BAY CITY, MI – A Great Lakes freighter flying under the Canadian ... according to the ship tracking website Boatnerd.com. The ship was built in Toledo and has been a fixture on the Great Lakes ...

The package freighter steamboat SS Eber Ward operated in the Great Lakes, launching in 1888, before it sank in the Straights of Mackinac in 1909. Westcott, who became the Great Lakes’ youngest ...

Marty Flore's love of freighters on open water started when he was a teenager and his dad sailed the Great Lakes. "I've even got to go on some freighters with him," said Flore, 69, of Windsor.

After a temporary patch was applied at Keefer Terminal, Transport Canada gave permission to the freighter's owner – Lower Lakes Towing of Port Dover, Ont. – to have it escorted by tugs on June 20 to ...

As executive director of the Great Lakes Observing System, she's leading a campaign to map every meter of the ... Fitzgerald would be a valuable thing but there must be more to it than that,” Bentz ...

After a temporary patch was applied at Keefer Terminal, Transport Canada gave permission to the freighter's owner – Lower Lakes Towing of Port Dover, Ont. – to have it escorted by tugs on June ...

Photo courtesy of Matt Zuro. Image from NWS webpage. The Laurentian Great Lakes, as the world's largest unfrozen surface freshwater system, hold paramount significance in maintaining the ecological ...

Jennifer Boehme spent her childhood combing Florida beaches for treasures, and now she leads a far more ambitious exploration, spearheading an effort to map the bottom of the Great Lakes.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finalized new ballast water regulations that exempt existing Great Lakes ships from ... vessels and new lake freighters to install treatment systems ...