by import2 | September 24, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
1879 The tug URANIA was towing the schooner S.V.R. WATSON into Sand Beach, MI, at about noon when the schooner struck the tug amidships, cutting a hole in the hull and sinking her in three fathoms of water. No lives were lost. 1901 M.M. DRAKE was towing the schooner...
by import2 | September 23, 2023 | Boatnerd News
Veteran laker Joseph H. Thompson headed to Port Colborne for scrapping The next Great Lakes vessel to be scrapped at Port Colborne, ON, will be the self-unloading barge Joseph H. Thompson. Wayne Elliot, owner of Marine Recycling Corp., posted the news on his Facebook...
by import2 | September 23, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
1873 The scow WAUBONSIE was launched at the Curtis yard in Fort Gratiot, MI. 1910 The BETHLEHEM (steel propeller package freighter; 290 feet; 2,633 gross tons; built in 1888 at Cleveland, OH) was carrying general merchandise when she went ashore in a gale on the...
by import2 | September 22, 2023 | Boatnerd News
Buoy tender Buckthorn takes first place in Coast Guard Olympics Sault Ste. Marie, MI – Nearly 300 Coast Guardsmen from several District Nine Coast Guard Sectors in the Great Lakes took part in the Cutter Olympics held at Sector Sault Coast Guard base on Thursday,...
by import2 | September 22, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
1882 Mr. H.N. Jex accepted the contract to recover the engine and boiler from the MAYFLOWER, which sank in the Detroit River in 1864. He was to be paid $600 upon delivery of the machinery at Windsor, ON. He succeeded in raising the engine on October 12 and recovered...
