by import2 | August 31, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
1852 The U.S. Congress passed an act requiring the president to appoint three officers from the Navy, three engineers from the Army, and two civilian scientists to constitute the new Lighthouse Board. The Bureau of Lighthouses succeeded the Lighthouse Board in 1910....
by import2 | August 30, 2023 | Boatnerd News
Tecumseh makes short trip to Port Colborne for scrapping The bulk carrier Tecumseh of Lower Lakes Towing Ltd., was towed from her long-term layup dock at Ashtabula, OH, Tuesday morning by the Great Lakes Towing tug Ohio. They arrived at the Marine Recycling Corp....
by import2 | August 30, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
1873 CAMBRIDGE (three-masted wooden schooner; 162 feet; 445 tons; built in 1868 at Detroit, MI) was bound from Marquette, MI, for Cleveland, OH, with a load of iron ore. In rough seas, she was thrown onto the rocky shore near Marquette, where she broke up. No lives...
by import2 | August 29, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
1858 CANADA (three-masted wooden bark; 199 feet; 758 tons) was carrying 0.5 million board feet of lumber to Chicago, IL, in bad weather when she settled just north of downtown Chicago. The next day during a salvage attempt, she blew southward, struck a bar off the old...
by import2 | August 28, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
1763 BEAVER, an armed wooden British sloop built the previous year, was carrying provisions to Detroit, MI. She was on her way to relieve the fort there, which was under siege by Native Americans led by Pontiac; however, the vessel foundered in a storm at Cat Fish...
