Elmer Engman, our Duluth correspondent, also reports that on July 6th the PRESQUE ISLE arrived in Duluth. She was going to the fuel dock and then heading to the Burlington Northern ore dock in Superior, Wisconsin, for a cargo of taconite. She was built as a tug barge in 1973. The barge is 974 feet long with a beam of 104 feet. The tug is 153 feet long with a beam of 54 feet.
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.
