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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, ...

 Toledo News Bee, 10 Dec 1909     CAR FERRY IS LONG OVERDUE FEARED LOST. Toldeoan said to have been two of the victims of the Lake craft's safety By United Press Cleveland Dec. 10 The car ferry Marquette and Bessemer, plying between Conneaut, O., and Port Stanley, Ont., is reported ...

 Toledo News Bee, 8 Dec 1906     Steamer and crew of 20 may be storm victims. Detroit Mich. Dec. 8.-- Two vessels ashore and one steamer missing is the record for Lake Superior in the latest gale. While seeking shelter at Apostle Island, the big steel steamer R. L. Ireland struck on the rocks. The ...

 Toledo News Bee, 9 Dec 1909     Seven Dead 13 Missing In Two Wrecks Freighter Clarion And Steamer W.C. Richardson Are Lost On Stormy Lake Erie Survivors Tell Story Suffer Bitterly In Gale And Zero Weather Following Disaster To Ship Storm and fire exact a toll of seven men and 13 missing thought to ...

 Toledo News Bee, 10 Dec 1909     Two Toledoans Lost off the Richardson United Press Buffalo, Dec. 10,-- The freight steamer William A. Paine, arrived here today, bringing the 11 survivors of the crew of the ill-fated steamer William C. Richardson. The Paine had been anchored near the scene of ...

 Toledo News Bee, 11 Dec 1909     Schooner Spademan is wrecked by ice by United Press Put-In-Bay, Dec.11.-- The schooner Spademan was sunk off here today, being cut by the ice. She filled rapidly, but the crew escaped and arrived safely at Sandusky. The steamer Huron City arrived at ...

      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.