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      Loss of the Olive Branch . About 9 o'clock Sunday morning the schooner Olive Branch, from Oswego , laden with coal, was driven ashore on the south side of the island, directly opposite Church street, ...

      Kingston, Dec. 17. -- The schooner MORNING STAR still lies on Knapp's Point, Wolfe Island, and is advertised for sale.

 Daily Globe (Toronto, ON), 4 Aug 1856    

      Kingston, Dec. 13. -- The schooner MORNING STAR, bound for Wolfe Island from Cape Vincent, light, struck some ice and sunk at the south shore of Wolfe Island. A Tug went to her assistance.

      OSWEGO Nov. 30 -- The schooner J. G, JENKINS, with wheat from Milwaukee for this port, left the Welland Canal on Sunday morning, and has not been heard from. It is feared she has foundered in the late gale, with all on board. The schooner BLANCHE, from Wellington Square, Ont. …

      Oswego, Sept. 13. -- The schooner J. J. HILL went ashore in a gale on Friday night, four miles east of Big Sodus, laden with coal from Oswego to Youngstown.

 Daily Globe (Toronto, ON), 26 May 1857    

      DISASTERS TO SHIPPING AND LOSS OF LIFE Kingston, Nov. 29. -- The steam barge IVANHOE is ashore at Oak Point, a short distance down the river. A large schooner, name unknown, is reported ashore on Carlton Island. The gale has abated. Freezing hard tonight. ...

      G. S. Weeks' Ship-Yard Situated on Lake-Street between Third and Fourth. This extensive establishment gives employment to about 100 men- a short time since a fine Steamer (the Queen of the West) of 700 tons' burthen, was launched from this yard, and they have now on the stocks, in ...

      Black and white photograph of the schooners DANIEL G. FORT and BALTIC ashore near Oswego on 27 Nov. 1894.

      Black and white photograph of a crowd looking on at the schooners DANIEL G. FORT and BALTIC ashore near Oswego on 27 Nov. 1894. The harbor can be seen to the west in the background.

      At the time, Capt. Throop was only 19 years old. His father, Samuel, drowned while endeavoring to bring in the schooner "Nancy" into Great Sodus Bay during a storm in 1819. - From a long memoir of his life in the History of Wayne County, N. Y. published in 1876.

      During the gale which occurred on the 14th and 15th inst. , the schooner New York , of this port, owned by Messrs. Bronson and Crocker, was lost, and all on board probably perished. She was commanded by Captain George Carlisle, who is said to have been an excellent seaman …

      Sunken Craft Still Visible _______ Hull of Large Boat Can Be Seen in St. Lawrence Below Rock Island _______ The Observer in "On the St. Lawrence," Clayton, has the following: There is a mystery of the deep, that is located near the black ...

      The New Tug " Oswego ." - The new steam tug Oswego, built in Philadelphia , and owned and commanded by Capt. J. Kimball , arrived in our ...

      The following Card of Thanks is deserved. The management of the boat, during the storm, was admirable. The escape was truly providential: Rochester , Oct. 19, 1844 . We, the undersigned, being ...

      A Perilous Situation. - A correspondent of the Rochester Observer , relates the following account of a wonderful escape from almost certain destruction. Mr. Editor: - I had just arrived at the

    A Perilous Situation. - A correspondent of the Rochester Observer , relates the following account of a wonderful escape from almost certain destruction. Mr. Editor: - I had just arrived …

Maritime History of the Great Lakes

      A sketch of this yacht appears in the History of Wayne County

      A Pleasant Supper. - The employees of Goble's ship-yard, with a number of invited guests, last evening sat down to a most capital supper served up in Doolittle Hall, by Ashley of the Oswego Hotel. The ...

      Salad For Saturday _____ "I delight in telling what I think - and I shall go on just as before, seeing whatever I can, and telling what I see." -Emerson _____ "Thou little knowest What he can ...