Elmer Engman, our Duluth correspondent, can’t forget to mention the two salt water ships that were in on July 6th. The BBC SINGAPORE, she is a new ship being built in 2025 and sails under the flag of Antigua and Barbuda. This is a heavy lift ship and is unloading steel bar and machinery. The ship is 482 feet long with a 75 foot beam
The other salt water ship is the FEDERAL CHURCHILL and she was finishing unloading a cargo of cement from Turkey. She was built in 2016 and is 652 feet long with a 78 foot beam and sails under the flag of Marshall Islands.
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.
