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 Scientific American (New York), 4 Jul 1891, 1-2     THE McDOUGALL WHALEBACK STEEL VESSEL. The old ballad commencing "In the North Sea Lived a Whale" has its use now in a facetious adaptation of this line to the needs of a souvenir issued by the people of Superior, Wis., in commemoration of the launching of the first two ...

      At that the YOUNG was pretty much forgotten until her hulk was found and identified in the Straits near the wreck of the CEDARVILLE a couple of weeks ago by divers searching under the Mackinac Bridge for bodies from a jumping incident . Very little appeared in the papers and …

      The barge WILLIAM YOUNG in tow of the steamer NASHUA is reported foundered near Mackinaw Island yesterday. The barge's crew were saved. The YOUNG was of 413 tons register and rated A 2 in the Inland Lloyds. She was valued at $11,000, and owned by the Pawme Boat Company. ...

      The steambarge [sic] William Youngs and schooner Newsboy both foundered in the Straits of Mackinac on Monday. They were coal laden and bound up. The dispatches give no particulars of the disaster. The Newsboy was formerly the property of Capt. John L. Galien, of Racine, and traded at this port …

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      *Please note that in this article Senator Morrill is sometime seen as Morrell This is an interesting follow up to the affects of the McKinley Tariff

      THE BARGE W. L. PECK FOUNDERS The propeller Oneida arrived here yesterday with the crew of the barge W. L. Peck, which foundered Monday morning off Ashtabula. Capt. G. W. Pardee, of the Oneida, made the following statement to a FREE PRESS representative: "We left Buffalo, ...

      An Eventful Record The schooner Hattie Estelle, which was wrecked with the loss of three lives at Manistee, Mich., Tuesday night, has a remarkable record. The vessel was built in 1873 by Capt. J. L. Higgie, who gave her the name of Mary L. Higgie, after his little daughter. Shortly …

      On nearly the same day as the above article, the KEWEENAW left Bay City for the coast, and the papers followed HER journey as well. One of the lessons learned was that she was towed all the way from the Saginaw River to Montreal in two pieces, with no stop …

      To The Water's Edge. _______ The Steamer Geneva Goes Up In Smoke. _______ The Disaster Occurred at Beach Oswego yesterday. After the Boat Had Landed a Party of Excursionists - Lucky That the Fire Did not Occur Earlier. Shortly after five o'clock yesterday ...

      Does this clear things up? Maybe a little. In this article the Free Press forgot that, fortunately, newspapers and dictionaries can't determine the use of the language, only report on it. Lake sailors had their own jargon and usage, regardless of the paper's take on it.

      Some early paintings show her with a clipper bow, rather than the straight cutwater shown in the model below and the photo on the HCGL website, and she may have been even more extreme looking early in her career. Click on the URL below to see a photo of the …

      All three locations are in northeastern Lake Michigan, inside of the Beaver Islands. These were wooden lightships numbered LV55, 56 and 57, built at Craig shipbuilding. These were the first U.S. lightships with their own engines for propulsion. For more, see: http://www.nightbeacon.com/zlightships/Lightship_Index.htm

      The Fisher Electric Company are removing the Brush plant of 550 lights from the steamer City of Detroit, now being repaired at the Springwells dry dock, and will substitute their automatic dynamos and appliances. When completed the City of Detroit will have the largest and most complete lighting ...

      Two of the vessels listed, WILLIAM YOUNG and GENESEE CHIEF, were lost the same season - the YOUNG in October and the CHIEF in August.

      *Probably Turtle Island Lighthouse, near Toledo.

      Though she had an iron hull and was quite luxurious, she doesn't seem to appear in later sources. One set of notes I have state states that her hull was used to build the famous Wheeler yacht WAPITI at W. Bay City in 1895 (STRAIGHTAWAY was US#116424, WAPITI US#81507)

      The 673-ton M. E. TREMBLE was sunk in a collision the busy St. Clair River off Port Huron Sep. 7, 1891, and the 315-ton BEN HUR (ex-M. C. UPPER) was lost to the same cause while attempting the salvage of the wreck two months later. The HUR lay directly on …

      This barge - built during the era when ASB was turning out whalebacks with regularity, looks much like a conventional laker - not a whaleback. See Historical Collections of the Great Lakes for a picture and her interesting history.

      Alexander McDougall himself took his brand-new whaleback steamer JOSEPH L. COLBY (US#76933) down the river to the sea, but may have thought better of it when he got to this part of the trip. She was 265 feet and 1,245 gt and built with a double bottom. Some of the …