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  • Detroit Post (Detroit, MI), Aug. 3, 1885
    Detroit Post (Detroit, MI), Aug. 3, 1885
    TextNewspaper       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 …
    TextNewspaper     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 …
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Detroit Post (Detroit, MI), Sept. 15, 1885
    Detroit Post (Detroit, MI), Sept. 15, 1885
    TextNewspaper       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 …
    TextNewspaper     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 …
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Detroit Post (Detroit, MI), Wed., May 11, 1885
    Detroit Post (Detroit, MI), Wed., May 11, 1885
    TextNewspaper       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. ...
    TextNewspaper     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 …
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Detroit Post (Detroit, MI), Apr. 17, 1885
    Detroit Post (Detroit, MI), Apr. 17, 1885
    TextNewspaper       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 ...
    TextNewspaper     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 …
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Detroit Post (Detroit, MI), Apr 17, 1885
    Detroit Post (Detroit, MI), Apr 17, 1885
    TextNewspaper       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 ...
    TextNewspaper     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 …
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Detroit Post (Detroit, MI), Tues., Sep. 15, 1885
    Detroit Post (Detroit, MI), Tues., Sep. 15, 1885
    TextNewspaper       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.
    TextNewspaper     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 …
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Detroit Post (Detroit, MI), April 2, 1885
    Detroit Post (Detroit, MI), April 2, 1885
    TextNewspaper       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 …
    TextNewspaper     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 …
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Detroit Post (Detroit, MI), Oct 21, 1885
    Detroit Post (Detroit, MI), Oct 21, 1885
    TextNewspaper       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
    TextNewspaper     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 …
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Detroit Tribune (Detroit, MI), Nov. 11, 1885
    Detroit Tribune (Detroit, MI), Nov. 11, 1885
    TextNewspaper       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.
    TextNewspaper     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.
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Detroit Tribune (Detroit, MI), Nov. 11, 1885, page 1
    Detroit Tribune (Detroit, MI), Nov. 11, 1885, page 1
    TextNewspaper       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 …
    TextNewspaper     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 …
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI), Sep. 9, 1885
    Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI), Sep. 9, 1885
    TextNewspaper       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 ...
    TextNewspaper     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 …
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI), Sep. 10, 1885
    Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI), Sep. 10, 1885
    TextNewspaper       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 ...
    TextNewspaper     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 …
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Detroit Post (Detroit, MI), Aug. 28, 1885
    Detroit Post (Detroit, MI), Aug. 28, 1885
    TextNewspaper       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.
    TextNewspaper     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 …
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Beauport (Barge), C66075, sunk, 12 Oct 1885
    Beauport (Barge), C66075, sunk, 12 Oct 1885
    TextNewspaper       Reason: sunk Lives: nil Remarks: Raised
    TextNewspaper     Reason: sunk Lives: nil Remarks: Raised
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • John T. Mott (Schooner), sunk, 1885
    John T. Mott (Schooner), sunk, 1885
    TextNewspaper       Reason: sunk Remarks: Raised
    TextNewspaper     Reason: sunk Remarks: Raised
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Mary S Gordon (Schooner), aground, 7 Dec 1885
    Mary S Gordon (Schooner), aground, 7 Dec 1885
    TextNewspaper       Reason: aground Lives: nil Freight: fish Remarks: Total loss
    TextNewspaper     Reason: aground Lives: nil Freight: fish Remarks: Total loss
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Alice Brooks (Tug), C80909, aground, 1 Dec 1885
    Alice Brooks (Tug), C80909, aground, 1 Dec 1885
    TextNewspaper       Reason: aground Lives: nil Remarks: Total loss
    TextNewspaper     Reason: aground Lives: nil Remarks: Total loss
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Blanch Shelby (Propeller), aground\sunk, 15 Oct 1885
    Blanch Shelby (Propeller), aground\sunk, 15 Oct 1885
    TextNewspaper       Reason: aground\sunk Lives: nil Remarks: Total loss
    TextNewspaper     Reason: aground\sunk Lives: nil Remarks: Total loss
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Indian (Propeller), C33495, fire, 26 Oct 1885
    Indian (Propeller), C33495, fire, 26 Oct 1885
    TextNewspaper       Reason: fire Remarks: Total loss ?
    TextNewspaper     Reason: fire Remarks: Total loss ?
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Magdala (Schooner), C55948, aground, 13 Oct 1885
    Magdala (Schooner), C55948, aground, 13 Oct 1885
    TextNewspaper       Reason: aground Lives: nil Freight: coal Remarks: Total loss
    TextNewspaper     Reason: aground Lives: nil Freight: coal Remarks: Total loss
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
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