by import2 | June 3, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
1923: WILLIAM B. SCHILLER and HORACE S. WILKINSON collided in Whitefish Bay. The former was anchored when hit on the port side at #5 hatch. The SCHILLER’s captain pulled up the hook and raced for shore so as to sink in shallow water. It went down in about 40 feet and...
by import2 | June 2, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
2000: ALGOWOOD buckled amidships while loading stone at Bruce Mines. The hull was patched, strengthened, refloated and towed to Port Weller Dry Docks to be lengthened and repaired June 2, 1958, the Liberian-flagged freighter MOUNT DELPHI sank enroute to Karachi,...
by import2 | June 1, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
On 01 June 1903, ISAAC L. ELLWOOD (steel propeller freighter, 478 foot, 5,085 gross tons, built in 1900, at W. Bay City, Michigan) broke the record for ore when she carried a cargo of 8,579 tons out of Duluth harbor. This broke the record held by JOHN SMEATON (steel...
by import2 | May 31, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
CITY OF SAGINAW 31 cleared Manitowoc in 1973, in tow of the tug HELEN M. MC ALLISTER; this was the first leg of her tow to the cutter’s torch that ended at Castellon, Spain. The wooden barge FANNY NEIL was launched at the Muir, Livingstone & Co. yard in Port...
by import2 | May 30, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
On 30 May 1896, ALGERIA (3-mast wooden schooner-barge, 285 foot, 2,038 gross tons) was launched by J. Davidson (Hull #75) at West Bay City, Michigan. She lasted until 1906, when she foundered near Cleveland, Ohio. COLUMBIA STAR began her maiden voyage in 1981, from...
by import2 | May 29, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
STADACONA (Hull#66) was launched in 1909, at Ecorse, Michigan, by Great Lakes Engineering Works for the Stadacona Steamship Co. (James Playfair, mgr.). Renamed b.) W.H. MC GEAN in 1920, and c.) ROBERT S. McNAMARA in 1962. The 71-foot tug and patrol boat CARTER H....
