Elmer Engman, our Duluth correspondent, reports that on Saturday, June 6th, they finally had a nice warm sunny day in the Twin Ports. The GREAT REPUBLIC was leaving the Duluth harbor after unloading a cargo of limestone in Superior, Wisconsin.  She was then on her way to Silver Bay, Minnesota, to load a cargo of taconite.

The GREAT REPUBLIC was built in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, in 1981 and is 634 feet long.

Photos by Elmer Engman

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Elmer Engman is a long time resident of the Duluth area. He started scuba diving in 1968, because of an interest in maritime history, and wrote the first dive guide for the area called, Shipwreck Guide to the Western Half of Lake Superior. He is a past board member of the SS Meteor Maritime Museum and the Lake Superior Marine Museum Association. He is also the founder of the Maritime history program called “Gales of November”. This program is usually held on the second weekend in November.