by import2 | September 8, 2024 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity for Saturday, September 7, 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 | September 8, 2024 | Boatnerd Archives
1860 1860: The wooden passenger and freight steamer LADY ELGIN sank in Lake Michigan following a collision with the schooner AUGUSTA with an estimated 297 deaths. 1868 1868: HIPPOCAMPUS (wooden propeller; 152 tons; built in 1867 at St. Joseph, MI) stranded in a...
by import2 | September 7, 2024 | Boatnerd News
Shipwreck peeks out of sand at Lake Michigan beach Updated: Sep. 06, 2024, 12:32 p.m.|Published: Sep. 06, 2024, 7:00 a.m. By Justine Lofton | jlofton@mlive.com ARCADIA, MI – The remains of this 131-year-old shipwreck are easy to spot as they peek out of the sand...
by import2 | September 7, 2024 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity for Friday, September 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 | September 7, 2024 | Boatnerd Archives
1872 The launch of the 188-foot wooden schooner ELIZABETH A. NICHOLSON was set for 16:00 at E. Fitzgerald’s shipyard in Port Huron, MI. Just beforehand, a telegram was received at the shipyard from Captain Nicholson, the owner of the new vessel, which read,...
