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  • Palestine (Schooner), aground, 24 Nov 1853
    Palestine (Schooner), aground, 24 Nov 1853
    TextNewspaper       Reason: aground Lives: nil Freight: R.R.iron
    TextNewspaper     Reason: aground Lives: nil Freight: R.R.iron
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Ontonagon (Schooner), aground, 24 Nov 1853
    Ontonagon (Schooner), aground, 24 Nov 1853
    TextNewspaper       Reason: aground Lives: nil Freight: R.R.iron Remarks: Got off
    TextNewspaper     Reason: aground Lives: nil Freight: R.R.iron Remarks: Got off
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Missouri (Schooner), aground, 1 Nov 1846
    Missouri (Schooner), aground, 1 Nov 1846
    TextNewspaper       Reason: aground Freight: wheat
    TextNewspaper     Reason: aground Freight: wheat
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • William H. Merritt (Schooner), aground, 1 Nov 1846
    William H. Merritt (Schooner), aground, 1 Nov 1846
    TextNewspaper       Reason: aground
    TextNewspaper     Reason: aground
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Swallow (Schooner), aground, 12 Nov 1820
    Swallow (Schooner), aground, 12 Nov 1820
    TextNewspaper       Reason: aground Freight: none Remarks: Total loss
    TextNewspaper     Reason: aground Freight: none Remarks: Total loss
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Additional Return for Ordnance Stores for the Use of Capt. Thos. Biddle's Compy Corps of Artillery, June 24, 1814.
    Additional Return for Ordnance Stores for the Use of Capt. Thos. Biddle's Compy Corps of Artillery, June 24, 1814.
    Text       A return for ordnance stores for Captain Thos. Biddle's company corps of artillery during the War of 1812. The document is dated June 24, 1814 at the Artillery Encampment, Buffalo, and is signed by James Hall, Lieut. & Conductor of Ord., and J. Hindman, Major Coms. Arty. Some of the …
    Text     A return for ordnance stores for Captain Thos. Biddle's company corps of artillery during the War of 1812. The document is dated June 24, 1814 at the Artillery Encampment, Buffalo, …
  • Letter, James W. Caine? to Abraham Wendell, 3 June 1841
    Letter, James W. Caine? to Abraham Wendell, 3 June 1841
    Text       Schooner America leaves with supplies for all the lights on the Lakes. Have a good copper smith with him.
    Text     Schooner America leaves with supplies for all the lights on the Lakes. Have a good copper smith with him.
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Letter, A. Stebbins to Abraham Wendell, 26 October 1841
    Letter, A. Stebbins to Abraham Wendell, 26 October 1841
    Text       Enclosing enrolment and license of the schooner Nancy Dousman surrendered at Buffalo.
    Text     Enclosing enrolment and license of the schooner Nancy Dousman surrendered at Buffalo.
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Steamboat, Uncle Sam, Correspondence, 07 Sep 1834
    Steamboat, Uncle Sam, Correspondence, 07 Sep 1834
    Ship DocumentText       Master: J. M. Lundy
    Ship DocumentText     Master: J. M. Lundy
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Barque, Detroit, Correspondence, 20 Jun 1839
    Barque, Detroit, Correspondence, 20 Jun 1839
    Ship DocumentText       Master: ?
    Ship DocumentText     Master: ?
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Buffalo Courier, 26 Apr 1850, p. 2, column 5
    Buffalo Courier, 26 Apr 1850, p. 2, column 5
    NewspaperText       At Bidwell & Banta's yard some eighty men are at work on the Propeller Ontario , preparing her for California. She is to be copper-fastened and made as staunch as any sea-going craft afloat. Permission, we understand, has been obtained for her egress through the St. Lawrence. She is ...
    NewspaperText     At Bidwell & Banta's yard some eighty men are at work on the Propeller Ontario , preparing her for California. She is to be copper-fastened and made as staunch as …
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • A Man Missing
    A Man Missing
    NewspaperText  Buffalo Commercial Advertiser (Buffalo, NY), 20 Sep 1849, p. 2     We find the following in the Erie Com. Adv. of Wednesday. There was a rumor current yesterday that the body of Mr. CARRICK had been found in the Ship Canal, but on inquiry, we ascertained that it was unfounded. We trust that vigilant efforts will be made to ascertain the …
    NewspaperText  Buffalo Commercial Advertiser (Buffalo, NY), 20 Sep 1849, p. 2   We find the following in the Erie Com. Adv. of Wednesday. There was a rumor current yesterday that the body of Mr. CARRICK had been found in the Ship Canal, …
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • A Man Missing
    A Man Missing
    NewspaperText  Buffalo Courier, 21 Sep 1849, p. 2     The Erie Commercial Advertiser of the 19th inst. contains the following article, relative to the disappearance of Mr. John Carrick, for many years a well known resident of this city, and one of the first individuals whose name was identified with the now extensive ship-building interest "on the ...
    NewspaperText  Buffalo Courier, 21 Sep 1849, p. 2   The Erie Commercial Advertiser of the 19th inst. contains the following article, relative to the disappearance of Mr. John Carrick, for many years a well known resident of this city, …
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Geneva Gazette (Geneva, NY), Wed., May 12, 1819
    Geneva Gazette (Geneva, NY), Wed., May 12, 1819
    TextNewspaper       Buffalo, April 4. The Steam Boat Walk-in-the-Water, started on Friday last for Detroit, with one hundred and fifty-six passengers. In overhauling the Machinery some defects were remedied, and the improvements and those of lessening the diameter of the Water Wheel, which by ...
    TextNewspaper     Buffalo, April 4. The Steam Boat Walk-in-the-Water, started on Friday last for Detroit, with one hundred and fifty-six passengers. In overhauling the Machinery some defects were remedied, and the improvements …
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Buffalo Daily Republic (Buffalo, NY), Tuesday, June 19, 1849
    Buffalo Daily Republic (Buffalo, NY), Tuesday, June 19, 1849
    TextNewspaper       DISASTER. ---The Oswego Times says a severe thunder storm passed over that city on Friday noon, and the schooner PRINCESS ROYAL, lying wind bound off the mouth of the river, was dismasted. The steamer LADY OF THE LAKE went out and towed the disabled vessel into port. ...
    TextNewspaper     DISASTER. ---The Oswego Times says a severe thunder storm passed over that city on Friday noon, and the schooner PRINCESS ROYAL, lying wind bound off the mouth of the river, …
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Steam-boat Lost!
    Steam-boat Lost!
    NewspaperText  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 ...
    NewspaperText  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 …
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Loss of the Steam Boat
    Loss of the Steam Boat
    NewspaperText  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, ...
    NewspaperText  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 …
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Crew Abandons Grounded Ship
    Crew Abandons Grounded Ship
    NewspaperText  Milwaukee Journal, 16 Nov 1929     Crew Abandons Grounded Ship Buffalo N.Y. Battered for 12 hours by heavy seas, the freight steamer Briton was filling rapidly Friday and seemed beyond hope of salvage, according to reports received by the coast guard here. Capt. Johnson and the crew of 27 men on board since ...
    NewspaperText  Milwaukee Journal, 16 Nov 1929   Crew Abandons Grounded Ship Buffalo N.Y. Battered for 12 hours by heavy seas, the freight steamer Briton was filling rapidly Friday and seemed beyond hope of salvage, according to reports …
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Common Council
    Common Council
    NewspaperText  Buffalo Daily Republic (Buffalo, NY), 27 Sep 1848, p. 3, column 2     COMMON COUNCIL.-- ... Mr. L. Barker was denied permission to occupy a portion of Buffalo creek with his floating elevator -- and certain suits against him for obstructing the creek were ordered to be continued. A communication from the harbor master informed the Council that the ...
    NewspaperText  Buffalo Daily Republic (Buffalo, NY), 27 Sep 1848, p. 3, column 2   COMMON COUNCIL.-- ... Mr. L. Barker was denied permission to occupy a portion of Buffalo creek with his floating elevator -- and certain suits against him for obstructing the creek …
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Terrible Gale!
    Terrible Gale!
    NewspaperText  Buffalo Daily Gazette (Buffalo, NY), 21 Oct 1844, p. 4     TERRIBLE GALE! GREAT LOSS OF LIFE And Destruction of Property _____ Our city was visited last night by one of the most severe and destructive gales which was ever experienced here. The whole lower part of the city, extending into Seneca street, on the east side of ...
    NewspaperText  Buffalo Daily Gazette (Buffalo, NY), 21 Oct 1844, p. 4   TERRIBLE GALE! GREAT LOSS OF LIFE And Destruction of Property _____ Our city was visited last night by one of the most severe and destructive gales which was ever experienced …
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
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