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 Daily Milwaukee News, 12 Jan 1864     THE SEA BIRD.--Up to this time all efforts to get this steamer off have proved unavailing. The steam pumps which were put on board were found ineffectual to clear her of water, and they have been taken off. She is still comparatively uninjured, except the displacement of some portion of …

 Daily Milwaukee News, 21 May 1864, p. 8, column 3     Wrecked Vessels Recovered. --Capt. Courneen, marine inspector at Toronto, C. W., arrived in Detroit on Wednesday, and reports the bark Mary Jane and schooner Rebecca Foster, ashore since last fall at Long Point, in a fair way of being recovered. Wreckers, with steam pumps, are at ...

      Spring Walk by the Old Hand II THE WHARFS OF KINGSTON The Wharfs or Wharves or Kingston, which should it be? Wharfs is decidedly the best word, but not so often used as Wharves, tho' infinitely more English. Well, the Wharfs of Kingston are the subject of this day's ...

      Spring Walk by the Old Hand III THE SHIPPING INTEREST OF KINGSTON. However much this good city of ours is indebted to its fertile back country on all sides, yet it cannot be denied that its Shipping Interest is one great source of its prosperity and wealth. The ...

      About Docks. - The Northern Transportation Company have secured Littlejohn's dock, on the east side, for passengers, and Bronson's dock, foot of Cayuga street, on the west side, for loading and unloading canal boats. Messrs. Irwin & Sloan have rented the dock formerly used by ...

      Co-Partnership. The firms of Doolittle & Irwin and Ames & Sloan having been dissolved, the undersigned have this day formed a Co-Partnership for the transaction of a Produce Commission business under the firm name of Irwin & Sloan. Theodore Irwin. CEO. B. ...

      Another Seven Hundred Ton Steam Vessel The man who some centuries ago said the earth was round was considered a mad-man and a heretic, and placed in imprisonment for his knowledge. He who first discovered the application of steam for propelling bulk lingered his lifetime out in ...

      Shickluna's Latest Launch Last Monday afternoon, Mr. L. Shickluna, the famous ship-builder, launched from his dock-yard in this town, another splendid propeller for the Welland Railway Company. The launch was to have taken place on Saturday, but was postponed on account of the rain ...

      Trial Trip of the New Propeller Perseverance. Early this morning the Welland Railway Company's new propeller Perseverance ran down the Canal to Port Dalhousie, and at 11 o'clock steamed out eight or nine miles into Lake Ontario. For the purpose of testing her machinery, preparatory ...

      Trial Trip of the Perseverance. This staunch and finely-molded propeller, the pioneer of the steam line now fitting out by the Welland Railway Company to run in connection with their road, steamed out a few miles on the lake yesterday, for the purpose of testing her ...

      New Propeller Perseverance It gives us much pleasure to note the arrival in our harbour yesterday of the new steamer Perseverance, an addition to the Welland Railway Company's line. She is 546 tons burden, 185 feet keel 31 feet beam and is propelled by a low pressure engine of 530 …

      * The press at this time regarded any accident that resulted in a significant cost to the owners as a "disaster."

      In the 1860's laws were passed and discoveries made that allowed and encouraged a boom in the metals mining industry in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. These led to a boom in the establishment of mines for various ores which was to have profound effects on shipping on the entire Great Lakes. …

      OPENING OF NAVIGATION. - The following table gives the dates of the opening of navigation at Detroit for the past 26 years, including the present year. It is compiled from past records and therefore is perfectly correct [sic]: 1839, March 12, steamer Erie, Captain Edwards, ...

      LAKE SUPERIOR NAVIGATION _____ Sketch of its History and Arrangements for the Present Season _____ The arrangements of the Lake Superior Line for the coming season have been completed and will be composed of the following first-class steamers: Steamers ...

      HISTORY OF LAKE SUPERIOR NAVIGATION - In our issue a few days since, we presented a brief review of the early history of Lake Superior navigation and the traffic to Sault Ste. Marie., with the names of steamers which have plied to that locality during different seasons closing with ...

      *Probably refers to the schooner RECOVERY, which was hidden on Isle Royale during the War of 1812.

      TUG GEO. B. McCLELLAN. - This new and powerful propeller tug has been thoroughly overhauled, repainted, supplied with an able crew, a splendid set of colors, and in every way made ready for business. Captain Geo. King, who thoroughly knows every crook and channel within a hundred miles ...

      DATES OF OPENING OF NAVIGATION AT BUFFALO. - Below will be found the dates of the opening of navigation at Buffalo for the past thirty-seven years, including the present season: 1827, April 21, Schooner Bolivar arrives. 1828, April 1, Schooner Liberty departs. 1829, May ...

      The engine and machinery were salvaged and went into the new propeller WINSLOW of about the same size, which was launched in the spring of 1865, and which lasted until 1911.