The Tall Ships in Duluth

by Kenneth Newhams on July 29, 2010

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The Denis Sullivan came into port around 5:45 in the afternoon, the last of the 9 Tall Ships for the day. You see the Dutch flagged Merweborg on the right; she is anchored waiting for a dock to load grain.

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The HMS Bounty (above) led off the parade

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The Roald Amundsen arrives (above)

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The US Brig Niagara, above and below, also missed but looked good doing it
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The Roseway (above) comes in

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The Europa (above) arrives

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The Pride of Baltimore above and below; they missed us

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The Zeeto (above) arrived just before the Coaster.

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The Coaster, above was the 8th of the first 8 Tall Ships to come under the Bridge; the Denis Sullivan was delayed by weather but should be here late this afternoon.

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Above, the Roseway is raising her sails to out into the Lake. Well next see her when she comes in with the other 8 tall ships at 2 today. She was in to pick up media. I was invited but looked around and could see that none of my staff had come to work today; so I had to stay home and take care of my media, which actually, I am doing right now. Below, the Coaster II was already at the DECC (below). Both will go back out to the Lake to be a part of the Parade of Sail.

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since she went up for the Joseph H Block. Actually, i presume until shortly after the Block went under the bridge since it did start to go down  more coming. Go here to see the live video of the bridge; not a lot of action but.

The bridge is now operable at 7:33 pm 

Power went out during an electrical storm; perhaps after the Block went under and the bridge had started to go down. For some reason, it was not level and at that point, as a safety measure, the descent is automatically stopped. They then had to manually lower the bridge or actually lower at least one side until it became level. That happened and it appeared that they then turned the job over to the computer again and she came down without a problem; cars and people started over immediately and there was lots of horns honking. The bridge even blew her whistle to presumably thank everyone for their patience.

8:10 the Bridge was raised, presumably to test it. It appeared to work.

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Catch the Tall Ships when they are in Duluth

by Kenneth Newhams on July 24, 2010

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Eight Tall Ships, the Roseway, Denis Sullivan, Zeeto, Roald Amundsen, Pride of Baltimore II, HMS Bounty, Europa and US Brig Niagara will be arriving in Duluth on Wednesday, July 28th. Go to VisitDuluth for the full schedule; click here to see our web pages on the ships, with links on each of them for more information. And if you can’t make it down to the harbor for the big event, watch it live on DSNTV. I hope to have two live cameras on the Grand Parade of Sail on Thursday afternoon at 2, perhaps the single most exciting event of the trip. And daily live video during the festival. If you have taken photos of any of the ships while they were at other ports, and want to share them, send to me with a title and credit line and I will try to post it here.

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A visit from the Calumet is …

July 18, 2010

… always appreciated, and so she was as she came into the Duluth harbor early Sunday morning, July 18, 2010.

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Coal and more coal and …

July 15, 2010

The Mesabi Miner waited at the Port Terminal since yesterday to load coal at Midwest Energy. This morning, as the Canadian Transport arrived in port to load coal, the Miner left the Port Terminal and is seen above beginning to back up the St. Louis River to a position just behind the Mapleglen (just  below, [...]

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Dutch ships still above water, despite defeat

July 12, 2010

On Sunday (July 11, 2010), 2 Dutch flagged vessels stood at anchor waiting to come into port to load grain. While they waited, the Netherlands was defeated in the World Cup by Spain. Sunrise today saw them both still out there; in fact, just before noon, the Medemborg came in. She is seen above moving [...]

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“Do you think we should get married here?”

July 3, 2010

Perhaps, the couple in the Rose Garden is wondering what the view will be next June when they get married by the Lake. The Rose Garden will be there but it is not likely the Polish owned Isolda will be in town. She was at anchor off the Duluth piers on July 1st when they [...]

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Two Canadians; one lift of the Bridge

June 30, 2010

  As I pulled into my parking lot this morning, the bridge was up so I scampered across the street to see who was coming. I was not the only one scampering to see the Algosoo. I ran into my office to make sure DSNTV was working (Microsoft sometimes thinks it is a good idea [...]

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Express service from Duluth to Antartica

June 25, 2010

The Antarctica is as close as a trip on one of two ships that will be in Duluth this summer. The cruise ship Clelia II will make 5 trips here this summer, the first coming tomorrow, Saturday June 26, when she comes under the Lift Bridge around 6 am. If January in Duluth in not [...]

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Wind turbine train #2 departs Duluth

June 22, 2010

  The second and last of two trains that carried wind turbine parts originally loaded onto two ships in Denmark and discharged at Duluth left the Port Terminal today (June 22, 2010). Here it has just emerged from the BNSF rail yard in Duluth on its way beside I-35 to the Grassy Point Bridge and [...]

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