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      ORLEANS Schooner. -- We learn by the Conneaut Gazette, that the Schooner ORLEANS ashore near Conneaut has become a total wreck, and has been broken up and sold by the Underwriters. She belonged to Oswego. The Gazette represents her a frail craft, built of worm eaten hemlock and ...

      It would seem that the vessel captain who will stop and back his engines every time there is the remotest possibility of a collision of any kind will best serve his owners, or the underwriters carrying a risk on the vessel. Another collision case, that of the Leatham & Smith …

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 appeared in Marine Review, 11 May 1899, p. 19     Many lake navigators will regret to learn of the death of Capt. Wm. Egan, for many years chief mate of the Goodrich liner Virginia, which occurred some days ago at his home at Manitowoc. He was aged thirty two years.

      Darius N. Avery vice president of the Detroit, Belle Isle & Windsor Ferry Co. died at Detroit last week, aged fifty-three years. He was at one time interested in the lumber business.

      PROPELLER 'PERSEVERANCE' -- The propeller PERSEVERANCE, which was destroyed by fire off Pultneyville, on the morning of the 6th. inst., the particulars of which was given in the Tribune of yesterday morning, was a craft of 652 tons burden, old style, being built in 1864 at St. ...

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      The Gale. - The wind has blown from West and North West for the last sixty hours, with slight variations and without abatement, accompanied with snow squalls and with a sufficient degree of cold to cover vessels with ice, where exposed to the dashing waters and raging ...

      Sault Ste. Marie, June 3, 1845 FROM LAKE SUPERIOR - The schooner ALGONQUIN arrived yesterday with about 3 tons of Copper mineral from the Pittsburg Co. Works, being the first sent down this season. It is to be sent to Boston. It is packed up in half barrels, weighing ...

      SAIL CRAFT ON LAKE SUPERIOR (From the Detroit Free Press) We notice in some of our exchange papers, various accounts of the number of vessels on Lake Superior, which are very imperfect. Many seem to be under the impression that until a few years past, there were no vessels ...

      LAUNCHES. -- A new schooner, named the WINDHAM, Capt. Shepard, was launched at Ashtabula last week, without the aid of King Alcohol. Another new schooner, the VELOCITY, and a steam propeller called the HERCULES, were also launched at Buffalo last week. ...

      The prop. HERCULES has been sold to Messrs. A.S. & L. Smith, of Algonac. Price paid $915.

      The owners of the Propeller HERCULES, Messrs. Hollister & Co. contemplate substituting one of Loper's screws in place of the present one used on that vessel, which, it is presumed, will facilitate the speed of the HERCULES, and be a great saving of time and fuel. The much greater ease …

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

      On Saturday afternoon we, with a number of our citizens, received an invitation to take an excursion on board the prop. EMIGRANT, it being her experimental trip. On account of a leakage in one of her steam chambers she did not get out until 10:00 in the evening, and owing …

      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 …

      This is excerpted from Hollister's obituary.

      Same report in: Boston, Boston Gazette, October 15, 1812. Baltimore, The Weekly Register v3 #8 October 24, 1812

      THE SCHOONER ROMAN. - The fact that the schooner ROMAN was probably lost on Lake Erie in the late gale, with all on board, has been announced. The Oswego Times says there were eight persons on board, including a stewardess named Louisa Curtiss, who formerly resided in this city. The …