by import2 | July 21, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1875 1875: The schooner ELVA, which was built in Port Huron, Michigan, in 1861 for Capt. Sinclair, was sailing from Holland, Michigan, for Milwaukee, Wisconsin, loaded with stove bolts. She capsized 12 miles from Milwaukee. Her crew took to the boats and made a...
by import2 | July 20, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1875 1875: The scow DIXIE burned during the night while lying at Kenyon’s dock in East China Township on the St. Clair River. 1877 1877: At the end of June 1877, the ferry MYRTLE began running between Port Huron and Sarnia. However, on this date, The Port...
by import2 | July 19, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1831 1831: The wooden schooner HENRY CLAY was carrying 800 barrels of salt and passengers from Oswego, New York, to the Welland Canal on her maiden voyage when she capsized in a squall and sank about 10 miles off Port Dalhousie, Ontario, on Lake Ontario. About 11...
by import2 | July 18, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1858 1858: ANDROMEDA (two-mast wooden schooner, 112 feet, 568 tons, built in 1848 at Madison Dock, Ohio) was carrying 800 barrels of salt from Oswego to Chicago. She sprang a leak suddenly and foundered 20 miles from Sheboygan, Wisconsin. The crew escaped in her...
by import2 | July 17, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1856 1856: TINTO (wooden propeller, 135 feet, built in 1855–1856 at Sorel, Quebec) caught fire and burned to a total loss only 2 miles from shore. She was between Snake Island and Nine Mile Point on Lake Ontario. 18 lives were lost. The survivors jumped into the...
by import2 | July 16, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1861 1861: CATARACT (wooden propeller, 15 feet, 352 tons, built in 1852 at Buffalo) caught fire 5 miles off Erie, Pennsylvania. She became an inferno astern in just a few minutes, and this prevented her boats from being launched. Four died. Some were saved by...
