by import | June 30, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1889 WILLIAM ARMSTRONG, a wooden rail car ferry, sinks in the St. Lawrence off Morristown after being swamped. One life is lost, but the ship is refloated and repaired. It was renamed MONS MEG in 1910 and served as a drill barge but was abandoned due to its age and...
by import | June 29, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1864 ALVIN CLARK (two-mast wooden schooner, 113 feet, 220 tons, built in 1846 at Truago (Trenton), Michigan) foundered in a terrific squall off Chambers Island on Green Bay. Two members of the crew were rescued by the brig DEWITT, but three lost their lives. In 1969,...
by import | June 28, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1893 JAMES AMADEUS (wooden propeller tug, 65 feet, 44 gross tons, built in 1872 at Cleveland, Ohio) sprang a leak and foundered near Cleveland, Ohio. Her crew abandoned her just before she went down. 1909 TEMPEST (wooden propeller bulk freighter, 138 feet, 370 gross...
by import | June 27, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1890 At 4:04 p.m., the Beatty Line’s MONARCH (wooden propeller passenger-package freight steamer, 240 foot, 2,017 tons) was launched at Sarnia, Ontario. The launching was watched by numerous people on the decks of various steamers and on both sides of the St....
by import | June 26, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1867 WATERS W. BRAMAN (wooden propeller tug, 89 tons, built in 1858, at Boston, Massachusetts, for the U.S.Q.M.C. and named RESCUE) was near Pelee Island in Lake Erie when fire started in her coal bunker and quickly spread. Her crew abandoned her in the yawl and were...
