The U.S. military is working to free a Canadian ship trapped in the icy waters of Lake Erie near the Buffalo, NY shoreline.

The freighter that got trapped in thick ice on ... Coast Guard Ship Samuel Risley − will accompany the Manitoulin as long as needed as the freighter makes its way through Lake Erie and up ...

“The situation that we are facing here on Lake Erie is that we have greater ice thickness than usual, so local ice breakers and local Coast Guard vessels don’t have the capability to break ice ...

By David Andreatta A Canadian cargo freighter carrying 17 crew members that had been wedged in ice on Lake Erie for three ... and Canada deployed ice-breaking vessels to free it.

A Canadian freighter with 17 people on board got stuck in the ice on Lake Erie while departing Buffalo, according to the Coast Guard, which arrived with icebreaking equipment Thursday to begin ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The U.S. and Canadian Coast Guards on Saturday continued efforts to break up ice and free a freighter that has been trapped in a frozen Lake Erie for days, officials said. The ...

The Detroit Ice Desk received a call that it was outside of the Buffalo River break wall in Lake Erie. The ship had completed a delivery of wheat to Archer Daniels Midland and was returning to ...

The Detroit Ice Desk received a call that it was outside of the Buffalo River break wall in Lake Erie. The ship had completed a delivery of wheat to Archer Daniels Midland and was returning to ...

A freighter was on its way to Canada on Sunday after it was freed from ice that trapped it in a frozen Lake Erie for days, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

The Manitoulin, a 663-foot vessel carrying 17 crew members, became stuck in ice on Lake Erie off the coast of ... U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Bristol Bay breaking the ice to free the freighter.

LAKE ERIE - A day after a U.S. Coast Guard cutter arrived to break a cargo-hauling freighter free from the snow and ice that encased it, the 663-foot Manitoulin remained stuck late Friday.