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      p.2 Deck Load Lost - schooner Big Z lost flour overboard on Lake Erie. Nov. 29, 1850 nil (pages 3 & 4 missing) Dec. 6, 1850 nil Dec. 13, 1850 p.1 ad for Bonter's Team-Boat Landing, Bellville. 1851 ...

 Charleston Courier, 12 Nov 1850, p. 2     Steam Propeller Ontario. --This afternoon the steam ship Ontario , which arrived at this port on Friday last, from New York, leaves again for that port. The Ontario , as we are informed, intends running regularly between this and New York, and Capt. KITTREDGE, ...

      The Storm of Wednesday. - Among the vessels which grounded while entering the harbor in the gale of Wednesday was the schooner Scotland with a cargo of wheat. She lay for a time exposed to the action of the waves, thumping on the bottom, so that ...

      Life in a Canal Boat People who have commodious houses and the comforts of life, are often distressed, perchance, because their rooms are small and their houses contracted. They should see how some tidy house-wives live in canal boats, and how they manage to get along, "keep ...

      Business On The Docks. - The harbor is crowded with Steamers, Propellers and Canal Boats. They come in from New York, Troy, and from Albany, by Canal, and from the Upper Lakes, and the Canadian ports, by lake, on the North and on the West. The docks are crowded with …

      The Horse Boat is almost ready to get up steam for Sodus Bay. Old sorrel is having an extra peck of oats, and his iron-gray yoke-fellow will have additional cat-feed prior to the first experimental trip. Would it not be well to have the inspector of boilers take a look …

      Evening Promenade On The Lake. - The Piers are used for the double purpose of pleasure and utility. They protect the harbor from the severity of storms, and they furnish a most refreshing and beautiful promenade during the sultry evenings of summer. it is only to be feared that they …

      Wreck of a Genesee Steamer -- We understand that Mr. Snow, of the lake House, and some other gentlemen residing at the mouth of the Genesee River, purchased a few days since a fine little steamer called the Utica, at Sackets Harbor, designed to be used on our River and …

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      "O Pilot, 'tis a Stormy night, There's danger on the Deep. " On a bleak and dismal night, last December, past midnight, a large number of hardy looking men were seen hovering in the darkness near the foot of Fort Ontario. In the distance, surrounded by gloom and the ...

      The First Propeller. - In looking among the lake craft the other day, we were not a little surprised, to be told that the first Propeller ever built in this country was before us. The "Vandalia" was set afloat about eight years since; and had per Propellers attached by Mr. …

      Severe Gale. - A severe gale from the northwest began on Saturday evening and continued through Sunday, up to a late hour in the night. It was accompanied with alternate snow squalls, which at times gave everything a most dismal, wintry aspect. Quite a number of vessels came down the …

      Novel Craft for Lake Navigation . - Near the Marine railway, at the ship-yard, may be seen a new craft for lake navigation in progress. It is the hull of a large canal boat, covered with a projecting steam boat deck, in the sides of which wheels are to be …

      Melancholy Marine Disaster. The schooner Nekick, Capt. Sias, of about 40 tons burthen, cleared from this port on Friday the 9th instant for Cape Vincent, partially loaded with merchandize. She touched at Sackets Harbor and discharged part of her cargo on the same day, and ...

      From the Rochester Daily Advertiser A Thrilling Incident - Lake Ontario crossed in an open boat, during a violent Storm . On Wednesday last, as one of the heaviest gales of the season was sweeping over the broad bosom of Lake ...

      From the Sackets Harbor Observer. Loss of the Schooner Neptune. The undersigned, master and seamen on board the schooner D.W. Church, make the following statement in regard to the loss of the schooner Neptune, Saturday, Oct. 5, ...

      This excellent List was provided by Robert Jaeck, Racine, Wis.

      To be more prosaic, the 1052 t. sidewheeler OCEAN (later US#53063) was built by E. B. Ward at Newport (now Marine City, Michigan) in 1850. Perhaps she was not as successful as the poem hopes, as she was rebuilt to a barge after only 12 years of service, and grounded …

      Lumber Business of Oswego In this department of trade, as in the manufacture of flour, Oswego excels, it is believed, any other point on in the United States. During the season of 1849, over fifty three million feet of lumber were landed ...

      Oswego . - A correspondent of the Syracuse Journal writing from Oswego under date of the 17th inst., says: "It is five or six years since I lasted visited this place; yet there has been very ...