"Mighty Mac"
The great ice jam from April 1984 along the St. Clair River required the best that both Coast Guards could offer. Here from the US side the legendary icebreaker WAGB-83 Mackinaw, built in 1944 at the Toledo Shipbuilding Co. Her stats 290' x 74' x 29' rated at 12,000 HP powered by (6) Fairbanks Morse 10 cylinder diesel engines - yes also the reason for the smoke on throttle up here in early morning light April 20, 1984, she was decommissioned in 2006.
"Mighty Mac"
The great ice jam from April 1984 along the St. Clair River required the best that both Coast Guards could offer. Here from the US side the legendary icebreaker WAGB-83 Mackinaw, built in 1944 at the Toledo Shipbuilding Co. Her stats 290' x 74' x 29' rated at 12,000 HP powered by (6) Fairbanks Morse 10 cylinder diesel engines - yes also the reason for the smoke on throttle up here in early morning light April 20, 1984, she was decommissioned in 2006.