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      The AUGUSTUS FORD (US#1084) was built at Oswego by Ford & Riggs in 1853. She had a few years left in her yet, going ashore near Fairport and wrecking for the last time in April of 1890.

      Capt. R. Joliffe of the schooner Nellie, which vessel waterlogged and turned over in Georgian bay June 6, clung to the wreck for nine days without food when she drifted on an island and he was picked up more dead than alive.

      And where would you hide a thing like a fish tug? 45 ft., 19 t., built 1881, Saugatuck, Michigan. (US#3197).

      She was subsequently sold at a marshal's sale to recover the wrecking bill and became an American bottom (US#135898). She was wrecked northeast of Duluth in 1906, after a 32-year career.

      The cable boats referred to in yesterday's issue as being bound for Duluth, arrived at Malden Tuesday night. The vessels were fifty-five hours between Buffalo and the Detroit river, the delay having been caused by one of the steamers breaking down at Long Point. They had to be towed the …

      (a distance of about 20 miles - d)

      It is just forty years ago today since the first steam whistle was heard upon the lakes - that of the steamer Cleveland, sailed by Captain Asa E. Hart. The schooner Emerald, while weighing her anchor near Toronto on Monday, brought up another which was lost from the schooner Atlantic …

      The propeller Conemaugh called at the Lake Superior landing yesterday to take on freight for Chicago, consisting mainly of numerous crates of corn husks.

      The steamer Atlantic, on her last down trip, brought to this city from forty to fifty stuffed animals and birds, which were fine specimens captured in the Mackinac region of a valuation ranking from $20 to $100 each.

      A DEEP DIVER Mike Donovan Goes for Iron and Gets Thirty Days Some time ago Mike Donovan was arrested at the instance[sic] of the Michigan Central railroad company for carrying off a ton or more of pig iron which had fallen into the river near the company's dock while a …

      The INTERNATIONAL was the very tug that brought Canadian customs authorities to the site where the pratical Grummond wrecker WINSLOW was attempting to salvage the schooner STARLING from Canadian waters in November 1884. The QUEBEC (C#71212) story was long and somewhat sad. Briefly, she was built as a crack passenger …

      Canadian vessels are not allowed to discharge their cargoes at Wallaceburg after 4 p.m. At Sarnia steamers are not allowed to land excursionists on Sunday.

      Five cable boats, whatever that may mean, have been purchased at Buffalo by Duluth parties and are now enroute to that point. Two of them have machinery and are towing the others. They are to be used in carrying stone.

      *not cargo, but plating from the vessel's iron hull. The SCOTIA (US#115271), sister of the iron package freighters JAVA, CUBA and RUSSIA, was 231 feet and 1502 gt. She was built by King Iron Co., Buffalo, in 1873 and went ashore in a gale Oct. 24, 1884.

      The new shipping laws which abolish the collection of certain fees from the masters and owners of vessels will prove of much interest to all concerned. It does away with the fees for measurement of tonnage, issuing of licenses or certificates with other preliminaries that are well out of the …