by import | May 31, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1870 The wooden barge FANNY NEIL was launched at the Muir, Livingstone & Co. yard in Port Huron, Michigan. As was usual in those days, her name was not made public until the streamer bearing her name was unfurled at the launch. 1873 The wooden tug MOCKING BIRD was...
by import | May 30, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1874 During the economic depression known as the “Panic of ’73”, shipbuilding came to a standstill. Orders for new vessels were cancelled and worked was stopped on hulls that were on the ways. On this date, the Port Huron Times reported that a...
by import | May 29, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1889 BAVARIA (3-mast wooden schooner-barge, 145 foot, 376 gross tons, built in 1873, at Garden Island, Ontario) was carrying squared timber when she broke from the tow of the steamer D D CALVIN and began to founder near Long Point in Lake Erie. Her crew abandoned her,...
by import | May 28, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1848 COLUMBUS (wooden sidewheeler, 391 tons, built in 1835, at Huron, Ohio) struck a pier at Dunkirk, New York during a storm and sank. The sidewheeler FASHION struck the wreck in November of the same year and was seriously damaged. 1935 THOMAS LYNCH and the Norwegian...
by import | May 27, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1872 The tug SMITH burned near Bay City, Michigan. Her loss was valued at $7,000 but there was no insurance on her. 1879 The ferry SARNIA made her first trip as a carferry between Port Huron and Sarnia. She had burned in January 1879, then was converted to a carferry...
