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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

      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 ...

      THE BROTHERS Ye steamers on the River Thames, Though great your fame -- and loved your names-- And so wonderful your speed; Take down your brooms, and own at last, With deep hoarse groans, and flags half-mast, That you are outdone at ...

      THE LEXINGTON. -- The divers have found the remains of the ill-fated steamer, and have thoroughly examined the after part of the hold. The centre was covered by a part of the bow, which had broken off near the engine and fallen over on it. The men say that there …

      New York, Oswego And Chicago Line - The New York Sun, of Wednesday, has the following notice of this line of steamers, rightly apprehending the success which promises to reward the enterprizing proprietors, and greatly add to the public accommodation in the navigation of the ...

      Sacket's Harbor, Nov.17th. On Saturday evening, the 11th. inst. a gale of wind commenced from the N.E. accompanied with snow, which increased during Sunday to a degree exceeding anything before known on Lake ontario. On Monday morning the 13th. the gale abated and we already learn the ...

      Vessel Going Down The Falls - On Friday the 10th inst. the barque Detroit, formerly belonging to the British navy on Lake Erie, and captured by the Americans during the last war, is to be sent over Niagara Falls, furnished with a crew of live wild animals. She was condemned, …

      Six arrivals from the West, with flour, wheat and whisky, since Saturday evening. The lake has not been more tranquil and inviting to navigate, since dog days. - Buf. Pat. Dec. 9

      Welland Canal Navigation - By the following comparative statement of vessels and their cargoes, which haved passed through the Welland Canal, from the opening of navigation this season, up to the 31st of May last, with those of 1841, to the same date, our readers will perceive that there has …

      Brave Sailors Perish - Terrible Sufferings of the Survivors - A Truthful and Thrilling Story of the Loss of the Schooner Ariadne - How Three Seamen Died - Heroic Work of the Life Savers - One of the Crews tells the "Palladium All About the Wreck - Kind Hearted Farmers. …

      The propeller BOSTON, Capt. McNett, was run into by a schooner on Friday night last, off Oak Orchard, and sunk. She went down in 15 minutes after being struck. The propeller had a full cargo of flour, pork, wheat and corn, and was owned by the Ogdensburg Railroad Co. The …

      We understand from respectable authority that 6 transports and a sloop of war, with the first battalion of the Royals, stated to be 1,000 strong, were in the river near Quebeck, on Saturday afternoon, the 1st inst. We are also informed, that one of the transports of the above fleet, …

      Important Discovery Of A New And Safe Channel In The Cedar Rapids - The Toronto steamer Adventure, Capt. Taylor, arrived in port, on Sunday last, after a passage of 3 1/2 days from Toronto, having a full cargo of flour, butter, &c..; She came through the "Marshall Channel", at the …

      After throwing most of its cargo of coal overboard, the schooner RUBEN DOUD, which was ashore at Devil's Nose, near Charlotte, was released by tugs and towed to Charlotte where she sank decks to. The cargo was insured but the boat is not.