1906
1906: F & P M No 2 [Built-1882 US-120500 By Detroit Dry Dock Co. at Detroit, Michigan. Renamed: PERE MARQUETTE 2-1901 US-120500, and DUNDURN-1906 C-112207] Final U.S. enrollment surrendered at Milwaukee, WI, February 21, 1906, and endorsed \”sold alien.\”
1929
1929: ERIE [Built-1899 US-150813 as PENNSYLVANIA by Detroit Dry Dock Co. at Wyandotte, Michigan. Renamed: OWANA-1905 US-150813, ERIE-1927 US-150813, T.A. IVEY-1934 C-158138, and ERIE-1964 C-158138] Sale to Allen S. Fawcett, of Detroit, MI, was by United States Marshal sale. As steamer ERIE: Destroyed by fire at Ecorse, MI, on February 21, 1929. Surrendered to underwriters. Hull sold four years later for conversion to barge.
1929: On 21 February 1929, SAPPHO (wooden propeller passenger ferry, 107 foot, 224 gross tons, built in 1883, at Wyandotte, Michigan) burned at her winter lay-up dock in Ecorse, Michigan. She had provided 46 years of service ferrying passengers across the Detroit River. She was neither repaired nor replaced since the Ambassador Bridge was nearing completion.
1953
1953: SS-367 (USS ICEFISH) Built-1944 By Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co, Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Renamed WALRUS (S-802) by Netherlands Net Navy-1953] Transferred to Netherlands on February 21, 1953. Returned to U.S. Navy and stricken from Navy List, July 15, 1971.
1958
1958: ATA [Built-1918 US-216537 as LAKE HARNEY by American Shipbuilding Co. at Lorain, Ohio. Renamed: GERMINAL-1923-France, MALL-1929-Estonia, IRISH ROSE-1942-Ireland, FLAMENCO-1946-Panama, NIZETI-1952-Italy, and ATA-1957-Italy.] As ATA became constructive total loss after stranding, February 21, 1958, off Zanzibar (at Mwemba Island). Released and departed Zanzibar, March 18, 1959, under tow for Dar-es-Salaam, for scrapping.
1961
1961: At Port Weller Drydocks Ltd., the keel of the new bow section for HILDA MARJANNE was laid on February 21, 1961, while at the same time the tanker hull forward of her engine room bulkhead was being cut away.
1979
1979: PHILIP R CLARKE [Built-1952 US-263699 by American Shipbuilding Co. at Lorain, Ohio.] Suffered mechanical damage to steering engine February 1979 in Lake Superior ice; damage discovered at Two Harbors, MN, on February 21.
1979: EDWIN H. GOTT arrived at Two Harbors, Minnesota, (her first trip) February 21, 1979, with the loss of one of her two rudders during her transit of Lake Superior. The other rudder post was also damaged. She was holed in her bow and some of her cargo hold plating ruptured as a result of frozen ballast tanks. Even the icebreaker MACKINAW suffered damage to her port propeller shaft on the trip across frozen Lake Superior.
2021
2021: On February 12, 2021, K+S Windsor Salt Ltd. and Canada Steamship Lines announced the construction of a new, state-of-the-art self-unloading ship with a deadweight of 26,000 metric tons for service in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Great Lakes region. It was launched as NUKUMI.
Data from: Joe Barr, Dave Swayze, Ahoy & Farewell II and the Great Lakes Ships We Remember series.
