1831

The Niagara Harbor & Dock Company, a shipbuilding firm, was incorporated at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario.

1883

The Port Huron Times announced that the passenger and package freight steamer PICKUP would be built in Marine City, Michigan and would run on the St. Clair River between Port Huron and Algonac. The machinery from the burned steamer CARRIE H. BLOOD was to be installed in her. In fact, her construction was completed that year and she went into service in September 1883. Her dimensions were 80 foot x 19 foot x 7 foot, 137 gross tons, 107 net tons

1886

The tug MOCKING BIRD was sold by Mr. D.N. Runnels to Mr. James Reid of St. Ignace, Michigan. Mr. Runnels received the tug JAMES L. REID as partial payment.

1901

ARGO (steel passenger/package freight propeller, 173 foot, 1,089 gross tons) was launched at the Craig Ship Building Company (Hull #81) at Toledo, Ohio, for the A. Booth Company. She left the Lakes in 1917, and was last recorded in 1938, out of Brest, France.

1924

MOHAWK of the Western Transit Co. was known as a fast ship. It was built at Detroit in 1893 and was renamed AMERICA in 1916. It was cut in two to exit the Great Lakes and re-assembled at Montreal for East Coast service. The ship was renamed BERMUDEZ in 1921 and sank in the Erie Basin at Brooklyn on this date with the stern resting on the bottom and the bow afloat. The hull was pumped out but scrapped at New York in January 1925.

1978

BUFFALO (Hull#721) was launched at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin by Bay Shipbuilding Corp., for the American Steamship Co. She now sails as ALGOMA BUFFALO.

Contributors & Sources

Skip Gillham, Joe Barr, Father Dowling Collection, Ahoy & Farewell II, and the Great Lakes Ships We Remember series from the Marine Historical Society of Detroit.

Compiled & Maintained by Roger LeLievre