by import2 | November 22, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
Scrapping of SPRUCEGLEN, a.) WILLIAM K. FIELD was completed on November 22, 1986, by Lakehead Scrap Metal Co. at Thunder Bay Ontario. SPRUCEGLEN was the last Canadian coal-fired bulker. In 1947, the Canadian tanker BRUCE HUDSON broke down shortly after departing Port...
by import2 | November 21, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
In 1934, the package freighter EDWARD L. LOOMIS, Captain Alex McKenzie, collided with the W. C. FRANZ, Captain Alex McIntyre, about 30 miles southeast of Thunder Bay Island, Lake Huron. Four crewmen on the FRANZ drowned when the lifeboat turned over while being...
by import2 | November 20, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
Pittsburgh Steamship’s steamer RALPH H. WATSON (Hull#285) was launched in 1937, at River Rouge, Michigan, by Great Lakes Engineering Works. In 1948, the ROBERT HOBSON was blown against the Duluth-Superior breakwall as she tried to enter the harbor during a...
by import2 | November 19, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
American Steamship’s SAM LAUD (Hull#712) was launched on this date in 1974 at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. On this day in 1939, in a 24-hour-period, there were 132 transits of the Soo Locks. There were 71 upbound passages and 61 downbound passages. On this day in...
by import2 | November 18, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
The CARL D. BRADLEY was lost in a violent storm on Lake Michigan on November 18, 1958. On 18 November 1869, EQUATOR (wooden propeller package freighter, 184 foot, 621 tons, built in 1857, at Buffalo, New York) was trying to pull the schooner SOUTHWEST off a reef near...
by import2 | November 17, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
On 15 Nov 1972, the MICHIPICOTEN (steel straight-deck bulk freighter, 549 foot, 6,490 gross tons, built in 1905, at W. Bay City, Michigan, as HENRY C. FRICK) departed Quebec in tow of Polish tug KORAL for scrapping in Spain. The tow encountered bad weather and the...
