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      OBITUARY DEATH OF CAPTAIN H.N. THROOP A dispatch was received here this morning by W.B. Phelps from T. Scott Ledyard, Williamson, N.Y. stating that Captain H. N. Throop died at his home in Pultneyville yesterday and that the funeral will take place there Saturday at 3 ...

      DULL TIMES Sailing in 1810 and 1831 A correspondent of the Morning Record of Buffalo writes as follows: "In view of the many records of dull times that one hears along the docks and in shipping circles generally, a reminder of the same kind of complaints which prevailed a ...

      This little notice was a surprise to me. I had presumed that lake steamers had always had the crew billeted as at present, but apparently up to this point they were arranged as with schooners - officers in the stern cabin, crew in the foc'sl.

      Early Navigation. _______ Interesting Talk With an Old Timer. Chicago Inter Ocean : "I remember many years ago, yes, it is nearly half a century ago, when the Indians used to paddle in their canoes from all ...

 Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), 1 Apr 1884     A Plucked Mariner ____ The New Canadian Examining Board - The Way the Examinations Were Conducted - Partiality - How Skilled Mariners Were set Aside. Capt. James McDonald, of Howland, an old an well known navigator, who was refused a certificate by the ...

      KILLED AT SACKETS. ____ The Old Ship New Orleans Falls and Kills John Oats - Others Seriously Hurt - Horribly Mutilated. ____ Special to the Times. Sackets Harbor, Feb. 9. The old ship New Orleans, which was built in 1815, and which was purchased ...

      The last chapter in the history of the old ship New Orleans, which has been on the stocks at Sacket's Harbor since the war of 1812-15, closes today. The old relic has fallen, killing one man. Three others were seriously injured, and will probably carry scars with them to the …

      Same report in: The Philadelphia Monitor, Philadelphia NY, February 14,1884.

      John Oats Killed. - The old war ship, New Orleans, a relic of 1812, which is being taken down at Sacketts Harbor, N.Y., was the scene of a sad and fatal accident to-day (Saturday). The workmen went to work as usual this morning, but a number of them expressed a …

      Sackets Harbor Workmen are now engaged in tearing down the old ship New Orleans. People wishing pieces of her for relics had better come soon, as they will be through in a few days.

      The Old New Orleans To the Editor of the Times Sackets Harbor, May 7 Considerable interest having been taken of late in the tearing down and removal of ship New Orleans, which stood for so many years in the navy yard at this place, it may be pleasing for ...

 Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), 11 Apr 1884     Along the Wharves The schooner Herbert Dudley, Capt. J. Parsons, arrived this morning from Kingston with grain for C.C. Morton. The Dudley was the last vessel to cross the lake last fall. Since her last appearance here she has received no ceiling, hatch combings, etc., and been ...

      Obituary. We learn by a correspondent that captain Horatio N. Throop, of Pultneyville, Wayne county, died yesterday, Wednesday morning. Captain T. will be remembered by many of our older citizens as prominent in lake navigation. He was master of several large class of lake ...

      THE EIGHT DISTRICT STEAM TONNAGE AND INSPECTION REPORT _______ Over 1,500,000 Passengers Carried Without the Loss of One _______ Report of the Supervising Inspector of Steam Vessels The report of Joseph Cook, supervising inspector of steam vessels of the ...

      Vessels are making big records as fishers this season, through the atmospheric peculiarities which bring the fish to the surface. Some vessel have, by means of trolling line, caught 30 lake trout in a single day, and for the first time in the history of the lakes have trolled successfully …

      A November Gale. _______ A Forerunner of Winter - The Samana's Trip from Toronto . Weather prophets said yesterday that the southerly breeze which blew during the day would toward night haul ...

      A Fire On Water. _____ The Large Tug Alanson Sumner Burned Last Night - A Fine Boat Almost Destroyed - The Schooner Typo Damaged - narrow Escape of Capt.

    A Fire On Water. _____ The Large Tug Alanson Sumner Burned Last Night - A Fine Boat Almost Destroyed - The Schooner Typo Damaged - narrow Escape of Capt.

Maritime History of the Great Lakes

      A Thrilling Adventure. The Wreck of the Schooner Cummings - Three of the Crew Overboard - All Safe. Capt. Ferris, of the tug Charley Ferris, which arrived back this morning, after towing the dismasted schooner M.J. Cummings from Thirty Mile Point to Port Dalhousie, says ...

      In The Fall of '75 ____ A Furious Gale and the Scene Enacted off Oswego harbor - Interesting Recollections The work of transforming the wrecked schooner, Sam Cook , into a coal barge is ...

      Thrilling Experience. _____ The Schooner Agnes Hope Becomes Waterlogged off this Port and is Abandoned by Her Crew. The captain of the schooner Jessie ...