by import2 | November 8, 2024 | Boatnerd Archives
1874 The NIMROD (3-mast wooden schooner, 184 foot, 559 tons, built in 1873, at Toledo, Ohio) was carrying 37,000 bushels of corn from Chicago to Buffalo. On 08 November 1874, she encountered thick fog on Lake Erie and the large double decked schooner MICHIGAN collided...
by import2 | November 7, 2024 | Boatnerd News
Thursday prorgram looks at Lost Whalebacks The Shipwreck Coast’s Lost Whalebacks: The Story of Sagamore and Barge 129 Whaleback ships originated on the Great Lakes in 1888 and in less than ten years, shipyards in Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin, built 44 of...
by import2 | November 7, 2024 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity for Wednesday, November 6, 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 ...
by import2 | November 7, 2024 | Boatnerd Archives
1852 On 7 November 1852, ST LOUIS (wooden side-wheeler, 190 foot, 618 tons, built in 1844, at Perrysburg, Ohio) was carrying railroad cars when she capsized and sank in a gale off Kelley’s Island on Lake Erie. She was owned by Beer & Samuel Ward. 1865 On 7...
by import2 | November 6, 2024 | Boatnerd News
Impending Manitou Islands closure may put ferry out of business National Park Service building new Manitou Island docks By Garret Ellison | gellison@mlive.com LELAND, MI — The impending closure of North and South Manitou islands during a multi-year infrastructure...
