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Storm over Lake Michigan in 2014. The small craft warning on September 23 was made at 8 a.m., yet hundreds of boats went out on Lake Michigan even after it was made. [46] Some waves were as much as 8 feet (2.4 m) high by 10 a.m. A 16-foot (4.9 m) boat with a 75 horsepower (56 kW) motor headed for shore at 10 a.m. but was swamped.
Boat burned 2011 and fate unknown. [4] John Kendall: 1930: 1979: Sold to Robert Massey of Pan Oceanic Engineering Corporation of Alpena, Michigan and converted as tug for Ferris Marine; scrapped in 1994 [5] Curtis Randolph: 1979: present: Docked at foot of 24th Street and Detroit Riverwalk near Riverside Park Sivad Johnson: 2020-08-31: present
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The fur seal yields a valuable fur; the hair seal has no fur, but oil can be obtained from its fat and leather from its hide. [9] Seals have been used for their pelts, their flesh, and their fat, which was often used as lamp fuel, lubricants, cooking oil, a constituent of soap, the liquid base for red ochre paint, and for processing materials such as leather and jute.
Some modern fireboats are capable of pumping tens of thousands of gallons of water per minute. An example is Fire Boat #2 of the Los Angeles Fire Department, the Warner Lawrence, with the capability to pump up to 38,000 US gallons per minute (2.4 m 3 /s; 32,000 imp gal/min) and up to 400 feet (122 m) in the air.
Two leisure fishing boats beached at Nørre Vorupør. Beaching (or landing) is the process in which a ship or boat is laid ashore, or grounded deliberately in shallow water. This is more usual with small flat-bottomed boats. Larger ships may be beached deliberately; for instance, in an emergency, a damaged ship might be beached to prevent it ...
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SS Ste. Claire is a steamer located in Detroit, Michigan. Built in 1910, she was one of the last propeller-driven excursion steamers to be operated on the Great Lakes. She was declared a US National Historic Landmark in 1992. In 2018, a devastating fire destroyed the upper decks, leaving only the steel structure.