by import2 | August 26, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1791 1791: John Fitch was granted a United States patent for the steamboat. 1857 1857: The schooner MATTHEW MCNAIR was launched at the Lee and Lamoree shipyard in Oswego, NY. She had a 103-foot keel, 24-foot-6-inch beam, and 9-foot-6-inch depth. 1872 1872: ...
by import2 | August 25, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1873 1873: JOURNEYMAN (wooden schooner; 129 feet; 235 gross tons; built in 1873 at Wenona, MI) was put in service. Her first cargo was 225,770 feet of lumber. She was built for Whitehead and Webster of Bay City, MI, and lasted until 1896. 1892 1892: H.D....
by import2 | August 24, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1882 1882: The Port Huron Times reported that “the long looked for launch of the Stave Company’s new river steamer MARY took place this afternoon between 4 and 5 o’clock and was witnessed by hundreds of spectators. The last support being knocked...
by import2 | August 23, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1818 1818: The first steamer above Niagara Falls, the WALK-IN-THE-WATER, Captain Job Fish, departed Buffalo on her maiden voyage. The 29 passengers paid a fare of $24 and arrived at Detroit in 44 hours and 10 minutes. 1875 1873: PERSIAN (wooden propeller...
by import2 | August 22, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1863 1863: WILLIAM S. BULL (wooden propeller steam tug, 16 tons, built in 1861 at Buffalo, New York) waterlogged and went down in a storm 40 miles east of Erie, Pennsylvania. She was in the company of the tug G.W. GARDNER and the canal boat M.E. PAINE, who saved her...
by import2 | August 21, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1856 1856: CHARTER (wooden propeller vessel, 132 feet, 197 tons, built in 1849 at Huron, Ohio as a sidewheeler) was bound from Cleveland for Buffalo with flour, oats, and rye. She swamped and sank in a storm 6 miles above Fairport, Ohio. By the end of August, she...
