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.