FreighterLog The record of Great Lakes shipping

Archive: January 2024 to December 2025, 28,207 passages. Seaway transits checked hourly. Last checked 2026-09-23 18:00 UTC — 14:00 EDT. NOAA publishes in quarterly batches, and the archive currently runs nine months behind.

Archive to December 2025 · Seaway checked 2026-09-23 18:00 UTC — 14:00 EDT

Observed lakes vessel

Federal Hamilton

No fleet affiliation on record · Cargo · 200 m. Range: Lakes and Seaway. 26 recorded passages across 4 chokepoints.

Last recorded passage

downbound at Welland Canal (Thorold)

15 Nov 2025, 15:04 EST — ±15 min · see the November 2025 log

This is an archive, not a tracker. The passage record runs January 2024 to December 2025 and ends at 31 Dec 2025. The public AIS archive arrives in quarterly batches and currently runs nine months behind. Nothing on this page tells you where Federal Hamilton is today. Her last recorded passage was 46 days before the archive ends, and that gap is about the record, not necessarily about the ship.

FreighterLog is the record, not the map. For where Federal Hamilton is right now, see BoatNerd's live AIS map, which runs on their own receivers on the lakes, or VesselFinder.

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Specification

Dimensions and identifiers as broadcast over AIS; AIS-reported figures are self-declared by the vessel and are not a registry of record.
Name (AIS) FEDERAL HAMILTON
MMSI 538010710
IMO IMO9975363
Call sign V7A7306
Length overall 200 m (656 ft)
Beam 24 m (79 ft)
AIS vessel type Cargo
Hull type
Operator No fleet match (salty, unaffiliated hull, or an AIS spelling this roster has not yet folded in)
Flag

Passage record

  • 26 Passages January 2024 – December 2025
  • 4 Chokepoints of 7 monitored
  • 30 Mar 2024 First in archive UTC date
  • 15 Nov 2025 Last in archive UTC date

Where she was recorded

Season passage log

Local time at each chokepoint · grouped by month (UTC buckets)

Times are interpolated from AIS track samples, good to about fifteen minutes, and shown in each chokepoint's local time. A passage is a track crossing our gate line, not an official lock record.

2025 season

November 2025 4 passages
Date Local time Chokepoint Direction
15 Nov 2025 15:04 EST Welland Canal (Thorold) downbound
14 Nov 2025 18:12 EST Detroit River / Ambassador Bridge downbound
14 Nov 2025 10:35 EST Port Huron / Blue Water Bridge downbound
8 Nov 2025 07:15 EST Soo Locks (St. Marys River) downbound
October 2025 4 passages
Date Local time Chokepoint Direction
26 Oct 2025 16:27 EDT Soo Locks (St. Marys River) upbound
22 Oct 2025 08:39 EDT Port Huron / Blue Water Bridge upbound
22 Oct 2025 02:19 EDT Detroit River / Ambassador Bridge upbound
21 Oct 2025 04:05 EDT Welland Canal (Thorold) upbound

2024 season

September 2024 4 passages
Date Local time Chokepoint Direction
12 Sep 2024 13:38 EDT Welland Canal (Thorold) downbound
11 Sep 2024 17:11 EDT Detroit River / Ambassador Bridge downbound
11 Sep 2024 11:59 EDT Port Huron / Blue Water Bridge downbound
10 Sep 2024 15:40 EDT Soo Locks (St. Marys River) downbound
August 2024 6 passages
Date Local time Chokepoint Direction
28 Aug 2024 20:00 EDT Soo Locks (St. Marys River) upbound
28 Aug 2024 00:17 EDT Port Huron / Blue Water Bridge upbound
27 Aug 2024 17:51 EDT Detroit River / Ambassador Bridge upbound
24 Aug 2024 05:27 EDT Detroit River / Ambassador Bridge downbound
22 Aug 2024 10:28 EDT Detroit River / Ambassador Bridge upbound
17 Aug 2024 09:01 EDT Welland Canal (Thorold) upbound
April 2024 5 passages
Date Local time Chokepoint Direction
8 Apr 2024 15:29 EDT Welland Canal (Thorold) downbound
7 Apr 2024 17:50 EDT Detroit River / Ambassador Bridge downbound
7 Apr 2024 12:35 EDT Port Huron / Blue Water Bridge downbound
6 Apr 2024 16:11 EDT Soo Locks (St. Marys River) downbound
1 Apr 2024 08:57 EDT Soo Locks (St. Marys River) upbound
March 2024 3 passages
Date Local time Chokepoint Direction
31 Mar 2024 06:10 EDT Port Huron / Blue Water Bridge upbound
31 Mar 2024 00:26 EDT Detroit River / Ambassador Bridge upbound
30 Mar 2024 05:54 EDT Welland Canal (Thorold) upbound