by import2 | February 10, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
UHLMANN BROTHERS was launched February 10, 1906, as a.) LOFTUS CUDDY (Hull#341) at Lorain, Ohio by American Ship Building Co. The MARKHAM (Twin Screw Hopper Suction Dredge) was delivered February 10, 1960, to the Army Corps of Engineers at Cleveland, Ohio. In 1998,...
by import2 | February 9, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
The ALEXANDER LESLIE was launched February 9, 1901, as a.) J T HUTCHINSON (Hull # 405) at Cleveland, Ohio by American Ship Building Co. HOMER D. WILLIAMS suffered extensive fire damage to her side plating and forward lower cabins during her lay-up at Toledo, Ohio on...
by import2 | February 8, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
While in lay-up on February 8, 1984, a fire broke out in WILLIAM G. MATHER’s after accommodations killing a vagrant from Salt Lake City, Utah, who started the fire that caused considerable damage to the galley. On 8 February 1902, ETRURIA (steel propeller...
by import2 | February 6, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
On 06 February 1952, the LIMESTONE (steel propeller tug, 87 foot 10 inches) was launched at Bay City, Michigan, by the Defoe Shipyard (Hull #423) for the Michigan Limestone and Chemical Company. Later she was sold to U.S. Steel and in 1983, to Gaelic Tug Company who...
by import2 | February 5, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
ASHLAND, in a critically leaking condition, barely made Mamonel, Colombia, on February 5, 1988, where she was scrapped. February 5, 1870 – Captain William H. Le Fleur of the Pere Marquette carferry fleet, known as “the Bear” was born in Milwaukee,...
by import2 | February 4, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
The two sections of the a.) WILLIAM J. DE LANCEY, b.) PAUL R. TREGURTHA) were joined at Lorain, Ohio by American Ship Building Co. and float-launched on February 4, 1981, (Hull #909). In 1977, ROGER BLOUGH arrived at the American Shipbuilding Company in Lorain, Ohio...
