by import2 | January 20, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1907 1907: WILLIAM NOTTINGHAM broke loose in wild winds and flooding at Buffalo. When the storm subsided, the ship had come to rest high and dry about 440 yards from the channel. A total of 12 vessels stranded in the storm but this one was the biggest challenge. A...
by import2 | January 19, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1824 1824: On 19 January 1824, the Welland Canal Company was incorporated to build the first Welland Canal. 1901 1901: DAVID M. WHITNEY (steel propeller freighter, 412 foot, 4,626 gross tons) was launched on 19 January 1901, by the Detroit Ship Building Company...
by import2 | January 18, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1906 1906: The National Steamship Co. was incorporated January 18, 1906. 1925 1925: JOHN RUGEE, a wooden steamer in the George Hall Coal Co. fleet, was destroyed by a fire while spending the winter at Ogdensburg. 1938 1938: The passenger ship WAUBIC was damaged by...
by import2 | January 17, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1899 1899: On 17 January 1899, the GERMANIA (wooden propeller freighter, 136 foot, 237 gross tons, built in 1875, at Marine City, Michigan) caught fire and burned to the water’s edge at Ecorse, Michigan. The previous day, Norman Reno of Ecorse did some painting...
by import2 | January 16, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1873: 1873: On 15 January 1873, A. Muir began building a wooden 3-mast schooner (“full sized canaller”) at his shipyard in Port Huron. Fourteen men were employed to work on her, including master builder James Perry. The schooner was to be the exact...
by import2 | January 15, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1873 1873: On 15 January 1873, A. Muir began building a wooden 3-mast schooner (“full sized canaller”) at his shipyard in Port Huron. Fourteen men were employed to work on her, including master builder James Perry. The schooner was to be the exact...
