Boatnerd Discussion Forum

The cost of the calendar is almost one third the cost of a full membership in MHSD, which includes a free calendar, and which also includes twelve issues of the Historian. To join send a check for $40.00 (instead of the above $12.95 check!) to Jim Hoffman, 4635 Mallory Court, Toledo OH. The ...

This will relate to the question raised a couple of weeks ago about the longest vessels on the Lakes.

First of all, my apologies for the omission and the error on the list I sent in. No question, the lengthened Cliffs Victory belongs there and the Barker, not the Stinson, was the first 1004er.

My ...

Here is my list of the longest on the Lakes since the beginning of the metal hulled vessels. (This is overall length, not always the largest, measured by gross tons, some formula involving length, beam etc. or some other definition. Where there were several vessels of the same length built the same ...

My minihistory of Georgian Bay is:

http://www.greatlakesvesselhistory.com/ ... rgian-bay/

Something went wrong with my posting a couple of days ago. Here is link to history of Bayton:

http://www.greatlakesvesselhistory.com/ ... r-francis/

To mi-aviarch

http://www.greatlakesvesselhistory.com/ ... r-francis/

The Iron Queen was one of a half dozen wooden bulk freighters, half powered and half schooner barges, built for a Detroit operator at the old Detroit Dry Dock Co. in the 1880s. The shipyard moved to Wyandotte as the Detroit Shipbuilding Co. when steel hulls replaced wooden ones (For a short period ...

The Canadian Vessel Registry website says that the Michipicoten is now a twin screw vessel (presumably as a result of her dieselization this past winter).

Please tell me this is a misprint and that her two new engines are hooked up to one drive.

I have copies of all thru 1990 (the ones after that are useless).

What information do you need?

Until the early 1930s almost all of the major steamship companies that operated out of Cleveland and other Ohio cities were Ohio corporations with home ports in Ohio (for most of the large fleets it was Fairport). Then in the fall of 1931 the Ohio legislature changed the corporate law to provide ...