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      The second steamboat on the scene was the A. C. Van Raalte.

      Launch Of The New Schooner Havana. - The new schooner Havana, built by A. Miller & Co. for T.S. Mott, was launched yesterday afternoon, from the foot of East 2d street. A large crowd assembled in the vicinity, every available spot being occupied, from which a view of the vessel …

      OPENING OF NAVIGATION TO LAKE SUPERIOR FOR FIFTEEN YEARS. -- As matter for future reference we present below the date of opening of navigation to Lake Superior for fifteen successive years, including the present, the date of which we set down as May 10th, and so far as ice ...

      BARGES! THEIR INCEPTION _______ A HISTORY OF THE INCEPTION OF THE BARGE ENTERPRISE -- THE SULTANA AND EMPIRE AS PIONEERS -- THE PROGRESS AND GROWTH OF THE ENTERPRISE _______ Previous to the year 1862, a great deal of difficulty had been experienced by the ...

      Vessels Passing Through the Welland Canal By special dispatch to THE DETROIT FREE PRESS, from Port Colborne, the following vessels are reported as passed through the Welland Canal September 11: DOWN Prop City of Concord, Chicago to Ogdensburg, ...

      HOUSING IN TUGS. - The work of housing in tugs, in order to place them in a more serviceable condition for the performance of outside work, has of late become quite general, and it is believed by many that the plan ere long will be universally adopted. Among others that …

      NARROW ESCAPE. - The Leviathan had a narrow escape from sinking while endeavoring to rescue the schooner Brightie last week. She was engaged in breaking the ice in order to reach the schooner, when a ...

      This article containing a wealth of shipbuilding jargondescribes the launch of the large 3-master JAMES COUCH (later TASMANA) in 1871. She was probably the largest free-sailing schooner on the lakes when built.

      Windsor burned to the waterline at Detroit almost exactly five years prior to this article - on Apr 26, 1866, with the loss of 28-30 lives. She was nearly destroyed when the Detroit and Milwaukee's riverside railroad terminal burned to ashes after the explosion of a barrel of naptha. The …

      PROTECTION. - Among the beauties of the present tariff and revenue system is the following: "Repairs of vessels, 50 per cent." If an American vessel receives injury on a foreign voyage, and gets herself repaired in a foreign port to the amount of $100 gold, she must pay $50 gold …

      THE UNION STEAMBOAT COMPANY . - This extensive organization will run during the season of 1871, twenty-six steamers, in the several lines designated below: BUFFALO AND LAKE SUPERIOR ...

      The vessel in the first paragraph was the RICHARD WINSLOW, the first 4-mast schooner on the lakes. She was reduced to a towbarge in 1890 and foundered near White Shoals, Lake Michigan in 1898, while still in the iron ore trade. The three-master was the schooner D. P. RHODES (later …

      IMPORTANT TO LAKE NAVIGATORS. - A work which, when completed, will be of great importance to to our lake marine is about being entered into by the Dominion Government, which is the construction of a lighthouse on Middle Island ,

    IMPORTANT TO LAKE NAVIGATORS. - A work which, when completed, will be of great importance to to our lake marine is about being entered into by the Dominion Government, which …

Maritime History of the Great Lakes

      VESSEL WRECKED. - A dispatch from Port Burwell last evening says that the brig Geo. M. Abel [sic], of Cleveland, came ashore there during the storm, and is fast going to pieces.

      THE BRIG ABELL. - The brig G. M. Abell [sic], which the telegraph informs us has gone to pieces at Port Burwell, had entered upon her nineteenth year and was 189 tons burden, old measurement.

      CARGOES ARRIVED. - The schooners J. Bigler and Kenosha, laden with lumber, have arrived at this port and are discharging.

      A DREDGE ON THE MOVE. - The steamer Clara has arrived up yesterday with a dredge and lighters for the Port Huron dry dock.

      TUG REPAIRS. - The tug Sweepstakes completed her repairs and left the dock. She has received a new set of double crank pins. The Satellite will have a new wheel, and be out about Saturday. The tug Champion is having some wrought iron substituted for steel in some parts of …

      CHANGE OF CAPTAINS. - Captain William Brown, who has had command of the tug Stranger, has taken the tug Prindiville, and is succeeded on the Stranger by Captain Frank Holland.

      BARGE MORTON ARRIVED. - The barge Morton, which was reported waterlogged on Monday, arrived here yesterday in that condition in tow of the steam barge Dubuque.