by import2 | September 1, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1854 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...
by import2 | August 31, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1852 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...
by import2 | August 30, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1873 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...
by import2 | August 29, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1858 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...
by import2 | August 28, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1763 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...
by import2 | August 27, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1873 1873: The keel for the tug CRUSADER was laid at the Leighton and Dunford yard in Port Huron, MI. The tug measured 132 feet overall with a 100-foot keel and 23-foot beam. She was built for George E. Brockway. 1886 1886: The Detroit Evening News reported that a...
