Tugboats pulled in vain and crews struggled to unload cargo from a 730-foot freighter that hasn’t budged for two days since it ran aground near Toledo, blocking ship traffic on the Maumee River.

The freighter, identified by the Coast Guard as the Maumee, is owned by Grand River Navigation, of Avon Lake. The company, which also employs the crew, operates bulk-carrying cargo boats.

THE BLADE/ANDY MORRISON Buy This Image The freighter Alpena is docked at Lafarge Toledo Terminal behind the museum ship Col. James M. Schoonmaker on a picturesque day along the the Maumee River in ...

However, it is why so many Lake Erie freighter ships dock here in Toledo over the winter. Currently at the Toledo Docks, just south of where the Maumee River dumps into Maumee Bay, nearly a dozen ...

And to try to understand the mysterious loss, the National Museum of the Great Lakes is hosting tours of its freighter ... foot museum on the banks of the Maumee River opened in 2014, replacing ...

The journey aboard a Great Lakes freighter from Chicago to Holland that ... Neel Zoss of Hamilton described their journey aboard the Maumee to an audience Saturday night at the Red Barn Playhouse ...

Schoonmaker museum ship, overlooking the Maumee River and downtown Toledo ... into a drawing for a free museum membership. Access to Freighter Golf is included with museum ship admission.

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