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      Obituary Notes [Part Only] A Prince Among Shipbuilders Flags were flying at half-mast from several of the principal business places in St.Catharines on Saturday [April 24] and nearly all the vessels and steam craft on the ...

      New Steamers - Two new screw steamers named respectively Ontario and Quebec , have just been completed at Chatham , Ont., for

    New Steamers - Two new screw steamers named respectively Ontario and Quebec , have just been completed at Chatham , Ont., for

Maritime History of the Great Lakes

      Sarnia , May 6 - The new propeller Ontario , of Beatty's Royal Mail Line of steamers, arrived here from Chatham this morning, ...

      Chatham , June 13 - The new propeller built by Messrs. Simpson & Chisholm for a stock company here was successfully launched at three p.m. today and christened "

    Chatham , June 13 - The new propeller built by Messrs. Simpson & Chisholm for a stock company here was successfully launched at three p.m. today and christened "

Maritime History of the Great Lakes

      The Capture. -- From information which we gleaned yesterday, we are of the opinion that a bona fide attempt was made to capture the British schooner CAROLINE at our port, on Monday night. We have seen the statement of the Captain and others, and, if what they say is true, …

      During the high wind last evening, the schr. Lady of the Lake , Capt. Sheppard, of Vermillion, Ohio, went ashore just below the mouth of our harbor, and has since gone to pieces. She had a partial cargo of wheat and flour, of which the flour alone was saved. Capt. …

 Buffalo Commercial Advertiser (Buffalo, NY), 8 Mar 1864, p. 3, column 3     The Tug "Glen Iris"--In our account of the sale of tug in yesterday's paper, we were partially in error. The tug was built by David Bell for Captain E. P. Dorr, J. W. Johnson and John Roffo who, as owners, sold the "Glen Iris" to Davis and Tisdall, of Whitehall, …

 Buffalo Commercial Advertiser (Buffalo, NY), 7 Mar 1864, p. 3     The seller and the location of the buyers were corrected in the next issue of the paper.

 Buffalo Commercial Advertiser (Buffalo, NY), 20 Sep 1849, p. 2     We find the following in the Erie Com. Adv. of Wednesday. There was a rumor current yesterday that the body of Mr. CARRICK had been found in the Ship Canal, but on inquiry, we ascertained that it was unfounded. We trust that vigilant efforts will be made to ascertain the …

 Buffalo Commercial Advertiser (Buffalo, NY), 2 Nov 1867     The bulk of the article was copied by the Buffalo paper from an unidentified Rochester paper, so "our harbor" and "this port" refer to Charlotte, NY.

      We noticed, a few days since, that Mr. JOHN CARRICK, of Erie was missing, and supposed to have been murdered in this city. the Erie Commercial Advertiser , of yesterday, says that he was seen and conversed with in New York by C. B. WRIGHT, of that place, after his …

 Bidwell, Vincent, Buffalo Commercial Advertiser (Buffalo, NY), 10 Jan 1879, p. 4, column 4     Interesting Reminiscences. BUFFALO, Jan. 7, 1879 EDITOR, BUFFAO COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER: As the building of the Griffin is in order, I have an item. In the year 1835 I was an apprentice to John Carrick, then a ship-builder in this city. He ...

      An Interesting Relic. A Rocking Chair Made from the Keel of Vessel Built Sixty Years Ago. The sailing packet Duke of Richmond, 70 tons burthen, launched spring, 1820, at the foot of Frederick street, York; owned and sailed by Capt. Edward Oates; December, 1826, bound from ...

 Buffalo Commercial Advertiser (Buffalo, NY), 9 Jan 1851, p. 3, column 8     SUPERIOR BOILERS FOR SALE.--The Boilers formerly used in the Propeller Ontario are offered for sale upon reasonable terms. The same are made of the best American iron, with Philadelphia flues, and having been used but little are as good as new. J. W. BISSELL, ...

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      Oswego, Aug. 31 - A gale of unusual severity for this season of the year has prevailed here since Thursday. The schooner ALPHA, from Toronto, for this port went ashore, five miles below the harbor, and will probably be a total wreck. Her crew were taken off in the life-boat …

      Charlotte, N.Y., Oct. 17 - The schooner MARY of Chaumont, with a cargo of limestone, went ashore at 4 o'clock this morning. The crew were saved. The vessel is going to pieces.

      St. Catharines , July 26 - On Saturday afternoon last [July 24] Captain Miller launched from his yard in Port Dalhousie one of the largest vessels ever built on ...

      Schooner Lost -We learn that on Saturday last the schooner Atlas, from Sackett's Harbor, was capsized off the piers at Oswego, by which the crew, five in number, together with two ladies, passengers, were drowned. The schooner was laden with stone, and this was the first season of its ...

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