by import | March 3, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1880 At midnight, DAVID SCOVILLE (wooden propeller steam tug/ferry, 42 foot, 37 gross tons, built in 1875, at Marine City, Mich.) burned at the Grand Trunk Railway wharf at Sarnia, Ontario. Arson was suspected. No lives were lost. 1947 NOVADOC of the Paterson fleet...
by import | March 2, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1889 The U.S. Congress passed two acts for establishment of a light station at Old Mackinac Point and appropriated $5,500 for construction of a fog signal building. The following year, funds were appropriated for the construction of the light tower and dwelling. 1893...
by import | March 1, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1881 In 1881 the steamship JOHN B. LYON was launched at Cleveland, Ohio by Thomas Quayle & Son for Capt. Frank Perew. She was a four mast, double-decker with the following dimensions: 255 foot keel, 275 feet overall, 38 foot beam, and 20 foot depth. 1884 The I.N....
by import | February 28, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1891 The lighthouse tender MARIGOLD (iron steamer, 150 foot, 454 gross tons, built in Wyandotte, Michigan) completed her sea trials on this date. The contract price for building her was $77,000. After being fitted out, she was placed into service as the supply ship to...
by import | February 27, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1916 MOUNT STEPHEN, formerly of Canada Steamship Lines, struck a mine and sank off Dover, England, while carrying coal as part of a convoy but the crew was rescued. 1917 GEORGETOWN was built at Buffalo in 1900 and sank on this day enroute from New York to Le Havre in...
