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      EXILE was built in 1867 at Huron (or Milan) OH. She was a good-sized schooner: 152 feet keel by 30 feet beam, by 11 feet depth of hold. She lasted a long time, being wrecked in a storm in 1916. The Chocolay River mouth is a few miles southeast of …

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      Narrow Escape of the Schooner Acontias From Going Ashore - Rescued in a Sinking Condition. - The schooner Acontias, Captain Gotham, cleared from this port last night about nine o'clock, bound for Detroit, laden with railroad a pig iron, with a fair prospect of making a good run to the …

      A Sailor Drowned. - Yesterday morning, between 10 and 11 o'clock, a seaman named Phillip Callagan, was drowned by being thrown into the lake from the main boom of the schooner John Magee. At the time of the accident the Magee was coming down the lake and about abreast of …

      *Actually Nov 5, 1869. ROMAN was formerly the early propeller OSWEGO and was lost about Oct 10, 1858, while ALBION foundered just two days before that. Only one sailor survived of the 26 men composing the three schooners' crews.

      DEATH OF CAPT. JAMES HACKETT. - At precisely 6 o'clock last evening Capt. James Hackett departed this life at his residence in Amhersburg. He was the oldest of our lake navigators, and there are but few left who survive him. Capt. Hackett was in his 86th year, having been born …

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      The Steam Tug Alanson Sumner. - Yesterday afternoon at ten minutes to four o'clock, the new tug Alanson Sumner, owned by Messrs. Page & Dobbie, slid from her "ways" to the water, a distance of four feet, striking to her side with such force that she displaced nearly all the …

      An Arctic Voyage on Lake Ontario Yesterday at about two o'clock P.M., the steamers Lawrence, Capt. Reed, and Milwaukee, Capt. Lamphere, of the Northern Transportation line, entered this port and were soon moored at the Company's wharf. As it was known that a fleet of propellers ...

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      How Oswego Vessels Wear. - The Detroit Free Press has the following: Old and partially worn out crafts which from year to year are transported from the lower lakes seem to never die. Trivial repairs, with a little care and attention, ensures them another lease on life. The schooner ...

      The Explosion. _______ The Tug P. P. Pratt Blown up while tying at the Dock Last Evening _______ Particulars _______ Last evening about three minutes after six, the tug boat P.P. Pratt exploded her boiler while lying at her dock at the foot of West ...

      The Last Of The Pratt. - The remaining portion of the tug Peter P. Pratt has been raised out of the water, the engine taken out in pretty fair order, the shaft and wheel both secured and landed on the dock, and now the work of reducing the hull to …

      The Loss of the Schooner William John. - The schooner Centurion Captain Tyo, which arrived in port last night brought the crew of the schooner William John, who were picked up yesterday afternoon about four o'clock about two miles north from this port. We learn from the crew of the …

      Off For The South. - The steam barge Ellsworth left yesterday afternoon with a load of barley for New York, and after discharging her cargo there, will proceed to Norfolk, Virginia, where she will be engaged during the winter carrying grain from the ports of North Carolina. She is ...

      Superstition Amongst Sailors. - Since the cruise of the old ship Ark, under Captain Noah, sailors have been superstitious, and even on that eventful voyage were restless until the dove was sent out to find Ararat, such was their superstition that a vessel without rats was ...

      The Schooner William Elgin. - The Belleville, Jefferson county, correspondent of the Watertown Dispatch writes as follows: "The schooner William Elgin, which went ashore near Armstrong's on Wednesday evening, is still fast in the sand. The deck load of lumber has nearly all been ...

      BARGES IN A DILEMMA - ONE LOST. - The somewhat sudden though not unexpected settling in of the extreme cold weather, which has brought navigation to a close, has prevented a number of vessels from getting into port. The tug Torrent left Cleveland on the morning of the 28th ult. …

      The boat was abandoned as a total loss the next day, but was recovered by Coast Wrecking Company early in July. She was lost for good on Lake Michigan in August, 1885

      A NEW MANNER OF ADJUSTING MARINE LOSSES. - The captain of a schooner, now lying in this port, has adapted a novel method of bringing insurance agents to time, and forcing a settlement, upon real or imaginary losses. some two or three days since, his vessel received some damage, enough, …