Today, an answer to a listener question about the Vigorous dry dock at the Swan Island shipyard in Portland. It’s an engineering marvel, and the largest floating drydock in North America. We’ll take a closer look.
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A bit about today’s ships: berths, cargo, anchorages – among the reasons ships come here to the Columbia River
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Two things today: first, a look at preliminary info about this year’s Rose Festival Fleet of visiting military ships due here in June on the river. And, why was there a big ocean-going cruise ship heading upriver recently?
We’ll talk about all of that, and a look at marine weather and ship traffic for today.
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Today we have an unusual cargo ship on the river: a self loader called the CSL Tecumseh. She’s bringing Gypsum to Rainier. What makes her unusual is she has all the gear she needs to load and unload her own cargo at the dock. We’ll talk about why that’s important.
Image courtesy Canadian Steamship Lines.
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Earlier this month, I made a passing reference to there being a new ship anchorage on the Columbia River near Skamakowa.
Today we’ll look at that in more depth, and talk about the complicated affair of anchoring a gigantic ship on a swift, powerful and capricious river.
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The final segment of our week-long series about car ships.
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