#boat and ship museum

[pwlanier]

Today in Great Lakes shipping history. June 16th.

Great Lakes Fest Celebrates History with Return of the Toledo Antique and Classic Boat Show

Friday June 16, 2023 (Toledo, Ohio) – The National Museum of the Great Lakes and Ramsey Brothers Restoration are proud to announce they are teaming up to host Great Lakes Fest featuring the return of the Toledo Antique and Classic Boat Show this summer on Saturday, July 22.

Great Lakes Fest featuring the Toledo Antique & Classic Boat Show will take place from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. on July 22. Tickets to join the day-long Great Lakes Fest celebration are FREE for National Museum of the Great Lakes members and children under 6, and $10 (pre-sale) or $15 (day-of) for all others. Admission includes full access to The National Museum of the Great Lakes and museum vessels, all land and water boat show displays, live demonstrations, maritime vendors, food trucks, family activities and more.

The boat show is open to classic boats of all types, but particularly focused on those built prior to 1975 or modern re-creations. Boater registration is $50 per boat / $25 each additional boat by July 15 or $65 after that deadline and includes two tickets to the boat show and Friday night reception on the Col James M. Schoonmaker Museum Ship, as well as a gift bag and official show T-shirt.

1891: On 16 June 1891, Alexander McDougall himself took his brand-new whaleback steamer JOSEPH L. COLBY (steel propeller whaleback freighter, 265 foot, 1,245 gross tons, built in 1890 at West Superior, Wisconsin) down the St. Lawrence River to the sea. The double-hulled COLBY left Prescott, Ontario at 3 p.m., drawing six feet nine inches aft and five feet six inches forward and started on her wild ride through the rapids. The whaleback freighter plowed through the Galops, Iroquois, Long Sault, Coteau, Cedar, Split Rock and Cascade Rapids. She grated the bottom a number of times and had a number of close calls. Captain McDougall stood immobile throughout the trip but great beads of perspiration broke out on his forehead. When the vessel finally made it through the Cascades and was safe on Lake St. Louis, the French Canadian pilot left and the crew let out shouts of joy with the whistle blowing. The COLBY was the first screw steamer to attempt running the rapids.

1967: The FEUX FOLLETS (Hull#188) was launched at Collingwood, Ontario, by Collingwood Shipyards Ltd., for Papachristidis Co. Ltd. She was the last steam-powered lake ship.

Boat Nerd

[burningvelvet]

Renaissance era ship jewlery: pendants and a set of earrings (from the British Museum's digital collection and "Renaissance Jewelry in the Alsdorf Collection," The Art Institute of Chicago, 2000, accessed via the Internet Archive)

[dbf-enthusiast]

First snowfall of the season.

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24. An interesting moment in history: THE USS MONITOR. and ironclads in general but i specifically love the uss monitor so so much. cool ass boat.

[clove-pinks]

Thanks for such a great ask! So I'll return the same;

When's the last time you were on a boat or ship?

Gosh, it has been a long time. The last time I was on any kind of water-going conveyance was in 2019, when I was visiting family in Rhode Island. We took a chartered motor boat into Narragansett Bay in commemoration of our grandmother, who had passed away at age 95 in the past year.

We were off Newport, and this is when I learned that SSV Oliver Hazard Perry was a thing (a sail training vessel built in 2015, after I left RI), and I took this picture of her:

I am planning on visiting Put-in-Bay this summer: much needed boat time and keeping the Perry theme going. :)

[er-cryptid]

Outline of a Viking ship

National Museum of Denmark, Viking Exhibit

[thesilicontribesman]

Gallo-Roman Ship's Figurehead, The British Museum, London

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Reconstructions of Viking Ships. Schleswig / Roskilde.

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Ships in a Dutch Estuary, 19th century by W.A. van Deventer

[mycological-mariner]

I’m gonna be seeing my little brother for the first time in years in a couple of weeks and we’ve been talking and I mentioned reading The Worst Journey and mentioning Scott to which my brother said “Oh yeah, didn’t they name a ship after him? And it was special made for going to the Antarctic or something? It’s got a penguin painted on it.” I am DELIGHTED by this news of a giant penguin and my brother sends me a photo he took of the Scott last time it was in harbour and INDEED THERE IS A LARGE PENGUIN PAINTED ON IT. We’re obviously going to try and see if it’ll be in harbour when he’s here so we can go visit and see the penguin.

[pwlanier]

Today in Great Lakes shipping history. July 22nd.

1873: The M. I. MILLS (wooden propeller tug, 122 feet, 152 tons, built in 1867 at Marine City, Michigan), which sank in a collision with the bark UNADILLA on May 9, 1873, was found in 90 feet of water in Lake Huron off Sand Beach, Michigan. Plans were made to raise her at the cost of $5,000. This effort was unsuccessful, as was another abortive attempt in 1895.

1961: The barge CLEVECO, originally lost with a crew of 22 during a December 2, 1942, storm on Lake Erie, was floated by salvagers, towed outside the shipping lanes, and intentionally sunk.

1970: ULYSSES REEFER caught fire in Toronto, resulting in an estimated $30,000 in damage. The ship first came inland in 1969 and returned as c) ITHAKI REEFER in 1972 prior to being scrapped at Blyth, Scotland, in 1973.

Boat Nerd

[faithandarisadventures]

Party Boat Dining Room June 23, 2024 Peabody Essex Museum Salem, Massachusetts

[dbf-enthusiast]

Finally got to cross U-505 off my bucket list. A really fantastic display.

The surrounding exhibit does a good job of establishing context for the Battle of the Atlantic and is filled with a good variety of history, crew life, and science and engineering spread through displays of varying interactivity so that you can choose your own level of engagement without missing out on too much of the narrative.

Definitely recommend visiting if you’re ever in Chicago.

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[rabbitcruiser]

The New Ellis Island Immigration station was completed on December 17, 1900, costing $1.5 million.

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Come inside take grand at all of these ships and boats.