Name: Chris-Craft vessel Timber Queen stops at St. James during its delivery voyage, 1958
Start: 1958-05-02
End: 1958-05-03
Location: Saint James Harbor

Locator map: Saint James Harbor highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago — Took place at Saint James HarborLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.

Event

Dates: 1958-05-02 – 1958-05-03
Kind: Transportation
Where: Saint James Harbor
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: maritimetransportationpublicationcommunity
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The May 1958 Beaver Beacon reports that the 48-foot Timber Queen stopped at St. James on May 2–3 during a delivery voyage from Algonac to Gladstone and Manistee.

Evidence and limits

This is a newspaper port-of-call report. It does not provide a vessel registry, voyage log, or the planned Lakeland Boating article.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, May 1958, “FIRST CHRIS-CRAFT.”
Reports the 48-foot Timber Queen, owned and captained by P. C. Christiansen of Phelps, Wisconsin, stopping at St. James during bad weather May 2 and 3 on a delivery voyage from Algonac to Gladstone and Manistee. It describes three crew members, a planned Lakeland Boating article, and the crew receiving a Beacon, historical sketch, and BICA folders. It does not provide a vessel registry, voyage log, or published article. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, May 1958, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held five-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the Timber Queen visit and publication notice; it does not expand the vessel or voyage record.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Chris-Craft vessel Timber Queen stops at St. James during its delivery voyage, 1958”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-timber-queen-chris-craft-visit-1958/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, May 1958, “FIRST CHRIS-CRAFT.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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