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      The squat, fortress-like 1877-78 light, modified in 1899, still stands and is being restored at present. See http://www.ipl.org/exhibit/light/GL/PortAustin.html for a nice photo which shows the octagonal base well.

      *This is an exaggeration if "Western lakes" has its usual meaning, encompassing all of the Great Lakes. Iron steamers had been built on both sides of the lakes since the early 40's, and the David Bell Shipyard of Buffalo had been turning out iron freighters and tugs for at least …

      MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS - Capt. MacLeod, of the schooner Lucerne, who discovered the steamer Peerless disabled on Lake Michigan September 2nd, was on Friday presented by the owners of the Peerless with a neat and costly combination of watch, thermometer and barometer, set on pivots in a ...

      EXPENSES OF A VOYAGE TO ENGLAND. - Some time since at the request of one of the largest vessel owners of this city, Capt. T. A. Burke, who commanded the Alice, we believe, in her late trip to Liverpool, furnished a statement of the expense of a vessel in a …

      AT CHICAGO . . . The Glad Tidings was to have been launched on Wednesday afternoon, with appropriate religious exercises. The Glad Tidings is a neat little craft of twenty-one tons measurement. Her length over all is 48 feet and nine inches; length of keel 40 feet and 6 inches; …

      THE BALLANTINE FLEET SOLD. - At Chicago on Monday, the well-known Ballantine fleet was sold, consisting of the steam barges C. J. Kershaw and D. Ballantine and the schooner A. B. Moore. The purchasers are Phil Armour, of Chicago; R. P. Fitzgerald of Milwaukee and others. Capt. Wiley ...

      THAT WHALE. - A white whale is on its route from the seaboard to Chicago via the Erie Canal. His whaleship was started from New York in the hold of a canal boat, and is expected to reach Buffalo the 14th of July. The detention is caused by the fact …

      Mr. O. B. Green, the harbor contractor, has invented a sand pump, which, upon trial, is pronounced the most successful invention of the kind ever known. Mr. Green has expended $60,000 in his experimenting, and now has a boat with his perfected machinery that can do regular dredge work, and …

      At Kingston: Three large iron tanks are being placed in the three-masted schooner Fanny Campbell, which has been bought for the coal-oil trade. The schooner will not be likely to do anything in the new line of business this year. She will trade directly between Sarnia and Montreal, being ...

      The RICE (US#21191) burned at Detroit in June of 1877. Her passenger career was over and she gave up her engines to her replacement. As a barge she was lost in a storm 4 miles nothwest of Holland, Michigan, September 30, 1888. WILLIAM H. PRINGLE (US#80176) had a long career …

      The GORDON CAMPBELL (later STRATHMORE) continued as a propeller until lost on Lake Superior in 1909.

      A NEST OF ANCHORS. - the Quebec Herald says that an accumulation of anchors and chains has been in progress at one point in that harbor, for several years. It had got to be known as a "nest," of such vessel equipments. Every now and than some vessel would get …

      A NEW PROPELLING POWER. - A little steamboat has just made the run between Baltimore and New York, being propelled the entire distance between the two cities without wheel or screw. She is called the Alpha, and in outward appearances resembles the tugboats which ply in the harbor. Her ...

      STEAM PROPULSION. - Relative to steam propulsion, the New York Herald, in a recent editorial says: The new steam launch Arrow, lying at the foot of Court street, Brooklyn, has be recent experiments, developed the fact that she is possessed of that great phenomenon known in ...

      Messrs. Church and Hill, the divers at work on the wreck of the steamer Merchant, lost on Racine Reef in 1875, report that they have recovered the cylinder with all attachments; also a piece on her iron (illegible word), fifteen or twenty feet. The wreck is scattered in all directions …

      The South Haven Sentinal of 27 Oct. 1877 notes that the government steamer Andy Johnson attempted to pull the Painter off the beach, but without success.

      SOMETHING CAPTAINS SHOULD KNOW. - Many vessel captains do not seem to be aware of the requirements in law concerning wreck reports, and therefore the following synopsis of the act providing for the establishment of life saving stations, approved June 20, 1874, is ...

      A NEW SUB-MARINE ARMOR. - At Cleveland on Tuesday a new sub-marine armor was successfully tried. The body consists of Otis steel, while the limbs and helmet are of beaten copper, operating on ball and socket joints, overlaid with a coating of heavy rubber. The whole thing was, of ...

      The propeller ONTONAGON (US#18963) was, however, rebuilt at Clark's Drydock, adjacent to the boneyard, the following spring. She returned to service as a steambarge and was lost to fire in 1883.

      This article is alittle overblown. WINSLOW skirted the law by towing in a Canadian lighter, which successfully accomplished the actual salvage work.