On This Day: January 22

Great Lakes & Seaway History

1913

SAINTE MARIE (Hull#127) was launched at Toledo, Ohio, by Craig Shipbuilding Co.


1973

GOLDEN HIND was sold to Trico Enterprises Ltd., Hamilton, Bermuda (Quebec & Ontario Transportation Co. Ltd., Thorold, Ontario, mgr.).


1976

INGRID WEIDE, a West German freighter which first came to the Great Lakes in 1953 and made 23 trips through the Seaway through 1965, stranded off Borkum Island, West Germany, as c) DENEB B. while inbound for Emden with a cargo of stone. The hull broke in two and sank but all on board were rescued.


1991

The c.) WOODLAND, a.) FRENCH RIVER) cleared the lakes from Montreal under the Bahamian flag with the modified name to d.) WOODLANDS after being sold to International Capital Equipment of Canada.


Contributors & Sources

Skip Gillham, Max Hanley, Ahoy & Farewell II and the Great Lakes Ships We Remember series from the Marine Historical Society of Detroit.

Compiled & Maintained by Roger LeLievre

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