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      Chatham , June 13 - The new propeller built by Messrs. Simpson & Chisholm for a stock company here was successfully launched at three p.m. today and christened "

    Chatham , June 13 - The new propeller built by Messrs. Simpson & Chisholm for a stock company here was successfully launched at three p.m. today and christened "

Maritime History of the Great Lakes

      The new steam barge D.D. Van Allen , building at Chatham , will be finished to-day, and to-morrow, at 1 o'clock p.m., a trial trip will be made down the river. Invitations to be on board being given to the ...

      Chatham , August 12 - The propeller Quebec , of Beatty's Sarnia & Lake Superior Mail Line, was successfully launched at four o'clock this afternoon from

    Chatham , August 12 - The propeller Quebec , of Beatty's Sarnia & Lake Superior Mail Line, was successfully launched at four o'clock this afternoon from

Maritime History of the Great Lakes

      Launch A most successful launch came off at Chatham on Wednesday last [August 12], of the Quebec , the second of the two propellers ordered to be built her by Messrs.

    Launch A most successful launch came off at Chatham on Wednesday last [August 12], of the Quebec , the second of the two propellers ordered to be built her by …

Maritime History of the Great Lakes

      Owen Sound , October 21 - A company is being formed for the purpose of making a dry dock and ship-building yard on the west side of the river. It is expected the work will be commenced early in the spring. ...

      Owen Sound Dry Dock Owen Sound , April 12. - Your correspondent was to-day invited by Captain John Simpson to inspect the new large ...

      A Row on the Lake Shore One of Fair Haven's guardians of the public peace arrived in town this morning armed with a warrant issued by Justice Dean Lake, of Sterling, and arrested Capt. Eli Budge, of the schooner C.A. Martin, who is charged with erecting dormitories on the cranium …

      A Welcome Fleet. The arrival of the grain fleet of vessels from Chicago and Milwaukee, yesterday afternoon and last night brought gladness to many hearts in this city. Some of the vessels were absent from this port two months and their appearance this morning was that of ...

      WHAT IS A SAILOR'S DAY? ______ The Captain of the Schooner Hungarian Arrested, Charged with Discharging His Crew in a Foreign Port. _____ Captain Fulton of the schooner Hungarian, was arrested in this city, yesterday morning, charged with violating an act of ...

      Gone To The Bottom _____ A Canal Boat With Ashes Founders and Sinks in Lake Ontario - Narrow Escape of the Crew. ____ The tug C.P. Morey with two canal boats, laden with ashes from the Bay of Quinte, arrived in port last night about half-past ten o'clock, and ...

      Taking Passengers on at Charlotte and Refusing to Allow Them to Land at Oswego ____ The manner in which the business of the Canadian Navigation Steamboat Company is conducted is disgraceful in this age and extortionate in the extreme. Americans who take passage on the ...

      CAPTAIN DROWNED. - Messrs. Scott & Brown, of this city, received a dispatch Saturday forenoon from Mackinaw Straits announcing the arrival of the schooner Wm. Sanderson, and that Capt. John Canfield, the master, was drowned, and two of the seamen were disabled. The Sanderson was ...

      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. ...

      MAKING INQUIRIES. - Messrs. Scott & Brown, owners of the schooner W. Sanderson, which is still missing, are making diligent inquiries and collecting all the information possible as to her whereabouts. It is their purpose to obtain the deposition of vessel masters who may have seen ...

      THE WM. SANDERSON LOST, WITH ALL HANDS. - The fate of the schooner Wm. Sanderson and that of her entire crew, which for some days past has been a mystery to her owners, has at length been solved by the discovery of the wreck broken up at Sleeping Bear, on …

      WRECK OF THE SANDERSON. - Relative to the wreck of the Wm. Sanderson, the Chicago Inter-Ocean of the 3rd says: Empire dock is at the foot of Lake Michigan between Sleeping Bear and Point Betsey. There is a steep sandy bluff extending for miles and lake masters say it is …

      GONE TO THE WRECK. - Captain H. L. Brown, of the firm of Scott & Brown, left this city Wednesday evening for Sleeping Bear to examine into the condition of the schooner W. Sanderson, and discover if possible the whereabouts of the crew and if any of the bodies have …

      CAPT. BROWN RETURNED. - Capt. H. L. Brown, of Scott & Brown, who left here a few days since for Sleeping Bear to investigate concerning the loss of the schooner Wm. Sanderson, has just returned from that place. The vessel, broken up into fragments, was found strewn along the beach …

      *Chicago-based marine newspaper published 1872-79 and 1902-14 The prediction was a little premature. Steamers did not outnumber sail vessels on the lakes until well into the 1890's, and the last free-sailing lake schooners didn't fold their canvas for the final time until the 1930's.

      A New Yacht. ______ The "Fascination" Launched from Goble & Macfarlane's Yard ______ The yacht which has been in process of construction at the shipyard of Goble & Macfarlane for some time past, was introduced to the water yesterday afternoon at six ...