by import2 | August 23, 2025 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity for Friday August 22. Port reports done by Tom Geiger unless otherwise noted. Please send future port reports and pictures to news@boatnerd.net You can Now visit Matt Miner’s Saltie page at ...
by import2 | August 23, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1818 1818: The first steamer above Niagara Falls, the WALK-IN-THE-WATER, Captain Job Fish, departed Buffalo on her maiden voyage. The 29 passengers paid a fare of $24 and arrived at Detroit in 44 hours and 10 minutes. 1875 1873: PERSIAN (wooden propeller...
by import2 | August 22, 2025 | Boatnerd News
Algoma Discovery Resumes Trip Algoma Discovery, which experienced a power outage Wednesday evening that sent her to anchor off Bay Mills above the Soo Locks, resumed her trip to Hamilton, ON, Thursday afternoon. She was downbound at the locks about 6 p.m. Marine...
by import2 | August 22, 2025 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity for Thursday August 21. Port reports done by Tom Geiger unless otherwise noted. Please send future port reports and pictures to news@boatnerd.net You can Now visit Matt Miner’s Saltie page at ...
by import2 | August 22, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1863 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...
