Too late. Fired upon or not all those tons of steel are just going to keep coming.
True. Probably 100’s of thousands of tons.
There's lots of freighter traffic thru Lake St. Clair and the Detroit River from Lake Huron to Erie and back. All those boats are taken over by professional captains strictly for that stretch of water.
I think I read somewhere that when under steam, it takes about 5 miles to come to a complete halt......