by import2 | June 26, 2024 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity for Tuesday, June 25, 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 | June 26, 2024 | Boatnerd Archives
1867 1867: On 26 June 1867, WATERS W. BRAMAN (wooden propeller tug, 89 tons, built in 1858, at Boston, Massachusetts, for the U.S.Q.M.C. and named RESCUE) was near Pelee Island in Lake Erie when fire started in her coal bunker and quickly spread. Her crew abandoned...
by import2 | June 25, 2024 | Boatnerd News
National Museum Celebrates Ding Schoonmaker Day July 1 Toledo, OH – Join us at the National Museum of the Great Lakes from 10 am – 4 pm Monday, July 1 for a day-long celebration in honor of Ding Schoonmaker, the grandson of Col. James M. Schoonmaker, who...
by import2 | June 25, 2024 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity for Monday, June 24, 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 | June 25, 2024 | Boatnerd Archives
1878: At 1:00 a.m. on 25 June 1878, the 161 foot, 3-mast wooden schooner PESHTIGO and the 143 foot, 3-mast wooden schooner ST ANDREW collided and sank near Cheboygan, Michigan and the Straits of Mackinac. Newspapers of the time claimed that forest fire smoke...
