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      The Lake Erie Steam-Boat carried the United States Mail from Buffalo to Erie, Fairport, Cleaveland, Sandusky City, and Detroit.

 Cleveland Herald (Cleveland, OH), 6 Nov 1821, p. 3, column 1     STEAM-BOAT LOST! Information was received in town, last evening, that the steam-boat Walk-in-the-Water, Capt. Rogers, was driven ashore near the Buffalo light-house, during the gale on Wednesday night last, and materially injured, if not totally lost. The passengers (about 40 in ...

 Cleveland Herald (Cleveland, OH), 13 Nov 1821, p. 3, column 2     LOSS of the STEAM-BOAT The report of the loss of the steamboat Walk-in-the-Water, is fully confirmed. We learn the following particulars from one of the passengers, who arrived in town a few days since by land: the boat left Black-Rock on Wednesday the 6th instant, at 4 o'clock, ...

 Cleveland Herald (Cleveland, OH), 8 May 1850, p. 1, column 5     PROPELLER ONTARIO.-- We are informed that the Propeller Ontario, built at this port about two years since, is now fitting up as a sea steamer at Buffalo, and is intended to run between Ogdensburgh and Quebec, with occasional trips to Halifax to meet the Cunard steamers from ...

 Cleveland Herald (Cleveland, OH), 3 Jul 1850, p. 1, column 7     Quick Trip The Propeller Ontario made the passage from Montreal to Quebec [sic: probably meant New York] in twelve days.--She took on board at Erie, some 300 tons of coal, and had 100 tons remaining on her arrival at New york. We understand her owner intends to take the Propeller …

 Cleveland Herald (Cleveland, OH), 11 Dec 1850, p. 1, column 3     Lake Propeller for Chagres The Propeller Ontario which left the lakes in May having made one trip to Charleston S. C., returned to New York for new boilers and outfit and cleared on the 2d inst. for Chagres.-- The time is coming when lake built vessels will be numerous on …

      The steam-boat Walk-in-the-Water, Capt. Rogers, left Black-Rock on the 28th instant, bound for Mackina and Green Bay. She touched at this port on Sunday evening lest, having on board, besides other passengers, 130 recruits, destined for the northern posts, and several officers of the army, among ...

      THE LIFE STATIONS. -- W. F. Bushnell , of Evanston , Ill., who is now shipping materials from Oswego for the construction of life-saving stations at

    THE LIFE STATIONS. -- W. F. Bushnell , of Evanston , Ill., who is now shipping materials from Oswego for the construction of life-saving stations at

Maritime History of the Great Lakes

      FATE WAS AGAINST HIM. -- It was the Canadian schooner BABINEAU & GAUDRY , laden with coal oil to Europe, which ran on a shoal in the St. Lawrence River , above

    FATE WAS AGAINST HIM. -- It was the Canadian schooner BABINEAU & GAUDRY , laden with coal oil to Europe, which ran on a shoal in the St. Lawrence River …

Maritime History of the Great Lakes

      SIXTY-EIGHT YEARS AGO. --In looking over old papers at the Custom House, a few days since, we found some clearance manifests issued in 1808, in manuscript. The following is a transcript of a manifest dated November 1st, of that year: District and Port of

    SIXTY-EIGHT YEARS AGO. --In looking over old papers at the Custom House, a few days since, we found some clearance manifests issued in 1808, in manuscript. The following is a …

Maritime History of the Great Lakes

      A BRILLIANT EVENT FOR THE CELEBRATION OF THE FOURTH AT OSWEGO, -- The indications are that the naval attack on Fort Ontario will be the most brilliant feature of the Centennial celebration in Oswego . ...

      The small schooner purchased by the Oswego Fourth of July committee, and burned off that harbor, was the C. A. MARTIN ...

 Cleveland Herald (Cleveland, OH), 13 Feb 1821, p. 2, column 1     Controversy. Captain Jesse D. Elliott, of the United States Navy, has found it necessary to address the public on the subject of an anonymous pamphlet which has lately been published at Washington. As far as we can gather, it appears that the late Commodore Perry had intended to arraign Capt. …

 Cleveland Herald (Cleveland, OH), 20 Feb 1820, p. 3, column 1     Perry and Elliott- The pamphlet lately published at Washington, reflecting on the character of Capt. Elliott, of the Navy, is republished in some of our papers. It consists of a letter from Com. Perry to the Secretary of Navy, apologizing for the necessity he is under for calling a court …

      We are requested to state, that a vessel called the "Maria, of Cuyahoga," was driven ashore on the 5th inst. at Rose's Point, above Fort Erie. She is considerably injured, and her masts, rudder, &c. lost. Buffalo Journal

      A man by the name of John Fowles, a sailor on board the schooner Neptune. while passing up the Detroit River, was struck by lightning, on the 9th inst., and expired instantly.

 Cleveland Herald (Cleveland, OH), 24 Oct 1820, p. 3, column 1     A series of corrections to these statements in a following issue.

      The statement in our last paper, respecting the shipwrecks, was in several particulars incorrect. The schooner Aurora rode out the gale without injury. The schooner Wolf was beached near Buffalo. The schooner Commodore Perry remains on shore, having received considerable injury, The Erie Gazette ...

 Cleveland Herald (Cleveland, OH), 28 Nov 1820     Marshal's Sale Ohio District By virtue of a writ of alias fi. fa. to me directed from the United States Circuit Court, in and for the District of Ohio, there will be exposed to public sale, on Monday, the 18th day of December next, at Fairport, near the mouth of …

      We are authorized to give notice, that the new Schooner, built by Mr. James Short, for Philo Taylor, Esq., will be launched on Tuesday, the 17th inst., at 2 o'clock, P.M.