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 Callahan, George V., Cleveland Leader (Cleveland, OH), 11 Nov 1913, p. 1     Ship Sinks With 23 in Storm _______ 1 Ship Lost, Many More Run Ashore _______ Great Lakes Swept by Terrific Gale; Loss of Life Certain; Steel Vessel Found Bottom Up in Lake Huron; Owners Worried. _______ Lake Disasters of ...

      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, ...

 Globe (Toronto, ON), 11 Nov 1913, p. 1     Steamer Huronic is Driven Aground _______ Norther Navigation Co.'s Vessel Caught by Storm _______ Said to be No Danger _______ Tomlinson Line Steamer Reported Sunk Off Groscap Point -- Another Steamer Declared to be Aground Off Iroquois Point -- Storm ...

 Globe (Toronto, ON), 12 Nov 1913, p. 1     COLLINGWOOD IS A TOWN OF MOURNING _______ Seven Well-known Residents WEre on Wrecked Wexford _______ NEARLY ALL YOUNG MEN _______ Mrs. Geo. Willmott Was on Board With Her Husband _______ Several of the Victims of the Wreck Leave Wives and ...

 Globe (Toronto, ON), 12 Nov 1913, p. 1     THE NOTTINGHAM AGROUND Fort William, Ont., Nov. 11. -- A telegram was received by J. W. Wolvin, Manager of the Canadian Towing & Wrecking Company, to-day, stating that the steamer Nottingham and aground on Paresian Island, twenty miles from Whitefish Bay. Her bottom was reported ...

 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH), 4 Jul 1914, p. 11     Recovers Vessel Lost Last Fall _______ Capt. Cunning Floats Steamer Turret Chief From Keweenaw Point. _______ ... Capt. Alex Cunning, wrecking master in charge of the steamer Favorite, yesterday released the steamer Turret Chief from the beach at Copper ...

 Globe (Toronto, ON), 11 Nov 1913, p. 1     Large Freighter Found Capsized _______ Floating in Lake Huron Bottom Upwards _______ Not yet Identified _______ Vessel May Have Been Abandoned During Gale of Sunday -- If She Turned Over With Crew Loss of Life Must be Large. _______

 Sturgeon Bay Advocate (Sturgeon Bay, WI), 20 Nov 1913, p. 1, column 3     J. B. Bates of Chicago, a representative of the Soper Lumber Co., owners of the barge Halsted, which was cast up on the beach at Washington Harbor during the big blow, arrived here Friday evening. Saturday morning, accompanied by Capt. Rieboldt, of the firm of Rieboldt & Wolter, and Leathem …

 Cleveland Leader (Cleveland, OH), 11 Dec 1913, p. 7     STEAMER RELEASED By Special Dispatch to the Leader HARBOR BEACH, December 10.--With the lake raised to a higher level by the strong northwest wind, the tugs Sarnia City and James Reid today dragged the steamer Edward Buckley off the shore inside the harbor of refuge, where ...

      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 …

 Watertown Times (Watertown, NY), 11 Nov 1913, p. 1     Lightship and Crew of Six Probably Lost _______ Believed the Boat Foundered During Storm -- Wreckage Floats into Harbor. _______ Buffalo, N.Y., Nov. 11--Lightship No. 82, carrying a crew of six persons, and stationed in Lake Erie off Point Abino, 15 miles west of ...

 Toronto World, 22 Nov 1913, p. 1     Lights Ashore Not Visible to Vessel _______ Investigation Into Wreck of Turret Chief Shows Boat to Have Been Well Equipped and Seaworthy -- Storm Signals Not Ignored -- Crew's Hardships in Woods. _______ (Special to The Toronto World). KINGSTON, ...