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 Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI), 23 Jun 1874     LAUNCH AT BAY CITY.--The Chronicle gives a long account of the successful launch of the new steamship James Davidson, from which the following is extracted." The successful launch of this mammoth steamship occurred yesterday afternoon about six o'clock, at Capt. Davidson's ship-yard. Her ...

 Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI), 21 Jun 1874, p. 1     Launch of an Elegant Steamship at Bay City Special Dispatch to The Detroit Free Press BAY CITY, June 20. From Captain James Davison's shipyard this afternoon was launched a new double-decked steamship, the James Davidson, said to be the finest specimen ...

      MARINE HOSPITAL REGULATIONS. - Provisions are made for sick seamen at the Marine Hospital and for the maintenance of these institutions each sailor while employed has deducted from his wages forty cents monthly. All seamen are entitled to these privileges who are sick or disabled ...

      A BRIG NO LONGER. - The Brig Helfenstein, built at Milwaukee in 1847, has terminated her career under that rig and has followed the career of numberless other old craft and has been converted into a barge, to which all (if not previously wrecked) have come to. She has been …

      ASHORE AND SUNK. - The schooner Exchange, laden with stone, while endeavoring to get under way from the dock at Kelley's Island Friday afternoon last (20th), got ashore, running upon rocks and sunk. Aid was sent for at Cleveland, and it is thought that she will be released without ...

      A TOTAL LOSS. - The schooner Exchange, which got ashore a few days since at Kelley's Island, has become a total loss, and is abandoned to the underwriters. She is valued at $10,000, insured for $6,700, and is owned by Capt. James Lawler, of Sandusky. The Exchange had been in …

      IMPORTANT WRECKING OPERATIONS. - The Lake Michigan Wrecking Company, who, within the past few years, have performed several important feats in wrecking operations, have recently with their vessel, the Active, accomplished another undertaking which surpasses all others of this ...

      DEATH OF A SUBMARINE DIVER. - Mr. Wm. Wright, a submarine diver of more than usual skill in that profession, died a day or two since after a very brief illness. For the past nine years, Mr. W has been associated with Capt. Falcon in wrecking on Lake Michigan, and …

      SYLVESTER DOOLITTLE. - This gentleman was a few days since made the recipient by his fellow citizens of a public dinner at the Doolittle House, Oswego. This mark of esteem was in recognition of a long life devoted to enterprises connected with early ship-building on Lake Ontario. Mr. ...

      The Lake Michigan survey was set back several years when the survey records were destroyed in the great Chicago Fire of October, 1871.

      The WATER WITCH was also built by Wolverton at Newport (Marine City, Mich) in 1861 and was lost in 1863. Her engine reportedly transferred power to the shaft by a "cog-wheel" arrangement. She was reputedly the fastest vessel on the lakes (capable of 18 mph!). She foundered in a gale …

      New Steamers. - Two fine screw steamers named respectively the Ontario and Quebec, have just been completed at Chatham, Ont., for Beatty's Lake Superior line between Sarnia, Fort Williams and Duluth. The dimensions of the first-names are as follows: Length of keel, 180 feet; beam, 35 ...

      Neither the chronology nor the prediction of this article were very good. CITY OF MADISON was rescued from Washington Island later that spring and lasted three more years until she finally succumbed to fire in mid-Lake Michigan in August, 1877. Omitted also is a stranding on the Keweenaw, Lake Superior, …

      DEPARTED HENCE. - Few men who have navigated the Western Lakes commencing at an early period have encountered greater hardships than Capt. John W. Webster, who died recently at Painesville, Ohio, at the age of seventy-six. As early as 1820 he commanded the Susan, of Otter Creek, ...

      THE SANDERSON - The last seen of the schooner Wm. Sanderson was at Cheboygan after the gale, at which place she called, it is thought, for repairs, if disabled by the storm. Snow storms subsequently set in which would probably further delay her. ...

      This survey was probably a result of the private initiative taken to improve the safety of the channel earlier in the same year. This fourteen foot depth at Lime Kiln crossing, which connects the Canadian shore to Stony Island, east of Grosse Ile, really limited the cargo capacity of lake …

      The bark RACINE (US#12708) was damaged in a stranding in the fall of 1873, which precipitated her conversion to a lumber barge. She continued in that capacity until being abandoned in 1908 or 09.

      The large upper-lakes grain schooners being built in 1874 ran over 200 feet in length and around 900 tons burden, in contrast to MECHANIC's 233 tons.

      RUMORED LOSS OF EUROPEAN BOUND VESSELS. - The Toledo Blade says that there is a rumor in Toledo that the bark Benson, which cleared from that port May 14th, for Cork, with a cargo of corn, and the schooner Pamlico, which cleared from Chicago a few days later for the …

      THE PAMLICO AND BENTON. - The arrival at Queenstown of the above two lake vessels, which sailed for Europe from the ports of Chicago and Toledo respectively, recalls to mind the voyages made by our lake craft some years since. The time made by the Pamlico and her consort compares …