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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

 Daily Journal (Ogdensburg, NY), 9 Nov 1857     LAKE ONTARIO AND ST. LAWRENCE STEAMBOAT CO.--The following item in regard to the affairs of the above company we clip from the Utica Telegraph :-- The stockholders held a meeting at Bagg's Hotel on Thursday, to take action to relieve the company from its present embarrassed ...

      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 ...

      The Perseverance Disaster _______ From the statements published below, there seems no reasonable hope that Captain Fitzgibbons and those of the crew who are reported as missing will turn up safe. Everything that humanity could suggest to save life was adopted by Captain ...

      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 ...

      Fearful Disaster on Lake Ontario - Burning of the Welland R.R. Steamer Perseverance -- Capt. FitzGibbons, son and 12 Others Lost - Two Mates, Two Men and a Boy named Lynch saved. Journal Office, Oct. 6 -5:30 p.m.) The Welland Railway ...

      To Be Replaced -- We believe we are correct in stating that the local management of the Welland Railway have recommended to the English stockholders the building of two propellers of smaller capacity to replace the ill-fated Perseverance. The proposed propellers will be built ...

      There was a rumor on the streets on Monday, that B.S. Shepard's new schooner Southwest, recently launched from the Shipyard at the Marine Railway, had gone down on Lake Erie, with all on board, on Thursday last. She was in the Welland Canal two days after that time, all right …

 Daily Journal (Ogdensburg, NY), 12 Sep 1865     Our Marine Railway ____ The Marine Railway, at this place, is not dead. Mr. H.C. Pearsons, its present proprietor, is becoming favorably known abroad, as an excellent workman and a most worthy and reliable man. He has just perfected contracts for two new vessels. One for ...

      We hear that the Northern Transportation Company has purchased the Marine Railway property, in this village, with the intention of establishing here a yard for building and repairing steamers for their line. This is a matter of considerable importance to the prosperity of our village. ...

 Daily Journal (Ogdensburg, NY), 11 Dec 1866     A New Steamer. - The Northern Transportation Company are now setting up at their Marine Railway here, the frame of a new screw steamer. She will be of the largest dimensions possible to pass the canal, first class in every particular, and it is designed to have her ready for …

 Daily Journal (Ogdensburg, NY), 11 Dec 1866     Winter Quarters. - An unusually large number of vessels have gone into winter quarters at this port. Among the fleet are six of the steamers of the Northern Transportation Company. The latter are laid up at the Marine Railway, which is now the property of the Company. ...

 Daily Journal (Ogdensburg, NY), 15 Apr 1867     At the Marine Railway ____ Considerable activity prevails, at the present time, at the Marine Railway. Six of the steamers of the Northern Transportation Company are there undergoing the refitting process which is annually given to the boats of the line. The Young ...

 Daily Journal (Ogdensburg, NY), 19 Jun 1867     The Wisconsin ___ The wreck of the Wisconsin has been raised and brought to the Marine Railway, in this place, where her machinery will be taken out. She was brought down in tow of the steamer Watertown, supported by a couple of barges. ...

 Daily Journal (Ogdensburg, NY), 17 Nov 1868     TO THE PUBLIC. MR. PEARSONS REDUCED THE WORKMEN'S wages at the Marine Railway, 25 cents per day, without their consent, and one week previous to their knowledge; consequently the Ship Carpenters suspended labor until they receive the same rate of wages they did previous to Nov. ...