Posted by Rob Stevens on February 04, 19101 at 07:41:08:
In Reply to: JT WING posted by jim hollenbeck on February 03, 19101 at 11:35:22:
: I have a post card of the JT Wing downbound under the Port Huron Blue Water Bridge..Any info on that sail vessel? Also interested in any port huron area postcards of the "past".
: Please respond
The J.T. Wing was built in 1919 by Beazly Bros. at Weymouth, Nova Scotia for Richard G. Beazely of Halifax and originally named Chas. A Gordon. She was wrecked in the Bahamas in 1923, rescued in 1924 and renamed J.O. Webster of Miami Florida. She was used in the mahoganny trade between East Africa and New England, and rum running till impounded by the government. In 1935 she was purchased by Grant H. Piggot rebuilt and brought to the Great Lakes. Renamed the J.T. Wing. Used in the log trade then as a training ship. Renamed the Oliver S. Perry. At the begining of WWII she became a commercial vessel again, again under the name of J.T. Wing. Later she became a museum in Detroituntil 1956 when she was burned. This information is from the Milwaukee Public Library.