by import2 | September 23, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
September 23, 1922, the 306-foot NEPTUNE loaded the first Head-of-the-Lakes cargo of pig iron at Zenith Furnace, Duluth, Minnesota. The 5,000 tons of malleable pig iron was delivered to Buffalo, New York. September 23, 1975, HERBERT C. JACKSON lost power while upbound...
by import2 | September 23, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
On September 22, 1958, the EDMUND FITZGERALD entered service, departing River Rouge, Michigan for Silver Bay, Minnesota on its first trip. The FITZGERALD’s first load was 20,038 tons of taconite pellets for Toledo. The vessel would, in later years, set several...
by import2 | September 21, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
On 21 September 1892, the whaleback steamer JAMES B. COLGATE (steel propeller whaleback freighter, 308 foot, 1,713 gross tons) was launched by the American Steel Barge Co. (Hull #121) at W. Superior, Wisconsin. She only lasted until 1916, when she foundered in the...
by import2 | September 20, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
CHARLES M. WHITE was christened at Baltimore, Maryland, on September 20, 1951. John Jonathon Boland was born on 20 September 1875, in New York. Along with Adam E. Cornelius, he formed the partnership of Boland and Cornelius in 1903, and was one of the founders of the...
by import2 | September 19, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
When Cleveland Tankers’ new SATURN entered service and made her first trip to Toledo, Ohio, on September 19, 1974, she became the first of three tankers built for the fleet’s modernization program. EDGAR B. SPEER departed the shipyard on her maiden voyage for...
by import2 | September 18, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
On September 18, 1855, SEBASTOPOL (wooden side-wheel steamer, 230 foot, 863 tons, built in 1855, at Cleveland, Ohio) was sailing on Lake Michigan in a gale. Her cargo included copper, tin, lead and iron ingots, safes and general merchandise. Her skipper misread the...
