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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, ...

      Awful Disasters We have never before been called on to record so awful destruction of human life on the western waters, as since the opening of navigation, the current season. The disasters to steamboats already number four, of which two have been by explosions of boilers- the Troy ...

      Another steamboat explosion on Lake Erie! Buffalo 12 o'clock July 31 We learn by a dispatch just received from Erie, that the steamer America, from Sandusky for this port, burst a steam pipe or drum, about 2 o'clock this morning, when off Barcelona, and was towed into Erie ...

      While not exactly a Great Lakes article, it is not without interest. Then, of course, the Fulton and Livingston estates held a monopoly of steam navigation in the waters of New York state and licensed that right to the owners of the ONTARIO, SOPHIA, WALK-IN-THE-WATER and SUPERIOR.

      Ship Timber From Wisconsin. - Large quantities of ship timber, consisting of oak-knees, plank, &c.;, now lie in our ship-yards, and are being worked up into elegant ships, after after performed a journey of eight to ten hundred miles, from the forests of Michigan and Wisconsin. Within ...

      Terrible explosion on Lake Erie Cleveland April 28 The steamer Wayne left Toledo on Saturday morning about 9 o'clock, with 29 passengers, and took on board some 40 more at Sandusky on Saturday night, leaving there at 10 o'clock. These and the crew made the number on board ...

      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 ...

      Colliding On Lake Ontario _______ The Schooner Sweepstakes Strikes the Schooner Gazelle Twenty Miles off Oswego - Both Much Damaged - The Crew of the Gazelle Ask to be Taken Off, But Probably are Safe. ______ The schr. Sweepstakes, Capt. Thomas, from Kingston ...

      In 1886-1887, Clark Morrison, the editor of the Oswego Palladium, wrote an interesting series of articles on maritime life. The ones that are readable will be reproduced. Unfortunately, when the newspapers were bound, some of them cut off the bottom line or two of the papers.