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      Spring Walk I The Editor is too much of a cripple just now to take his annual Spring Walk, that must be postponed until he is able to stump about the Wharves and Docks again.--Meanwhile our readers must content themselves with a brief account of what is going forward in …

      A Marine Disaster - Narrow Escape of a Schooner! ___ The season of disasters on the Lakes has opened early. A schooner was wrecked last week above Milwaukee, and went to pieces. On Saturday night there was a disaster near the mouth of our harbor which came near being a …

      The old barque, City of Rochester, sunk last fall near Ogdensburgh by the steamer Ontario, is being raised. The vessel was built here many years ago by Capt. Hosea Rogers, and subsequently sold to a party in Ogdensburgh, who substituted the name of the place for Rochester, as part of …

      "Bell Stevens." On Saturday last, J. E. Stevens new vessel, bearing the above name, was successfully launched, at the Ship Yard, foot of Main Street. Several hundred people assembled to witness the sight, and as she moved swiftly down the "ways" and dashed safely into the river, ...

      The St. Joseph Life Boat. It is well known that the Life Boat furnished by the United States Government for this port, is out of repair, and in its present condition, almost wholly useless. At the time of the getting up of these boats for our inland waters, it was …

      DISASTROUS COLLISION - THREE LIVES LOST. - Capt. Dorr received the following dispatch from Kingston yesterday morning: The schooner Exchange, with a cargo of wheat from Chicago, collided with the steamer Comet, last night, off the Duck (sic). The Comet is a total loss. Three men are ...

      *at Garden Island, Ont. by Henry Roney.

      MARINE DISASTER PROBABLE LOSS OF THE PORPELLER BRITTON WITH ALL ON BOARD The propeller L. L. Britton , Captain John Q. Adams , which has been for some weeks past plying between ...

      The Launch Of A Schooner At Oakville The good times are once more visiting Oakville. In the years 1854, '55 and '56 launches were of frequent occurrence, but of late they have been few and far between. There is good promise, however, of a ...

      The schooner Alpha cleared from Hamilton on the 3rd instant for Kingston with 15,259 bushels of No. 1 Spring wheat. This is the first cargo of the season from

    The schooner Alpha cleared from Hamilton on the 3rd instant for Kingston with 15,259 bushels of No. 1 Spring wheat. This is the first cargo of the season from

Maritime History of the Great Lakes

      It will be seen by the following account from the Chicago Tribune, that the Lady Franklin, which will ply between this place and Chicago during the coming summer, was launched last Saturday afternoon. It was the intention to have her on the route by the middle of March, but it …

      We notice in the St. Joseph Ship Yard, owned by Capt. Geo. Hanson, a fine new vessel on the stocks, which he is building for James E. Stevens, Esq. Her dimensions are - Length of keel 84 feet; breadth of beam 22 feet; depth of hold 6 1/2 feet. She …

      NAVIGATION - The lake business of the season has now fairly commenced, the Steamer Rescue Captain Dick, having made several trips to the Sound and back during the past week. The steamer Clifton , Capt. W. H.. Smith took her place on the Owen Sound route, on ...

      Launch of the Schooner "Queen of the North" There was a large turn out of the good people of Nottawasaga Sunnidale and Collingwood, to witness the launch of this fine vessel, which took place on the 10th at Nottawassaga river, thirteen miles from Collingwood. This vessel ...

      Launch of a Brig at Nottawasaga River A large vessel of about 380 tons or 16, 000 bushels of grain capacity was launched on the 10th inst. at Nottawasaga River- A number of persons from the surrounding country besides a party from Collingwood, brought by the steamer ...

      Shipping News For the week ending June 5th, 1861 IMPORTS- Schooner Sydenham - Sugar Schooner Rob Roy - 25, ooo ft Lumber Steamer Ploughboy - empty barrels Steamer Clifton - daily, Goods and ...

      Among the vessels driven ashore in the great gale of last fall was the barque Tornado. She was laden with a cargo of corn from Chicago to Kingston, and was beached at South Bay, head of Wolfe Island, where she has remained during the winter. On Friday noon last the …

 Buffalo Commercial Advertiser (Buffalo, NY), 23 Nov 1861, p. 3     Detroit, Nov. 22, 1861 GENTS:--In my yesterday's report it was stated that the Keystone State had passed here. This was given me by the propeller City of Madison, who stated they met her in the night, but since give it as their opinion they were mistaken. I have no doubt …

 Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI), 6 Nov 1861, p. 4     THE PROPELLER BUFFALO.--The propeller Buffalo, of which we have had occasion to notice during the past week as being aground at the head of Fighting Island in the river below, has been finally liberated.The services of steam tugs proving of little or no avail the marine boxes of the Messrs. …

      Reason: aground Lives: nil Remarks: Total loss