by import2 | October 19, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1868 1868: PARAGON (wooden schooner; 212 tons; built in 1852 at Oshawa, ON, as a brig) was being towed up the St. Clair River by the tug WILLIAM A. MOORE with a load of lumber in the company of four other barges. During a gale, the tow was broken up. While the tug...
by import2 | October 18, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1844 1844: At 20:00, the steamer ROCHESTER left Rochester, NY, for Toronto, ON. She encountered a severe gale about halfway there. Captain H.N. Throop had the vessel put about to return to Rochester. The gale was so severe that all thought they were lost. When they...
by import2 | October 17, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1843 1843: The wooden schooner ALABAMA collided with a pier during a storm at the mouth of the Grand River at Fairport, OH, and was a total loss. 1871 1871: CASCADEN (two-masted wooden schooner; 138 tons; built in 1866 at Saugeen, ON) was carrying much-needed...
by import2 | October 16, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1853 1853: PHILO SCOVILLE (two-masted wooden brig built in 1853 at Sheboygan, WI) was carrying flour, wheat, pigs, and barreled fish when she encountered a gale in the eastern Straits of Mackinac. She was dismasted and drifted ashore, where she was pounded to...
by import2 | October 15, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1871 1871: R.P. MASON (three-masted wooden schooner; 115 feet; 155 gross tons; built in 1867 at Grand Haven, MI) was bound from Chicago, IL, for Detroit, MI, when she struck a rocky reef near Waugoshance Point in the Straits of Mackinac. Water gushed in an 8-foot...
by import2 | October 14, 2025 | Boatnerd Archives
1871 1871: The LEVANT (two-masted wooden schooner; 91 feet; 115 tons; built in 1854 at Chicago, IL) was loaded with lumber when she was overtaken by a severe gale and went over on her beam ends off Sheboygan, WI, on Lake Michigan. The six-man crew lashed themselves...
