1903

Wreckage of the CELTIC (wooden schooner-barge, 190 foot, 716 gross tons, built 1890, at West Bay City, Michigan), a yawl and the captain’s desk with the ship’s papers, were found on Boom Point southeast of Cockburn Island. The vessel was lost with all hands on 29 November 1902 during a fierce gale on Lake Huron after breaking away from the steamer H.E. RUNNELS.

1965

The rail car ferry GRAND HAVEN sailed on her first trip as a roll on/roll off carrier from Port Burwell, loaded with 125 tons of coiled steel bound for Cleveland and Walton Hills, Ohio.

1965

The Greek freighter CAPTAIN M. LYRAS, which visited the Seaway in 1960 and 1961 and returned as b) ANGELIKI L. in 1965, arrived at Gadani Beach as c) ANAMARIA for scrapping.

1979

GEORGE A. STINSON struck a wall of the Poe Lock at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. The damage was estimated at $200,000.

2023

The JOHN J. BOLAND arrived light at Milwaukee and headed up the Kinnickinnic River to COFCO. All grain (soybeans) remaining in the elevator was loaded and taken to COFCO’s Chicago terminal. COFCO then closed the Kinnickinnic elevator and sold the property.

Contributors & Sources

Skip Gillham, Max Hanley, Ahoy & Farewell II and the Great Lakes Ships We Remember series from the Marine Historical Society of Detroit.

Compiled & Maintained by Roger LeLievre