by import2 | July 25, 2025 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity for Thursday July 24. 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 | July 25, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1875 1875: The wooden lumber tug CYGNET, which worked on the Shiawassee and Bad Rivers and Lake Huron, was destroyed when her boiler exploded in “Blow-up Bayou” on the Shiawassee River. 1882 1882: The wooden bulk freighter D.C. WHITNEY was launched at...
by import2 | July 24, 2025 | Boatnerd News
Arnold Transit brings Mackinac Island ferry with historic name back on the water MACKINAC ISLAND, MI – A piece of Mackinac Island summer nostalgia is back to making waves. After a big mechanical overhaul – and a glow-up – Arnold Transit Company...
by import2 | July 24, 2025 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity for Wednesday July 23. 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 | July 24, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1847 1847: CONSTITUTION (wooden passenger-package freight side-wheeler, 141 feet, 444 tons, built in 1837 at Charleston, Ohio) struck a pier in Sandusky harbor, stove a large hole in her bow and sank. Her machinery was later recovered and installed in J.D. MORTON....
