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      Propeller PORTER. -- This pioneer of the lakes which was recently re-purchased of the Canadians, has been expeditiously metamorphosed into a fine propeller, and is now ready for service. On overhauling her it has been found that her hull was in excellent preservation, and having been ...

      Propeller PORTER. -- This pioneer of the lakes which was recently re-purchased of the Canadians, has been expeditiously metamorphosed into a fine propeller, and is now ready for service. On overhauling her it has been found that her hull was in excellent preservation, and having been ...

 Buffalo Daily Gazette (Buffalo, NY), 21 Oct 1844, p. 4     TERRIBLE GALE! GREAT LOSS OF LIFE And Destruction of Property _____ Our city was visited last night by one of the most severe and destructive gales which was ever experienced here. The whole lower part of the city, extending into Seneca street, on the east side of ...

      Launched as the Revenue Cutter Jefferson

      LAUNCH OF THE STEAM PROPELLER HERCULES. - This boat belonging to the Messrs. Hollister, was launched from the ship yard of Carrick & Bidwell, on Saturday afternoon about half past four. She went off in fine style, much to the gratification of a large number of our citizens who ...

      The propeller VANDALIA parted her chain and went ashore at the Island. She was gotten off without injury. - Cleveland Herald.

      Ericsson's Propellers. -- Mr. James Averill, from Maine, has opened a shipyard in this city. on the north side of the river, near the north pier. He is an experienced Ship builder, and we trust his location will prove advantageous both to himself and to this community. He is now …

      Part of long article.

      STEAMBOATS ON LAKE ONTARIO. From the Albany Daily Advertiser The following lists of steam vessels employed in the navigation of Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence, include all that have been so employed, from the first use of steam on those waters, and whether built on the ...

      She was recovered in a few days and repaired at the Wolf & Davidson Shipyard, Milwaukee, over the following winter.

      PROGRESS docked in the South Pond at Chicago - from a Columbian Exposition guide of 1893.

      KINGSTON PACKET. - The Schr. Mariette has commenced running as a Packet from Oswego to Kingston. Leaves Oswego regularly every Monday, and as often as wind and ...

      The schooner A. P. Dutton , belonging to P. M. Kinney , of this town, is missing. She left Chicago on the evening of Dec. 8th , for ...

      Launched in 1862, the scow-schooner SARAH CLOW was no backyard sailboat - she was a significant vessel of 192 tons. The SARAH CLOW was driven ashore and destroyed by a storm in the fall of 1869. Thanks to Brendon Baillod for providing some of the information used in these notes. …

      Obituary. ____ George Goble . To-day Oswego mourns one of her oldest and noblest citizens in the death of George Goble, for many years one of the best known shipbuilders on the Great ...

      On the evening of the 10th inst., the schooner Bridget , with a full cargo and fifteen persons, including passengers, on board, anchored near the mouth of the St. Joseph river , and sent a part of her cargo ...

      The second steamboat on the scene was the A. C. Van Raalte.

      This is the only instance I know of of a vessel being so totally destroyed by the action of escaping air as she sank. The fact later brought about accusations that THORNTON was totally unseaworthy at the time of her loss. She was 274 gt, built by Bidwell & Banta …

      Note this vessel's unusual engine arrangement, with two compound engines running a single shaft.

      Campbell, Owen & Co. later became the Detroit Dry Dock Co., one of the most prolific and innovative shipbuilders on the lakes. The vessel on the drawing board in the article probably came out as the double deck passenger freighter GORDON CAMPBELL the next year. S. R Kirby, who had …