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  • The Late Gale
    The Late Gale
    TextNewspaper  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 …
    TextNewspaper  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 …
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
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    NewspaperText  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 …
    NewspaperText  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 …
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Syracuse Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), June 27, 1935
    Syracuse Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), June 27, 1935
    TextNewspaper       Intrepid Lake Master Dies at 79 on Farm _______ Capt. A. R. Hinckley Succombs After Short Illness. ____ Oswego. - An eventful career as a master of vessels and as a marine contractor on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence river closed with the death of Capt. ...
    TextNewspaper     Intrepid Lake Master Dies at 79 on Farm _______ Capt. A. R. Hinckley Succombs After Short Illness. ____ Oswego. - An eventful career as a master of vessels and as …
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  • C.W. Cole's Fish Tug Nearing Completion
    C.W. Cole's Fish Tug Nearing Completion
    TextNewspaper  Syracuse Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), 14 Oct 1922     C.W. Cole's Fish Tug Nearing Completion ___ Staunch Lake Craft Will Soon Be Launched From the Phelps Shipyard, Chaumont ___ Another wooden steamer, fresh from the Chaumont yard, once so active but of ...
    TextNewspaper  Syracuse Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), 14 Oct 1922   C.W. Cole's Fish Tug Nearing Completion ___ Staunch Lake Craft Will Soon Be Launched From the Phelps Shipyard, Chaumont ___ Another wooden steamer, fresh from the Chaumont yard, once so …
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  • Just Around the Corner
    Just Around the Corner
    TextNewspaper  Bertrande, Syracuse Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), 27 Oct 1946     The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rockbound coast. And the woods, against a stormy sky, Their giant branches tossed." When the schooner "Illinois" left Sacket Harbor with 104 passengers and a crew of nine bound for the village of Chicago on Lake Michigan. The date was May …
    TextNewspaper  Bertrande, Syracuse Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), 27 Oct 1946   The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rockbound coast. And the woods, against a stormy sky, Their giant branches tossed." When the schooner "Illinois" left Sacket Harbor with …
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  • When Fast Traveling was Done by Packets
    When Fast Traveling was Done by Packets
    TextNewspaper  Syracuse Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), 9 Aug 1903     WHEN FAST TRAVELING WAS DONE BY PACKETS _____ Reminiscences of the Passenger Traffic of Central New York Fifty Years Ago Recalled by Discussion of Utility of Canals ____ NEWARK, N.Y., AUG. 8. - In these days when the utility of the canals is being ...
    TextNewspaper  Syracuse Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), 9 Aug 1903   WHEN FAST TRAVELING WAS DONE BY PACKETS _____ Reminiscences of the Passenger Traffic of Central New York Fifty Years Ago Recalled by Discussion of Utility of Canals ____ NEWARK, N.Y., …
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  • Lake Sailor of 58 Years, Retires From Service
    Lake Sailor of 58 Years, Retires From Service
    NewspaperText  Syracuse Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), 16 Mar 1916     He lived at 14 W. Fifth St., Oswego. He died Sept. 13, 1921. A brother, Matthew, of Grantwood, N.J., died July 26, 1917. The family belonged to St. Mary's Church. He was survived by three sons, Dr. Patrick H. Hourigan of Buffalo, Daniel P. and Leo Hourigan; two daughters, Mrs. …
    NewspaperText  Syracuse Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), 16 Mar 1916   He lived at 14 W. Fifth St., Oswego. He died Sept. 13, 1921. A brother, Matthew, of Grantwood, N.J., died July 26, 1917. The family belonged to St. Mary's Church. …
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  • Wayne Brewster, 91, Recalls Life as Sailor on Schooners 
in Bustling Trade on the Lakes
    Wayne Brewster, 91, Recalls Life as Sailor on Schooners in Bustling Trade on the Lakes
    NewspaperText  Syracuse Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), 12 Jun 1940     Wayne Brewster, 91, Recalls Life as Sailor on Schooners in Bustling Trade on the Lakes ____ CAPE VINCENT - Sailing as a crew member upon the schooners that plied from Lake Ontario to Chicago in the busy years of inland water traffic following the Civil War, Wayne B. ...
    NewspaperText  Syracuse Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), 12 Jun 1940   Wayne Brewster, 91, Recalls Life as Sailor on Schooners in Bustling Trade on the Lakes ____ CAPE VINCENT - Sailing as a crew member upon the schooners that plied from …
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  • George Goble Dead At Oswego
    George Goble Dead At Oswego
    TextNewspaper  Syracuse Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), 15 Oct 1906     George Goble Dead At Oswego _____ Well-known Shipbuilder and Mason of High Standing _____ Oswego, Oct. 14. - George Goble, an active participant in those scenes of the days of Oswego's maritime glory, when passage across the river might be had on the decks of ...
    TextNewspaper  Syracuse Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), 15 Oct 1906   George Goble Dead At Oswego _____ Well-known Shipbuilder and Mason of High Standing _____ Oswego, Oct. 14. - George Goble, an active participant in those scenes of the days of …
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  • Barge Sherman Towed To Port
    Barge Sherman Towed To Port
    TextNewspaper  Syracuse Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), 15 Oct 1906     Barge Sherman Towed To Port ____ Boat Wrecked in Gale on Lake Ontario Arrives in Oswego. ____ Oswego, Oct. 14, - The barge Sherman that was wrecked and beached on the southern shore of Lake Ontario near Sodus during the heavy gale of a week ago arrived ...
    TextNewspaper  Syracuse Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), 15 Oct 1906   Barge Sherman Towed To Port ____ Boat Wrecked in Gale on Lake Ontario Arrives in Oswego. ____ Oswego, Oct. 14, - The barge Sherman that was wrecked and beached on …
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  • Rescued from Gale's Clutch
    Rescued from Gale's Clutch
    TextNewspaper  Syracuse Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), Tues., Dec. 16, 1902     RESCUED FROM GALE'S CLUTCH ____ Five Persons, All of Oswego , Saved at Lakeside _____ HAD GIVEN UP ALL HOPE _____ Adrift on Angry Waves Thirty-Six Hours Without Food and Without Prospect of Help - Rescued After One of ...
    TextNewspaper  Syracuse Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), Tues., Dec. 16, 1902   RESCUED FROM GALE'S CLUTCH ____ Five Persons, All of Oswego , Saved at Lakeside _____ HAD GIVEN UP ALL HOPE _____ Adrift on Angry Waves Thirty-Six Hours Without Food and …
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  • Frank Phelps' Shipyard at Chaumont
    Frank Phelps' Shipyard at Chaumont
    TextNewspaper  Syracuse Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), 28 Nov 1920     Frank Phelps' Shipyard at Chaumont ____ Of the Many That Once Nourished Along the Lake Shore It Alone Remains. ____ Of all the ship building plants that once flourished along the Jefferson county shore bf Lake Ontario, a single yard, that of Frank Phelps, at ...
    TextNewspaper  Syracuse Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), 28 Nov 1920   Frank Phelps' Shipyard at Chaumont ____ Of the Many That Once Nourished Along the Lake Shore It Alone Remains. ____ Of all the ship building plants that once flourished along …
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Welland Canal
    Welland Canal
    NewspaperText  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, ...
    NewspaperText  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 …
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  • Another Steam-boat Accident
    Another Steam-boat Accident
    NewspaperText  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 ...
    NewspaperText  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 …
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  • Another Murder Committed by Rum
    Another Murder Committed by Rum
    NewspaperText  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.
    NewspaperText  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.
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  • Propellor and Brig Ashore
    Propellor and Brig Ashore
    NewspaperText  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, ...
    NewspaperText  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 …
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  • Niagara River
    Niagara River
    NewspaperText  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 …
    NewspaperText  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 …
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  • Commerce of Lake Erie
    Commerce of Lake Erie
    NewspaperText  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, ...
    NewspaperText  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 …
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  • Lake Tragedy Stuns Oswego
    Lake Tragedy Stuns Oswego
    TextNewspaper  Syracuse Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), Thurs., Dec. 18, 1902     LAKE TRAGEDY STUNS OSWEGO _____ Seven of Its Popular Citizens Given Up as Lost ____ RAY OF HOPE BLOTTED OUT ____ Vessel Ashore on Salmon Point Proves to Be the Noyes, Whose Crew Was Rescued After Heroic Work - No ...
    TextNewspaper  Syracuse Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), Thurs., Dec. 18, 1902   LAKE TRAGEDY STUNS OSWEGO _____ Seven of Its Popular Citizens Given Up as Lost ____ RAY OF HOPE BLOTTED OUT ____ Vessel Ashore on Salmon Point Proves to Be the …
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  • Syracuse Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), July 27, 1899
    Syracuse Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), July 27, 1899
    TextNewspaper       No Trace Found of Mrs. Griffin ________ Unsuccessful Search of the Sunken St. Peter ________ Lake Diver Matoll makes Two Descents to the vessel, but Could Find Nothing of the Woman Supposed to have Been Imprisoned in the Cabin. ________ The tug John ...
    TextNewspaper     No Trace Found of Mrs. Griffin ________ Unsuccessful Search of the Sunken St. Peter ________ Lake Diver Matoll makes Two Descents to the vessel, but Could Find Nothing of the …
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