Elmer Engman, our Duluth correspondent, reports that the PRESQUE ISLE was at the Duluth Port Terminal dock on June 11th for some bow thruster issues.

The integrated tug barge unit PRESQUE ISLE was built in 1973.  The barge was built in two sections – the bow by DeFoe Shipbuilding in Bay City and the cargo section by Erie Marine in Erie.  The tug was built in New Orleans by Halter Marine.  They measure 1000 feet in length and 104’7” in beam and sail as part of the Great Lakes Fleet of the Keystone Shipping Co.

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 will be the 38th of the program held on the second weekend in November.