by import2 | July 8, 2023 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity from Friday, July 7, 2023, unless stated otherwise. Please send future port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Editor’s Note: Thank you for your patience over the past week while I was out chasing boats. All reports sent in during my absence...
by import2 | July 8, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
1863 ALMIRA (two-mast wooden scow-schooner, 85 feet, 80 tons, built in 1849, at Black River, Ohio) was dismasted and capsized in a violent squall on Lake Ontario. All hands were lost. On July 27, the cargo of barreled fish was found by the schooner M.L. COLLINS. The...
by import2 | July 7, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
1851 GALLINIPPER (wooden schooner, 95 feet, 145 tons, built in 1846 at Milwaukee on the hull of NANCY DOUSMAN) capsized and foundered in a white squall in Lake Michigan. The wreck drifted to a point about 10 miles SSE of Manitowoc, where it sank. 1895 IDA MAY BROWN...
by import2 | July 6, 2023 | Boatnerd News
Slideshow: Great Lakes Maritime Academy shows off State Of Michigan The training Ship State Of Michigan was docked at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. in celebration of Engineers Day last Friday to educate visitors and draw interest to the Great Lakes Maritime Academy (GLMA)...
by import2 | July 6, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
1836 YOUNG LION (two-mast wooden schooner, 73 feet, 83 tons, built in 1830 at Buffalo, New York) was carrying railroad iron and lumber on Lake Erie. About 12 miles from Erie, Pennsylvania, in rough weather, her seams opened and she quickly sank with just her topmasts...
