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      Loss of the Osprey Melancholy Disaster - Terrific Gale - Total Wreck of the Schooner Osprey - Loss of the Captain's Wife and Child and Mate ________ We were visited by one of the most powerful gales of wind from the West, on ...

      Bethel Meeting. -- Our harbor presented a very beautiful and animated appearance on Sunday . There must have been upwards of a hundred and fifty sail of vessels in port, they they lay from two to seven deep on each ...

      The Osprey was built at Sandusky, Ohio in 1853 and was 247 tons. W.T. Richmond, Buffalo, listed as last owner in enrollment records, April 24, 1858.

      A new steamboat of novel construction has lately been completed to run between New York and Albany, which, besides other peculiarities, has a novel method of propulsion. She is provided with a pair of oscillating engines on each side, which drive a four-bladed propeller 14 feet in diameter, ...

      While purporting to mention all steamboat disasters, the article covers mainly American vessels.

      A genius down at Albany has hit upon a novel invention for propelling boats. The plan is to place a large wheel at the bow to be revolved by the speed of the boat through the water, and made to operate a smaller propeller wheel at the stern, which is …

      *Probable list of the propellers: BUCKEYE, GRANITE STATE, NORTHERN MICHIGAN, OGDENSBURGH, POTOMAC, WISCONSIN, YOUNG AMERICA, BAY STATE, LADY OF THE LAKE, MICHIGAN, VERMONT, PRAIRIE STATE, JEFFERSON, CLEVELAND]

      TRIAL TRIP OF THE CHARLOTTE VANDERBILT - Capt. Whittaker's new side-screw steamer made a short and successful trial trip on Saturday afternoon last. Her machinery was set in motion about 3 o'clock P.M., with a pressure of 40 pounds of steam to the inch, and she ran out about 20 …

      SCREW STEAMERS - The employment of screw steamers as a method of passenger transit, to the growing importance of which we have before called attention, has lately been made the subject of an experiment on the North River which has proved eminently successful. The boat in question is a ...

      SUNK. - The Chicago Press and Tribune of yesterday (19th) says the "the schooner Andromeda, bound from Oswego to Sheboygan with a cargo of 800 barrels of salt, when about twenty miles from Sheboygan and fifteen miles from shore, suddenly sprung a leak and sank. The vessel was owned by …

      "Vessel Sunk - On Friday last, the schooner Andrew Moody, Capt.Morgan, bound from Oswego to Chicago, laden with salt, sank about twenty five miles out from Kewaunee. It is supposed that she sustained injuries in passing through the Welland Canal, which caused her to spring a leak, ...

      THE ANDROMEDA. - The following account of the loss of this vessel is given by the Chicago Press and Tribune: "The Andromeda, Capt. Morgan, was bound up from Oswego for Chicago with a cargo of salt. She sank in Lake Michigan about forty miles north-east of Manitowoc. The crew ...

      I believe this was the CHARLOTTE VANDERBILT. The Lytle list gives her date of launch as 1857.

      GONE DOWN WITH HER LOAD Milwaukee, September 18. - The schooner Floretta, of Chicago, loaded with iron ore, sprang a leak off Manitowoc early this morning and was abandoned by the crew. The vessel sank shortly afterward. Capt. Marshall and crew left for Chicago this ...

      THE FLORETTA SANK Milwaukee, September 19. - [Special.] - A Manitowoc dispatch says that the crew of the schooner Floretta reached there this evening and report that the Floretta foundered eighteen miles off that port. She sprung a leak in the heavy sea last night and the water ...

      Death Of Henry Eagle. - Another venerable citizen and prominent land mark, as it were, of our community, has been taken to his final rest. We are called upon to record the decease of Henry Eagle, who died yesterday in the 74th year of his age, after a somewhat limited …

      Fitting Out. - The fair weather has given an impulse to business in the harbor. Many vessels have already donned their summer apparel in readiness for departure to distant ports, some to the Upper Lakes and others to Canadian ports. Other vessels are undergoing a thorough coat of ...

      Oswego And Its Business _________ Of the many branches of business in this city, the Ship yards are deserving of particular commendation and may be regarded as Institutions of Oswego. In the Way of affording employment to laborers, and trade to the merchant, ...

      Oswego And Its Business _______ The shipping and grain merchants represent a capital, the influence of which is felt not only at home but through the whole western country. Located in a port which affords the greatest facilities on Lake Ontario for ...

      Death Of An Old And Valued Citizen. - It was our melancholy duty yesterday to record the death of another of our oldest , most prominent and respected citizens. Hunter Crane died at his residence, in this city, on Sunday morning, the 11th inst., between seven and eight o'clock after …