by import2 | May 30, 2024 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity for Wednesday, May 29, 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 | May 30, 2024 | Boatnerd Archives
.1874: During the economic depression known as the “Panic of ’73”, shipbuilding came to a standstill. Orders for new vessels were cancelled and worked was stopped on hulls that were on the ways. On 30 May 1874, the Port Huron Times reported that a...
by import2 | May 29, 2024 | Boatnerd News
Tour Grosse Ile North Range Lighthouse Sept. 8 Sunday, September 8th, from Noon to 3:00 PM (Noon, 1:30pm and 3pm) Take one of our three tours of the 1906 Island Lighthouse. The Lighthouse is only accessible this one time of the year. The bus ride (there is no...
by import2 | May 29, 2024 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity for Tuesday, May 28, 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 | May 29, 2024 | Boatnerd Archives
1889: On 29 May 1889, BAVARIA (3-mast wooden schooner-barge, 145 foot, 376 gross tons, built in 1873, at Garden Island, Ontario) was carrying squared timber when she broke from the tow of the steamer D D CALVIN and began to founder near Long Point in Lake Erie. Her...