by import2 | January 22, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
The c.) WOODLAND, a.) FRENCH RIVER) was sold to International Capital Equipment of Canada and cleared the lakes from Montreal January 22, 1991, under the Bahamian flag with the modified name to d.) WOODLANDS. GOLDEN HIND was sold on January 22, 1973, to Trico...
by import2 | January 21, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
On 21 January 1895, CHICORA (wooden propeller passenger/package freight vessel, 199 foot, 1,123 gross tons, built in 1892, at Detroit, Michigan) was bound from Milwaukee for St. Joseph on a mid-winter run when he foundered with little trace. All 25 on board were lost....
by import2 | January 20, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
20 January 1980 – The E. M. FORD (406 foot, 4,498 gross tons, built in 1898, at Lorain, Ohio as a bulk freighter, converted to self-unloading bulk cement carrier in 1956, at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin) was raised at her dock in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She sank on...
by import2 | January 19, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
1824: On 19 January 1824, the Welland Canal Company was incorporated to build the first Welland Canal. 1901: DAVID M. WHITNEY (steel propeller freighter, 412 foot, 4,626 gross tons) was launched on 19 January 1901, by the Detroit Ship Building Company (Hull #138) in...
by import2 | January 18, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
1925: JOHN RUGEE, a wooden steamer in the George Hall Coal Co. fleet, was destroyed by a fire while spending the winter at Ogdensburg. On 18 January 2004, the Great Lakes Fleet’s 1,000 footer EDGAR B. SPEER became stuck in the ice in the Rock Cut in the St. Mary’s...
by import2 | January 17, 2023 | Boatnerd Archives
JOHN E. F. MISENER was float launched in 1951, as a.) SCOTT MISENER (Hull#11) at St. Catharines, Ontario, by Port Weller Drydocks, Ltd. NORTHERN VENTURE closed the Welland Canal for the season as she passed downbound for Hamilton with coal in 1975. In 1978, the CLIFFS...
