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      Marine . After a hard season's work, the tug Geo. Nelson has come through with very few mishaps, and her machinery will require little or no repairing to be in readiness for another season's operation.

      Marine . The steamer Liberty has gone into winter quarters at this port.

      Our Inland Marine . The Local Field. Capt. O.J. Vorous is now in command of the fine steamer Liberty vice Capt. Andrew Johnson resigned. The change took place on Wednesday morning. Capt. Vorous states that his boat is having all she can attend to and her owners are more than …

      Detroit Harbor . The doctor is at present attending to John Baptist. He has been fishing for Capt. J. Cornell on the tug Truscott and from the wet and cold got congestion of the lungs.

      This is the steamer ARGO, DDD's hull number 120 and their last wooden vessel. She was renamed GLEN in 1930 and was stripped and abandoned in 1938.

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      A Schooner Founders Adams. Oct. 13- At about 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon a big three masted schooner became disabled in Mexico bay, about five miles south of the Sandy Creek life saving station, and about one and one-half miles from shore. The life saving crew went to the rescue ...

      Eight Lives Lost The Schooner Hartford Went Down in a Gale Last week's Herald contained a brief account of the loss of a schooner near the mouth of the Little Sandy pond. It was the Hartford, bound from Detroit to Cape Vincent with a cargo of 22,000 bushels of wheat. …

      Capt. Bert Wilson received a telegram from Capt. Wood, at Milwaukee, Wednesday, saying that the schooner Island City, green lumber laden and bound from Ludington to Milwaukee went down a few miles of the latter city in the easterly gale of Sunday night. Capt. Wood reached shore after a perilous …

      I'd be happy to be wrong, but I don't think this tug was ever built, though the plans seem fairly well along. The rounded deck with a rail "to keep the crew from slipping off" doesn't seem like that good of an idea on an open-lake tug where all the …

      Chicago, March 23. - (Special.) - The American Lloyds, which is the first of the outside vessel registers to appear in competition with Inland Lloyds, was issued to-day. This is the work which many vesselmen have attempted to boycott for fear it would reduce the valuation of their boats. A …

      WALDO was 204 feet and 1,294 g.t., US#81048. Her cargo burned for several days and was still smoldering when the insurance representative inspected her on the 7th. She was abandoned as a total loss, but was resurrected the following year and rebuilt at her birthplace, the Frank Wheeler yard in …

      The SELWYN EDDY was a steel bulker of 2846 t. and 343 feet, built at Wyandotte in 1893 (US#116555). She was abandoned in 1945.

      The boiler, if it ever belonged to the LADY, must have been replaced, as both of the boat's boilers are recorded at the wreck site off Winnetka. See Brendon Baillod's excellent site on the LADY ELGIN: http://www.ship-wrecks.net/shipwreck/projects/elgin/

      The PROTECTOR (US#150050) was renamed JAMES REID after being sold by Hall (a sometime business partner of James Reid) to Reid Wrecking and Towing in 1904-5. In '93 Reid was based at Bay City and moved to Port Huron in 1900. By 1904 Reid's Company was based in Sarnia, Ontario …

      A Raftsman Walked the Tow-Line A rather unusual diversion was enjoyed yesterday by the people on the boats and along the docks. The Grummond tug Crusader, Capt. James Canniff, passed down about 2 o'clock, towing a large raft of telegraph poles for W. C. Sterling, from Au Gres to ...

      The Steamer Clara Dismantled The steamer Clara, which has been through many changes and done a good deal of good service, has been dismantled, and her bare hull lies in the boneyard at St. Clair. The Clara was built at Detroit in 1860 for a tug, and in 1862 was …

      Harvey Hubbard, whose death occurred Tuesday, was said to be the last survivor of that company of eighty men who helped carry the cable for the ship Superior, which was being built in 1814 at Sackets Harbor to fight the British.

      The Schooner Baltic. _______ Driven on the Rocks Just East of the Life Saving Station. _______ She Had a Cargo of 18,000 Bushels of Barley - The Captain, His Wife and Three Sons Composed the Crew and Were All Saved by the Life Saving Crew--Thee Vessel Uninsured and ...

      Raised From the Deep Muskegon, Mich, October 23. - (Special.) - The big wrecking tug Protection, of Bay City, is in the harbor with a scow she has been at work on for several days raising from a depth of 100 feet. The scow was loaded with $5,000 worth of …