Elmer Engman, our Duluth correspondent, also reports that on July 6th leaving the harbor and passing the PRESQUE ISLE was the JOSEPH L. BLOCK. She finished loading a cargo of taconite at the CN ore docks and was heading to Indiana Harbor. She was built in 1976 and is 728 feet long with a beam of 78 feet.
Two other ships of the fleet are at Fraser Shipyard. The WILFRED SYKES is in drydock and the EDWARD L. RYERSON is in a slip next to the shipyard.
I got a little excited in May when the RYERSON’s transponder was on for a week. But the ship did not move.
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.
