by import | December 22, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1920 LIGHTSHIP 103 was commissioned. 1922 CORNELL (wooden propeller tug, 72 foot, 66 gross tons, built in 1888, at Buffalo, New York) foundered somewhere between Cleveland and Erie, Pennsylvania while enroute to new owners in Syracuse, New York. She had a crew of 8....
by import | December 21, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1879 CITY OF TOLEDO (wooden propeller package freighter, 413 gross tons, built in 1865, at Ogdensburg, New York) was carrying winter provisions from Milwaukee to Ludington. In a white squall, she struck a reef and was stranded 7 miles north of Ludington, a few hundred...
by import | December 20, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1867 ALIDA (wooden propeller packet/tug, 81-foot, 58 gross tons, built in 1856, at Saginaw, Michigan) had her boiler explode in the Saginaw River. She caught fire and burned to a total loss. This little packet/tug was the only steamer to regularly venture up the...
by import | December 19, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1927 ALEXANDRIA (wooden propeller freighter, 97 foot, 201 gross tons, built in 1902, at Chatham, Ontario) burned in the harbor of Little Current, Ontario, off the Government Dock, where her remains still lay. 1942 ASHLAND was launched as the L6-S-B1 class bulk carrier...
by import | December 18, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1899 Henry Cort 115 (steel whaleback barge, 256 foot, 1,169 gross tons, built in 1891, at Superior, Wisconsin) was carrying iron ore in a storm on Lake Huron when she broke from her tow steamer well out in the lake. She went ashore five days later at Pic Island off...
