by import2 | July 27, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1884 1884: ALBERTA (steel propeller passenger-package freight vessel, 264 feet, 2,282 gross tons, built in 1883 at Whiteinch, Scotland, by C. Connell & Co.) collided in fog 6 miles northwest of Whitefish Point on Lake Superior with the JOHN M. OSBORNE (wooden...
by import2 | July 26, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1885 1885: ISLE ROYALE (wooden propeller passenger-package freight vessel, 92 feet, 92 gross tons, built in 1879) sprang a leak near Susick Island near Isle Royale on Lake Superior. She sank, but her passengers and crew made it to the island. She was owned by Cooley,...
by import2 | July 25, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1875 1875: The wooden lumber tug CYGNET, which worked on the Shiawassee and Bad Rivers and Lake Huron, was destroyed when her boiler exploded in “Blow-up Bayou” on the Shiawassee River. 1882 1882: The wooden bulk freighter D.C. WHITNEY was launched at...
by import2 | July 24, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1847 1847: CONSTITUTION (wooden passenger-package freight side-wheeler, 141 feet, 444 tons, built in 1837 at Charleston, Ohio) struck a pier in Sandusky harbor, stove a large hole in her bow and sank. Her machinery was later recovered and installed in J.D. MORTON....
by import2 | July 23, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1878 1878: H.R. PRESTON (wooden quarterdeck canal boat built in 1877 at Oneida Lake, New York) was carrying 250 tons of ashes from Picton, Ontario, to Oswego, New York, in tow of the tug ALANSON SUMNER along with three other canal boats when they encountered a storm...
by import2 | July 22, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1873 1873: The M.I. MILLS (wooden propeller tug, 122 feet, 152 tons, built in 1867 at Marine City, Michigan), which sank in a collision with the bark UNADILLA on May 9, 1873, was found in 90 feet of water in Lake Huron off Sand Beach, Michigan. Plans were made to...
