by import2 | April 13, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
1956 Winds and ice pushed the ore laden GEORGE M. HUMPHREY on a shoal in Whitefish Bay en route from Superior to Zug Island. The vessel was salvaged and taken to Lorain for repairs. 13 April 1872 – The schooners MARY TAYLOR and ANTELOPE wooden were racing to Oswego,...
by import2 | April 12, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
On 12 April 1896, PETER DALTON (propeller tug, 63 foot 49 gross tons, built in 1880, at Grand Haven, Michigan) caught fire off Grosse Pointe, Illinois, while returning to Chicago with the salvaged schooner A.J. DEWEY in tow and the boiler of the JOHNSON. The fire...
by import2 | April 11, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
Pittsburgh Steamship Co.’s steamer ENDERS M. VOORHEES (Hull#288), of the Great Lakes Engineering Works, was launched on April 11, 1942. She was scrapped at Aliaga, Turkey in 1989. In 2015, 18 vessels that had been stuck in 35 square miles of crushed ice up to...
by import2 | April 10, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
The tanker TEXACO CHIEF (Hull#193), was christened April 10, 1969. She was renamed b.) A G FARQUHARSON in 1986 and c.) ALGONOVA in 1998. She was sold Panamanian in 2007 and renamed PACIFICO TRADER. 10 April 1868 The ALPENA (wooden side-wheel passenger-package freight...
by import2 | April 9, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
The Wilson Marine Transit Co., Cleveland purchased the b.) FINLAND, a.) HARRY COULBY (Hull#163) of the Detroit Ship Building Co., on April 9, 1957, and resold her the same day to the Republic Steel Corp., Cleveland with Wilson Marine acting as manager. Renamed c.)...
by import2 | April 8, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
08 April 1871, NAVARINO (wooden propeller passenger-package freight steamer, 184 foot, 761 tons, built in 1871, at Manitowoc, Wisconsin) entered service for the Goodrich Transportation Company. She only lasted until 09 October 1871, since she burned in the Great...
