STURGEON BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — They’re still looking into what caused a fire aboard a moored lake freighter in Sturgeon Bay.
The fire aboard the 47-year-old M/V Roger Blough was reported at around 3AM Monday. It was found in a compartment onboard.
No one was injured.
“We’re blessed by having [the Sturgeon Bay Fire Department] who are so responsive to the community,” said Eric Dent with Fincantieri Shipyard. “We owe them everything.”
The Roger Blough was one of the ships that helped look for the SS Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975 after that ship famously went down in a powerful storm and was the ship that discovered one of the Edmund Fitzgerald’s empty 50-man life boats.
It’s not the first fire aboard the Roger Blough. In 1971, before the ship was even launched, an engine room fire killed four people and caused serious damage to the ship.
