by import2 | December 30, 2021 | Boatnerd Archives
On December 30, 1987, the THOMAS WILSON, under tow in the North Atlantic heading to be scrapped, parted her towline and sank near position 34.08’N by 61.35’12″W (approximately in line with Cape Hatteras, North Carolina) early the next day. GEORGE M....
by import2 | December 29, 2021 | Boatnerd Archives
1979: A spark from a welder’s torch spread from the conveyor belt and gutted the pilothouse and officer’s quarters of the NICOLET at Toledo. The vessel was rebuilt with a new pilothouse at Lorain and returned to service on April 4, 1981. B.F. JONES was...
by import2 | December 28, 2021 | Boatnerd Archives
On 28 December 1907, CALDERA (steel propeller freighter, 504 foot, 6,328 gross tons) was launched at W. Bay City, Michigan. HENRY FORD II was laid up in the Rouge Steel slip at Dearborn, Michigan, on December 28, 1988. On 28 December 1881, the steamer R J GORDON...
by import2 | December 27, 2021 | Boatnerd Archives
SAVIC, b.) CLIFFS VICTORY cleared the Welland Canal on Christmas night 1985, and finally anchored at Pointe aux Trembles near Montreal, Quebec, on December 27, awaiting another load of scrap. The SAVIC remained there the entire winter, because the underwriters ordered...
by import2 | December 26, 2021 | Boatnerd Archives
In 1981, the steamer ENDERS M. VOORHEES laid up for the last time at the Hallett Dock #5 in Duluth, Minnesota. On 26 December 1916, the wreck of the wooden self-unloading freighter TOPEKA was leveled by dynamiting. She sank just off Windsor/Sandwich, Ontario, in the...
by import2 | December 25, 2021 | Boatnerd Archives
1985: The former CLIFFS VICTORY passed down the Welland Canal as c) SAVIC, enroute to eventual scrapping in South Korea. It does not arrive there until Dec. 12, 1986. E.G. GRACE carried 14,797 tons of taconite ore on her last trip out of Taconite Harbor, Minnesota...
