"Aiding the Mack"
(24.5x18.5 in.)
Although the homeport of the USCG Icebreaker Mackinaw (WLBB-30) is Cheboygan, MI and the ship finds itself all over the Great Lakes on icebreaking missions, early December 2012 finds it in Superior, WI. Bow thruster problems bring it to Fraser Shipyards for repairs and to aid the Mack in negotiating some very tight turns to get in and out of the Shipyards are the tugs Nels J. and Edward H. of Heritage Marine. The first patchy snow of the season dots the Duluth hillside and the first ice is being broken by the tugs on St. Louis Bay.
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