by import2 | July 7, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1851 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 1895: ...
by import2 | July 6, 2025 | Boatnerd News
Wisconsin Maritime Museum raises $1.5 million needed to dry dock USS Cobia submarine The dry docking of the World War II relic is slated for September. MANITOWOC – The Wisconsin Maritime Museum has reached its $1.5 million fundraising goal to preserve the USS Cobia...
by import2 | July 6, 2025 | Port Report Archive
Port and vessel activity for Saturday July 5. 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 6, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1836 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...
by import2 | July 5, 2025 | Boatnerd News
Happy 4th! Michigan judge lets Mackinac Island ferry rates stand for now A federal judge has ruled in favor of businesses that provide ferry rides to and from Mackinac Island, denying, at least temporarily, at the height of the summer tourism season, the northern...
