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      A separate brief article in the same edition of the paper reported that the tug Daisy Lee went out and pulled the wreck to pieces so as to clear the harbor.

      Successful Launch of Capt. Rogers' New Schooner. - This beautiful craft, after some delay with the assistance of the steam tug Molly Spencer, glided gracefully into her natural element, at Charlotte, yesterday, and three o'clock. The moment she touched the water our townsman, Hon. ...

      The Chase. - The revenue cutter Chase arrived in port yesterday afternoon from a wrecking cruise down the lake, having examined the conditions of the schooner America, ashore in Chaumont Bay, and the schooner Advance and sloop Cora, ashore in Mexico Bay. All three of these vessels are ...

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      TUG EXPLODED. - A dispatch from Oswego on the 6th says: The tug Tornado exploded her boiler this morning, about four miles up the lake. Capt. W. H. Manwarring, Morry Atchison (sic), engineer and Zebulon Stone, deck hand, were all lost. The tug was valued at $12,000, with no ...

      THE TUG TORNADO . - This tug, which was sunk Saturday morning last near Oswego, was built in Oswego by Messrs. Kittle and Moore, and was about eight years old. She was owned by Messrs. Smith & Post, was a staunch one of the largest size, and one of the …

      *a guess - original nearly unreadable

      *timber head - a crude bollard made of a timber projecting through the deck.

      Column 7 The hull converted to a drydock at Bay City, Michigan, (not Saginaw) on the Saginaw River, was the PLYMOUTH ROCK's sister WESTERN WORLD. The Saginaw River dock was used into the 20th Century, and remnants of it are still visible. Articles on the 1854 launches are at this …

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      In effect, this meant that small inland freighters and passenger vessels had to be licensed, registered and inspected if they were used on any waters connected with the lakes by navigation routes, since they were potentially part of interstate commerce. Only vessels operating on isolated inland waters (i.e. inland lakes) …

      There are also instances of hull breaches being plugged by boulders and blocks of ice, but this is the only report of a fish saving a Great Lakes vessel of which I am aware.

      ROND EAU HARBOR. - Chiefly through the exertion of Hon. Rufus Stephenson , M.P., of Kent County, Ontario, the Canadian Government has been induced to proceed ...

      Northern Transportation Co. apparently made its arrangements, as it continued to operate on Lake Ontario in 1871 and finally folded about 1875.

      Here is another example of the many important improvements to navigation that were first built in the 1860's and 70's and are still in use today.

      KINGSTON ITEMS. - The News says that the propeller Bristol , from Lake Huron shores, arrived on Saturday ...

      Fire in the Harbor. About half-past ten o'clock last night the propeller Wm. Cowle took fire while lying on the east side of the harbor, and considerable confusion was created for a time in the efforts to prevent the flames from spreading to the surrounding shipping and reaching ...

      NOTE: The BENTON was a small (308 gt) passenger and freight steamer built in 1867 by Hitchcock & Gibson, Buffalo. She was converted to a bulk freighter in about 1883 and burned to a total loss at the Ford Rouge Plant, near Detroit, in August, 1909.

      This little article shows a pair of the hazards of "stern-launching." Parentheses are in the original.

      The figures for the lakes appear to include only American tonnage. Though the figures don't actually add up, you get the idea. The total tonnage figure represents roughly 2,200 registered U.S. vessels.