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      MARINE MATTERS _______ Vessels Rebuilt in 1866 _______ Incidents of Interest During the Season of 1866 _______ Vessels Rebuilt in 1866. Propeller Granite State, at Detroit, by Campbell & Owen, thorough rebuilt. Tug Samson, at ...

      MARINE MATTERS _______ Vessels Passed out of Commission in 1866 _______ The Number of Vessels Commissioned Last Year _______ VESSELS PASSED OUT OF COMMISSION IN 1866. Steamer May Queen, burned at Milwaukee; total loss. Ferry steamer ...

      THE NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD, LAKE ERIE, AND GREEN BAY LINE OF SCREW STEAMERS, 1866. - These lines will consist of eighteen screw steamers, sixteen of which will run between Buffalo and Lake Erie ports, including Cleveland, Sandusky, Toledo and Detroit, and two will run between ...

      MONTICELLO was valued at about $8,500.

      DISTANCES AT WHICH LIGHTS CAN BE SEEN. The following are the approximate distances ay which lights on the lakes can be ssen, the eye and the light both being at the same elevation above the surface of the sea. The spheroidal form of the earth is the interruption to the …

      HOW TO JUDGE WEATHER BY THE SKY - The color of the sky, at particular times, provides wonderfully good guidance. Not only sunset presages fair weather, but there are other tints that speak with equal clearness and accuracy. A bright yellow sky in the evening indicates wind; a pale ...

      EARLY HISTORY OF LAKE PROPELLERS. Early in the spring of the present season of navigation, we gave a brief review of the career of our lake steamboats, and what came of them, which appeared in several issues of this paper. The following may be considered a correct, though brief, ...

      AN OLD LAKE CRAFT GONE - It is announced in the Chicago papers that the schooner Brigham, which went ashore between Muskegon and Manistee has become a total loss and with her has passed one of the early relics of the lakes. The Brigham was eighteen years old, having been …

      VESSELS IN PERIL, AND ASSISTANCE RENDERED BY THE STEAMER MAGNET DURING THE SEASON OF 1866 The wrecking steamer Magnet, commanded by Capt. J. P. Hodges, as is well known, has for the past two seasons made this point her headquarters, for the purpose of rendering prompt aid to ...

      VESSELS LAID UP AT DETROIT The following is a list of the vessels, steamers, tugs, etc. , which have laid up for the winter at this port: SIDE-WHEEL STEAMERS - Morning Star, City of Cleveland, Magnet, Forester, S. Clement, Pearl, Susan Ward, Princess, Saginaw, Island ...

      The S. C. WALBRIDGE was 237 tons and 105 feet in length. This incident was the end of her. The MARY WILLIAMS, an 88 t. schooner built at Vicksburg (Marysville) Michigan, in 1853, is one that I am still researching. It appears that she went ashore at this spot Oct. …

      "p.t." presumably means "private terms." Most listed fractions are somewhat difficult to read in the original and represent my best guess at deciphering them. Some items of interest: most of the sales of vessels across the border were transacted in gold; the famous Oswego tugs Ontario and Superior were sold …

      MARINE MATTERS _______ Casualties on the Lakes the Past Season. _______ Six Hundred and Twenty-one Disasters. _______ Herewith we present our annual record of marine disasters which have occurred during the season just closed, in part gleaned from ...

      VESSELS IN PORT OF BUFFALO The following will show the number and class of vessels that were in winter quarters in the port of Buffalo at the closing of navigation, 1865: Steamers - Relief, United States, Michigan, International Propellers - Merchant, City of ...

      NOT QUITE - Notwithstanding the apparent well-founded reports of the loss of the old schooner Brigham, she surprised our sailing community by running into the harbor at the height of the gale Wednesday night. The captain contradicts the report that an accident had befallen his craft, ...

      *The schooner E. St. JOHN BEMIS was a 294 ton 2-master built by Salmon Ruggles at Milan, OH in 1855. Ruggles built a number of other schooners with reputations for speed, including CREVOLA, TIM BAKER and BERLIN.

      This is a list of the commanders and forts along the U.S. shore of the Great Lakes, after reorganization following the Civil War. In command is notable general Joseph Hooker, whose numerically superior Army of the Potomac was defeated by Robert E Lee's Confederates in April, 1863, at Chancellorsville. Other …