by import2 | October 3, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
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 EBENEZER (three-masted wooden schooner barge; 103 feet; 158 gross tons; built in 1847 at Buffalo, NY) was driven...
by import2 | October 2, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
1873 The 183-foot, three-masted wooden schooner QUEEN CITY was launched at West Bay City, MI. 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, lost near South...
by import2 | October 1, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
1843 ALBANY (wooden brig; 110 tons; built in 1835 at Oswego, NY) was carrying merchandise and passengers when she went aground in a storm and was wrecked just a few miles from Mackinaw City, MI. 1869 SEA GULL (wooden schooner; 83 tons; built in 1845 at Milan, OH) was...
by import2 | September 30, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
1875 AMERICAN CHAMPION (wooden scow schooner; 156 tons; built in 1866 at Trenton, MI) dropped anchor to ride out a gale near Leamington, ON, on Lake Erie. The chains gave way, and she struck a bar and sank to the gunwales. The crew of eight spent the night in the...
by import2 | September 28, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
1849 W.G. BUCKNER (wooden schooner; 75 feet; 107 tons; built in 1837 at Irving, NY) was carrying lumber in a storm on Lake Michigan when she sprang a leak and capsized. The man to whom the cargo belonged was aboard with his wife and five children. One child was washed...
by import2 | September 27, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
1872 On September 27–29, a big storm swept the lower lakes. On Lake Huron, the barges HUNTER and DETROIT were destroyed. The tug SANDUSKY rescued the 21 survivors from them. The schooner CORSAIR foundered off Sturgeon Point on Saginaw Bay at 16:00 on Sunday the 29th,...
