1879
1879: GENEVA [Built-1875 C-72558 by J.W. Pierce at Portsmouth, Canada Renamed: GENEVA 1887 US-86005] Rebuilt in 1885. Enrolled at Cape Vincent, NY, May 10, 1887, under Act of March 3, 1879 (93 x 20 x 5; 91.45 gross – 45.73 net. Apparently broken up in 1891. Final enrollment indicates a property change in Oswego, NY, September 23, 1891, but no entry made on that date
1880
1880: At midnight on 3 March 1880, DAVID SCOVILLE (wooden propeller steam tug/ferry, 42 foot, 37 gross tons, built in 1875, at Marine City, Mich.) burned at the Grand Trunk Railway wharf at Sarnia, Ontario. Arson was suspected. No lives were lost.
1909
1909: R.T. LAMBERT [Built-1873 US-110106 by R.T. Lambert at Bayport, Michigan] First enrollment issued at Port Huron, MI, August 22, 1873. Final enrollment surrendered at Marquette, MI, March 3, 1909, and endorsed \”abandoned.\”
1932
1932: PURE LUBWELL [Built-1891 US-53266 as 0110 by American Steel Barge Co. at Superior, Wisconsin. Renamed: BADGER-1905 US-53266 and PURE LUBWELL-1927 US-53266] As PURE LUBWELL suffered an explosion, then sank after burning, near dock of Cities Service Export Oil Co., at St. Rose, LA, on March 3, 1932; one life lost. Final document surrendered on March 23, 1932.
1947
1947: NORTHTON [Built-1924 C-148077 by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Ricardson LTD at Newcastle-on-Tyne, Great Britain. Renamed: NOVADOC 1946 C-148077] As NOVADOC of the Paterson fleet foundered off New England coast, March 2-3, 1947, with all hands; twenty-four lives lost. On voyage Digby, Nova Scotia, for New York, with cargo of gypsum. Last heard from by radio twenty-five miles off Portland, ME, with one hatch cover torn off by severe gale, and in trouble.
1948
1948: PC-1563 [Built-1944 US-Navy by Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Co. at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. Renamed: NEGROS ORIENTAL [C-26] 1948 Philippines] Rig – Patrol Craft. Placed on loan with Philippine Islands, March 3, 1948. As NEGROS ORIENTAL [C-26] Sunk by typhoon at Guam in November, 1962. Raised but stricken from naval list January 24, 1963.
1948: SC-1034 [Built-1943 US-Navy by Peterson Boat Works at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin] Rig – Submarine Chaser Commissioned on April 15, 1943. Transferred to U.S. Maritime Commission, March 3, 1948, for disposal. Ultimate disposition unknown
1958
1958: The tanker DON JOSE, formerly the ITORORO that operated on the Great Lakes for Transit Tankers & Terminals in the early 1940s, was destroyed by a fire, likely in a loading mishap, at Talara, Peru.
1970
1970: ROBAND HITCH [Built-1945 US-247269 as FRANK PETRARCA when launched by Walter Butler Shipbuilders Inc. at Duluth, Minnesota. Renamed: JUTAHAY 1946 Panama-1845, SARGENT 1954 UK-179703, PAMIT 1962 Greece-2021 and BAMBERO 1965-Liberia] Launched as PETRARCA, FRANK J.Built as C1-M-AV1 class cargo vessel for U.S. Maritime Commission. Tonnage change, 1954 (3929 gross – 2296 net). Tonnage change, 1966 (3834 gross – 2264 net. Sold to I.M. Varela, of Davalillo, Spain. Arrived at Castellon, Spain, for scrapping, on March 3, 1970.
1980
1980: The keel was laid on March 3, 1980, for the COLUMBIA STAR (Hull#726) at Sturgeon Bay, Wis., by Bay Shipbuilding Corp. She now sails as AMERICAN CENTURY.
2025
2025: Mark W. Barker of the Interlake Steamship Co. left Detroit Sunday morning headed to Cleveland to do shuttle runs of iron ore from the Cleveland Bulk Terminal out at the lake, up the Cuyahoga River and then to the steel mills of Cleveland. On Sunday afternoon, USCG Neah Bay was running ahead of the Barker breaking ice for her passage
Data from: Skip Gillham, Joe Barr, Dave Swayze, Steve Haverty, Father Dowling Collection, Ahoy & Farewell II and the Great Lakes Ships We Remember series.
