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      STEAMER BURNED On Tuesday evening, shortly after reaching her wharf at Gibraltar and while the crew were eating their supper, the steamer Carrie H. Blood was found to be on fire and in a few minutes after she had burned to the water's edge and sunk. The eight members of …

      PRESENTATION Yesterday at noon an agreeable affair occurred on board the steamer Pearl, of the People's Line, at the foot of First street, which will be long and pleasantly remembered by Capt. John Edwards and the other officers and crew of the steamer. Capt. Edwards, by his ...

      This article refers to the loss of the 23 t. steam tug RUDOLPH WETZEL (US#21944), while in company of the like tug HENRY S. SILL (US#95382)

      It is stated that most of the vessels that have been recently tied up for not having the official number and tonnage "engraved on the main beam forward of the main hatch on the main deck," have suffered through the ignorance of government officials who did the work. Other government …

      While a Detroit tug was at Black River a short time ago, the officers of the revenue steamer Perry boarded her, and took away the captain's papers, because the offical number was not carved on her main beam instead of her strong back, where tugs usually have it. The number …

      What the newspaper of 1882 took to be a huge but ugly vessel was actually the first metal steamer built specifically as a bulk freighter, and has a familiar look to we moderns. Built at the Globe Iron Works at Buffalo, ONOKO was the largest vessel on the lakes at …

      HAVING TO STRETCH FIGURES - SOME LARGE CARGOES The new iron steamship Onoko, Capt. Pringle, completed loading her cargo of wheat yesterday afternoon, and at about 3:30 o'clock left the harbor on her way to Buffalo. Her report at the custom house says she has 96,000 bushels of ...

      THE ONOKO'S CARGO Considerable has been said about what the steamship Onoko could carry on a few inches greater draught of water. The Inter-Ocean states that she took out of Chicago 88,215 bushels of wheat on a draught of 14 feet forward and 14 feet, 4 inches aft, or an …

      THE ONOKO AS OTHERS SEE HER About noon on Saturday the new iron steamer Onoko arrived here with something over 88,000 bushels of wheat. She left Chicago last Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. and her time in coming down was three days and nineteen and a half hours. The Onoko is …

      For some reason, these newspaper figures rarely add up. The original of this article is fully readable, but the total is off by 70 vessels.

      Attorney General Brewster has decided that a vessel built in the United States, sold to a British subject, wrecked in United Sates waters, sold to an American subject, and repaired at three times the cost of the wreck is entitled to an American registry.

      Collingwood has in contemplation the building of a dry dock and shipyard, and the council is prepared to submit a by-law granting a very liberal bonus to any person or persons who will undertake to build, equip and properly run said dry dock and shipyard.

      I. Black & Co. have sent the photograph of the City of Cleveland to Paris and had it reproduced in handsome microscopic watch charms. The picture, although extremely small, shows every line of the steamer as correctly as they appear in the original photograph.

      The Canadian schooner JAMES R. BENSON out of St. Catharines, was 370 t., a size of schooner normally shipping a crew of 6 or 7.

      The amendment to the seaman's bill now before congress makes it compulsory for vessels of 200 tons to carry four men, 300 tons five men, 350 to 500 tons six men, 500 to 800 tons eight men, 850 to 1,000 tons ten men, and for vessels over 1,000 tons an …

      THE PLACE FOR A VESSEL'S NAME Much has been said lately about the law requiring a vessel's name to be painted on her quarter as well as stern. From the following it would appear that there is no such law: TREASURY DEPARTMENT Washington, D.C., May 13, 1882 Jesse ...

      TONNAGE ALLOWANCE Several days before the close of last session of congress the act was approved to provide for deductions from the gross tonnage of vessels of the United States. A few days ago the treasury department received a letter from collector Spaulding of Chicago asking for ...

      TONNAGE CAPACITY A dispatch from Washington says: The inquiry has been raised by certain collectors of customs whether they should proceed at once to ascertain the tonnage capacity of excepted spaces under the act of August 5, 1882, and make the necessary entry onto marine ...

      A NEAT INVENTION When the captain of a large steamer stands on the top of the pilot house and signals the engineer to go ahead or back, he has no means of knowing whether his order has been properly interpreted until the ship begins to move, and then, if the …

      The Chippewa (Mich.) County News says that when the steam-barge Chamberlain was a few miles from Marquette, a man fell overboard and managed to get ahold of the tow line. The barge was slacked up, but the captain, seeing that unless he kept on his course the slack line would …