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      Loss of the Olive Branch . About 9 o'clock Sunday morning the schooner Olive Branch, from Oswego , laden with coal, was driven ashore on the south side of the island, directly opposite Church street, ...

      SIXTY-EIGHT YEARS AGO. --In looking over old papers at the Custom House, a few days since, we found some clearance manifests issued in 1808, in manuscript. The following is a transcript of a manifest dated November 1st, of that year: District and Port of

    SIXTY-EIGHT YEARS AGO. --In looking over old papers at the Custom House, a few days since, we found some clearance manifests issued in 1808, in manuscript. The following is a …

Maritime History of the Great Lakes

      A BRILLIANT EVENT FOR THE CELEBRATION OF THE FOURTH AT OSWEGO, -- The indications are that the naval attack on Fort Ontario will be the most brilliant feature of the Centennial celebration in Oswego . ...

      The small schooner purchased by the Oswego Fourth of July committee, and burned off that harbor, was the C. A. MARTIN ...

      The notice we took in our paper of the 8th inst. of the capture by the British at the mouth of Genesee river of a vessel belonging to Capt. Wm. McKinstry, when expressing our approbation of that officer's conduct at Queenston, has induced the conductors of the print which is …

      A NEW SCHOONER. -- The schooner HIGHLAND BEAUTY, a new craft, has just been built at Oakville, Lake Ontario. Her dimensions are as follows: Length of keel, 75 feet; over all 86 feet; beam18 feet; hold, 6 feet 7 inches, capacity about 65,000 feet of lumber. She is owned by …

      The history of the tug LADY FRANKLIN is given by a Kingston exchange: The tug LADY FRANKLIN is being torn to pieces and the engine taken out for transference to the tug now building. The old boiler will not be used. The FRANKLIN was built ...

      The schooner MARQUIS , recently ashore, has been towed to Toronto by the tug ROBB . Her main mast has gone by the deck, and her mizzen just below the cross-trees, both ...

      Dispatch to the Detroit Post and Tribune from Oswego ; The schooner RICHARDSON , Captain McKee , with 9,200 ...

      Oswego , Sept. 26. -- The steamer THOMAS KINGSFORD , of Oswego, during a storm yesterday broke from her moorings at Wellington , a Canadian lake shore dock, and sank ...

      The steambarge T. KINGSFORD , barley laden, which sank at Wellington , has been pumped out, and is now at Oswego undergoing repairs. ...

      The following particulars of the burning of the steamer FLOWER CITY , at Clayton , are given by an Oswego exchange: "A fire had just been started in her engine, as she had been engaged to carry an excursion to ...

      Captain Timothy Donovan 's new tug M. J. CUMMINGS was launched at Oswego on Wednesday. She is 65 feet over all, 14 feet 6 inches beam and 7 feet 9 inches depth ...

      The history of the tug LADY FRANKLIN is given by a Kingston exchange: The tug LADY FRANKLIN is being torn to pieces and the engine taken out for transference to the tug now building. The old boiler will not be used. The FRANKLIN was built in ...

      The Lake Erie Steam-Boat carried the United States Mail from Buffalo to Erie, Fairport, Cleaveland, Sandusky City, and Detroit.

 Cleveland Herald (Cleveland, OH), 6 Nov 1821, p. 3, column 1     STEAM-BOAT LOST! Information was received in town, last evening, that the steam-boat Walk-in-the-Water, Capt. Rogers, was driven ashore near the Buffalo light-house, during the gale on Wednesday night last, and materially injured, if not totally lost. The passengers (about 40 in ...

 Cleveland Herald (Cleveland, OH), 13 Nov 1821, p. 3, column 2     LOSS of the STEAM-BOAT The report of the loss of the steamboat Walk-in-the-Water, is fully confirmed. We learn the following particulars from one of the passengers, who arrived in town a few days since by land: the boat left Black-Rock on Wednesday the 6th instant, at 4 o'clock, ...

 Cleveland Herald (Cleveland, OH), 8 May 1850, p. 1, column 5     PROPELLER ONTARIO.-- We are informed that the Propeller Ontario, built at this port about two years since, is now fitting up as a sea steamer at Buffalo, and is intended to run between Ogdensburgh and Quebec, with occasional trips to Halifax to meet the Cunard steamers from ...

 Cleveland Herald (Cleveland, OH), 3 Jul 1850, p. 1, column 7     Quick Trip The Propeller Ontario made the passage from Montreal to Quebec [sic: probably meant New York] in twelve days.--She took on board at Erie, some 300 tons of coal, and had 100 tons remaining on her arrival at New york. We understand her owner intends to take the Propeller …

 Cleveland Herald (Cleveland, OH), 11 Dec 1850, p. 1, column 3     Lake Propeller for Chagres The Propeller Ontario which left the lakes in May having made one trip to Charleston S. C., returned to New York for new boilers and outfit and cleared on the 2d inst. for Chagres.-- The time is coming when lake built vessels will be numerous on …