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      (newspaper and date not positively known) The Armstrong Abandoned. It has come at last. Wrecker Leslie has finally succumbed to the inevitable and that stage in the wrecking operations on the steamer Armstrong, which many predicted would arrive months ago, was staved ...

      p.5 BARGE STRIKES SHOAL AND SINKS. The Parsons With Cargo Of Coal From Chaumont. Word was received by telephone from Alexandria Bay yesterday that the barge, The Parsons, had sunk in the St. Lawrence early in the day. The vessel is ...

      p.4 ACTIVE CAREER OF CAPT. PARSONS. Captain John Parsons who has just died at his home in Oswego, had a long and stirring career as a follower of inland and deep sea navigation. Born in Yarmouth, England, Oct. 8, 1831, Captain Parsons was apprenticed ...

      From Oswego Oswego, Sept. 18. The schooner Albion bound for this port and owned by Doolittle, Irwin & Wright, is supposed to have been lost with all on board on the great gale of the 7th. She left Cleveland for the Welland Canal on that day, and is said to …

      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.

      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 ...

      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 ...

      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

 Ogdensburg Journal (Ogdensburg, NY), 30 Jan 1871     Reminiscences of the Burg ____ In the preceding efforts to tell some disjointed things connected with our recollections of Ogdensburg, in past years, we have attempted to give the young and comparatively newcomers some idea of the appearance of "the city," when we first knew ...

 Ogdensburg Journal (Ogdensburg, NY), 10 Apr 1868     Northern Transportation Company _____ Since the reorganization of the Northern Transportation Company, its business has gradually and steadily increased, until it now stands second to none of the transit lines between the East and West. A few figures will show the increase ...

 Ogdensburg Journal (Ogdensburg, NY), 13 Sep 1867     New Steamer. ___ The Northern Transportation Co.s' new steamer Oswegatchie sails from this port for Chicago on her second trip around the Lakes this afternoon. The Oswegatchie was built at the Marine Railway in this village during the last Winter and Spring. She was launched ...

 Ogdensburg Journal (Ogdensburg, NY), 19 Nov 1868     The Union Strike Editor of the Republican and Journal: Ogdensburg, Nov. 18, 1868 DEAR SIR : I notice in yesterday's a card from Ship Carpenters' and Caulkers Union No. 29, concerning myself. Personally I have not much interest in the matter, but as the ...

 Ogdensburg Journal (Ogdensburg, NY), 23 Nov 1868     Suspension of Labor. ______ Ogdensburg, Nov. 20, 1868 Editor of the Republican and Journal: Sir: We noticed in your JOURNAL of yesterday, a, few lines from our worthy friend G. W. Pearsons, Superintendent of the Marine Rail ...

      The real estate belonging to the Northern Transportation Co., in this city, comprising the Ogdensburg Marine Railway and adjoining lots, and the lot corner of Ford and Patterson street, is advertised for sale under an order of alias decree of the U.S. District Court, of the Northern District of ...

 Ogdensburg Journal (Ogdensburg, NY), 22 Jan 1876     The St. Lawrence Marine Railway of Ogdensburg ____ After the fire at the Marine Railway, by which the engine house and boiler room were much injured, a successful effort was made to organize a company to purchase the property and put the railway in good order for the purpose ...

 Ogdensburg Journal (Ogdensburg, NY), 3 Dec 1883     The Marine Railway Fire ____ The fire at the blacksmith shop of the Marine railway, Saturday morning, was confined by the efforts of the firemen to the stone building which was used as a blacksmith shop and engine and boiler rooms, and thus the saw mill was saved. The ...

      An effort is being made here to organize a company to purchase the marine railway property, and put it in thorough repairs. This is a step in the right direction, and we hope will succeed. In the increasing commercial interests here, a good substantial marine railway is a necessity at …