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      Thomas C. Goble Thomas C. Goble, 78, widely known resident of the First ward, died early Wednesday morning in Utica , after an illness that started about five years ago, and became serious the ...

      Capt. Van Alstine Opened Station at Big Sandy In connection with the earthquake damage to the Big Sandy Coast Guard station, oswego residents recall that the late William Van Alstine of this city opened the station and was keeper there seven years. Mr. Van Alstine was a ...

      Fire Destroys Coast Guard's Big Sandy Unit ________ Station on Shore of Lake Ontario, Built in 1877, Leveled Oswego - Fire early Sunday (Nov. 3) destroyed the United States Coast Guard station at Big Sandy, 23 1/2 miles east of Oswego. No details as to the fire had ...

      Marine News _______ Lackawanna Getting Ready for Last Shipments From Trestle. What was considered to be the last shipments of anthracite coal from Oswego for the year in lake trade were being assembled in Oswego Saturday by the Lackawanna Railroad. The steamer ...

      Do You Remember By Jay Knox Although it is still wintry, as far as appearances indicate; there is just enough of the tang in the air to remind us all that Spring isn't far away. And with it will come the opening of navigation and while that may not mean …

      Schooner Days CCXCII by C. H. J. Snider The Blood Boat and M.J. Cummings Here is the three-masted Oswego schooner M.J. Cummings, with her tug also named M.J. Cummings, "M.J." was like the Motts, and Finneys, and Lyonses, an Oswego shipowner with a fleet of over a dozen ...

      * paper is creased on this line. I think that was 1887 History of the Great Lakes Beers. ** This is another Hinckley. This Hinckley was built in 1862. History of the Great Lakes Beers.

      Record Cargo At Oswego Canal officials witnessed the docking Saturday night at the Oswego grain elevator of the largest lake steamship that ever came into Oswego harbor. The steamer William F. ...

      Intrepid Lake Master Dies at 79 on Farm _______ Capt. A. R. Hinckley Succombs After Short Illness. ____ Oswego. - An eventful career as a master of vessels and as a marine contractor on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence river closed with the death of Capt. ...

 Cole, Percy T., Rochester Democrat & Chronicle (Rochester, NY), 18 Sep 1932     Century-Old Light Warns Sailormen of Hidden Rock-Crowned Reefs Near Lake Ontario's Danger Isle - History Written in Tragedy By Percy T. Cole False Duck Light, they call it. And since 1828 it has warned sailor men from as rock-bound and ...

      More Records on Early Schooners on Lake Ontario. Large number Were Built In Oswego Between 1848 and 1858 Additional information as to the vessels on Lake Ontario in the early days of lake navigation, when Oswego was the center of water borne traffic in this part of the ...

      Will Not Outfit Last Schooner on Lake Ontario ____ First Cargo of Anthracite From D.L.& W. Trestle Moves Tuesday. ___ Information in shipping circles Thursday in Oswego was that the schooner Lyman M. Davis, the last of her type on Lake Ontario, is not to be placed ...

      Fitting Out Was Sign of Spring Fifty Years Ago _____ Fort or More Schooners Then Claimed Oswego Home Port ____ When the sun was daily mounting higher in the heavens, in the first weeks of March, 50 years ago, and down the Oswego river came scattered ice flows that ...

 Ogdensburg Republican-Journal, 27 May 1930     Buckeye State Slides Down Shipyard Ways As Big Crowd Cheers ____ The "Buckeye State," second steel lake and river freighter to be built in Ogdensburg, slid down the breasted ways of the St. Lawrence Marine Repair Corporation at 2:30 this afternoon and rode for ...

 Duluth Herald, 25 Feb 1931     Capt. A.C. Majo Still Running Ferry at the Age of 84 ____ Since infancy, when he had his firs ride on a windjammer, Capt. Albert C. Majo, now 84 years of age and one of the oldest active lake captains, has spent every sailing season on the Great Lakes following …

 Ogdensburg Republican-Journal, 24 Feb 1930     Second Steel Ship To the Editor: I read with a great deal of interest of the progress which is being made in building the new ship "Buckeye State" at the shipyard, but I must take exception to the following statement which appears in the article, to wit: "The ...

 Ogdensburg Republican-Journal, 27 May 1930     Buckeye State Slides Down Shipyard Ways As Big Crowd Cheers ____ The "Buckeye State," second steel lake and river freighter to be built in Ogdensburg, slid down the breasted ways of the St. Lawrence Marine Repair Corporation at 2:30 this afternoon and rode for the first time ...

 Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), 11 Aug 1931     Engineers Will Come Here Soon To Make Probings Work will be Preliminary to award of Dredging Contract Construction of a float from which engineers may make probings of the bottom of the Oswego river, which is to be dredged under a contract to be awarded late this autumn, will ...

 Knox, Jay, Oswego Palladium-Times (Oswego, NY), 11 Mar 1933     Do You Remember? Getting back to ship chandleries in the early days of the shipping in Oswego, Pease and Barrow had a ship chandlery store in a building on the east side of Water street between Seneca and Cayuga, Harry Green had his sail loft upstairs over this ...

      Old time waterfront frequenters recalled Wednesday that a floating elevator was once used in Oswego to transfer grain from the schooners and small steamships of those days to canal carriers, but the operation was not a success, due to the fact that the lake carriers had to wait sometimes for …