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      The Miller shipyard closed around 1876.

      Photograph of a tugboat towing a schooner between the piers and into Oswego harbor

      Disastrous Conflagration! _____ Destruction of the 'Union Elevator with some 40,000 Bushels of Wheat - Loss of $127,000 ____ At about half past ten o'clock last night, fire was discovered in the second story of the "Union Elevator" east end of the iron bridge, ...

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

      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 ...

      Chaumont - The fishing season is nearly ended; most of the nets have been taken up, and the barrels of ciscoes scattered over various parts of the bay and lake shore, where caught and packed are being gathered in and piled up in available places around the depot. The whole …

      Three Mile Bay. - Wilcox, Putnam & Co., are building one of the largest vessels ever built at this place. Its dimensions are as follows: Length of kee 136 feet, bresdth of beam, 26 1/2 feet, depth of hold, 11 1/2 feet. It is to be a three masted vessel, …

      Capt. Ford's Gaff Topsail Rigging. - Whatever croakers may say, (and thee are always those who will croak, with about as much wisdom as an owl - particularly if they have no direct interest in the croakable matter), the invention of Capt. Geo. A. Ford of this city is, as …

      Collision and Loss of a Schooner. - On Thursday, July 7th, the propeller Bristol, bound up, and the schooner Azov, bound down, collided on Lake Ontario. Immediately after the collision taking place everything was done by the captain and crew of the propeller to render assistance to ...

      T. Kingsford & Son's Foundry And Machine Shop. - On Saturday last we had the pleasure of looking around the immense foundry and machine shop, attached to the Starch Factory, in this city, and found that they are doing a larger business than most of our citizens are aware of, …

      Walk About Town Emerging from our abode, we direct our steps up Water street, to note the general progress of the week. Evidences of the destructive violence of the equinoctial, which occurred at about 4 o'clock Wednesday morning, are apparent on every hand. Mrs. O'Shaughnessy, ...

      A Historical Craft. - The tug Oswego, which has been employed this season in towing barges across the lake to this port, and which is just now lying at the railway wharf opposite our office, has an interesting history. She was brought here from Philadelphia about fifteen years ago, ...

 Oswego Daily Commercial Times (Oswego, NY), 15 Apr 1870     New Dock- Messrs. Irwin and Sloan are rebuilding their dock next south of their elevator. It is 132 feet front 120 feet in rear and 100 ft. deep. It is being lowered three feet, and rebuilt of heavy timbers in the most substantial manner. The work is under the management …

      AT LAST. - Steps have at length been taken to raise the old steamer formerly used by the yacht club and which sunk during one of the storms last winter. Capt. Parkinson , of the

    AT LAST. - Steps have at length been taken to raise the old steamer formerly used by the yacht club and which sunk during one of the storms last winter. …

Maritime History of the Great Lakes

      Shocking Casualty! _______ Explosion of the Steam Tug Tornado! _______ Three Lives Lost! _______ Total Destruction of the Tug! _______ Shortly after three o'clock this morning, a large proportion of people in the city were suddenly ...

      Marine Disaster. - The schooner Norwegian, owned by Morgan Wheeler Esq., of this city, and the tug Maria Melvin, owned by J.D. Murphy, Esq., went ashore at an early hour this morning, a few hundred yards below the east pier, opposite Fort Ontario. The Norwegian, Capt. Chas. Brown, was ...

      Wrecking - The insurance companies have engaged powerful pumping apparatus from Kingston and Buffalo, to put on board the schooner Norwegian and tug Melvin, and the probabilities are, should the weather prove moderate, that both crafts will be got off and brought into port. ...

      The tug Highlander from Kingston, is at work today endeavoring to pull off the schooner Norwegian, which went ashore opposite Fort Ontario on Saturday last. The tug Maria Melvin, which went ashore under Fort Ontario, was hauled off this forenoon by the Canadian steamer Wellington, and ...

      Loss of the Schooner E.B. Gannett. - The schooner E.B. Gannett, Capt. Warner, which left here Saturday night for Ogdensburg with 40 tons of waterlime, sprang a leak when some twelve miles down the lake and sank in deep water. The crew got aboard of the yawl and came ashore …

      TERRIFIC EXPLOSION _______ Destruction of the Steam Tug Dodge - Heavy and Wide-Spread Damage - Remarkable Escape of the Crew from Injury - The City Treated to a Mild Earthquake Experience. _______ About ten minutes past 4 o'clock this morning, ...