Today in Great Lakes
History
11/24
On 24
November 1945, SCOTT E LAND (steel propeller C4-S-A4 cargo ship, 496 foot,
10654 gross tons) was launched at Kaiser Corporation (hull #520) in Vancouver,
Washington for the U.S. Maritime Commission. She was converted to a
straight-deck bulk freighter at Baltimore, Maryland in 1951, and renamed TROY
H BROWNING. In 1955, she was renamed THOMAS F PATTON. After serving on the
Great Lakes, she was scrapped in Pakistan in 1981.
On
November 24, 1990, the KINSMAN INDEPENDENT ran hard aground off of Isle Royale.
The vessel was on its way to load grain in Thunder Bay, Ontario when she ended
up 25 miles off course. The damage to the vessel was nearly $2 million, and
she was repaired at Thunder Bay before the start of the 1991 season.
On
November 24, 1950, while bound for South Chicago with iron ore, the ENDERS M
VOORHEES collided with the upbound steamer ELTON HOYT II (l) (now the
SOUTHDOWN CHALLENGER) in the Straits of Mackinac during a blinding snow storm.
Both vessels received such serious bow damage that they had to be beached near
Mc Gulpin Point west of Mackinaw City to avoid sinking.
The
ROSEMOUNT (2), stored with coal, inadvertently sank alongside CSL's Century
Coal Dock at Montreal, Quebec on November 24, 1934.
Paterson’s PRINDOC (Hull#657) was launched November 24, 1965, at Lauzon,
Quebec by Davie Shipbuilding Co. Ltd.
November 24, 1892 - The ANN ARBOR #1 ran aground on her first trip just north
of the Kewaunee harbor.
On 24
Nov 1881, LAKE ERIE (wooden propeller canaller, 136 foot, 464 gross tons,
built in 1873 at St, Catharine's, Ontario) collided with the steamer NORTHERN
QUEEN in fog and a blizzard near Poverty Island by the mouth of Green Bay.
LAKE ERIE sank in one hour 40 minutes. NORTHERN QUEEN took aboard the crew but
one man was scalded and died before reaching Manistique.
The
CITY OF SAGINAW 31 entered service in 1931.
On 24
November 1905, ARGO (steel propeller passenger/package freight, 174 foot, 1089
tons, built in 1896 at Detroit, Michigan) dropped into a trough of a wave, hit
bottom and sank in relatively shallow water while approaching the harbor at
Holland, Michigan. 38 passengers and crew were taken off by breeches' buoy in
a thrilling rescue by the U.S. Lifesaving Service.
NEPTUNE (wooden propeller, 185 foot, 774 gross tons, built in 1856 at Buffalo,
New York) was laid up at East Saginaw, Michigan on 24 November 1874, when she
was discovered to be on fire at about 4:00 a.m. She burned to a total loss.
The
ANN ARBOR NO 1 left Frankfort for Kewaunee on November 24, 1892. Because of
the reluctance of shippers to trust their products on this new kind of ferry
it was difficult to find cargo for this first trip. Finally, a fuel company
which sold coal to the railroad routed four cars to Kewaunee via the ferry.
November 23
On 23
November 1863, BAY OF QUINTE (wooden schooner, 250 tons, built in 1853 at
Bath, Ontario) was carrying 7500 bushels of wheat to Toronto when she was
driven ashore on Salmon Point on Lake Ontario and wrecked. No lives were
lost.
On 23
November 1882, the schooner MORNING LIGHT (wooden schooner, 256 tons, built in
1857 at Cleveland, Ohio) was sailing from Manistee for Chicago with a load of
lumber when a storm drove her aground off Claybanks, south of Stony Lake,
Michigan. One crewman swam to shore, the rest were saved by a lifesaving
crew, local fishermen and the tug B W ALDRICH. Earlier that same year, she
sank near St. Helen Island in the Strats of Mackinac. She was salvaged and
put back in service, but she only lasted a few months.
After
discharging her cargo, the SAMUEL MATHER (6) proceeded to De Tour, Michigan
laying up for the last time at the Pickands Mather Coal Dock on November 23,
1981.
In
1987, the ROGERS CITY (2) was towed out of Menominee, Michigan for scrapping
in Brazil.
STADACONA (3)'s sea trials were completed on November 23, 1952, and was
delivered to Canada Steamship Lines the next day.
On 23
November 1872, Capt. W. B. Morley launched the propeller JARVIS LORD at Marine
City, Michigan. Her dimensions were 193 feet x 33 feet x 18 feet, 1000 tons.
She was the first double decker built at Marine City. Her engine was from Wm.
Cowie of Detroit.
On 23
November 1867, S A CLARK (wooden propeller tug, 12 tons, built in 1863 at
Buffalo, New York) was in Buffalo's harbor when her boiler exploded and she
sank.
November 23, 1930 - The Ann Arbor carferry WABASH grounded in Betsie Lake. She
bent her rudder stock and her steering engine was broken up.
On 23
November 1853, the wooden schooner PALESTINE was bound from Kingston to
Cleveland with railroad iron at about the same time as the like-laden schooner
ONTONAGON. Eight miles west of Rochester, New York, both vessels ran ashore,
were pounded heavily by the waves and sank. Both vessels reported erratic
variations in their compasses. The cargoes were removed and ONTONAGON was
pulled free on 7 December, but PALESTINE was abandoned. A similar event
happened with two other iron-laden vessels a few years previously at the same
place
On 23
November 1853, the Ward Line's wooden side-wheeler HURON struck an unseen
obstruction in the Saginaw River and sank. She was raised on 12 December 1853,
towed to Detroit and repaired at a cost of $12,000. She was then transferred
to Lake Michigan to handle the cross-lake traffic given the Ward Line by the
Michigan Central Railroad.
The
carferry GRAND HAVEN was sold to the West India Fruit & Steamship Co.,
Norfolk, Virginia in 1946 and was brought down the Mississippi River to New
Orleans, Louisiana for reconditioning before reaching Port Everglades and the
Port of Palm Beach, Florida. She was brought back to the Lakes and locked
upbound through the Welland Canal on 23 Nov 1964. She was intended for roll
on/roll off carrier service to haul truck trailers laden with steel coils from
Stelco's plant at Hamilton, Ont.
The
CSL NIAGARA passed Port Huron, Michigan on 23 Nov 1999, on her way to Thunder
Bay to load grain. This was her first trip to the upper lakes since the vessel
was relaunched as a SeawayMax carrier in June 1999.
Data
from: Joe Barr, Dave Swayze, Max Hanley, Steve Haverty, Father Dowling
Collection, Ahoy & Farewell II and the Great Lakes Ships We Remember series
This
is a small sample, the books includes many other vessels with a much more
detailed history
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