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      The Loss of Vessels An extract from an article published by the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, which appeared in the Times of this city Friday, relative to the loss of canal vessels, was so full of dense ignorance that we cannot let the opportunity of replying to it pass. The ...

      ANOTHER TERRIBLE DISASTER ON LAKE MICHIGAN _______ LOSS OF THE PROPELLER HIPPOCAMPUS _______ ABOUT FORTY PERSONS SUPPOSED TO HAVE PERISHED _______ A PARTIAL LIST OF THE MISSING &c.; &c.; &c.; _______

      Melee On The Wharf. - A lively row occurred Saturday evening on the salt wharf at the foot of Front street, between a number of dissatisfied mariners and the captain of the schooner Gerritt Smith. It appeared that a sailor named Michael McMahon applied for a berth on the vessel, …

      DID NOT CARE TO RIDE - The Toronto Globe says: Bailiff Smith went on board of the little tug Ida Stearns last Monday morning at Port Rowan with an attachment to seize her. The captain, Mr. Tregent, weighed anchor and gave the bailiff the opportunity of a free ride to …

 Oswego Daily Times, 31 Aug 1857     Marine News Schooner Iceberg supposed to be Lost with All on Board. - The schooner Iceberg, with a cargo of coal from Cleveland for Kingston, left the Welland Canal on the 12th, since which time nothing has been heard of her, and it is supposed she is lost with all …

 Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), 26 May 1871     *The C.N. Johnson (U.S.#4547) was built in 1856 by Bidwell & Banta of Buffalo. It was 138 feet log, 26 foot beam and 11-foot hold, 288 gross tons and 273 net tons. It foundered on Oct. 16, 1895 at Bar Point near Amherstburg, Ont., on Lake Erie with a cargo …

      Chart of Lake Ontario From Actual Survey by Augustus Ford U.S.N. Entered according to Act of congress in the Year 1836 by Augustus Ford in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Northern District of New York N. Curriers, Lith 148 Nassau St. N.Y.

 Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), 26 Sep 1916     THREE SAVED: SIX DROWNED Steamer Roberval Capsized in the Lake. Bound to the Diamond Match Company with a Cargo of Lumber When the Deckload Shifted and the Little Steamer Turned Turtle in the Gather Gloom of Night Trapped in thousands of feet of seasoned lumber, five ...

 Wayne Sentinel (Palmyra, NY), 29 Apr 1831     Shipwreck on Lake Ontario. - During a severe gale on the lake on the night of the 8th inst. the fine schooner Prescott, with 5,000 bushels of wheat and a crew of five men besides the captain and four or five passengers, was driven on the bar in York bay, …

 Wayne Sentinel (Palmyra, NY), 29 Jul 1831     Melancholy accident on Lake Ontario. - A letter dated Lewiston, July 20, states that the schooner Henry Clay, Capt. Campbell, from Oswego, bound for Ohio, with salt, sunk when within 12 miles of Fort Niagara, and six persons drowned; there were nine persons on board. The steamboat ...

 Syracuse Herald (Syracuse, NY), 18 Jan 1931     Duck Islands Claim Three More Lives _______ Solvay Man and Buddies Latest Victims _______ Score Perished There _______ Mariners Recall Wrecks in Vicinity of Isles Periling Boats _______ Exclusive Dispatch to The Herald. Kingston, ...

      About 10 o'clock Sunday morning the large three masted schooner "Sam Cook," cleared from this port for Ashtabula with a cargo of iron ore. A strong breeze was blowing from the North and she sailed up the river finely. Upon reaching the head of the Narrows the breeze dropped completely …

      The Government hired a steamer at Buffalo last year for carrying on Lake Erie. She was to have been returned week since, which was not done on the day, and the owners are now claiming $10,000 damages, it is said, for loss of the season. Captain Sandom went up last …

      Important to seamen. There seems to be a misunderstanding among the vessel captains in reference to the fog signals to be sounded. Capt Griffin and Preston inform us that navigation in foggy weather is much more difficult than before on account of the apparent ignorance of officers ...

      A PARTIAL LIST OF VESSEL APPOINTMENTS FOR THE COMING SEASON ________ WHAT BOATS MASTERS AND CHIEF ENGINEERS WILL BE FOUND ON ________ Fortunate Sailors Who Have Good Berths Secured for Next Season ________ Following is a partial list of appointments of ...

      The schooner Jamaica Capsized and Sunk on Lake Huron We learn from a telegram received from Falls River, Michigan, that the schooner Jamaica, Capt. D. Bouthwell, was struck by a squall yesterday afternoon, about 1 o'clock, capsized and sunk in seven fathoms of water, twenty miles ...

      The Loss of the Schooner Jamaica. The circumstances attending the loss of this vessel were so unusual that we give the following from Capt. David Bothwell's statement: Thursday, the 20th inst., the vessel was coming down lake Huron with a light wind ahead, and when about 50 miles below ...

      The Jamaica. We have had an interview with Alderman Wheeler who has just returned from Lake Huron, where he has been to superintend the raising of the schooner, Jamaica, the account of the capsizing of which we published several weeks since. The attempt to raise the vessel ...

      Viva La Jamaica - Capt. M. M. Wheeler arrived in this city Saturday morning from Detroit, where ha has been superintending the repairs of is schooner, the Jamaica. The recent accident to this vessel has not injured it in the least. She left Detroit on Friday laden with wheat the …

      Capt. Wheeler's Card. In another place was found the card of Capt. M. Wheeler, thanking the several insurance companies and their officers for the prompt manner in which the losses sustained by him in the accident to the Jamaica were adjusted. While Capt. Wheeler speaks no more than the ...