by import2 | July 18, 2024 | Boatnerd Archives
1858 ANDROMEDA (two-mast wooden schooner, 112 feet, 568 tons, built in 1848 at Madison Dock, Ohio) was carrying 800 barrels of salt from Oswego to Chicago. She sprang a leak suddenly and foundered 20 miles from Sheboygan, Wisconsin. The crew escaped in her boat, many...
by import2 | July 17, 2024 | Boatnerd Archives
1856 TINTO (wooden propeller, 135 feet, built in 1855–1856 at Sorel, Quebec) caught fire and burned to a total loss only 2 miles from shore. She was between Snake Island and Nine Mile Point on Lake Ontario. 18 lives were lost. The survivors jumped into the water and...
by import2 | July 16, 2024 | Boatnerd Archives
1861 CATARACT (wooden propeller, 15 feet, 352 tons, built in 1852 at Buffalo) caught fire 5 miles off Erie, Pennsylvania. She became an inferno astern in just a few minutes, and this prevented her boats from being launched. Four died. Some were saved by clinging to...
by import2 | July 15, 2024 | Boatnerd Archives
1871 1871: An argument between Captain James Bradley and Mate John Reed started while the schooner ROBERT EMMETT was docked at Erie, Pennsylvania, unloading iron ore. They were still shouting at each other as the ship sailed out of the harbor. In short order, the...
by import2 | July 14, 2024 | Boatnerd Archives
1891 T.H. ORTON (wooden barge, 262 gross tons, built in 1873 at Buffalo, New York) anchored off Marblehead, Ohio, on Lake Erie to ride out a storm. She dragged her anchors and was driven ashore where she was declared a total wreck. She may have been recovered. Just...
by import2 | July 13, 2024 | Boatnerd Archives
1876 The rebuilt BOSCOBEL was launched at the Peshtigo Company yard at Algonac, Michigan. Originally built in 1867 as a passenger-package freight propeller vessel, she burned and sank near Ft. Gratiot in 1869. The wreck was raised, but no work was done until January...
