YouTube user 20greatlakes07 recently put together this video of the USCG Icebreaker Mackinaw’s unsuccessful, but valiant, attempt to free the Great Lakes freighter Edgar B. Speer from ice in Lake Michigan.
Stay tuned for information on the Mackinaw’s mighty replacement but in the meantime you can find photos of the now retired icebreaker HERE.
In the official 2004 USCG Coast Guard press release we learn; [Continue Reading →]
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