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      NOTE: The BENTON was a small (308 gt) passenger and freight steamer built in 1867 by Hitchcock & Gibson, Buffalo. She was converted to a bulk freighter in about 1883 and burned to a total loss at the Ford Rouge Plant, near Detroit, in August, 1909.

      This little article shows a pair of the hazards of "stern-launching." Parentheses are in the original.

      This is the only instance I know of of a vessel being so totally destroyed by the action of escaping air as she sank. The fact later brought about accusations that THORNTON was totally unseaworthy at the time of her loss. She was 274 gt, built by Bidwell & Banta …

      Note this vessel's unusual engine arrangement, with two compound engines running a single shaft.

      Campbell, Owen & Co. later became the Detroit Dry Dock Co., one of the most prolific and innovative shipbuilders on the lakes. The vessel on the drawing board in the article probably came out as the double deck passenger freighter GORDON CAMPBELL the next year. S. R Kirby, who had …

      THREE MEN LOST FROM A VESSEL. - The schooner Geo. F. Foster , of Chicago , Henry Smith , master, and bound from Chicago to

    THREE MEN LOST FROM A VESSEL. - The schooner Geo. F. Foster , of Chicago , Henry Smith , master, and bound from Chicago to

Maritime History of the Great Lakes

      NOT LOST. - Charles Peterson and John Lynch , the sailors of the schooner Geo. F. Foster , who were supposed to have been drowned on Thursday ...

      The SHIAWASEE reportedly also survived the ordeal. She was a brand-new barge, out on her first or second trip, while the WARD was a former steamer and barkantine.

      Column 7 The hull converted to a drydock at Bay City, Michigan, (not Saginaw) on the Saginaw River, was the PLYMOUTH ROCK's sister WESTERN WORLD. The Saginaw River dock was used into the 20th Century, and remnants of it are still visible. Articles on the 1854 launches are at this …

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      There are also instances of hull breaches being plugged by boulders and blocks of ice, but this is the only report of a fish saving a Great Lakes vessel of which I am aware.

      Northern Transportation Co. apparently made its arrangements, as it continued to operate on Lake Ontario in 1871 and finally folded about 1875.

      KINGSTON ITEMS. - The News says that the propeller Bristol , from Lake Huron shores, arrived on Saturday ...

      THE TUG TORNADO . - This tug, which was sunk Saturday morning last near Oswego, was built in Oswego by Messrs. Kittle and Moore, and was about eight years old. She was owned by Messrs. Smith & Post, was a staunch one of the largest size, and one of the …

      FROM LAKE SUPERIOR. - The propeller Northern Light arrived down Tuesday night from all Lake Superior ports, but brought no news of interest. Her freight was 160 tons copper, 350 packages and four tons fish, and three tons miscellaneous freight for Detroit, and 200 tons pig iron for ...

      STEAMER DOVE. - The steamer Dove, which has been withdrawn from the Port Huron route, is now lying at the foot of Cass street, undergoing a thorough overhauling. She is receiving new wheels, two feet larger than her old ones, the dimensions being twenty-six feet. Other slight repairs ...

      PORT ITEMS. - The change in wind yesterday afternoon brought quite a fleet of the smaller vessels up the river and about sundown they were all at a stand-still. The revenue steamer Fessenden again anchored off the city. The schooner W. W. Grant arrived up from Montreal and commenced ...

      For Fort William. - The Union Steamboat Company's propeller Arctic arrived from Lake Superior Thursday afternoon, and after transferring her cargo to the propeller Atlantic, cleared for Point au Pins, under charter to carry troops to Fort William. ...

      NOTICE TO MARINERS. - The tug Torrent, which will be engaged in towing rafts from the Sauble to Detroit, Toledo and Tonawanda during the season, will carry a large locomotive light on the after part of her upper deck. The light will be twelve feet above the level of the …

      *prob. 630 ton schooner-barge GEORGE D. RUSSELL that Bailey's built for Nims ( US#85267, later named CHECOTAH). She was sunk in the St. Mary's River in a collision in September, 1882, and was not recovered until 1890, when she was rebuilt to CHECOTAH. She was lost in 1906 off Port …