by import2 | July 29, 2024 | Boatnerd Archives
1872 The steam barge MARY ROBERTSON burned near Mackinac. Her crew escaped to a schooner barge they were towing. 1875 The side-wheel river steamer DOMINION burned to the water’s edge at her dock in the Thames River near Chatham, Ontario. She was built in 1867,...
by import2 | July 28, 2024 | Boatnerd News
Algoma adds another tanker Algoma’s newest tanker arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on July 21, 2024. It unloaded a load of cargo at Imperial Oil before getting reflagged. Originally Eli Knutsen, it has been renamed Algosolis and flagged in Canada. She was built...
by import2 | July 28, 2024 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity for Saturday, July 27, 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 | July 28, 2024 | Boatnerd Archives
1854 BOSTON (wooden propeller, 134 feet, 259 tons, built in 1847 at Ohio City, Ohio) was bound from Chicago for Ogdensburg, New York, with pork, corn, whiskey and produce. On Lake Ontario, about 20 miles off Oak Orchard, New York, she collided with the bark PLYMOUTH...
by import2 | July 27, 2024 | Boatnerd News
Researchers discover site of 1893 schooner wreck in Lake Michigan in just 50 feet of water By Forrest Brown, CNN Published 7:40 PM EDT, Thu July 25, 2024 More than a century after sinking, the Margaret A. Muir was found in about 50 feet of water in Lake Michigan in...
