"Opening Day Icebreakers"
(24 x 18 in.), $2500.00

It's March 27, 2022, the opening day for the new shipping season in Duluth, MN and the enormous 1000-foot long M/V Burns Harbor has been freed from its encased winter berth at the Port Terminal. Helping to break the Burns Harbor out of the ice was the 88-foot Great Lakes Towing Co. tug Missouri and the 140-foot U.S. Coast Guard ice-breaking tug Bristol Bay (WB-206), both miniscule in size to the Burns Harbor. Nearly a foot-thick of ice surrounded the Burns Harbor during winter layup and the American Steamship Co. vessel is now slowly pushing through over a foot of broken ice piled up in front of the bow. The Missouri is standing by as the Bristol Bay continues to break up eight inches of solid ice and the "G" tug will make a pass closer to the freighter after Bristol Bay passes by. As the Burns Harbor lines itself up with the Duluth Ship Canal it won't have far to go - BNSF ore dock #5 in Superior, WI where it will load iron ore pellets for Cleveland Cliff's steel plant in Burns Harbor, IN.