by import2 | October 4, 2024 | Boatnerd Archives
1877 1877: BRITISH LION (three-masted wooden bark; 128 feet; 293 tons; built in 1862 at Kingston, ON) was carrying coal from Black River, OH, to Brockville, ON. She was driven ashore at Long Point in Lake Erie by a storm and wrecked. She was the first bark on the...
by import2 | October 3, 2024 | Boatnerd Archives
1875 The barges BELLE CASH and GEO W. HANNAFORD, owned by Captain Cash of East China Township, MI, were driven ashore on Long Point in Lake Erie. 1887 EBENEZER (three-masted wooden schooner barge; 103 feet; 158 gross tons; built in 1847 at Buffalo, NY) was driven...
by import2 | October 2, 2024 | Boatnerd Archives
1873 1873: The 183-foot, three-masted wooden schooner QUEEN CITY was launched at West Bay City, MI. 1887 1887: The Port Huron Times reported the following shipwrecks from a severe storm that swept the lakes on October 2–3, 1887: The schooner CITY OF GREEN BAY,...
by import2 | October 1, 2024 | Boatnerd Archives
1843 ALBANY (wooden brig; 110 tons; built in 1835 at Oswego, NY) was carrying merchandise and passengers when she went aground in a storm and was wrecked just a few miles from Mackinaw City, MI. 1869 SEA GULL (wooden schooner; 83 tons; built in 1845 at Milan, OH) was...
by import2 | September 30, 2024 | Boatnerd Archives
1875 AMERICAN CHAMPION (wooden scow schooner; 156 tons; built in 1866 at Trenton, MI) dropped anchor to ride out a gale near Leamington, ON, on Lake Erie. The chains gave way, and she struck a bar and sank to the gunwales. The crew of eight spent the night in the...
by import2 | September 29, 2024 | Boatnerd Archives
1872 On 29 September 1872, ADRIATIC (3-masted wooden schooner-barge, 139 foot, 129 net tons, built in 1865, at Clayton, New York as a bark) was in tow of the tug MOORE along with three other barges in Lake Erie in a heavy gale. She became separated from the tow and...
