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      ABASHED MARINE POETS The new steamer built at Miller Brothers' shipyard for Schufeldt, the distiller, was launched at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon. It was a side launch, and the bow started first, but she went into the water evenly enough, and the event was pronounced a success. ...

      *a fish of the herring family ranging in size up to 24 inches and ten pounds.

      The submarine divers of Detroit desire to enter a formal protest against a certain set expression which is given vent to by every class of spectators present when the divers put on their diving shoes, whose lead sole weigh 20 pounds each. The expression alluded to is: "I would like …

      The vessel's name was JOHN B. WRIGHT, and she was built the same year as her loss 2 mi south of Pentwater October 3, 1854. It seems incredible that a cargo of that type would be worth anything after 30 years. Brendon Baillod reported to me yesterday that the beach …

      Pumping Coal From the Bottom of Lake Michigan The schooner Wells Burt foundered in Lake Michigan last fall with a cargo of 1,540 tons of coal, and the appliances used and the efforts recently made to recover the cargo are made the subject of a lengthy article in the Chicago …

      This gives some idea of how complex night navigation could be in the days before modern navigation aids - and this was the "new" system! No wonder so many boats went to the beach in Whitefish Bay! Click here for a modern map of the area described: http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=16&n;=5149169&e;=693298&size;=l&loc;=Sault+Ste%2E+Marie

      Of at least eight "Florence's" on the lakes in 1884, the only "Florence of Port Burwell" that I can find was a 99 ft. 2-mast schooner, built there by Dakin in 1861. One has to wonder about use of the phrase "under a full head of steam" and the schooner …

      Freight steamers, says the Chicago Times, can carry passengers if the consciences of the masters are elastic. All that is necessary is to put the passengers on articles as members of the crew. Some of these craft now carry as many as twenty "watchmen" each trip. The principal business of …

      Nautical Gazette: A correspondent sends in a clipping, which we publish for the benefit of amateur boatmen, in the hope that the sensible hints may be memorized: 1. Get a good stiff boat. 2. Seat yourself so as to keep her on an even keel. 3. Do not load her …

      Justice Scott of the Illinois supreme court has granted a stay of the proceedings in the case of Harmon vs. the city of Chicago. The case involves the legality of the smoke ordinance passed by the city council and which compelled the tugs on the river to use charred coal …

      The J. S. SEAVERNS (ex-J. P. WARD) stranded May 12, 1884 on Michipicoten Island, Lake Superior, and later was lost from a salvage tug and foundered.

      *Mayor of Chicago **The author is being facetious. The average 1884 grain schooner had a capacity of about 25,000 bu. or 400 t., and many were much larger.

      The fish steamer E. K. Roberts arrived yesterday from Georgian Bay with eighteen cars of white fish and trout for Gauthier. The fish car is a stout box about six feet square, placed on wheels for convenient handling.

      DULL TIMES Sailing in 1810 and 1831 A correspondent of the Morning Record of Buffalo writes as follows: "In view of the many records of dull times that one hears along the docks and in shipping circles generally, a reminder of the same kind of complaints which prevailed a ...

      This little notice was a surprise to me. I had presumed that lake steamers had always had the crew billeted as at present, but apparently up to this point they were arranged as with schooners - officers in the stern cabin, crew in the foc'sl.

      After all, there seems to be a special providence for the shipping. Grain and iron ore and coal freights are scarce, and rates are low just now, and a new carrying trade opens up. Paving stone is in great demand at Chicago. The islands of the St. Lawrence River are …

      JULIA PALMER (260 t.) was built at Buffalo by John Carrick, converted to a steamer in 1839 and went ashore in the fall of 1847 just west of Whitefish Point, ending her career - though her hull was later used as a dock facing. SUPERIOR was the second steamboat on …

      A SUBTERRANEAN OUTLET "I believe there is a subterranean river running from Lake Superior to lake Huron, under Lake Erie, and emptying into Lake Ontario," said an old lake navigator. "There is no other way in which to explain certain mysteries connected with our great lakes. There ...

      The lifesaving crew at Cleveland are experimenting with a new fire extinguisher.. It consists merely of a powerful double-cylinder force pump on a large flat-bottomed boat. It draws its supply from the river, and is operated by the means of hand levers, after the fashion of the country fire ...

      Capt. J. G. Kiah, superintendent of the tenth district life-saving service, states that the lake has been encroaching on the house at Crisp station, situated above Whitefish Point, on Lake Superior. He will have the building moved back from the water, where there will be less danger of having ...