by import | March 23, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1850 TROY (wooden side-wheel passenger/package freighter, 182 foot, 546 tons, built in 1845, at Maumee, Ohio) exploded and burned at Black Rock, New York. Up to 22 lives were lost. She was recovered and rebuilt the next year and lasted until 1860. 1886 Mr. D.N....
by import | March 22, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1871 Engineer George Smith and two firemen were badly scalded on the propeller LAKE BREEZE when a steam pipe they were working on blew away from the side of the boiler. They were getting the engines ready for the new shipping season. 1873 TYPO, a wooden...
by import | March 21, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1853 GENERAL SCOTT (wooden side-wheeler, 105 foot, 64 tons, built in 1852, at Saginaw, Michigan) was tied up to her dock on the Saginaw River when she was crushed beyond repair by ice that flowed down the river during the spring breakup. One newspaper report said that...
by import | March 20, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1878 The sidewheeler NEW YORK was sold Canadian in 1877, hopefully at a bargain price, because when she was hauled out on the ways on 20 March 1878, at Rathburn’s yard in Kingston, Ontario, to have her boiler removed, her decayed hull fell apart and could not be...
by import | March 19, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1886 The PICKUP (wooden passenger/package freight steamer, 80 foot, 136 gross tons, built in 1883, at Marine City, Michigan, was renamed LUCILE. She lasted until she sank off the Maumee River Light (Toledo Harbor Light), Toledo, Ohio, Lake Erie, on August 8, 1906....
