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      Through the latter third of the 19th century, Detroit was home to some of the largest and most powerful tugs in the whole lake system. The towing of sail vessels through the Detroit-St Clair river complex from Lake Erie to Lake Huron was big business in the day. The tug …

      At the time there were gunboat-enforced laws regarding the assistance or salvage of vessels in Canadian waters by American tugs, and vice-versa. It makes one wonder what the hubbub was about, since the American and Canadian tugs were actually not competing, as tugs on either side were competing among themselves.

      *actually 1855 ** actually September 7, 1860

      SYLVAN DELL, US#115657, was 53 gt. By 1884 she was operating out of Pascagoula, Mississippi, on the Gulf of Mexico.

      The Inspection and Rating of Vessels Daniel Lyons & Son (ship chandlers) received a letter this morning from J. g. Orr, manager of the Orient Insurance Company for the lake region, and who lives in Buffalo, calling attention to a subject that seems to be of some ...

      This is interesting from because it shows some family relationships to shipbuilders. Oswego shipbuilder George Goble's wife was a Collins whose family built ships at Clayton. The Collins family was related to John Oades, shipbuilder from Clayton, later Detroit.

      Captain Joel Tyler Had Narrow Escape Capt. Joel F. Tyler, whose death occurred yesterday was one of the oldest vessel captains on the lakes. He was born at North Haven, Conn. , may 18, 1802, and was the son of Edward Morris Tyler. He came to Oswego in the spring …

      Obituary Captain Joel F. Tyler Captain Joel F. Tyler, a living landmark not only of our early marine, but also of our early local history, died at his residence in this city yesterday, aged 76 years. Capt. Tyler was born at New ...

      ALL NIGHT ON THE LAKE. _______ A Canadian Steamer with Between Three and Four Hundred Passengers Out All Night - Following a Propeller Light Down the Lake - Rescued and Brought into Port by a Woman. _______ An Excursion. The steamer Hastings arrived ...

      The Trip of the Hastings Belleville Ontario: - Both of the Oswego papers have long and sensational accounts of the steamer Hastings being lost on the lake, and censure her officers very strongly. We are in a position to say that her officers are not in the least way blamable. …

      *Refers to a Northern Transportation Co. steamer it was following.

      A Canal Boat Lost _______ The H. B. Preston Goes Down About a Mile off Oswego - Boat and Cargo Insured - Rescue of Crew. _______ The canal boats Rising Star, Morning Star, Evening Star and H. R. Preston left here last Tuesday morning for Canada, after ashes, ...

      An Old Tar's Twister - The Yarn of the Oldest Oswego Sailor Quitting Salt Water When I arrived at Adams, Jefferson County, I met a cousin who informed me that my parents had left Antwerp and were now living in the town of Henderson. The next day we went there …

      *Walpole is still largly populated with aboriginal people, though no longer all Chippewa/Ojibway. **i.e. Soo Locks. The extact date of publication of this piece is unknown.

      The Goodrich Transportation Company. The arrangements of the Goodrich Company for season of 1878 are as follows: Steamer Chicago (side-wheel), West Shore Route, Chicago to Ahnapee - B. Sweeney, commander; Edson W. Dorsey, first officer; Cowen, engineer; Henry Pates, ...

      The Loss of the Schooner Mary. The following account of the loss of the schooner Mary, off New Buffalo, is given in the Chicago Inter-Ocean of Monday: New Buffalo, Mich., Sept. 13. - As you have already announced, the schooner Mary was lost on the night of Sept. 9. ...

      NEW WRECKING MACHINE. - Capt. Wm. Foster, of Cleveland, has invented a machine for raising sunken ships. The power employed is the inflated pontoon system, with an entirely new and inexpensive apparatus, made of three-ply canvas-rubber. A full outfit of 200 pontoons, capable of ...

      A NEW WRECKING PONTOON. - Saturday afternoon a test of the lifting power of Capt. William Foster's new patent pontoon for raising vessels was tested in the old river bed, and proved to be a great success - even greater than the inventor himself had anticipated. To make the experiment …

      CUSTOMS REPORT. - The following are the abstracts relating to this customs district, as contained in the report of the collector of customs recently sent to the Treasury Department for the quarter ending March 31, 1878. Class No. of ...

      THE ST. CLAIR CANAL. - The following regulations for the government of vessels passing through the St. Clair Flats Canal are established by authority of the Secretary of War as necessary for the proper protection of the banks of the canal from injury. All concerned will please take ...