Port Reports – August 22, 2023

Port and vessel activity from Monday, August 21, 2023, unless stated otherwise. Please send future port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Two Harbors, MN – Gary Putney As of 18:30 the James R. Barker was going around the tip of the Keweenaw heading for Two Harbors. I...
Today in Great Lakes History – August 22

Today in Great Lakes History – August 22

1863 WILLIAM S. BULL (wooden propeller steam tug, 16 tons, built in 1861 at Buffalo, New York) waterlogged and went down in a storm 40 miles east of Erie, Pennsylvania. She was in the company of the tug G.W. GARDNER and the canal boat M.E. PAINE, who saved her crew....

Port Reports – August 21, 2023

Port and vessel activity from Sunday, August 20, 2023, unless stated otherwise. Please send future port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Silver Bay, MN – Gary Putney Paul R. Tregurtha departed Silver Bay at 01:36 on August 20 for Burns Harbor. Goderich, ON – Bruce...
Today in Great Lakes History – August 21

Today in Great Lakes History – August 21

1856 CHARTER (wooden propeller vessel, 132 feet, 197 tons, built in 1849 at Huron, Ohio as a sidewheeler) was bound from Cleveland for Buffalo with flour, oats, and rye. She swamped and sank in a storm 6 miles above Fairport, Ohio. By the end of August, she had been...