Sunday, May 27, 2012

Ironsides

The Ironsides was launched on July 23, 1864 in Cleveland, Ohio. She was built by Ira Laffrinier and owned by the Lake Superior Line as a comfortable and roomy passenger steamer. The 1,123 ton, wood hull steamer was 218 feet long at the keel and 231 feet long overall length, with a beam of just over 30 feet and was distinguished by the strengthening arches running along both sides. She had a passenger deck over a single cargo deck with a pilot house at the stem. Enrollment papers stated she had "a plain stem and a round stern".

Cruise Ship Oceanos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjTuAV036yY
MTS Oceanos was a French-built and Greek-owned cruise ship that sank off South Africa's eastern coast 
on 4 August 1991.







Kalamazoo


SUNK IN MID LAKE
 Passenger Steamers Pilgrim and Kalamazoo Collide.
She Lies Under Five Hundred Feet of Water
 PASSENGERS AND CREW SAFE
 They Were Transferred to the Decks of the Pilgrim.

Tug Richard H.


The 19 ton fishing tug Richard H. was 43.8 feet in length with a beam of 12 feet. She was a steam powered vessel built at Marinette, WI in 1923. The fish tug was owned by William Prue of Green Bay, WI in 1938. Captain McKay, who purchased the Richard H. in 1939, said he had recently remodeled the upper structure of the boat. The superstructure had been cut down ten inches in the remodeling.
At the time of her loss, the Richard H. was owned by Captain John McKay, who originally hailed from Alpena, but had moved to South Haven with his family in the Spring of 1936.