Port Report  November 11, 2024

Port Report November 11, 2024

Port and vessel activity for Sunday, November 10, 2024, compiled by Tom Geiger, unless stated otherwise. 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 11

Today in Great Lakes History –  November 11

1835 On 11 November 1835, the 2-mast wooden schooner COMET was carrying iron and ashes on Lake Erie when she foundered in a gale, one mile northwest of Dunkirk, New York. Just her topmasts protruded from the water. All seven on board lost their lives, including a...
Boatnerd News – November 10, 2024

Boatnerd News – November 10, 2024

  Lost Mariners Remembrance ceremony being held in Detroit this weekend on Edmund Fitzgerald anniversray The Edmund Fitzgerald sank on Nov. 10, 1975 in Lake Superior, in a violent storm on the lake. November can be a turbulent month for weather across Michigan,...
Port Report  November 10, 2024

Port Report November 10, 2024

Port and vessel activity for Saturday, November 9, 2024, compiled by Tom Geiger, unless stated otherwise. 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 10

Today in Great Lakes History –  November 10

1856 On 10 November 1856, ST JOSEPH (wooden propeller steam barge, 170 foot, 460 tons, built in 1846, at Buffalo, New York) stranded and was wrecked near Fairport, Ohio. No lives were lost. 1861 On November 10th 1861 the palace steamer KEYSTONE STATE was lost with all...