by import | July 15, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1871 An argument between Captain James Bradley and Mate John Reed started while the schooner ROBERT EMMETT was docked at Erie, Pennsylvania, unloading iron ore. They were still shouting at each other as the ship sailed out of the harbor. In short order, the ship...
by import | July 14, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1891 T.H. ORTON (wooden barge, 262 gross tons, built in 1873 at Buffalo, New York) anchored off Marblehead, Ohio, on Lake Erie to ride out a storm. She dragged her anchors and was driven ashore where she was declared a total wreck. She may have been recovered. Just...
by import | July 13, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1876 The rebuilt BOSCOBEL was launched at the Peshtigo Company yard at Algonac, Michigan. Originally built in 1867 as a passenger-package freight propeller vessel, she burned and sank near Ft. Gratiot in 1869. The wreck was raised, but no work was done until January...
by import | July 12, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1852 CITY OF OSWEGO (wooden propeller passenger-package freight vessel, 138 feet, 357 tons, built in 1852 at Buffalo, New York) collided with the steamer AMERICA and sank off Willoughby, Ohio, a few miles east of Cleveland. 15 lives were lost. This was CITY OF...
by import | July 11, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1873 The PERSIA, a 150-foot passenger/package freight vessel, was launched at Melancthon Simpson’s shipyard at St. Catharines, Ontario. She was built at a cost of $37,000. She lasted until the 1920s when she was converted to a barge and then abandoned. 1888 The...
