Port Report – May 7, 2025

Port Report – May 7, 2025

Port and vessel activity for Tuesday May 6.  Port reports done by Tom Geiger unless otherwise noted. Please send future port reports and pictures to news@boatnerd.net You can Now visit Matt Miner’s Saltie page at ...
Today in Great Lakes History – May 7

Today in Great Lakes History – May 7

1874 1874:   On 7 May 1874, the schooner JENNIE MATHEWS was launched at Hardison’s yard in Port Huron, Michigan. The launch started very slowly but with the help of men pulling on ropes, the vessel slid into the Black River nicely. Her first skipper was Capt....
Boatnerd News – May 6, 2025

Boatnerd News – May 6, 2025

Lake Michigan shipwreck earns National Register spot By Eric Freedman and Great Lakes Echo | May 2, 2025 Debris from a launch that sank on Green Bay’s Little Harbor. Image: Wisconsin Historical Society The National Park Service has put another Lake Michigan shipwreck...
Port Report – May 6, 2025

Port Report – May 6, 2025

Port and vessel activity for Monday May 5.  Port reports done by Tom Geiger unless otherwise noted. Please send future port reports and pictures to news@boatnerd.net You can Now visit Matt Miner’s Saltie page at ...
Today in Great Lakes History – May 6

Today in Great Lakes History – May 6

1847 1847:   On 6 May 1847, CUBA (wooden schooner, 89 foot, 139 tons, built in 1844 at Peninsula, New York as a brig) was carrying wheat near Point Breeze, New York in Lake Ontario when she was run down and sunk in a collision with the steamer GENESEE CHIEF. No lives...