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      Buffalo, October 9. - [Special.] - The tug Peter Smith arrived last night. She will tow the two sections of the steel steamer Mackinaw through Lakes Erie and Ontario, and Canadian tugs will take them through the canals to Montreal. They will make a start Monday, weather permitting. ...

      In 1889 F. W. Wheeler & Co., shipbuilders of West Bay City, Michigan, took a contract to build two ocean-going "tramp" type steamers for the Atlantic trade. The steamers, which were to be too large (291 ft. oa) for the Welland Canal, were built at the Saginaw River shipyard and …

      It was the steel steamer Mackinaw, built by F. W. Wheeler & Co. of West Bay City, that went down the river Sunday, instead of Davidson's first ocean trader, as was stated in The Free Press yesterday. The Mackinaw left Bay City Saturday at 2 p.m. for Buffalo, and reached …

      Buffalo, October 7. - [Special.] - The steel steamer mackinaw, built by Wheeler at Bay City for the coast trade, arrived late last night. She was put in the dry dock at the union yard this morning and the work of cutting her in two has begun. She will be …

      Buffalo, July 14. - [Special.] - . . . The owners of the new steel steamer Emily P. Weed,* now being built by Wheeler at Bay City, to-day closed a contract for an electric search light to be put on her pilothouse. The Edison Company claim it will show a …

      Monday's dispatches from Buffalo claim that the electric search light to be placed on the new propeller Emily P. Weed was the first to be ordered for a lake steamer. As a matter of fact, a search light of the most powerful kind was ordered for the new steel propeller …

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      Hoboken (US#11903) was 139.5 ft. and 299.85 t.

      LAUNCH AT KINGSTON Kingston, Ont., June 16. - [Special] - This afternoon the new barge Cornwallis was launched at the Montreal Transportation Company's shipyard. She will carry 36,000 bushels on a nine-foot draft, the largest cargo that ever went down the St. Lawrence to ...

      Frank Wheeler's shipyard was known all over the lakes for providing the best in "creature comforts" available on cargo vessels.

      *presumably Redfield Proctor, U. S. Secretary of War

      Building the average modern three-bedroom house takes about 15,000 board feet of lumber. The lumber lost in this fire is enough to build 1,067 such homes. Aside from this dramatic end, the SEAGULL (US#23526) had a dramatic career. She was built as a two-mast schooner in 1864 by John Simpson …

      SUNK A FISHING VESSEL ________ A Lake Captain Charged With Manslaughter on the High Seas. Milwaukee, Wis., June 13 - Charles Tessler, a fisherman, yesterday swore out a warrant charging Capt. Oertling, of the schooner Fearless, with manslaughter on the high seas. ...

      Both vessels were total losses. The old BRUNO (C#80600) was 475 gross tons and had been built at Montreal in 1863, while the even older LOUISA (C#88636) was 250 gt and a product of the famous Louis Shickluna yard at St. Catharines in 1856.

      The scow-schooner BEN BRINK (US#31541) has been widely recorded in the Great Lakes literature as a total loss or near-total loss in a storm of September 11, 1890. This article quoting the skipper of the BRINK's tow vessel sets the record straight. The 317-ton BRINK continued to ply the lakes, …

      *built as VIRGINIUS **steam barge BYRON WHITAKER Other Dulac boats included the schooners ALOHA, JENETTE and A. STEWART: scow-schooner EXILDA; passenger steamer MINERAL CITY; steam barges CLINTON and NORWALK and the tug ELMER. Ed Chaput kindly sends the following websites containing more information on the ships of William Dulac: http://www.macomb.lib.mi.us/mountclemens/dulac.htm …

      Will some kind-hearted son of Neptune define, for the benefit of the regiment of lake marine editors and reporters , the exact nautical meanings of the words steamship, steam barge, propeller, schooner and tow barge? We are of the opinion that veteran sailors could do more to enlighten us on …

      I find it interesting that this is the very first suit of this type, at the relatively late date of 1890. The fact that sailors were beginning to have "rights" was probably a result of the general labor movement of the time. I believe that nowadays we would call this …

      A LAUNCH AT OWEN SOUND Owen Sound, May 3. - [Special] - The new steamer City of Midland, built for the North Shore Navigation Company, was launched here to-day. She will run between Collingwood, Midland and Parry Sound. The new four-masted vessel Minnedosa, recently ...

      No information on this inlander. Lakeview's Tamarack Lake is only a couple hundred acres.