by import2 | August 29, 2024 | Boatnerd Archives
1858 CANADA (three-masted wooden bark; 199 feet; 758 tons) was carrying 0.5 million board feet of lumber to Chicago, IL, in bad weather when she settled just north of downtown Chicago. The next day during a salvage attempt, she blew southward, struck a bar off the old...
by import2 | August 28, 2024 | Boatnerd Archives
1763 BEAVER, an armed wooden British sloop built the previous year, was carrying provisions to Detroit, MI. She was on her way to relieve the fort there, which was under siege by Native Americans led by Pontiac; however, the vessel foundered in a storm at Cat Fish...
by import2 | August 27, 2024 | Boatnerd Archives
1873 The keel for the tug CRUSADER was laid at the Leighton and Dunford yard in Port Huron, MI. The tug measured 132 feet overall with a 100-foot keel and 23-foot beam. She was built for George E. Brockway. 1886 The Detroit Evening News reported that a fireman on the...
by import2 | August 26, 2024 | Boatnerd Archives
1791 John Fitch was granted a United States patent for the steamboat. 1857 The schooner MATTHEW MCNAIR was launched at the Lee and Lamoree shipyard in Oswego, NY. She had a 103-foot keel, 24-foot-6-inch beam, and 9-foot-6-inch depth. 1872 Wooden propeller steamer LAKE...
by import2 | August 25, 2024 | Boatnerd Archives
1873 JOURNEYMAN (wooden schooner; 129 feet; 235 gross tons; built in 1873 at Wenona, MI) was put in service. Her first cargo was 225,770 feet of lumber. She was built for Whitehead and Webster of Bay City, MI, and lasted until 1896. 1892 H.D. COFFINBERRY (wooden...
by import2 | August 24, 2024 | Boatnerd Archives
1882 The Port Huron Times reported that “the long looked for launch of the Stave Company’s new river steamer MARY took place this afternoon between 4 and 5 o’clock and was witnessed by hundreds of spectators. The last support being knocked away, she...
