by import2 | April 16, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
16 April 1907 – In a blinding snowstorm, the LOUIS PAHLOW (wooden propeller package freighter, 155 foot, 366 gross tons, built in 1882, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin) was towing the DELTA (wooden schooner, 134 foot, 269 gross tons, built in 1890, at Algonac, Michigan) on...
by import2 | April 15, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
15 April 15, 1955, American Steamship’s steamer DETROIT EDISON entered service, departing Manitowoc, Wisconsin, for Port Inland, Michigan, on her maiden trip. 15 April 1907 – The Rutland Line’s OGDENSBURG (steel propeller package freighter, 242-foot, 2329 gross...
by import2 | April 14, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
14 April 1968 the GEORGE A. SLOAN (steel propeller bulk freighter, 603 foot, 9057 gross tons, built in 1943, at River Rouge, Michigan) was the first commercial vessel through the Soo Locks. The SLOAN received Sault Ste. Marie’s official tri-centennial flag to...
by import2 | April 13, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
1872: 13 April 1872 – The schooners MARY TAYLOR and ANTELOPE wooden were racing to Oswego, New York, trying to beat a large block of drifting ice. The ice won and blocked the harbor entrance. The ANTELOPE became icebound about a quarter of a mile from the piers and...
by import2 | April 12, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
On 12 April 1896, PETER DALTON (propeller tug, 63 foot 49 gross tons, built in 1880, at Grand Haven, Michigan) caught fire off Grosse Pointe, Illinois, while returning to Chicago with the salvaged schooner A.J. DEWEY in tow and the boiler of the JOHNSON. The fire...
by import2 | April 11, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
Pittsburgh Steamship Co.’s steamer ENDERS M. VOORHEES (Hull#288), of the Great Lakes Engineering Works, was launched on April 11, 1942. She was scrapped at Aliaga, Turkey in 1989. In 2015, 18 vessels that had been stuck in 35 square miles of crushed ice up to...
