by import2 | July 28, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
1854 BOSTON (wooden propeller, 134 feet, 259 tons, built in 1847 at Ohio City, Ohio) was bound from Chicago for Ogdensburg, New York, with pork, corn, whiskey and produce. On Lake Ontario, about 20 miles off Oak Orchard, New York, she collided with the bark PLYMOUTH...
by import2 | July 27, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
1884 ALBERTA (steel propeller passenger-package freight vessel, 264 feet, 2,282 gross tons, built in 1883 at Whiteinch, Scotland, by C. Connell & Co.) collided in fog 6 miles northwest of Whitefish Point on Lake Superior with the JOHN M. OSBORNE (wooden propeller...
by import2 | July 26, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
1885 ISLE ROYALE (wooden propeller passenger-package freight vessel, 92 feet, 92 gross tons, built in 1879) sprang a leak near Susick Island near Isle Royale on Lake Superior. She sank, but her passengers and crew made it to the island. She was owned by Cooley,...
by import2 | July 25, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
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 The wooden bulk freighter D.C. WHITNEY was launched at Langell’s...
by import2 | July 24, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
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. 1873 The...
by import2 | July 23, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
1878 H.R. PRESTON (wooden quarterdeck canal boat built in 1877 at Oneida Lake, New York) was carrying 250 tons of ashes from Picton, Ontario, to Oswego, New York, in tow of the tug ALANSON SUMNER along with three other canal boats when they encountered a storm on Lake...
