by import2 | December 10, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
The steamer EDWARD Y. TOWNSEND loaded the last cargo of ore for the 1942 season at Marquette. CEDARGLEN, a.) WILLIAM C. ATWATER, loaded her last cargo at Thunder Bay, Ontario on December 10, 1984, carrying grain for Goderich, Ontario. Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co. of...
by import2 | December 9, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
1956: FORT HENRY, a package freighter for Canada Steamship Lines, hit Canoe Rocks approaching the Canadian Lakehead, cutting open the hull. It reached the dock safely, quickly unloaded, and went to the Port Arthur shipyard for repairs. While tied up at Port Colborne,...
by import2 | December 8, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
1854: On 8 December 1854, WESTMORELAND (wooden propeller passenger/package freight vessel, 200 foot, 665 tons, built in 1853, at Cleveland, Ohio) was carrying supplies for Mackinac Island, including liquor and supposedly $100,000 in gold. She capsized in a storm due...
by import2 | December 7, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
1866: On 7 December 1866, M. BALLARD (2-mast wooden schooner, 116 foot, 288 tons, built in 1855, at Cleveland, Ohio) was lost with all hands in a storm on Lake Ontario. 1878: The wooden propeller bulk freighter MORLEY was launched at Marine City on 7 December 1878....
by import2 | December 6, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
On December 6, 1988, an arsonist set fire to the after end of FORT CHAMBLY while she was laid up at Ojibway Slip in Windsor, Ontario. On 06 December 1886, C. McElroy purchased the steamer CHARLIE LIKEN for use as a ferry at St. Clair, Michigan to replace the burned...
by import2 | December 5, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
In 1927, ALTADOC crashed on the rocks of the Keweenaw Peninsula when her steering gear parted during a Lake Superior storm. The machinery and pilothouse of the wreck were recovered in 1928. The pilothouse was eventually refurbished in 1942 and opened as the Worlds...
