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      A new steamboat of novel construction has lately been completed to run between New York and Albany, which, besides other peculiarities, has a novel method of propulsion. She is provided with a pair of oscillating engines on each side, which drive a four-bladed propeller 14 feet in diameter, ...

      While purporting to mention all steamboat disasters, the article covers mainly American vessels.

      A genius down at Albany has hit upon a novel invention for propelling boats. The plan is to place a large wheel at the bow to be revolved by the speed of the boat through the water, and made to operate a smaller propeller wheel at the stern, which is …

      *Probable list of the propellers: BUCKEYE, GRANITE STATE, NORTHERN MICHIGAN, OGDENSBURGH, POTOMAC, WISCONSIN, YOUNG AMERICA, BAY STATE, LADY OF THE LAKE, MICHIGAN, VERMONT, PRAIRIE STATE, JEFFERSON, CLEVELAND]

      TRIAL TRIP OF THE CHARLOTTE VANDERBILT - Capt. Whittaker's new side-screw steamer made a short and successful trial trip on Saturday afternoon last. Her machinery was set in motion about 3 o'clock P.M., with a pressure of 40 pounds of steam to the inch, and she ran out about 20 …

      SCREW STEAMERS - The employment of screw steamers as a method of passenger transit, to the growing importance of which we have before called attention, has lately been made the subject of an experiment on the North River which has proved eminently successful. The boat in question is a ...

      SUNK. - The Chicago Press and Tribune of yesterday (19th) says the "the schooner Andromeda, bound from Oswego to Sheboygan with a cargo of 800 barrels of salt, when about twenty miles from Sheboygan and fifteen miles from shore, suddenly sprung a leak and sank. The vessel was owned by …

      GONE DOWN WITH HER LOAD Milwaukee, September 18. - The schooner Floretta, of Chicago, loaded with iron ore, sprang a leak off Manitowoc early this morning and was abandoned by the crew. The vessel sank shortly afterward. Capt. Marshall and crew left for Chicago this ...

      The Shipmasters' Relief Association Meeting. Pursuant to notice, a meeting of the Shipmasters' Association was held at the Supreme Court Room, yesterday at 2 o'clock p.m., Captain Charles Parker, President in the Chair, and Secretary O'Leary also present. Immediately after ...

      The Shipmasters' Ball was held last evening according to the programme. To say that it was equal in brilliancy and happy arrangement and gratifying to those present, is but to repeat what has justly been said of all the preceding balls of the Shipmasters' Association of this city. If any …

      LOSS OF THE BARK CANADA. - We mentioned in our last issue the fact that the Canada had sprung a leak and was lying water-logged a short distance below this city. - On Sunday, Capt. Prindiville with his tug, the McQueen, made an attempt to relieve her, but was unsuccessful. …

      Oswego And Its Business _________ Ship Chandlers. This branch of our Marine business represents a large capital which is invested in a stock whose variety could hardly be conceived without a long and minute examination ...

      The following is the amount of tonnage on the western lakes, as taken from the Register of the "Lake Board of Underwriters," and furnished us by Mr. Gardner: AMERICAN 69 Sidewheel steamers registered ...

      Shipmasters Relief Association. Among the various organizations in the city perhaps there is none more worthy of remark, as having more laudable objects in view, and carrying out its designs to such a degree, as the Shipmasters; Relief Association; and at this time a passing notice ...

      Loss of the Osprey Melancholy Disaster - Terrific Gale - Total Wreck of the Schooner Osprey - Loss of the Captain's Wife and Child and Mate ________ We were visited by one of the most powerful gales of wind from the West, on ...

      "Vessel Sunk - On Friday last, the schooner Andrew Moody, Capt.Morgan, bound from Oswego to Chicago, laden with salt, sank about twenty five miles out from Kewaunee. It is supposed that she sustained injuries in passing through the Welland Canal, which caused her to spring a leak, ...

      THE ANDROMEDA. - The following account of the loss of this vessel is given by the Chicago Press and Tribune: "The Andromeda, Capt. Morgan, was bound up from Oswego for Chicago with a cargo of salt. She sank in Lake Michigan about forty miles north-east of Manitowoc. The crew ...

      I believe this was the CHARLOTTE VANDERBILT. The Lytle list gives her date of launch as 1857.

      THE FLORETTA SANK Milwaukee, September 19. - [Special.] - A Manitowoc dispatch says that the crew of the schooner Floretta reached there this evening and report that the Floretta foundered eighteen miles off that port. She sprung a leak in the heavy sea last night and the water ...

      An economic turnaround followed, and the values of some of the vessels on a spring, 1861 insurance list show a tidy boost in equity for the buyers: WELLS - $2,200 MINNESOTA - $20,000 BADGER STATE - $10,300 OLEANDER - $7,000 QUEEN CITY - $16,000 FARNHAM, MANN (renamed SUPPLY) and HAPPY …