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      She was subsequently sold at a marshal's sale to recover the wrecking bill and became an American bottom (US#135898). She was wrecked northeast of Duluth in 1906, after a 32-year career.

      The INTERNATIONAL was the very tug that brought Canadian customs authorities to the site where the pratical Grummond wrecker WINSLOW was attempting to salvage the schooner STARLING from Canadian waters in November 1884. The QUEBEC (C#71212) story was long and somewhat sad. Briefly, she was built as a crack passenger …

      Salad For Saturday ______ "I delight in telling what I think - I shall go on just as before, seeing whatever I can, and telling what I see." - Emerson _______ I never tire of talking of sailors and I am sure

    Salad For Saturday ______ "I delight in telling what I think - I shall go on just as before, seeing whatever I can, and telling what I see." - Emerson …

Maritime History of the Great Lakes

      The Belle Wilson Ashore ______ A Thrilling Experience In A Snow Storm On The Lake ______ Caught in a Snow Storm - Losing the Rudder - Attempting to Steer With a Drag - Heroic Efforts of the Captain and Crew - Driven Back ...

      Disasters of Lake Ontario. The wreck of the George B. Sloan on the Oswego piers in the spring was considered a bad opening of the season, but Lake Ontario behaved well until the close of the season which thus far has proven disastrous. Within a fortnight a number of disasters …

      Believed to have been written by Clark Morrison, Editor of the Palladium.

      On Saturday night, at about half past ten, the Life Saving Station of this place was discovered to be on fire. Four men including Keeper Chapman were soon on the ground. Others came a few minutes later. They found the kitchen or small building enveloped in flames with the roof …

      Texas - The burning of the Life Saving Station, at this place on the evening of March 27, has caused a wide spread excitement in this village and surrounding country. It is the all absorbing topic of conversation in all public places, also in nearly every household. On Saturday ...

      Texas - The sailors have all gone from this vicinity. The last to go were Fred Dennis and John Turk. It is a great disappointment to a number of our young men to have the life saving destroyed just at a time when they expected to commence their season's work. …

      Texas - The life station is not yet built here. We hear that they are expecting and are confident of having one at Selkirk at the mouth of Salmon River.

      Texas - There is nothing new in regard to the rebuilding of the Life Saving Station.

      In the same news item was notice of the death of ex-keeper M. E. Parker who was accidentally killed on board the steam barge, Anna Smith, at Manitowoc, Wisc. Mexico Masonic Lodge handled the funeral and expenses.

      The Ocean Wave ______ Lying in the Sand at Port Ontario - The Captain's Statement. Pulaski, Dec. 3. - The schooner Ocean Wave came ashore opposite the old light house at Port Ontario about 2:30 o'clock this afternoon. She is a small fore and aft vessel with 5,000 ...

 Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), 26 Nov 1886     THE COMMODORE WAS JOYFUL _____ And He is Also Out an Oyster Supper - Safe Arrival of a Vessel for Whose Safety Alarm was Felt _____ "If you bring in the schooner F.D. Barker tonight I'll buy a oyster supper for you and your crew," said Commodore Thomas Crimmins, ...

 Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), 26 Nov 1886     A THRILLING EXPERIENCE. ______ The Schooner Comanche Struck by a Squall and Dismasted - The Captain's Statement. ______ At one o'clock yesterday morning Captain John Redford of the tug Eliza Redford, sighted a schooner about four miles out in the lake burning a ...

      Salad For Saturday _____ "I delight in telling what I think - and I shall go on just as before, seeing whatever I can, and telling what I see." -Emerson _____ "Thou little knowest What he can ...

      In 1886-1887, Clark Morrison, the editor of the Oswego Palladium, wrote an interesting series of articles on maritime life. The ones that are readable will be reproduced. Unfortunately, when the newspapers were bound, some of them cut off the bottom line or two of the papers.

      Salad For Saturday! _____ The bravery and the reckless daring of the average lake sailor has long been proverbial and many a thrilling tale has been printed of his exploits. They laugh at danger, and so fascinating is the life they lead that is very rarely that they can be …

      The Wreck Of The Belle Wilson . ______ A Thrilling Story by Captain Collier - Thirty-Six Hours Drifting on the Lake. Early yesterday morning word was received at this city that ...

      From Out Of The Storm ______ The Herbert Dudley on the Lake Saturday - The Baltic's Narrow Escape - What Vessel Captains Say Canadian vessel captains have long had a reputation ...