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      It is debatable whether this medium-sized tug (110 ft., 123 t.) was named W. R. MUIR or W. K. MUIR. There was another tug named W. K. MUIR, operating out of Milwaukee at this time. Extracts of official records show the spelling W. R. MUIR though she always shows in …

      According to a recent decision of the Court of Appeals, seamen are not entitled to extra pay when throwing overboard in order to lighten a cargo off a reef. This decision is the result of a suit brought against the steamer C. F. Bielman by James Gilbraith, John Welmer and …

      Shipbuilder James Davidson of West Bay City may have been amused by the irony of this accident, as he had built the 2040 gross ton ARMENIA (US#107219) in 1896, while his just-down-the-river rival Frank W. Wheeler was builder of the 1054 gt ELFINMERE/PACKARD (US#135940). The ARMENIA had struck Colchester Shoal …

      The international organization thus formed was termed the "Deep Waterways Commission." This was the beginning of the process that eventually led to the St. Lawrence Seaway, which was not completed until 1959.

      NIAGARA (US# ) was a 276 ton wooden tug of great power and was skippered by Capt. Millen for the Detroit Transportation Co., a company of which he was part owner. He retired from sailing in 1882 and later became president of the Lake Carriers' Association (1897). He died in …

      $56,040 in 1899 dollars is approximately equivalent to $1.31 million 2006 dollars. The CITY OF ROME (US#125914) was built in 1881 at Cleveland and measured 1908 gross tons. She continued to make money for her owners until lost to fire above Ripley, NY, in 1914.

      * Probably a typo - the skipper of the TROY at this time was the famous David P. Dobbins, who was also part owner of the boat.

      The name was actually M. FANNIE STAFFORD and she was a harbor tug of 42 tons which had been built at Buffalo only two years previously.

 Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI), 7 Dec 1897     *This was the loss of the schooner MINNEHAHA (US#91220) October 14, 1893, on Lake Michigan. Capt. Packer put the schooner on the beach near Onekama, Mich. in a 90-mph gale in an attempt to save her, but she broke up quickly and he was the only survivor of a crew …

      Mr. Bradley Exonerates The Northern Queen To the Editor of the Detroit Free Press: Since the sinking of the schooner Fayette Brown by the steamer Northern Queen, The Detroit Free Press, as well as some of the Cleveland papers, have published (through telegrams from Detroit) ...

      ELEVATOR GLUT SLOWS SHIPPING The freighter Mancox is tied up at the C.P.R. dock here waiting improvement of the seasonal slowing up of grain movements, both form the Lakehead ports, of Port Arthur and Fort William, and the shipping of grain from Montreal ...

      Mindemoya Now Is Yankcanuck Only a comparatively few persons here have heard of the Yankcanuck Transportation Company or the ship of the same name. But the vessel has a close association to a group of person in Marinette. The Yankcanuck a pulpwood carrier is owned and ...

      Naugatuck Conducting Ice Survey The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Naugatuck left the Michigan Sault base today for an exploratory ice survey downriver. The 110 foot craft was due to go as far down as Lake Nicolet, and possibly beyond to Neebish Island It' s finding ...

      Sault Vessel Return to Open Harbor Season The 3,280 ton motor vessel Yankcanuck commanded by Captain W. E. Dexter, docked at the Sault harbor Monday afternoon to officially open the 1964 St. Mary's River navigation season. Captain Dexter received the traditional silk hat ...

      Grounded Freighter Lightered. The Yankcanuck freighter Mancox which ran aground in the St. Marys River yesterday, afternoon left the government dock at the foot of Pim Street at 1 p.m. today. The ship freed itself at 9:30 a.m. after having 125 tons of her steel cargo ...

      Yankcanuck Ships lead the Way Mancox in Locks; Expect Manzzutti To Open Shipping The steamer Mancox sailed through the Sault locks at 7:05 a.m. Today, making the first lockage of the 1958 season. Owned by Yankcanuck Steamship Limited, the Mancox, which has ...

      Manzzuttti May Be First Expect Official Opening of Sault Lock on April 12. April 12 has been selected as the tentative date for opening the Sault Locks to commercial traffic. Although the icebreaker Alexander Henry and freighter Manzzutti locked through the Canadian ...

      Long ships leave St. Mary's River until Spring. The longest shipping season in this area since the end of the Second World War came to an end Sunday. As the motor Vessel Yankcanuck, flagship of Yankcanuck Steamships Limited of the Sault locked through the MacArthur lock ...

      Manzzutti First Ship Through Canal Here Moving To Steel Plant. First Vessel through the locks, for the 1954 navigation season, the Manzzutti, of the Yankcanuck Steamship Ltd., entered the Canadian canal about 8;15 a.m. today. It docked at the Algoma Steel Corporation ...

      Freighter Manzzutti Moves Through Locks. The navigation season at the Canadian Sault Canal was unofficially opened this morning at 7:15 when the Manzzutti locked up bound for the Algoma Steel dock. Because the Manzzutti is home based, its Captain John B. Perry will not ...