by import | January 21, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1895 CHICORA (wooden propeller passenger/package freight vessel, 199 foot, 1,123 gross tons, built in 1892, at Detroit, Michigan) was bound from Milwaukee for St. Joseph on a mid-winter run when she foundered with little trace. All 25 on board were lost. The...
by import | January 20, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1907 WILLIAM NOTTINGHAM broke loose in wild winds and flooding at Buffalo. When the storm subsided, the ship had come to rest high and dry about 440 yards from the channel. A total of 12 vessels stranded in the storm but this one was the biggest challenge. A new...
by import | January 19, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1824 The Welland Canal Company was incorporated to build the first Welland Canal. 1901 DAVID M. WHITNEY (steel propeller freighter, 412 foot, 4,626 gross tons) was launched by the Detroit Ship Building Company (Hull #138) in Wyandotte, Michigan, for the Gilchrist...
by import | January 18, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1906 The National Steamship Co. was incorporated on this date. 1925 JOHN RUGEE, a wooden steamer in the George Hall Coal Co. fleet, was destroyed by a fire while spending the winter at Ogdensburg. 1938 The passenger ship WAUBIC was damaged by a fire at Kingsville,...
by import | January 17, 2020 | Great Lakes & Seaway History
1899 The GERMANIA (wooden propeller freighter, 136 foot, 237 gross tons, built in 1875, at Marine City, Michigan) caught fire and burned to the water’s edge at Ecorse, Michigan. The previous day, Norman Reno of Ecorse did some painting inside the cabin and it...
