The Sailing Adventures of Captain Carl W. Basch (1899 - 1966)
His First Home in Bay View (1938-44)
3117 South Indiana Avenue
His Ships and Sailing Adventures While Living Here
Above left: the Lagonda (1937-40). Sailing adventures while captain: collided with the freighter J. E. Upson in fog on Lake Erie on Sunday 19 November 1939, no injuries reported, the Upson had to be drydocked to repair seven damaged hull plates. 21 The Lagonda had its first ship-to-shore radio telephone communication system installed on 29 November 1939. 22
Above right: the Hemlock (1940-42). Sailing adventures while captain: none discovered.
Both photos courtesy Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library, Thunder Bay Research Collection, Lagonda photo created by Louis J. Pesha (1868-1912).
Above: the Perseus, (1942-43). Sailing adventures while captain: none discovered. Photo courtesy Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library, Thunder Bay Research Collection.
His Second Home in Bay View (1944-55)
3113 South Pennsylvania Avenue
His Ships and Sailing Adventures While Living Here
No photo discovered: the fishing boat Augusta, 1922-26; Sailing adventures while crewman aboard the family fishing boat Augusta, his brother Arthur captain and other brother George engineer: none discovered.
Above left: the Jay C. Morse, (1944-53). Sailing adventures while captain: none reported. Photo courtesy the Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library, Thunder Bay Research Collection.
Above right: the preserved pilot house and forward cabins (including probably Carl Basch’s captain’s cabin) of the Jay C.
Morse as of 2017 as the maritime museum in Goderich, Canada, though in danger of being torn down as of 2017, 23 and not
there anymore on satellite via Google in 2021. Photo credit: https://www.shorpy.com/node/10239.
Above left: the Amasa Stone, 1954. Sailing Adventures while captain: none reported. Photo courtesy the Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library, Thunder Bay Research Collection.
Above right: the hulk of the Amasa Stone today (after being converted to a breakwater in 1965 along with another ship, the Charles S. Hebard, in Charlevoix, Michigan 24) shown at left next to “Bay View’s ship” the St. Marys Challenger which today still calls in Bay View at the St. Marys Cement dock on the Kinnickinnic River dock just north of Becher Street (photo: St. Marys Cement Company). 25
Above: the E. A. S. Clarke, 1955, shown under an earlier name, the H. C. Frick. Sailing Adventures while captain: none discovered. Photo courtesy the Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library, Thunder Bay Research Collection.
