by import | November 12, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1835 The small wooden schooner ROBERT BRUCE was sailing from Kingston, Ontario to Howell, New York when she was wrecked west of Henderson, New York. Her crew of 4, plus one passenger, were all lost. 1878 JAMES R. BENTLEY (3-mast wooden schooner, 170 foot, 575 tons,...
by import | November 11, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1835 The 2-mast wooden schooner COMET was carrying iron and ashes on Lake Erie when she foundered in a gale, one mile northwest of Dunkirk, New York. Just her topmasts protruded from the water. All seven on board lost their lives, including a passenger who was a...
by import | November 10, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1856 ST JOSEPH (wooden propeller steam barge, 170 foot, 460 tons, built in 1846, at Buffalo, New York) stranded and was wrecked near Fairport, Ohio. No lives were lost. 1861 The palace steamer KEYSTONE STATE was lost with all 33 hands in the middle of Lake Huron. When...
by import | November 9, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1869 EXCELSIOR (wooden propeller river steamer and ferry, 40 foot, 28 tons, built in 1861, at Lewiston, New York) caught fire and was destroyed while taking on wood. She was owned by Samuel Hunt of St. Charles, Michigan and was primarily used as a ferry on the Saginaw...
by import | November 8, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1874 The NIMROD (3-mast wooden schooner, 184 foot, 559 tons, built in 1873, at Toledo, Ohio) was carrying 37,000 bushels of corn from Chicago to Buffalo when she encountered thick fog on Lake Erie and the large double decked schooner MICHIGAN collided with her. The...
