- Date
- 2008-09
- Kind
- Transportation
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- maritimetransportationcommercecommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
In mid-September 2008, a barge and tug maneuvered into the EW Marine dock so logs could be moved from truck piles onto the barge. The Beacon describes the crane, log trucks, workers using peaveys, and the Cisco’s role in guiding the barge away.
Evidence limits
This is a newspaper observation of one loading operation, not a complete shipping manifest, ownership record, or port-log entry.
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, October 2008, "A Working Sunday at the Docks."Describes logs moved from the EW Marine dock and loaded by crane onto the barge Gregory J. Busch, with the tug Cisco guiding and assisting the operation. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2008-10_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the dock-operation feature.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2008-10_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Log barge Gregory J. Busch is loaded at Beaver Island docks, 2008”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-logging-barge-dock-operation-2008/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, October 2008, "A Working Sunday at the Docks." (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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