Port Report – November 15, 2025

Port and vessel activity for Friday November 14.  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 – November 15

1867 1867:  On Novenber 15-1867  the PORTSMOUTH [built 1853] stranded on Middle Island, Lake Huron, in heavy weather, November 15, 1867; broken up by gale weather, no lives lost. Was on voyage, Marquette, MI, for Buffalo, NY, with 418 tons of pig iron. Wrecking tug...

Boatnerd News – November 14, 2025

Relic from the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is returned, plus $600,000 from Michigan    DETROIT (AP) – The state of Michigan is giving up ownership of a rare relic from the famous Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck, just weeks after it strangely obtained it through a...

Port Report – November 14, 2025

Port and vessel activity for Thursday November 13.  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 – November 14

1879 1879:   On 14 November 1879, C G BREED (2 mast wooden schooner, 140 foot, 385 tons, built in 1862, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin) was carrying 24,000 bushels of wheat from Detroit to Buffalo when she capsized and sank in a sudden squall near Ashtabula, Ohio in Lake...