by import2 | April 9, 2024 | Boatnerd News
Jack Messmer is MHSD Historian of the Year for 2024 The Marine Historical Society of Detroit has named Jack Messmer as its 2024 Great Lakes Marine Historian of the Year. Messmer was born in 1950 at Erie, PA, and moved to Buffalo in 1961. He graduated from Canisius...
by import2 | April 9, 2024 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity from Monday, April 8 , 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 | April 9, 2024 | Boatnerd Archives
1868: On 09 April 1868, SEABIRD (wooden side-wheel steamer, 638 tons, built in 1859, at Newport (Marine City), Michigan, was sailing on her first trip of the season from Manitowoc to Chicago. At 6 a.m. off Waukegan, Illinois, the porter cleaned out the ashes in the...
by import2 | April 8, 2024 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity from Sunday, April 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 | April 8, 2024 | Boatnerd Archives
1871 1871: 08 April 1871, NAVARINO (wooden propeller passenger-package freight steamer, 184 foot, 761 tons, built in 1871, at Manitowoc, Wisconsin) entered service for the Goodrich Transportation Company. She only lasted until 09 October 1871, since she burned in...
