by import2 | July 10, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
1866 COQUETTE (one-mast wooden scow-sloop, 90 feet, 140 tons, built in 1858 at Perry, Ohio, as a schooner) capsized in a storm on Lake Michigan and was lost with her crew of four. She had originally been built for the U.S. government. 1911 JOHN MITCHELL (wooden...
by import2 | July 9, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
1876 ST. CLAIR (wooden propeller freighter with some passenger accommodations, 127 feet, 326 gross tons, built in 1867 at Algonac, Michigan) had 14 crew and 18 passengers aboard along with a cargo of flour, feed and deck loads of cattle as she sailed on Lake Superior....
by import2 | July 8, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
1863 ALMIRA (two-mast wooden scow-schooner, 85 feet, 80 tons, built in 1849, at Black River, Ohio) was dismasted and capsized in a violent squall on Lake Ontario. All hands were lost. On July 27, the cargo of barreled fish was found by the schooner M.L. COLLINS. The...
by import2 | July 7, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
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 IDA MAY BROWN...
by import2 | July 6, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
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 topmasts...
by import2 | July 5, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
1874 JUSTIN R. WHITING was launched at Langell’s yard at the mouth of the Pine River in St. Clair, Michigan. Her dimensions were 144 feet x 26 feet, 2 inches x 11 feet, 6 inches. Although built to be a self-powered steam barge, she was towed as a regular barge...
