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      This is likely the prop built at Dexter, NY, Lake Ontario, in 1846. If so, she has a somewhat muddled history, converting to a tug about 1860, probably going into Canadian registry about 1864 and back again and then being converted to a barge at Vicksburg, (Marysville) Mich., in 1866. …

      As far as I can tell, the HURLBURT was an 82 t. schooner built at Sandusky in 1856.

      THE PROPELLER HERCULES. - This propeller met with an accident by starting a leak near her shaft. She went into Amherstburgh, from whence she will come up to Detroit, says the Advertiser, to go into dry dock.

      MARINE INTELLIGENCE . . . THE GALE - Our protracted period of pleasant weather was terminated on Wednesday evening by the wind suddenly changing to the north-east, bringing rain with it and increasing during the night to the most severe gale of the season. The sea ran ...

      We understand that the Messrs. Guthrie have contracted for another boat, to be called the Novelty, 109 feet long, 16 feet beam and 6 feet depth of hold, which is already launched, with her deck and guards all completed, ready for her machinery. She is to be driven by one …

      MARINE INTELLIGENCE VESSELS IN PORT. - The following is a complete list of the vessels in port yesterday. Two or three of them have not taken down their sails, and their captains are talking of trying a short trip for a load of lumber, the others are all laid up …

      The Milwaukee Sentinel says that the propeller WESTMORELAND has hauled alongside the wharf in the river where she will lay up for the winter. The damage to her machinery is supposed to be $1000 to $1500.

      VESSELS IN PORT. --- Since we published the list which subsequently reappeared in the JOURNAL, causing that paper so many "pains," the following vessels have arrived and are preparing to lay up: Steamer FRANKLIN MOORE, sloop WUNX, and schooners UNION, BELLE CITY, EQUATOR, RACINE, L. ...

      Spring Walk V What a change in the weather within a few days! The atmosphere is warm, the sun shines, the streets are clean and dry, and though we have no spring, yet we have spring's antecedent, charming dry days, like an English March. The opening of Navigation has caused …

      Spring Walk VI The weather has been so bad again that it was yesterday only that the British Whig was able to continue its peregrinations about town. The greatest want perceptible in Kingston, is the want of a good Hotel. The City has but one First Class Hotel, the "British …

      Gale on Lake Ontario - Vessel Wrecked. A heavy gale from the North-east, swept over Lake Ontario and last night, and we regret to state it has been attended with serious disasters to the shipping. Two schooners were wrecked near the ...

      Gale on Lake Ontario . (We take the following dispatch from the Transcript bulletin.) By the House Line Rochester , May 6. There was a tremendous gale last night from ...

      Spring Walk I It has been too much the custom to underrate the commercial importance of good old Kingston. Let any one walk through the city at the present time, and he will see enough to convince him that Kingston is one of the busiest places in all Canada; and …

      Spring Walk II It is so rarely that we have it in our power to say a good word in favor of the Corporation of Kingston that it would be both a sin and shame not to do it. The streets are remarkably clean, considering the season of the year. …

      The Loss of the Ocean Wave The burning of the British steamer Ocean Wave on the North shore of Lake Ontario on Saturday morning last, of which we give in another column all the details ...

      The Gale - Marine Disasters. - A telegraph dispatch dated at Rochester May 6th, represents the blow on Thursday night to have been a tremendous gale. The dispatch addsthat the schooner Vincennes of ...

      Trial Trip Of The N. Robins . - Yesterday afternoon this little propeller craft went out into the lake with a view to try her machinery, which is constructed upon a plan entirely new in this region, being oscillating in its movements. She worked ...

      Vessels Building On The Lakes. Some time since we noticed the large amount of tonnage building on the Upper Lakes. The following communications, which we find in a late number of the Buffalo Express , exhibit most of the vessels ...

      Trade at Sackets Harbor . - Of all the lake ports, the statistics of the trade of Sackets Harbor present the singular result of a rapid decline in the value of imports and exports during the last few years. Her coastwise exports in 1847 ...

      Ship Building in Oswego . Those of our citizens who have not recently visited the several ship yards in this city would be quite surprised at the amount of business doing in that line. having occasion a few days since to pass in the ...