by import2 | October 31, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1821 1821: On 31 October 1821, WALK-IN-THE-WATER (wooden side-wheeler, 135 foot, 339 tons, built in 1818, at Black Rock [Buffalo], New York) was wrecked on Point Abino, on the Canadian shore of Lake Erie during a storm. She was the first steam-powered vessel above...
by import2 | October 30, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1863 1863: On 30 October 1863, TORRENT (2-mast wooden schooner, 125 foot, 412 gross tons, built in 1855, at Newport [Marine City], Michigan) was carrying railroad iron from Buffalo to Little Bay de Noc when she foundered in a storm on Lake Erie, 10 miles east of...
by import2 | October 29, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1879 On 29 October 1879, AMAZON (wooden propeller freighter, 245 foot, 1,406 tons, built in 1873, at Trenton, Michigan) was carrying “provisions” – 900 tons of freight plus 7,000 barrels of flour – from Milwaukee to Grand Haven, Michigan. She...
by import2 | October 28, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1882 1882: On October 28, 1882, RUDOLPH WETZEL (wooden propeller tug, 23 tons, built in 1870, at Buffalo, New York) was racing for a tow with the tug HENRY S SILL when her boiler exploded 12 miles north of Racine, Wisconsin. She quickly sank. All three on board were...
by import2 | October 27, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1854 1854: October 27, 1854 – Well-known Pere Marquette carferry captain Joseph “Joe” Russell was born in Greenfield, Wisconsin. 1869 1869: On October 27, 1869, ALFRED ALLEN (wooden schooner, 160 tons, built in 1853, at Pultneyville, New Jersey,...
by import2 | October 26, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1851 1851: On October 26, 1851, ATLAS (wooden propeller, 153 foot, 375 tons, built in 1851, at Buffalo, New York) was carrying flour from Detroit to Buffalo when she was blown to shore near the mouth of the Grand River (Lorain, Ohio) by a gale, stranded and became a...
