Name: Emerald Isle makes a Christmas Eve emergency ferry run through fog, 2005
Start: 2005-12-24
End: 2005-12-24
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Date: 2005-12-24
Kind: Transportation
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: transportationmaritimeweathercommunityemergency-managementcommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

On Christmas Eve 2005, fog grounded flights and stranded travelers, so the Emerald Isle made an after-season run from Beaver Island to Charlevoix and back. Forty-seven people reached the Island for Christmas, with local residents and the Boat Company coordinating the effort. A January 2006 letter also records the crew’s careful assistance to Charlie Carey during a separate December medical evacuation by ferry.

Evidence limits

The account is a narrative report and does not provide a formal manifest, weather record, or operating log.

Sources

See the sources block above.

Sources

Beaver Island Forum topic 505, "The Real Meaning Of CHRISTMAS," December 24–28, 2005.
Passengers and community members described the Emerald Isle's Christmas Eve rescue trip from Charlevoix, including the 47 people brought home and the coordination attributed to Margo Marks, Island Airways, and the crew. This is contemporaneous participant testimony; the January Beacon report remains the stronger local account.
forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 00 · t000505
Beaver Beacon, January 2006, "BIBCO saves Christmas."
Reports fog-related flight cancellations before Christmas, an after-season Emerald Isle run arranged by the Boat Company, almost two dozen outbound passengers, 47 returning passengers, and postmistress assistance with delayed Christmas mail. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2006-01_Beaver-Beacon
Beaver Beacon, January 2006, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan confirms the ferry report and photographs.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2006-01_Beaver-Beacon
Beaver Beacon, January 2006, "Letters to the Editor."
Charlie Carey's letter thanks the Boat Company crew and community for assisting his December medical evacuation by ferry after a severe gout attack made air travel impossible. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2006-01_Beaver-Beacon
Beaver Beacon, January 2006, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan confirms the related letter of thanks.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2006-01_Beaver-Beacon

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Beaver Island Archive, “Emerald Isle makes a Christmas Eve emergency ferry run through fog, 2005”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-christmas-eve-emergency-ferry-2005/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Forum topic 505, "The Real Meaning Of CHRISTMAS," December 24–28, 2005. (and 3 further sources listed on the page).

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