by import2 | August 4, 2025 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity for Sunday August 3. 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 4, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1880 1880: LYCOMING (wooden propeller, 251 feet, 1,610 gross tons) was launched at West Bay City, Michigan, by F.W. Wheeler (Hull #7) as a two-deck package freighter. She was rebuilt as a single-deck bulk freighter after she burned in 1905. She was one of the few...
by import2 | August 3, 2025 | Boatnerd News
Presque Isle heads for lower lakes The 1,000-foot tug/barge Presque Isle departed the Nine Mile Anchorage on the St. Marys River late Saturday morning escorted by the tug Nickelena. Upon reaching DeTour, MI, the tug headed back to Sturgeon Bay while Presque Isle set a...
by import2 | August 3, 2025 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity for Saturday August 2. 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 3, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1857 1857: R.H. RAE (three-mast wooden bark, 136 feet, 344 tons, built in 1857 at St. Catharines, Ontario) capsized and sank in a “white squall” off Duck’s Creek on Lake Ontario. She went down slowly enough for her people to abandon in her small...
