by import2 | September 2, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
1851 BUNKER HILL (wooden sidewheeler; 154 feet; 457 tons; built in 1835 at Black River, OH) burned to a total loss at Tonawanda, NY. 1896 The COLONEL ELLSWORTH (wooden schooner; 138 feet; 319 gross tons; built in 1861 at Euclid, OH, as a bark) was beached on Whitefish...
by import2 | September 1, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
1854 ABIAH (two-masted wooden schooner/brig; 134 feet; 353 tons; built in 1848 at Irving, NY) was sailing light from Chicago, IL, to Oconto, WI, when she capsized and sank in a squall about 10 miles off Sheboygan, WI. The schooner L. LUDDINGTON rescued her crew and...
by import2 | August 31, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
1852 The U.S. Congress passed an act requiring the president to appoint three officers from the Navy, three engineers from the Army, and two civilian scientists to constitute the new Lighthouse Board. The Bureau of Lighthouses succeeded the Lighthouse Board in 1910....
by import2 | August 30, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
1873 CAMBRIDGE (three-masted wooden schooner; 162 feet; 445 tons; built in 1868 at Detroit, MI) was bound from Marquette, MI, for Cleveland, OH, with a load of iron ore. In rough seas, she was thrown onto the rocky shore near Marquette, where she broke up. No lives...
by import2 | August 29, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
1858 CANADA (three-masted wooden bark; 199 feet; 758 tons) was carrying 0.5 million board feet of lumber to Chicago, IL, in bad weather when she settled just north of downtown Chicago. The next day during a salvage attempt, she blew southward, struck a bar off the old...
by import2 | August 28, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
1763 BEAVER, an armed wooden British sloop built the previous year, was carrying provisions to Detroit, MI. She was on her way to relieve the fort there, which was under siege by Native Americans led by Pontiac; however, the vessel foundered in a storm at Cat Fish...
