by import | January 31, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1903 MANZZUTTI was launched as a.) J S KEEFE (Hull#203) at Buffalo, New York by the Buffalo Dry Dock Co. 1917 DUNDEE, which left the Great Lakes in 1915 after service in several fleets including Canada Steamship Lines, was torpedoed and sunk by U-55. The vessel was 10...
by import | January 30, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1881 ST. ALBANS (wooden propeller passenger/package freight vessel, 135 foot, 435 tons, built in 1869, at Cleveland, Ohio) was carrying general merchandise, flour, cattle, and 22 passengers in Lake Michigan when she rammed a cake of ice that filled the hole it made in...
by import | January 29, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1910 BUCKEYE was launched as the straight decker a.) LEONARD B MILLER (Hull # 447) at Cleveland, Ohio by the American Ship Building Co. 1910 JOHN P. REISS (Hull # 377) was launched at Lorain, Ohio, by American Ship Building Co. 1953 RICHARD M. MARSHALL (steel...
by import | January 28, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1879 The ferry SARNIA was discovered on fire at 4 a.m. while lying at Fitzgerald’s yard in Port Huron. All of the cabins were destroyed although the fire department had the fire out within an hour. About $3,000 damage was done. She was in the shipyard to be...
by import | January 27, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1893 Charles Lonsby and Louis Wolf purchased the 161-foot wooden steam barge THOMAS D. STIMSON for $28,000. The vessel was built in 1881 by W. J. Daley & Sons at Mt. Clemens, Michigan, as a schooner and was originally named VIRGINIUS. She was converted to a...
