by import | February 11, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1826 Albert Edgar Goodrich, the founder of the Goodrich Steamboat Line, was born in Hamburg, New York, near Buffalo. 1911 BEN W. CALVIN (Hull#388) was launched at Lorain, Ohio by American Ship Building Co. 1918 Amid blasts of whistles from nearby ships and factories...
by import | February 10, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1890 NYANZA (wooden propeller freighter, 280 foot, 1,888 gross tons) was launched at F. W. Wheeler’s yard (Hull #63) in W. Bay City, Michigan by West Bay City Ship Building Co. In 1916, she was renamed LANDBO and she lasted until abandoned in 1920. 1906 UHLMANN...
by import | February 9, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1899 JOHN V. MORAN, a wooden propeller package freighter (214 foot, 1,350 gross tons) built in 1888 at West Bay City, Michigan, by F. W. Wheeler & Co. (Hull#44), was cut by the ice and developed a severe leak during a mid-winter run on Lake Michigan. The iron...
by import | February 8, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1902 ETRURIA (steel propeller freighter, 414 foot, 4,653 gross tons) was launched at West Bay City, Michigan, by West Bay City Ship Building Co. (Hull#604). She was built for the Hawgood Transit Company of Cleveland but only lasted three years. She sank in 1905, after...
by import | February 6, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1885 Capt. William Bridges of Bay City and A.C. McLean of East Saginaw purchased the steamer D.W. POWERS (wooden propeller freighter, 140 foot, 303 gross tons, built in 1871, at Marine City, Michigan) for the lumber trade. This vessel had an interesting rebuild...
