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      Black and white newspaper clipping with text and a picture. The picture is of the wooden Pevensey R. R. #1 Pioneer School. In the picture there are students outside of the school. There are also three adults in the photograph, they may be teachers or parents of the children. On …

      OBITUARY. _______ Captain William Williams Died - In Oswego, N.Y., Dec. 7th, 1890, Captain William Williams, in the 82d year of his age. After a long, and, at the last a painful illness, Captain Williams died at his home in West Seneca street at 9 o'clock last ...

      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 …

      The steel steamer Mackinaw, constructed at Bay City for the ocean freight trade, has arrived at Montreal, and will be taken thence to New York.

      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. ...

      Buffalo, October 11. - [Special.] - The tug Peter Smith this afternoon towed the forward end of the Mackinaw to Port Colborne. The after end will be towed over in the morning. The superintendent of the Welland Canal has given permission to let her go through on Sunday so as …

      A novel seizure: on Tuesday last, United States Marshal Matton of Oswego, seized the sunken schooner Vickery by diving to the vessel to affix the required notice upon her. The question has never risen before how a seizure of a vessel that was underwater should be made. Marshall Matton ...

      *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 ...

      Capt. James Davidson, the West Bay City shipbuilder, has experienced some trouble of late in getting lumber for his shipyard, and, like other builders, has been compelled to purchase supplies this spring from Kentucky. He is of the opinion that the supply of timber in the Saginaw Valley will be …

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

      The FERDINAND SCHLESINGER (US#120841) was 306 ft. keel and 2,608 tons. She now lies on the bottom 15 mi off Passage Island, Isle Royale, Lake Superior where she sank in a storm in 1919. I have no idea what they meant by "modern boat," but she has the looks and …

      Towing a dredge in a storm, it is said, is "like pushing a chain up the mast." This loss is one of a couple dozen large dredges lost on the lakes.

      Here are two versions of the same collision which were printed in the same paper in the same day. Take your pick as to which gives the true story - the major information is the same, but nearly all of the details in the stories are different. No clarifying article …

      The main feature of a steeple compound engine is that there are two cylinders stacked on top of one another, both connected to a common driveshaft. The upper cylinder is smaller and is the high pressure cylinder. The lower, larger cylinder is the low pressure cylinder. In operation, already used …

      Announcement is made to-day of the death of Captain William Schuyler Malcolm , one of Oswego's oldest and best known citizens. For the past two or three years Captain Malcolm has not enjoyed the ...