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 New York Spectator (New York, NY), 7 Dec 1842     The Late Gale. - It is but seldom that we have to record so many disasters on our inland waters as it has been our misfortune to do within the past few days. A great many lives have been lost, and a large amount of property destroyed. Among the shipwrecks …

 New York Spectator (New York, NY), 1 May 1829     ADVERTISEMENT. - Notice is hereby given to the Public, that the TOLLS of the GOVERNMENT LOCKS and CANALS upon the RIVER St. LAWRENCE, will be REDUCED at the opening of the Navigation to the rates in force previously to the year 1827; but it will be obligatory to take out …

 New York Spectator (New York, NY), 9 Dec 1846, p. 4     Welland Canal The breach which at present interrupts the navigation of that canal detains some seventy vessels with their cargoes and threatens them with a Winter's berth in the interior of Canada. The break itself will, as we understand, be repaired in a few days, and the ice, ...

 New York Spectator (New York, NY), 17 Nov 1826, p. 2     Another Steam-boat Accident. --A lette from Niagara, dated the 6th inst. informs us, that the new steam-boat Niagara , Capt. Mosier, while on her way up from Prescott, run on a rock in Lake Ontario, near Long Point. The steam-boat Queenston, Capt. Whiting, on passing ...

 New York Spectator (New York, NY), 24 Aug 1827     Another Murder Committed by Rum .--A fireman of the steam boat Queenston, while at Prescott last week, being drunk, fell into the machinery, and was killed.

 New York Spectator (New York, NY), 30 Oct 1844, p. 4     From the Buffalo Commercial of Saturday Propellor and Brig Ashore .-- By letters received in town to-day per Constitution, we learn that the propeller Emigrant, with a cargo of 9000 bushels of wheat, from Chicago, for this port, is ashore at Goderich, ...

 New York Spectator (New York, NY), 4 Mar 1825, p. 1     Niagara River .--The weather was so cold a few days since, on the western frontier, that the Niagara river was frozen over, and from the storage of the water by the ice, the river rose from nine to twelve feet. The cakes of ice on the third day, were from …

 New York Spectator (New York, NY), 25 Dec 1827, p. 1     From the Buffalo Journal Commerce of Lake Erie .--By a statement furnished by the officers of the Custom-House, at this port, and published in the Gazette, it appears that the number of American vessels employed in the commerce of the upper Lakes, ...

      Another extensive maritime list from the Detroit perspective compiled by Detroit Free Press marine reporter Capt. J. W. Hall.

      FORTY-EIGHT YEARS AGO. - The following vessels passed Detroit August 10, 1820 , which we find recorded in the log book kept aboard the schooner Elizabeth ,

    FORTY-EIGHT YEARS AGO. - The following vessels passed Detroit August 10, 1820 , which we find recorded in the log book kept aboard the schooner Elizabeth ,

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      (US #9680), wooden propeller built 1857 by Peck & Masters of Cleveland, 210' x30'x 12,' 969 gross tons, 805 net tons. Rebuilt 1865, 1866, with major repairs in 1863 and 1881. Lost, May 5, 1896 at Sturgeon Bay, Wisc. on Lake Michigan. by fire. No loss of life. She was …

      Northern Transportation Co. apparently made its arrangements, as it continued to operate on Lake Ontario in 1871 and finally folded about 1875.

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      BADGER STATE became more legitimate, maybe, but she burned to a total loss the following year on the St. Clair River with the loss of 15 lives.

      THE LOSS OF THE SCHOONER JAMES NAVAGH . - The last number of the Manitowoc Pilot contains the following highly interesting particulars of the loss of the schooner James ...

      Through the latter third of the 19th century, Detroit was home to some of the largest and most powerful tugs in the whole lake system. The towing of sail vessels through the Detroit-St Clair river complex from Lake Erie to Lake Huron was big business in the day. The tug …

      Capt. George Robarge, master of the propeller S. S. CURRY, says the sea serpent is not a myth. With his own eyes, he beheld the hideous monster. It was sunset, says the captain, on his last trip down from Duluth, when near White Fish Point (Lake Superior) that the antediluvian …

      THE WRECK OF THE NIAGARA. - The Rochester Advertiser thinks that this vessel, wrecked near the mouth of the river, will be got off in a short time. Workmen are going at it immediately, under the direction of Mr. George Wick, of Oswego. The necessary apparatus was brought up to …

      MARINE INTELLIGENCE A deserved tribute has recently been paid to Capt. Mason, of the steamer ROCHESTER, of the Lewiston route. It consisted of a service of plate, presented by the Insurance Companies as a testimonial of their sense of his gallant conduct on a recent occasion. ...