by import2 | October 7, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1858 1858: In a severe gale, rain, and hail storm, the 247-ton schooner OSPREY approached Oswego, NY. As she was about to enter the harbor, the vessel struck the east pier broadside. Her masts and rigging were carried away, and she started to sink. Captain John...
by import2 | October 6, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1863 1863: On this day October 5, 1863, the PEWABIC took on her first cargo at Cleveland. She was nearly completed but only able to carry freight. Her owners, Messrs. J. T. Whiting & Co., of Detroit, planned to get in three trips of cargo that fall and then...
by import2 | October 5, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1876 1876: GRACE GREENWOOD (three-masted wooden schooner; 124 feet; 306 tons; built in 1853 at Oswego, NY) was carrying iron ore from Escanaba, MI, to Michigan City, IN, when she foundered in a storm while coming into St. Joseph, MI, for shelter. No lives were lost....
by import2 | October 4, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1877 1877: BRITISH LION (three-masted wooden bark; 128 feet; 293 tons; built in 1862 at Kingston, ON) was carrying coal from Black River, OH, to Brockville, ON. She was driven ashore at Long Point in Lake Erie by a storm and wrecked. She was the first bark on the...
by import2 | October 3, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1875 1875: The barges BELLE CASH and GEO W. HANNAFORD, owned by Captain Cash of East China Township, MI, were driven ashore on Long Point in Lake Erie. 1887 1887: EBENEZER (three-masted wooden schooner barge; 103 feet; 158 gross tons; built in 1847 at Buffalo, NY)...
by import2 | October 2, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1873 1873: The 183-foot, three-masted wooden schooner QUEEN CITY was launched at West Bay City, MI. 1887 1887: The Port Huron Times reported the following shipwrecks from a severe storm that swept the lakes on October 2–3, 1887: The schooner CITY OF GREEN BAY,...
