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Shipwreck is still visible offshore near Manistee This Great Lakes History Log is presented by Filer Credit Union, Mason County Historical Society, and Great Lakes Boat Blog. By Rob Alway, Editor-in-Chief MANISTEE — Shortly before 10 p.m. Nov. 8, 1933, Capt. Louis Strahan was steering the wooden steam freighter T.S. Christie toward Manistee harbor when it ran aground in a snowstorm…
This Great Lakes History Log is presented by Filer Credit Union, the Port of Ludington Maritime Museum and Sable Points Media. Masters of the Ludington Steamers Stories of Ludington’s cross-lake rail fleet captains and other port mariners By Rob Alway, Editor-in-Chief When Capt. Wallace Henry Van Dyke died aboard the railroad carferry Pere Marquette 22 on March 25, 1936, he left behind a maritime…
This Great Lakes History Log is presented by Filer Credit Union, the Port of Ludington Maritime Museum and Sable Points Media. Masters of the Ludington Steamers Stories of Ludington’s cross-lake rail fleet captains and other port mariners By Rob Alway, Editor-in-Chief On Friday, Oct. 20, 1916, Capt. Charles E. McClure was master of the wooden steamer Marshall F. Butters, bound from Midland, Ontario, to…
This Great Lakes History Log is presented by Filer Credit Union, the Port of Ludington Maritime Museum and Sable Points Media. Masters of the Ludington Steamers Stories of Ludington’s cross-lake rail fleet captains and other port mariners By Rob Alway, Editor-in-Chief On the afternoon of Jan. 12, 1926, Pere Marquette 18 (II) cleared Ludington for Manitowoc, Wisconsin, with Capt. Paul Behm on the bridge…
This Great Lakes History Log is presented by Filer Credit Union, the Port of Ludington Maritime Museum and Sable Points Media. Masters of the Ludington Steamers Stories of Ludington’s cross-lake rail fleet captains and other port mariners By Rob Alway, Editor-in-Chief When Capt. William James Barnett died suddenly at his home in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on April 10, 1936, he was remembered as more than…
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