by import | April 22, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1871 The 210-foot, 4-masted wooden schooner JAMES COUCH was launched at Port Huron, Michigan. She was named for a prominent Chicago businessman of the time. 1872 Capt. L. R. Boynton brought the wooden propeller WENONA into Thunder Bay to unload passengers and freight...
by import | April 21, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1863 SEABIRD (wooden side-wheel steamer, 638 tons, built in 1859, at Newport [Marine City], Michigan) was purchased by Capt. A. E. Goodrich from Capt. E. Ward for $36,000. She served primarily on the Lake Michigan west-shore and Lake Superior routes until she burned...
by import | April 20, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1851 The COMET (wooden side-wheel steamer, 174 foot, 337 gross tons, built in 1848, at Portsmouth [Kingston], Ontario) had her boiler explode as she was departing Oswego, New York. Eight crew members were killed. The vessel was later raised, rebuilt in Montreal, and...
by import | April 19, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1880 The Port Huron Times reported the results of a severe gale: “The schooner CHRIS GROVER, ashore near Oscoda, Michigan, is reported going to pieces. The crew is aboard. The schooner ATHENIAN, lumber laden, is reported to have gone ashore off Au Sable and to...
by import | April 18, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1848 The wooden schooner TRIBUNE went missing in lower Lake Michigan. Her fate was unknown until native fishermen discovered her masts standing upright off Cathead Point in November 1849. All 10 of her crew were lost. 1883 The schooner-barge ELEANOR was launched at...
