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      Marine Floats The tug Piper was laid up Saturday, having repairs made on her boiler, during which time the crew chartered the tug Tornado, and proceeded to lift their nets as usual.

      The Canadian Tug Bob Hackett Sunk in a Collision near Amherstburg A report reached this city last midnight that the Canadian tug Bob Hackett had collided with the Western Line propeller St. Magnus, bound from Kingston to Port Arthur, near the head of Bois Blanc Island ...

      The Hackett's Checkered Career. The FREE PRESS correspondent at Amherstburg, writing of the tug Bob Hackett, says: The Hackett was built in Amherstburg for the Windsor & Lake Shore route about twenty years ago by J. P. Jones for Robert Reynolds and Felix Jones, of Windsor, and was ...

      READY FOR THE OPENING Preparations by Marine City Vessel Men - Appointments Special to the Detroit Post. MARINE CITY, April 16. - Vessels are preparing to resume business. During the winter considerable repairs have been made and they will start out in good condition ...

      MASTER MARINERS ST. CLAIR CAPTAINS ASSIGNED TO THEIR COMMANDS The following assignments have been made for St. Clair captains during the season, the larger number of which are for steam craft: Capt. Wesley Brown will command the steamer Siberia, Capt. Donald Morrison ...

      Photos of the MANISTEE: http://webpac.wayne.edu/graphics/shipping/picture.html?msg1=http://image.udmercy.edu/marine/manistee1c.jpg&msg2;=%20Manistee http://webpac.wayne.edu/graphics/shipping/picture.html?msg1=http://image.udmercy.edu/marine/manistee1b.jpg&msg2;=%20Manistee http://webpac.wayne.edu/graphics/shipping/picture.html?msg1=http://image.udmercy.edu/marine/manistee1.jpg&msg2;=%20Manistee

      A PIRATICAL CRAFT Yesterday the scow schooner Trader was tied up by an officer at Wyandotte on a charge of piracy. The Trader has been under suspicion for some time of appropriating the loose property of vessels lying in harbor at Detroit and neighboring ports. A few nights ago a …

      River pirates continue to victimize the craft lying along the docks. The latest victim is the schooner M. P. Barkalow. While lying at the wharf foot of Eighteenth Street Saturday night her supply box was relieved of its contents, valued at $18.

      Captain Gillman lost track of the iron steamer MICHIGAN, sister of the WISCONSIN, because that vessel had sunk on the 20th - finally crushed after having been trapped in the ice since February 9. Capt. Gillman's boat was the 842gt wooden propeller CITY OF LUDINGTON (US#125873), built at Manitowoc in …

      Though the charts show a light at this position (Cleveland pierhead), photos of the light there don't match this description. Anyone know if this light was replaced? I'd heard that one Cleveland light was replaced in 1895. The position of this light is marked "lighthouse" on the following map: http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=17&n;=4594179&e;=440873&s;=50

      A NARROW ESCAPE Oscoda - Yesterday afternoon as the wrecking tug Winslow was dredging a cut to the barge Wyandotte, wrecked on the beach, the cable to which the line was goied (sic) broke. What might have been a serious accident was narrowly averted. John Delaney was caught by the …

      Capt. Thomas Henner, master of the steamship Iron Duke, complains that the light-keeper at Passage Island did not sound the fog signal on the night of the 19th while a heavy fog was prevailing. There is so little traffic in Chicago creek, it is said, that the bridge tenders have …

      AFRAID SHE HAS THE SMALL-POX Chicago, Nov. 10. - The schooner Fannie Campbell from Stokes Island, Canada, is lying near the light-house under inspection of the health department for small-pox.

      Column 4 *Omar D. Conger, U. S. Senator from Michigan (1881-1887), a citizen of Port Huron. ** Orlando Metcalfe Poe was a Civil War hero and Army engineer. An architect by trade, he designed forts and artillery emplacements for the Army and was later twice chief engineer for the Corps …

      The United States steamer Warrington has conveyed to Duluth a steam foghorn, which will be placed on the south end of the canal pier at once. It is one of the largest foghorns on the lakes and can be heard a distance of seven miles.

      One doesn't see ice like this much anymore on the lakes. The Goodrich liners MICHIGAN(US#91382) and WISCONSIN(US#80861) were both quite new iron-hulled vessels, which is why they felt comfortable challenging the floes. MICHIGAN was a total loss, while WISCONSIN was safe, and had a long and eventful career lasting until …

      *Probably FLOSSIE THIELKE, 30 t. tug out of Chicago. The sidewheeler SAGINAW (US#115118) was built in 1866 at Marine City, Mich. and was 707 gt. After this sale the old steamer had life in her yet. After a few years use by the White Star Line, she was converted to …

      The Wreck of the Algoma A survivor of the steamship Algoma, wrecked with such terrible loss of life on Lake Superior, says that when the shock was felt he ran down to the purser's room. He then pushed forward amid the stifling steam and aroused the steward and other employees, …

      THE MASTER OF A LEAKING VESSEL COMMITS SUICIDE Special to the Detroit Post. Sand Beach, Mich., May 9. - Last night Thomas W. Weegs(sic) of Marine City, master and owner of the barge C. N. Johnston (sic), committed suicide by hanging on board his boat at the breakwater. ...

      Owen Sound Nov 6 1885 Thomas Cochran, the second mate on the steamer Athabasca fell from the main deck into the hold this eveningand was instantly killed.