by import2 | May 18, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
On 18 May 1872, the 3-mast wooden schooner MARQUETTE was holed in northern Lake Huron by a floating log. The crew manned the hand-operated bilge pumps but could not keep up with the incoming water. The steamer ANNIE YOUNG took the MARQUETTE in tow even though she was...
by import2 | May 17, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
On 17 May 1887, WILLIAM RUDOLPH (wooden propeller “rabbit,” 145 foot, 267 gross tons. built in 1880, at Mount Clemens, Michigan) was raised from Lake St. Clair. She sank in the fall of 1886. She was towed to the Wolverine Drydock in Port Huron, Michigan where...
by import2 | May 16, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
1943: W.R. WOODFORD (Hull#626) was launched May 16, 1908, at West Bay City, Michigan by West Bay City Ship Building Co. for W. A. & M.A. Hawgood. Renamed b.) N.F. LEOPOLD 1911, and c.) E. J. BLOCK in 1943. She was scrapped at Port Colborne, Ontario, arriving in...
by import2 | May 15, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
After extensive renovation at Fraser Shipyard, the IRVIN L. CLYMER departed Superior, Wisconsin on May 15, 1981, and went to Duluth, Minnesota, to load 11,154 tons of taconite ore for Lorain, Ohio. On 15 May 1901, the GILCHRIST (Hull #603) (steel propeller freighter,...
by import2 | May 14, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
On May 14, 1959, the SHENANGO II and the HERBERT C. JACKSON both entered service. While the vessels have been fleet mates since 1967, the SHENANGO II was built by the Shenango Furnace Company. She operates today as the c.) HON. JAMES L. OBERSTAR On 14 May 1881, CITY...
by import2 | May 13, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
Delivered May 13, 1943, THOMAS WILSON departed under the command of Captain Henry Borgen on her maiden voyage from Lorain, Ohio, bound for Duluth, Minnesota, to load iron ore. The tanker JUPITER made her maiden voyage May 13, 1976 from Smith’s Bluff, Texas...
