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      LIFE SAVERS ____ Visit to the Oswego Station ____ Facilities Provided by the Government for Saving the Lives of the Shipwrecked - How the Men Do their Work - Watching or Wrecks and Training for Duty. ___ The recent terrible storms on the lakes ...

      An Old Ship Doomed The secretary of the navy has sent a communication to the speaker of the house, reporting the list of vessels stricken from the navy register under a late act of congress, with a recommendation that the vessels be broken up or sold at auction. Among those …

      The Old New Orleans We have already alluded to the fact that the secretary of the navy is about to order the sale of the old line-of-battle ship New Orleans, which has so long remained upon the stocks at Sackets Harbor. The official description is as follows. New Orleans, ...

      The New Orleans. The famous old vessel New Orleans, says the Chicago Tribune, is to be sold at auction, and a writer well posted on marine matters relates the following interesting narrative concerning her early history: Near the close of the war of 1812 the United States ...

      Obituary. John M. Barrow. Capt. John M. Barrow died at his residence on East Fourth street at 11:30 this morning, after an illness of about three weeks. Capt. Barrow was born in Lancaster, England, March 16, 1813, and was therefore nearly seventy years of age. He left his ...

      DIED. BARROW - In this city, January 26, 1883, Captain John M. Barrow, in his 70th year. Funeral Sunday from his late residence, East Fourth street, between Bridge and Cayuga, and 2:30 at St. Paul's church at 3 o'clock. Friends and acquaintances are invited. New ...

      The Late Capt. Barrow. Resolutions passed by local board of Normal school Saturday, Jan. 27th. Resolved, that in the death of John M. Barrow this board recognizes the loss of a member who, though quiet and unassuming, was a judicious counselor, an earnest and liberal ...

      The old war ship "New Orleans" at Sacket's Harbor, which has been visited and looked upon with wonder by so many as a relic of the war of 1812, will soon be no more. The party who bought it at the late sale commenced Monday to tear it down. It …

 Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), 4 Aug 1883     In the Jaws of Death How the Edith Sewall Went Down in a Storm- Her Crew at the mercy of the Waves- A two Hour Battle For Life On Wednesday evening last the Palladium contained a short account of the loss of the steamer Edith Sewall off the head of …

      The Typo and Her Cargo The Schooner Typo, ashore at Amherst Island has been lightened by the Canadian schooner Grantham. A telegram was received her to-day by the collector asking if the Grantham would be permitted to bring the damaged grain to Oswego . Permission was granted. ...

      This should either be Tuesday the 3rd or Wednesday the 4th

 New York Times, September 24, 1883     PROPOSALS FOR PURCHASE OF VESSELS Navy Department, Washington, June 21, 1883. In accordance with the provisions of the 5th section of the act of Congress making appropriations to supply deficiencies approved March 3, 1883, sealed proposals will be received at the ...

 New York Times, September 25, 1883     Same report in: Jefferson County Journal, Adams, N.Y., November 21, 1883.

 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 ...

      The stone building at the Marine railway used as a blacksmith shop, engine and boiler room was burned about three o'clock on Saturday morning. The alarm was sounded from the box at the Oswegatchie House. The telegraph did not work, however, and the policeman was obliged to send work to …

      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 …

 Oswego Times and Express (Oswego, NY), 10 May 1883     Marine Disaster ____ The Tug Gardner Burned off the Galloo Islands - No Lives Lost A dispatch was received in this city this morning announcing the burning of the well known lake tug Gardner near the Galloo Islands last night. The particulars were not given. The ...

 Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), 11 Apr 1883     The First Sail Arrival of the Caroline Marsh and Ariel This Morning- Heavy Ice on the Lake The schooner Caroline Marsh, Capt. Colwelll, arrived in port at eight o'clock this morning with barley for Irwin & Sloan. The Marsh left Port Hope Sunday morning for Oswego, but ...

 Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), 13 Apr 1883     The Tug Cummings Sunk Caught by the current and wedged above the Bridge- An attempt to Free Her results Disastrously- How it Occurred. About 3:30 yesterday afternoon the tug M. J. Cummings , Capt. Donovan, started to drop the schooner Mulvey, which had been loading coal at ...

 Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), 9 May 1883     A Marine Disaster The Tug Conqueror Sunk in the Narrows and in Bad Shape- The Crew Safe. Capt. Chas. Read of the Schooner L.B. Stone, which arrived at this port at two o'clock this afternoon from Brockville, brought information that the iron wrecking tug Conqueror, owned by ...