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      Kingston, September 17. -- The schooner T. R. MERRITT which went ashore nine miles above Oswego, is a total wreck. She is owned by Mckay of Hamilton, and was valued at $5,000. There will be about $1,000 salvage.

      The schooner James Navagh is ashore fifteen miles above Presque Isle [Lake Huron].

      RAISING THE SCHOONER JAMES NAVAGH. - This vessel went ashore last fall about fifteen miles above Presque Isle. An effort will be made in a short time to raise her. It is understood that she has not been materially damaged. She is owned in Oswego, and is valued at about …

      RAISING THE JAMES NAVAGH. - Messrs. Quigley and Cary, who took the contract for raising the schooners Nicaragua and James Navagh, have relinquished the latter and it has been taken by the tug Oswego. She started last evening with steam pumps and all the necessary apparatus. The Navagh ...

      THE SCHOONER JAMES NAVAGH. - The Chicago Press of Monday says that the tug Oswego, of Detroit, came into port on Saturday morning, bringing the schooner James Navagh, with a steam pump aboard. That vessel, it will be remembered, went ashore last November at Presque Isle, with a cargo ...

      The trim passenger and package freight steamer CHICORA (US#126902) was a powerful, state of the art vessel when launched. That is part of the reason she chose to issue her usual challenge to the lake gods in deep winter of 1895. On January 21 of that year she left Milwaukee …

      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) ...

      Here's one of the more unusual uses for a barge. There were a number of "General Burnside"s - I believe this one is US#37572, built at Saginaw, Michigan. I've not the slightest idea what ever happened to her or if this "party barge" idea worked, but I think it's a …

      BADLY DISABLED _______ STEAMER MERIDA "GOES THROUGH HERSELF" ON LAKE HURON _______ Wednesday afternoon the steamer Merida, owned by D. Whitney, Jr., of this city, passed this port, bound up light for ore. When off Sanilac, ninety miles from here, the intermediate ...

      Search for the Chicora Abandoned _______ St. Joseph, Mich., July 3. - The search for the lost steamer Chicora was abandoned to-day. Six weeks ago the search started under encouraging prospects. Several thousand dollars have been expended in the search. ...

      Duluth reports a freak in the marine business. Vessels are bringing cedar ties to that port for the Manitoba Road and taking back tamarack ties to the Soo from Port Arthur for the Grand Trunk. A heavy trade is thus being carried on.

      NO ACTION LIKELY _______ AS RESULT OF THE SINKING OF FISHING TUG GRACIE M _______ Ottawa, June 8. - Commander Spain, of the marine department, will leave tonight for Port Stanley to investigate the circumstances connected with the running down of the American ...

      THE BARGE W. L. PECK FOUNDERS The propeller Oneida arrived here yesterday with the crew of the barge W. L. Peck, which foundered Monday morning off Ashtabula. Capt. G. W. Pardee, of the Oneida, made the following statement to a FREE PRESS representative: "We left Buffalo, ...

      RUBY was actually converted from the 135 t. sidewheeler to a 106 t. three-mast schooner and lived out her usefulness in the lumber trade until abandoned about 1894.

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      *Sand Beach is now Harbor Beach, Michigan **The prop H. LUELLA WORTHINGTON (US#95603) was a brand-new freighter of 149 ft. and 375 gt. The W. R. HANNA (US#26669) was a 23-year-old two-mast scow-schooner of 103 gt and 86 ft.

      NORTH FAIR HAVEN The Southern Central Railroad has its northern terminus at North Fair Haven, on Little Sodus Bay. here are two small villages, Fair Haven and North Fair haven, about one mile apart. The bay is a deep indentation from the lake, and is two miles long and over …

      Vessels laid up at Detroit - The following is a correct list of all the steamers and vessels laid up at this port for the winter: Steamers - Ocean, May Queen, Illinois, Ruby, Columbia, Forest Queen, Forester, Sea Bird, Cleveland, City of Cleveland, Pearl, T. Whitney, Islander, ...

      NEWS FROM PORT HURON. - The FREE PRESS correspondent at Port Huron writes Nov. 5th. The severest gale of the season is prevailing in this vicinity and the wind is apparently increasing in velocity. A light drizzling snow is falling which is half rain. Should the quantity of snow ...

      Buffalo, October 3. - [Special].] - The storm which set in shortly before 7 o'clock this morning has been the most severe one of the season. The wind reached fifty-two miles an hour several times between 7 a.m. and noon, and blew at a rate of forty-five miles steady since …