1843
1843: On 23 February 1843, SANDUSKY (wooden side-wheeler, 148 foot, 377 tons, built in 1834, at Sandusky, Ohio) caught fire at her dock on Buffalo Creek in Buffalo, New York and burned to the hull. She was recovered, rebuilt as a 3-masted bark and lasted another two years.
1922
1922: ANNA C MINCH [Built-1903 US-107846 by American Shipbuilding Co. at Cleveland, Ohio, Renamed: ANNA C MINCH-1926 C-153113] Suffered gale damages at Erie, PA, on December 18, 1921 and ice damage at same place on February 23, 1922
1942
1942: GLENLINNIE [Built-1923 in Great Britain Other names: LENOX-1927, and LENNOX-1927 C-145525] As the LENNOX was Torpedoed and sunk, February 23, 1942, in position 09.15N x 58.30W, on Caribbean Sea, with cargo of bauxite.
2-23-1975
JAMES A HANNAH [Built-1945 as LT-0820 US-Army by Marietta Manufacturing Co. at Point Pleasant, West Virginia RENAMED: MUSKEGON-1965 US-298179, and JAMES A HANNAH-1971 US-29817] As JAMES A. HANNAH: Had towline snap while towing 280-foot oil barge, Lake Michigan, February 23, 1975. Blown onto breakwater at Milwaukee, off South Shore Yacht Club, in 60 m.p.h. gale winds. Estimated 6,000 gallons of oil leaked into lake.
1943
1943: The e.) U.S.S. ROTARY (YO-148) was commissioned on February 23, 1943, at Sullivan’s Dry Dock & Repair Co., Brooklyn, New York and assigned duty with the Service Force, Third Naval District, Atlantic Fleet. The tanker was built in 1915 at Chatham, England by Chatham Dock Yard Ltd. as a.) H.M.S. SERVITOR. Renamed b.) PULOE BRANI in 1922, brought to the Lakes and renamed c.) B.B. MC COLL in 1927, and d.) A.J. PATMORE in 1929. After her U.S. Naval Service ROTARY reverted to her previous name f.) A.J. PATMORE and then g.) PEGGY REINAUER in 1946. Renamed h.) DETROIT early in 1955, she traded on the lakes until 1975. Her partially dismantled hull was abandoned in 1985 in the back waters of Lake Calumet.
Data from: Joe Barr, Dave Swayze, Ahoy & Farewell II and the Great Lakes Ships We Remember series.
