by import2 | April 5, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1872 1872: On 4 April 1872, the schooner JOHN WESLEY was launched from Bailey’s yard at Toledo, Ohio. She was built for Skidmore & Abairs. She was classed as a full-sized canaller and cost $22,000. 1881 1881: On 4 April 1881, the last two vessels of the...
by import2 | April 3, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1872 1872: On 3 April 1872, the passenger/package freight steam barge ROBERT HOLLAND was launched at Marine City, Michigan. She was towed to Detroit by the propeller TRADER to have her machinery installed. 1876 1876: On 3 April 1876, the Port Huron Times reported...
by import2 | April 2, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1874 1874: On 2 April 1874, A. H. HUNTER (wooden propeller tug, 58 foot, 28 gross tons) was launched at Saginaw, Michigan. She was built for Donnelly & Clark of Saginaw by Wheeler. The engine was built by Bartlett & Co. of Saginaw. Her boiler and some other...
by import2 | April 1, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1871 1871: Sailors at Chicago went on strike on 1 April 1871, for an increase in pay. They were getting $1.50 a day. Some ship owners offered $1.75 but when word came that the Straits of Mackinac were clear of ice, the sailors demanded the unheard of daily wage of...
by import2 | March 31, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1874 1874: On 31 March 1874, E. H. MILLER (wooden propeller tug, 62 foot, 30 gross tons) was launched at Chesley A. Wheeler’s yard in E. Saginaw, Michigan. The power plant from the 1865, tug JENNIE BELL was installed in her. She was renamed RALPH in 1883, and...
by import2 | March 30, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1900 1900: March 30, 1900, the carferry ANN ARBOR NO 2 grounded on the rocks east of the approach to the channel at Manistique, Michigan. She was pulled off quickly by the ANN ARBOR NO 3 and the tug GIFFORD. She was found to have bent a propeller shaft and broken...
