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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

      New steamer, WYOMING, 128 feet long, 16 wide on deck, drawing 12 inches water, about a hundred tons burden, and driven by two engines of 40 horse power each, has just been finished at Tunkhannock, and now runs between that place and Owego, on the Susquehanna river. -- Havana Rep. …

      The schooner NIGHTINGALE, at present laid up at this port, has been sold, we understand, by parties in Oswego, to E. W. Hudson, Esq., of this city. The price is stated to be $10,500. The NIGHTINGALE is a staunch built vessel of some 16,000 bushel capacity. We learn also, the …

      The Propeller " BOSTON," was sunk in thirty fathoms of water, by collision with the bark PLYMOUTH, off Devil's Nose, on Lake Ontario, on the night of the 28th. inst., at twelve o'clock. Passengers and crew all saved in the small boats. Insured for $8,500: in the Northwestern $5,000 ; …

 Buffalo Courier, 5 Jul 1847, p. 2     One of a series of letters from the Courier's editor while on a trip from Buffalo to Chicago to attend the Harbor and River Improvements convention there.

 Buffalo Courier, 5 Jul 1847, p. 2     The Cataract is the name of Capt. Van Cleve's new boat on Lake Ontario. She is said to be in every respect one of the most splendid steamers ever on Lake Ontario.

 Buffalo Courier, 9 Jul 1847, p. 2     Editorial Correspondence of the Courier, Number VII On Board Steamer "Baltic" River and Lake St. Clair, July 2 Last evening we floated out into the broad expanse of Lake Huron, and soon the receding shores were lost in the distance, and could no longer be seen. ...

 Buffalo Courier, 17 Jul 1847, p. 3     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 ...

 Buffalo Courier, 19 Jul 1847, p. 2     Copper From Lake Superior .--It would seem as if the period had at length arrived when we are about to receive substantial returns from the large sums of money expended on Lake Superior for the last two years. We learn form Col. Sheldon McKnight, of the Sault, who arrived ...

      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 ...

      At Bidwell & Banta's yard some eighty men are at work on the Propeller Ontario , preparing her for California. She is to be copper-fastened and made as staunch as any sea-going craft afloat. Permission, we understand, has been obtained for her egress through the St. Lawrence. She is ...

 Buffalo Courier, 21 Sep 1849, p. 2     The Erie Commercial Advertiser of the 19th inst. contains the following article, relative to the disappearance of Mr. John Carrick, for many years a well known resident of this city, and one of the first individuals whose name was identified with the now extensive ship-building interest "on the ...

 Buffalo Courier, 18 Jan 1862, p. 3, column 2     A NEW PROPELLER. --The Detroit Tribune says that E. B. Ward has a new boat in the process of construction at Newport, which will be propelled on a principle unlike anything ever seen in western waters, but which has been tested a New York with very satisfactory results, ...

 Buffalo Courier, 26 Feb 1917, p. 2, column 8     ESCANABA FIRM BUYS STEAMER EDWARD BUCKLEY _______ Petoskey, Mich., Feb. 25.--Steamer Edward Buckley, owned by the A. B. Klise Lumber company of this city and operated by the company in the lumber trade between Sturgeon Bay, Mich., and Buffalo and Chicago, was sold today to ...

 Buffalo Courier, 19 Apr 1893, p. 7     Vandals on Shipboard. Parties supposed to be at enmity with Edward Buckley and Capt. Charles Gnewuch are said to have boarded the steamer Edward Buckley at Manistee a short time ago and indulged in wholesale vandalism. The outfit of the steamer had been placed on board for the ...

 Buffalo Courier, 1 Dec 1891, p. 2     GENERAL MARINE NEWS. _______ SUPERIOR, Nov. 30.--Capt. Alex. McDougall has gone to the Pacific Coast. CHICAGO, Nov. 30.--The crews of the White & Friant, Fanny Neil, and Annie Sherwood arrived Friday from Washburn, Lake Superior. The boats are all frozen in at that ...

 Buffalo Courier, 29 Aug 1903     STRANDED AT DIKE. Sault Ste. Marie, Aug. 28.--The steamer Edward Buckley, bound down laden with cedar, stranded at the foot of the dike. Tugs have gone to her assistance.