be discharged at a Sturgeon Bay dock was put ashore over the weekend at the Sawyer Fuel & Supply Co.

The lumber arrived Saturday aboard the steamer Yankcanuck, owned by the ...

      Sault Vessel Return to Open Harbor Season

The 3,280 ton motor vessel Yankcanuck commanded by Captain W. E. Dexter, docked at the Sault harbor Monday afternoon to officially open the 1964 St. Mary's River navigation season.

Captain Dexter received the traditional silk hat ...

      Grounded Freighter Lightered.

The Yankcanuck freighter Mancox which ran aground in the St. Marys River yesterday, afternoon left the government dock at the foot of Pim Street at 1 p.m. today.

The ship freed itself at 9:30 a.m. after having 125 tons of her steel cargo ...

      Yankcanuck Ships lead the Way Mancox in Locks; Expect Manzzutti To Open Shipping

The steamer Mancox sailed through the Sault locks at 7:05 a.m. Today, making the first lockage of the 1958 season.

Owned by Yankcanuck Steamship Limited, the Mancox, which has ...

      Manzzuttti May Be First Expect Official Opening of Sault Lock on April 12.

April 12 has been selected as the tentative date for opening the Sault Locks to commercial traffic.

Although the icebreaker Alexander Henry and freighter Manzzutti locked through the Canadian ...

 Milwaukee Journal, 1 Dec 1902     Boat Pounded to Pieces Steamer Charles Hebard Said to Have Been Wrecked on Copper Point Lake Superior's

Chicago Dec. 1. An underwriter's report, reaching here from Sault Ste. Marie this afternoon, says that the steamer Charles Hebard was wrecked and has been pounded to ...

 Evening News (Sault Sainte Marie, MI), 20 Aug 1903     THE DIXON BURNED HIRAM R. DIXON BURNED TO WATER'S EDGE TUESDAY NIGHT WAS TIED UP AT DOCK AT MICHIPICOTEN CAPTAIN GANLEY AND CREW ESCAPED BUT LOST CLOTHING Fire Broke Out in the Engine Room and Spread with Wonderful Rapidity-Only Hull of Boat Remained When Fire ...

      MONTGOMERY WENT TO PIECES ON WEDNESDAY Cargo of Lumber is Scattered for Miles Along the Shore of Lake Superior

Alf. Richards returned Saturday from a trip to the life saving stations and he reports that the schooner Montgomery, which was abandoned near station 10, two weeks ...

      THE WRECKING TUG MICHIGAN

The Canadian wrecking tug Prince Alfred, which is now the property of the International Wrecking and Transportation company, has been largely repaired during the winter and spring, and is so far a new boat that it was thought best to give her a new name. ...