by import2 | October 3, 2023 | Boatnerd News
Editor’s Note: The October 2 News has also been published. It was delayed due to a computer glitch. Norisle Scrap Tow to be Wednesday The McKeil Marine tug Ecosse is expected to tow the former Georgian Bay passenger and auto ferry Norisle from Manitoulin...
by import2 | October 3, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
1875 The barges BELLE CASH and GEO W. HANNAFORD, owned by Captain Cash of East China Township, MI, were driven ashore on Long Point in Lake Erie. 1887 EBENEZER (three-masted wooden schooner barge; 103 feet; 158 gross tons; built in 1847 at Buffalo, NY) was driven...
by import2 | October 2, 2023 | Boatnerd News
Nine years in the making — the story behind discovering a Lake Superior shipwreck Earlier this month, Jerry Eliason and Ken Merryman found the Henry Steinbrenner about 750 feet deep in Lake Superior, south of Isle Royale. It’s the latest in what has been a...
by import2 | October 2, 2023 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity from Sunday, October 1, 2023, unless stated otherwise. Please send future port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Two Harbors, MN – Gary Putney Edgar B. Speer departed Two Harbors at 15:56 for Conneaut. John G. Munson arrived Two Harbors at 15:56....
by import2 | October 2, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
1873 The 183-foot, three-masted wooden schooner QUEEN CITY was launched at West Bay City, MI. 1887 The Port Huron Times reported the following shipwrecks from a severe storm that swept the lakes on October 2–3, 1887: The schooner CITY OF GREEN BAY, lost near South...
