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      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, ...

      MARINE DISASTER. - Five Men Lost. - The steamer America, Capt. Masson, due here this morning, did not arrive till one o'clock this afternoon, in consequence of a collision which happened between two and three o'clock this morning, off Genesee. Mr. Barry, the Clerk of the America, ...

      The Collision between the Steamer America and the Schooner Emblem _____ In our account, hastily made up yesterday, of this melancholy disaster, we gave the names of six persons being lost, as we obtained them from Mr. Berry, the Purser of the America, who informed us at the same ...

      The steamer Banshee while on her way from Cape Vincent to Toronto fell in with the wreck of the ill fated schooner Emblem, lately run into by the steamer America. The captain of the Banshee took the wreck in tow and brought her to Toronto. She is of course considerably …

      Anniversary of the Capture of Oswego On the 6th day of May, 1814, forty years ago to-day, Oswego was captured by a British naval and land force, after a gallant defense by a small force of soldiers and marines. On the preceding day, May 5th, a British naval force consisting …

      The recent disaster on Lake Erie, by which the brig Oxford was lost, should be judicially investigated, and not permitted to pass by unnoticed as was that of the reckless, and perhaps criminal, destruction of the steamer Northerner. Five human beings were drowned, or if the sinking was caused ...

      The Schooner Challenge. This fine vessel, which was recently purchased by Government for the purpose of distributing light-house oil and stores along the lakes, is thus spoken of by the Buffalo Express: "Capt. Woodruff, of the Topographical Engineers and Light House Board, has ...

      A new Centre-Board Wrench. - Mr. E.C. Hammond has invented a centre-board wrench which works with a "worm" instead of spur gearing, being as fast or faster in operation than the ordinary wrench and not complicated. It does away with all danger of lowering the centre-board, and appears ...

      More New Vessels. - Three large, beautiful vessels will be launched tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock, (should the weather permit) from the ship-yards of Ald. George R. Rogers and George Goble. Mr. Roger's vessels are both of like dimensions - 132 ft. keel, 26 ft. 2 inches beam, and 12 …

      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

      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, Oct. 20 - The schooner NEW YORK, with lumber from Toronto to this port, went ashore last night, above the new breakwater. The crew were saved. - LATER : - The schooner NEW YORK, ashore above the piers, is breaking up, and will be a total wreck. The storm …

      The Sault St. Marie Canal . - The Cleveland Plaindealer gives the following description of the Canal, which is to connect ...

      Loss of a Schooner and its Crew on Lake Ontario. - We alluded, a few days since, to the washing ashore of the body of a lad, near Pultneyville and stated the suppositions in regard to the identity of the deceased lad and the cause of his ...