by import2 | August 9, 2025 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity for Friday August 8. 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 9, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1850 1850: CHAUTAUQUE (wooden sidewheel steamer, 124 feet, 162 tons, built in 1839 at Buffalo, New York) caught fire in the St. Clair River and burned to a total loss. In previous years, she had been driven ashore in 1844 and sank twice — once in 1846, and again in...
by import2 | August 8, 2025 | Boatnerd News
Ferry Niigaan Enaazhek Heads For Georgian Bay The new ferry Niigaan Enaazhek is on the way to her new home on Christian Island, ON, in Georgian Bay. She left Superior, Wisconsin on Tuesday and passed through the Soo Locks on Thursday. The double-ended ferry was...
by import2 | August 8, 2025 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity for Thursday August 7. 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 8, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1813 1813: The U.S. Navy schooner HAMILTON (wooden 10-gun schooner, 112 feet, 76 tons, built in 1809 at Oswego, New York, as a.) DIANA), was lying at anchor off the mouth of the Niagara River on Lake Ontario with her armed fleetmate SCOURGE awaiting dawn when they...
