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      Biographies of notable persons : excerpts specific to Bay of Quinte

     

      Marine Floats The high sea in the lake yesterday dashed the schooner Sea Star against the pier at Clay Banks carrying away about 40 feet of the same, and throwing overboard about 15 cords of wood and 10,000 feet of lumber. The captain and crew are ashore unable to get …

      Local Happenings The derrick which was built by Leathem & Smith to remove the machinery of the Tillinghast and place it in the George Nelson, was blown down by the gale Tuesday.

      HER LAST TRIP ______ The Steamer L. G. Mason of the Saginaw River Line Destroyed by Fire The steamer L. G. Mason was destroyed by fire at Bay City at an early hour yesterday morning. She made her regular trips on Thursday, and on reaching Bay City on the last …

      The scow wrecked off the harbor mouth was the 99 foot scow SOUTH HAVEN (US#23495). No G. B. MANSFIELD appears on any list I have, but a schooner MANSFIELD was sunk by collision in the same area in 1855.

      She was subsequently sold at a marshal's sale to recover the wrecking bill and became an American bottom (US#135898). She was wrecked northeast of Duluth in 1906, after a 32-year career.

      Five cable boats, whatever that may mean, have been purchased at Buffalo by Duluth parties and are now enroute to that point. Two of them have machinery and are towing the others. They are to be used in carrying stone.

      The cable boats referred to in yesterday's issue as being bound for Duluth, arrived at Malden Tuesday night. The vessels were fifty-five hours between Buffalo and the Detroit river, the delay having been caused by one of the steamers breaking down at Long Point. They had to be towed the …

      (a distance of about 20 miles - d)

      It is just forty years ago today since the first steam whistle was heard upon the lakes - that of the steamer Cleveland, sailed by Captain Asa E. Hart. The schooner Emerald, while weighing her anchor near Toronto on Monday, brought up another which was lost from the schooner Atlantic …

      The propeller Conemaugh called at the Lake Superior landing yesterday to take on freight for Chicago, consisting mainly of numerous crates of corn husks.

      The steamer Atlantic, on her last down trip, brought to this city from forty to fifty stuffed animals and birds, which were fine specimens captured in the Mackinac region of a valuation ranking from $20 to $100 each.

      A DEEP DIVER Mike Donovan Goes for Iron and Gets Thirty Days Some time ago Mike Donovan was arrested at the instance[sic] of the Michigan Central railroad company for carrying off a ton or more of pig iron which had fallen into the river near the company's dock while a …

      The INTERNATIONAL was the very tug that brought Canadian customs authorities to the site where the pratical Grummond wrecker WINSLOW was attempting to salvage the schooner STARLING from Canadian waters in November 1884. The QUEBEC (C#71212) story was long and somewhat sad. Briefly, she was built as a crack passenger …

      *not cargo, but plating from the vessel's iron hull. The SCOTIA (US#115271), sister of the iron package freighters JAVA, CUBA and RUSSIA, was 231 feet and 1502 gt. She was built by King Iron Co., Buffalo, in 1873 and went ashore in a gale Oct. 24, 1884.

      It was finally decided to rebuild her, and on her first trip after the rebuild she was wrecked near Point aux Pins, Lake Erie, October 14, 1886, a permanent total loss.

      Unbelieveably, a photo appears on-line of the same board of inspectors at another inspection earlier in the same month as this one. Dig those whiskers! Click here. From left: Capt. Robert T. Bradford, Rear Admiral James E. Jouett, Commander Henry C. Taylor (captain of U.S.S. Trenton), Chief Engineer Philip Inch, …

      The new shipping laws which abolish the collection of certain fees from the masters and owners of vessels will prove of much interest to all concerned. It does away with the fees for measurement of tonnage, issuing of licenses or certificates with other preliminaries that are well out of the …

      Canadian vessels are not allowed to discharge their cargoes at Wallaceburg after 4 p.m. At Sarnia steamers are not allowed to land excursionists on Sunday.