Spruceglen

Bulk carrier Spruceglen, which was at Welland Canal undergoing repairs, sailed from the canal on Jun 27, bound for Quebec, ETA Jul 5.

A Canadian man working on a freighter has died after he fell into the water while the "Spruceglen" that was approaching one of the locks on the St. Lawrence Seaway in northern New York on Oct 16, 2018. The 57-year-old Alfred Eshun of Quebec lost his balance and slipped off a dock after being lowered onto it off the side of the bulk carrier around 12:30 a.m. The crew was tying off the vessel outside the Eisenhower Lock near Massena when the accident occurred. The man was pulled from the water after a few minutes by two seaway employees who had to be treated for possible hypothermia at Massena Memorial Hospital. Eshun was pronounced dead at the hospital o Oct 17 around 2 a.m. State police and the U.S. Coast Guard were investigating the accident.

Coast Guard officials responded to the "Spruceglen" that had run aground in Lake St. Clair on May 7, 2013, at about 6 p.m. a little more than a mile offshore from Grosse Pointe. The ship experienced trouble around 6 p.m. and the captain decided to pull over so they didn’t impede traffic on the waterway while it waited for a tug to be pulled off again. It did not have anything to do with water levels, but was a mechanical issue. To ground the ship was a conscious decision by the captain. There were about 22 crew members on the Spruceglen. No one was injured and there was no damage to the freighter. The U.S. Coast Guard was also on scene. Two tugs from Detroit freed the vessel in the afternoon of May 8 around 2.30 p.m. Reports with photos: http://windsor.ctvnews.ca/freighter-runs-aground-after-mechanical-problems-near-grosse-pointe-1.1272582#ixzz2SjbM18Sd http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/story/2013/05/08/wdr-freighter-runs-aground-detroit-river.html http://www.thetimesherald.com/article/20130508/NEWS05/305080002/1002/rss?nclick_check=1