Saginaw River Passages - August 26th & 27th

Sunday evening saw the arrival of two commercial vessels on the Saginaw River.  Algoway was first, calling on the North Star dock in Essexville to unload.  She was followed a few minutes behind by American Century, who called on the Consumers Energy dock in Essexville to unload coal.  Both vessels were outbound for the lake Monday morning.  Inbound on Monday was the Olive L. Moore - Lewis J. Kuber, who called on the Bay City Wirt dock to unload early in the afternoon.

Algoway inbound on the Saginaw Bay, headed for the North Star Dock

American Century on the Saginaw Bay, bound for Consumers Energy

Saginaw River Passages - August 24th

The Stephen B. Roman was inbound the Saginaw River early Friday morning, calling on the Essroc Cement dock in Essexville to unload.  She was expected to be outbound early Saturday morning.  Calumet was on the Saginaw Bay, inbound for the Saginaw River late Friday night.

Saginaw River Passages - August 22nd

The tug Karen Andrie and her tank barge, Endeavour, called on the Bit-Mat dock in Bay City on Wednesday.  The pair were unloading there during the evening Wednesday and early morning Thursday.  Calumet was inbound late Wednesday night, calling on the GM dock in Saginaw.  She was expected to be outbound Thursday morning.

Karen Andrie and barge Endeavour at the Bit-Mat Dock in Bay City

View up the Bay Aggregates Slip, where the connection for Bit-Mat
is located

View with the USS Edson in the background

Saginaw River Passage - August 19th

American Century called on the Saginaw River late Sunday afternoon, stopping at the Consumers Energy dock in Essexville to unload coal. She was expected to back from the dock early Monday morning, turn and head for the lake.

Saginaw River Passage - August 18th

Olive L. Moore - Lewis J. Kuber were inbound the Saginaw River on Saturday with a split cargo. The pair unloaded a partial cargo at the Bay Aggregates dock in Bay City, before moving upriver and finishing at the Buena Vista dock in Saginaw. The Moore-Kuber were outbound for the lake, late Saturday night.

Olive L. Moore - Lewis J. Kuber unloading in the Bay Aggregates slip

Saginaw River Passages - August 14th & 15th



Calumet and Olive L. Moore - Lewis J. Kuber unloading at the Bay City
Wirt Stone Dock

The tug Zeus and her tank barge, Robert F. Deegan, called on the Dow Chemical dock in Bay City to unload on Tuesday. The pair were outbound for the lake early Wednesday morning.


Calumet was inbound Wednesday morning to unload sugar stone at the Bay City Wirt Stone dock. She completed her unload, turned off the dock in the Wirt turning basin and was outbound for the lake Wednesday evening

Olive L. Moore - Lewis J. Kuber arrived at the Bay City Wirt dock a short time later, unloading a partial cargo there, then the pair proceeded upriver to finish unloading at the Wirt Stone dock in Saginaw. They were expected to be outbound early Thursday morning.





Caulmet is unloading Sugar Stone
Moore - Kuber is unloading Wirt Stonemix or "Wirt Dirt"

Calumet outbound from the Saginaw River the evening of August 15th

Olive L. Moore - Lewis J Kuber unloading at Bay City Wirt

Headed upriver to finish unloading at the Saginaw Wirt Stone Dock

Tug Zeus and tank barge Robert F. Deegan at the Dow Chemical Dock
in Bay City

Unloading at Dow Chemical on August 14th

Saginaw River Passage - August 10th

Olive L. Moore - Lewis J. Kuber called on the Saginaw River early Friday morning, traveling upriver to unload at the Lafarge Stone dock in Saginaw. When finished, the pair turned at Sixth Street and proceeded outbound, stopping at the Wirt Stone Dock n Bay City to wait for weather. Moore - Kuber departed for the lake later in the evening when the winds subsided. At the peak of the blow, sustained winds of 39 knots and gusts of 44.1 knots out of the northeast were recorded.

Saginaw River Passages - August 8th

Calumet completed her unload at the Lafarge Stone Dock in Essexville, late Wednesday morning, backed from the dock and into the Bay Aggregates slip, then turned for the lake. The Dann Marine tug, Colonel, departed the Saginaw River on Tuesday, after safely delivering the USS Edson from the Navy yard in Philidelphia to her new home in Bay City, a long journey and a job extremely well done.

Caulmet unloading at Lafarge Essexville, behind the USS Edson & Colonel

Calumet unloading at Lafarge Stone in Essexville

Calumet outbound for the lake at the Essexville Range

Causley Marine Contracting tugs

Outbound on the Saginaw River

USS Edson Arrival - August 7th

The USS Edson, with the tugs Colonel & Manitou, arrived on the Saginaw River on Tuesday, arriving at the Essexville Wirt Sand and Stone dock around 8:45am.  The Edson will be moored here temporarily until her permanent moorings near the Independence Bridge are complete.



Led by the tug Colonel and trailed by the tug Manitou, the USS Edson
makes her way to her new home in Bay City, MI



Making the bend at the Essexville Range Lights

Tug Manitou on the stern of the Edson

Nearing the Wirt Sand and Stone dock in Essexville

Manitou pouring on the power

Pushing the USS Edson to the Shore

Tug Colonel pushing the Edson up to her temporary moorings

Saginaw River Passage - August 5th

The G-Tug Ohio called on the Saginaw River, early Sunday morning, with two barges bound for the Consumers Energy dock in Essexville. The barges are carrying lime slurry tanks and storage silos, constructed by the Pittsburgh Tank Corporation.

Tug Ohio at the Consumers Energy dock

Wide view showing the barges

Saginaw River Passages - August 3rd

The tug Dorothy Ann and barge Pathfinder called on the Saginaw River on Friday, traveling up to the Bay Aggregates Dock to unload. The pair completed their unload and were outbound for the lake later in the afternoon.

For the month of July, there were 19 commercial vessel passages on the Saginaw River. This is up by three, from the sixteen recorded in July of last year. For the season to date, there have been 70 vessel passages, also up for the same period last year by eighteen passages.

Tug Edwin Busch outbound nearing the Lafayette Bridge in Bay City

Doroty Ann - Pathfinder unloading at the Bay Aggregates Slip in Bay City