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         The life and times of Mark and Paula Persons
Saturday, May 3, 2014: 

(l-r) Long time friend Andy Bursaw and his wife Lynne joined Mark and Paula for lunch.

It was in the Library Room at the Anchor Bar in Superior, Wisconsin.

Great atmosphere and food....even if it is a bit fattening. 

Andy was a sailor and is now a radio broadcast engineer at WKLK Radio in Cloquet, Minnesota.

 
Plenty of ships coming and going from the international port of Duluth and Superior.

This one is the Paul R. Tregurtha, pushing her way through ice as she nears Duluth.
 
She is 1013 feet long (about 1/5th of a mile). 

You can really see it as she arrives at the Aerial Bridge. 

This boat can haul 68,000 long tons of iron ore or 63,616 long tons of coal. 


 
Then the Mesabi Miner showed up.

She was built in 1975 and is 1004 feet in length.

Hundreds of people come out to see these behemoths arrive and depart.

 

She just cleared the Aerial Bridge.

With a beam of 105 feet and a depth of 50 feet, she can haul 63,300 tons.

The Mesabi Miner was the first "thousand footer" on the Great Lakes an sports a 16,000 horse engine.

Even James Bond doesn't have a car engine that big.

There she goes...into the harbor to pick up a load of iron or coal.

Mark grew up in Ely, Minnesota, on the Mesabi Iron Range.

Iron ore was mined there around the clock during World War II and hauled by ship to steel plants in Pittsburgh to make steel.

Those ships had names like American Victory.  Lead on!
Quote of the day:  Duluth is a port city....and proud of it.   Mark    < Back to previous story Ahead to next story >

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