by import2 | December 27, 2024 | Boatnerd Archives
1985 1985: 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...
by import2 | December 26, 2024 | Boatnerd Archives
1909 1909: The former whaleback steamer COLGATE HOYT, operating on the East Coast since 1906, was wrecked as c) THURMOND in a storm at Tom’s River Bay, NJ enroute from Newport News, VA to Portland, ME with a cargo of coal. 1916 1916: On 26 December 1916, the...
by import2 | December 25, 2024 | Boatnerd Archives
1849 1849: On 25 December 1849 the SISKAWIT (wooden schooner, 50 t, built in 1840) was sailing light on Lake Superior when a storm drove her onto a bar near the mouth of the Chocolay River, southeast of Marquette, Michigan, where she was wrecked. Those aboard had...
by import2 | December 24, 2024 | Boatnerd Archives
1875 1875: On 24 December 1875, the Port Huron Times listed the following vessels at winter lay-up at St. Clair, Mich. — Scows: ANNA H MOORE, A MONROE, MYRTLE, CLIPPER VISION, J SNADERS and B MONROE; Steamers: BERTIE DAHLKE and HELEN; Schooners: JOHN RICE and M...
by import2 | December 23, 2024 | Boatnerd Archives
1885 1885: On 23 December 1885, MARY MARTINI (wooden propeller passenger-package freight vessel, 85 foot, 91 gross tons, built in 1877, at W. Bay City, Michigan) stranded on Brule Point, 13 miles east of Grand Marais, Minnesota, on Lake Superior in fair weather. A...
by import2 | December 22, 2024 | Boatnerd Archives
1920 1920: LIGHTSHIP 103 was commissioned December 22, 1920. 1922 1922: On 22 December 1922, CORNELL (wooden propeller tug, 72 foot, 66 gross tons, built in 1888, at Buffalo, New York) foundered somewhere between Cleveland and Erie, Pennsylvania while enroute to new...
