by import2 | June 5, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
Over the winter of 1960 – 1961, CHARLES M. SCHWAB was rebuilt by joining the forward end of the original SCHWAB with the after end of the former oil tanker GULFPORT. On this date in 1961, Captain Raphael “Dewey” Marsden conducted sea trials with the...
by import2 | June 4, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
In 1947, the Canada Steamship Lines steamer EMPEROR, loaded with ore and bound for Ashtabula, hit the rocks off Isle Royale at 4:10 a.m. The vessel sank within minutes but the crew was able to launch 2 lifeboats. Captain Eldon Walkinshaw, First Mate D. Moray, and 10...
by import2 | June 3, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
1923: WILLIAM B. SCHILLER and HORACE S. WILKINSON collided in Whitefish Bay. The former was anchored when hit on the port side at #5 hatch. The SCHILLER’s captain pulled up the hook and raced for shore so as to sink in shallow water. It went down in about 40 feet and...
by import2 | June 2, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
2000: ALGOWOOD buckled amidships while loading stone at Bruce Mines. The hull was patched, strengthened, refloated and towed to Port Weller Dry Docks to be lengthened and repaired June 2, 1958, the Liberian-flagged freighter MOUNT DELPHI sank enroute to Karachi,...
by import2 | June 1, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
On 01 June 1903, ISAAC L. ELLWOOD (steel propeller freighter, 478 foot, 5,085 gross tons, built in 1900, at W. Bay City, Michigan) broke the record for ore when she carried a cargo of 8,579 tons out of Duluth harbor. This broke the record held by JOHN SMEATON (steel...
by import2 | May 31, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
CITY OF SAGINAW 31 cleared Manitowoc in 1973, in tow of the tug HELEN M. MC ALLISTER; this was the first leg of her tow to the cutter’s torch that ended at Castellon, Spain. The wooden barge FANNY NEIL was launched at the Muir, Livingstone & Co. yard in Port...
