by import2 | March 20, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
On March 19, 2000, ALGOMA CONVEYOR ran aground late in the entrance channel to Green Bay, WI. Weather at the time was rainy. She was Algoma Conveyor was transporting a load of road salt from Canada into Green Bay when it lost propulsion because of a mechanical...
by import2 | March 19, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
W.R. STAFFORD (wooden propeller bulk freighter, 184 foot, 744 gross tons, built in 1886, at W. Bay City, Michigan) was freed from the ice at 2:00 a.m. on 19 March 1903, by the Goodrich Line’s ATLANTA. When the STAFFORD was freed, the ice then closed around the ATLANTA...
by import2 | March 18, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
In 1967, under the command of Captain Ray I. McGrath, the Columbia Transportation Company’s HURON (steel propeller self-unloader bulk freighter, 415 foot, 4,810 gross tons, built in 1914, at Ecorse, Michigan) cleared Fairport, Ohio, and headed to Toledo, Ohio...
by import2 | March 17, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
On 17 March 1995, a fire started on the AMERICAN MARINER’s self-unloading conveyor belt from welding being done on the vessel at the Toledo Ship & Repair Company in Toledo, Ohio. About $100,000 in damage was done. The Toledo fire department had the blaze out...
by import2 | March 16, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
Today in Great Lakes History March 16 On 16 March 1901, ARGO (steel passenger/package freight propeller, 173 foot, 1,089 gross tons) was launched at the Craig Ship Building Company (Hull #81) at Toledo, Ohio, for the A. Booth Company. She left the Lakes in 1917, and...
by import2 | March 15, 2022 | Boatnerd Archives
WESTCLIFFE HALL (Hull#519) was launched March 15, 1956, at Grangemouth, Scotland, by Grangemouth Dockyard Co. Ltd., for the Hall Corp. of Canada. March 15, 1949 – The Ann Arbor carferry fleet was laid up due to a strike called by the boat crews. The fleet was...
