- Date
- 2004-03-26
- Kind
- Transportation
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- maritimeweathertransportationcommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
On March 26, 2004, a Coast Guard cutter traveled from Charlevoix through Beaver Harbor’s ice in dense fog, drawing Islanders and schoolchildren to the Whiskey Point and Ferry Dock to watch and listen.
Evidence limits
The account describes an observed transit and does not identify the cutter’s mission beyond ice-breaking or provide an official Coast Guard log.
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, April 2004, “A Ghost Ship slices through the Ice”.Describes the Coast Guard cutter leaving Charlevoix at 10:00 a.m. and breaking through Beaver Harbor ice in fog while Islanders and schoolchildren watched from Whiskey Point and the Ferry Dock. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2004-04_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the cutter photographs and report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2004-04_Beaver-Beacon
Added 7 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Coast Guard cutter breaks Beaver Harbor ice in fog”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-coast-guard-cutter-ice-transit-march-26-2004/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, April 2004, “A Ghost Ship slices through the Ice”. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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