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      Township Of Hamilton Roads Source: Unknown Acquired: April 3, 1991

      Trouble In The Harbor ______ The Schooner Ben. Franklin and Her Captain Meet With a Series of Trials _____ Last Saturday afternoon Capt. Doville, of the schooner Ben. Franklin, chartered to Isaac Rice to carry a cargo of apples from this port to Montreal, and ...

      MARINE HOSPITAL REGULATIONS. - Provisions are made for sick seamen at the Marine Hospital and for the maintenance of these institutions each sailor while employed has deducted from his wages forty cents monthly. All seamen are entitled to these privileges who are sick or disabled ...

      A BRIG NO LONGER. - The Brig Helfenstein, built at Milwaukee in 1847, has terminated her career under that rig and has followed the career of numberless other old craft and has been converted into a barge, to which all (if not previously wrecked) have come to. She has been …

      ASHORE AND SUNK. - The schooner Exchange, laden with stone, while endeavoring to get under way from the dock at Kelley's Island Friday afternoon last (20th), got ashore, running upon rocks and sunk. Aid was sent for at Cleveland, and it is thought that she will be released without ...

      A TOTAL LOSS. - The schooner Exchange, which got ashore a few days since at Kelley's Island, has become a total loss, and is abandoned to the underwriters. She is valued at $10,000, insured for $6,700, and is owned by Capt. James Lawler, of Sandusky. The Exchange had been in …

      ABANDONED - Schooner Exchange, ashore at Kelley's Island, has been abandoned to the underwriters. Valued at $10,000, insured for $6,700.

      IMPORTANT WRECKING OPERATIONS. - The Lake Michigan Wrecking Company, who, within the past few years, have performed several important feats in wrecking operations, have recently with their vessel, the Active, accomplished another undertaking which surpasses all others of this ...

      DEATH OF A SUBMARINE DIVER. - Mr. Wm. Wright, a submarine diver of more than usual skill in that profession, died a day or two since after a very brief illness. For the past nine years, Mr. W has been associated with Capt. Falcon in wrecking on Lake Michigan, and …

      The hulk of the SARGENT was found nearly 150 miles from where she was left at anchor in the fall of 1872. Heams, of Chicago, was a former owner, but not the owner of the vessel at the time of her loss, so likely would have had no motive for …

      The steamboat "Owego," made a successful trial trip from Owego to Binghamton and back last week. A large number of excursionists were on board, and it is reported that they had a gay time. The passage of the steamer from Binghamton to Owego is described in the Binghamton Times as …

      A CAPTAIN TOWED - During the gale of last Saturday night Capt. A. H. Watrous was bringing the scow Clara into the bay, and while rounding Sturgeon Point attempted to shift the boom, when a block gave way, the boom flew back, striking Capt. Watrous in the mouth and knocking …

      MUTINY - James Moran, a marine on the revenue cutter Johnson, is to be tried for mutiny at Milwaukee on the 28th. Not long ago, during one of his periodical rumpusses on board the cutter, he discharged a pistol, seriously wounding himself, fortunately. He no sooner got back to his …

      * This is a typographical error. She was 809.28 g.t. (tonnage) when built, giving her a capacity of around 1400 t. To give a hint of what a vessel of this size might cost today (Sep, 2001), grade 2 white oak purchased in volume now sells for about $2 per …

      A CAPTAIN UP A TREE. - The captain of the schooner Ben Franklin, at Oswego, discharged a gang of men he had hired to load his vessel; was sued for the amount of the contract, and resisted execution, ejecting the officer. On an attempt to arrest him for assault, he …

      SYLVESTER DOOLITTLE. - This gentleman was a few days since made the recipient by his fellow citizens of a public dinner at the Doolittle House, Oswego. This mark of esteem was in recognition of a long life devoted to enterprises connected with early ship-building on Lake Ontario. Mr. ...

      LA PETITE (US#15100) was actually built at Huron in 1866 and was thoroughly rebuilt in 1871 after a wreck. She was also recovered from THIS disastrous incident, and sailed until September of 1903, when she foundered off Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin.

      The lock complex was administered by the State of Michigan at this time, hence the private excavation contractors. It did not come under the authority of the Corps of Engineers until 1881.

      The Lake Michigan survey was set back several years when the survey records were destroyed in the great Chicago Fire of October, 1871.

      The WATER WITCH was also built by Wolverton at Newport (Marine City, Mich) in 1861 and was lost in 1863. Her engine reportedly transferred power to the shaft by a "cog-wheel" arrangement. She was reputedly the fastest vessel on the lakes (capable of 18 mph!). She foundered in a gale …