The 663-foot Manitoulin has been trapped in the ice fields off the shore of Buffalo, New York since Wednesday.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A freighter was on its way to Canada on Sunday after it was freed from ice that trapped it in a frozen ...

The Manitoulin, a 663-foot (202-meter) Canadian vessel with 17 people on board, got stuck in the ice on Lake Erie on ...

The 17-member crew of the freighter, stuck a mile off the Buffalo shore, was never in serious danger, but its predicament drew news media attention and a crowd of curious onlookers.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The U.S. and Canadian Coast Guards are continuing efforts to break up ice and free a freighter that has been ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The U.S. and Canadian Coast Guards are continuing efforts to break up ice and free a freighter that has been ...

The lake freighter Manitoulin, stuck in the growing Lake Erie ice field off Buffalo since Wednesday, is getting help from yet ...

The lake freighter Manitoulin is immobilized by thick ice in Lake Erie outside the Buffalo River breakwall as it awaits the arrival of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Bristol Bay which is en route from ...

The ice coverage in Lake Erie has rapidly expanded to 80% this week. February and March are peak maximum ice coverage periods ...

24, 2025, on Lake Erie around the lake freighter Manitoulin, which has been immobilized by thick lake ice since departing Buffalo on Wednesday morning, Jan. 22. (Derek Gee/The Buffalo News via AP ...