Posted March 26, 200619 yr http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060326/NEWS08/603260362/-1/NEWS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Article published March 26, 2006 Ol' Mac's final crush: Toledo-built icebreaker headed for mothballs By DAVID PATCH BLADE STAFF WRITER When the St. Mary's River locks at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., opened at 12:01 a.m. yesterday, it was a curtain call of sorts for an icebreaker built six decades ago in Toledo. For a little more than a week beforehand, the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Mackinaw had been breaking tracks through the frozen channels of the St. Mary's and adjoining Whitefish Bay so that yesterday Great Lakes freighters could resume hauling coal, iron ore, grain, and other commodities between Lakes Superior and Huron after a 10-week winter shutdown. Read more at link above:
March 26, 200619 yr I think it would be a great move by the City of Toledo to ask the Coast Guard to donate the "Mac" to the city and have it berthed along the waterfront as a permanent memorial and exhibit. It was built in Toledo and served the very Great Lakes that Toledo has depended upon for business and trade. What better reason to preserve it for the education of future generations about what it took to keep the Lakes open for commerece?
April 15, 200619 yr http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060415/NEWS11/60415046/-1/NEWS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Article published April 15, 2006 Mackinaw making her final call on waters of Toledo birthplace By DAVID PATCH BLADE STAFF WRITER Like a salmon returning to its spawning ground, the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw sailed regally up the Maumee River to Toledo yesterday afternoon for what is expected to be her final visit to the port where she was launched more than 61 years ago. “This is an amazing ship. It’s an honor for all of us” to serve as the big red icebreaker’s final crew, said Lt. Cmdr. Mike Barner, the ship’s chief engineer, during the day’s voyage from Port Huron, Mich., to Toledo. More at link above:
June 24, 200618 yr http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060624/NEWS16/606240359/-1/NEWS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Article published June 24, 2006 Toledo-built Mackinaw retires in Mackinaw City MACKINAW CITY, Mich. - The decommissioned U.S. Coast Guard cutter Mackinaw has a new home. An enthusiastic crowd and a brass band welcomed the ship, built in Toledo in 1943 and 1944, to Mackinaw City's Railroad Dock Wednesday. It will be a museum ship, its icebreaking, training and search-and-rescue missions concluded. A new cutter with the same name will assume the Mackinaw's duties and use its mooring dock in Cheboygan, 15 miles south. More at link above:
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