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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

      Storm on Lakes Superior's seas are running high today No Serious Accident Reported So Far Feared that lumber barges may go on rocks Steamer Tionesta went aground at Six Mile Point during heavy snow squall on Hay Lake today but was released Boats coming in ...

 Evening News (Sault Sainte Marie, MI), 14 Sep 1904     New Steamer is in Port Steamer Haddington Recently built at Toronto Brings Coal for New Ontario Dock & Coal Co. The new steel steamer Haddington arrived in port this morning with a cargo of 2,100 tons of soft coal from Cleveland for the new Ontario Dock and Coal Company. ...

 Evening News (Sault Sainte Marie, MI), 5 Dec 1905     Wreck of Monkshaven Story of dangers hardships and hunger told by crew Had nothing to eat between Monday night and Thursday morning. The Paliki was in trouble Members of the crew of the Algoma Central steamer Monkshaven, which was stranded on Angus island near ...

 Evening News (Sault Sainte Marie, MI), 8 Nov 1905     Rosedale Was in Peril Had An experience rare in annals of Great Lakes In last week's big storm on Lake Superior was thrown on beam ends and her cargo shifted By an exceedingly narrow margin the steamer Rosedale, of the St. Lawrence and Chicago Steamship Company line, ...

 Evening News (Sault Sainte Marie, MI), 20 May 1921     Spar Buoy Placed Over Wreck of Barge Miztec _______ Later a Gas Buoy will be placed there. _______ A spar buoy now marks the wreck of the barge Miztec, according to a bulletin issued today by L. C. Sabin, general superintendent of the locks. The position given of ...

      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 ...

      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 ...

      "Capt. Levi P. Mann died this morning in his apartments in the Rice Block in St. Joseph of consumption, having been a sufferer for many years with the dread disease. He is a member of Occidental lodge, F. and A. M. and the funeral will be in charge of that …

 Evening News (Sault Sainte Marie, MI), 27 Sep 1921, p. 3     Other sources have her sinking on the Julia Bay side of the island.

 Evening News (Sault Sainte Marie, MI), 10 Nov 1913, p. 1     TERRIBLE STORM SWEEPS SUPERIOR _______ High Winds Lash Great Lakes Into Fury; Captains Report Hardest Blow Yet Experienced _______ Disturbance Started in the South-East, Blowing Along Atlantic Coast -- 68 Mile Wind Reported at Portage Entry -- Steamer Sarnian Six Days ...

 Evening News (North Tonawanda, NY), 5 May 1913, p. 1, column 4     FIRST LUMBER BOAT ARRIVES _______ Steamer Edward Buckley Has Aboard 600,000 Feet of Hemlock. _______ IRON CITY GOES DOWN _______ Schooner Rammed in St. Clair River by Steel Freighter Thomas F. Cole -- Captain and Crew of Vessel Escaped in Life ...

 Evening News (Sault Sainte Marie, MI), 7 Nov 1913, p. 1     THE WEATHER For Sault Ste Marie and vicinity-- Rain and colder tonight; Saturday, rain or snow and colder. Upper Lakes--Brisk to high south-west to northwest winds, except northwest on western Superior. Rain south, rain or snow north portions tonight and Saturday; colder ...

      MARINE DISASTER THE "ORION" OF HAMILTON (The Oswego Palladium gives the following:) "From a conversation with Capt. Daniel Pease, of the lost vessel, we gather the following particulars: The ORION had a cargo of freestone from Cleveland, Ohio, for Brockville, ...

 Evening News (Sault Sainte Marie, MI), 20 Aug 1903     THE DIXON BURNED HIRAM R. DIXON BURNED TO WATER'S EDGE TUESDAY NIGHT WAS TIED UP AT DOCK AT MICHIPICOTEN CAPTAIN GANLEY AND CREW ESCAPED BUT LOST CLOTHING Fire Broke Out in the Engine Room and Spread with Wonderful Rapidity-Only Hull of Boat Remained When Fire ...