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      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 …

      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 …

      "Marine Notes" Vessels passing through the Sault Canal last season numbered 10,557; net tonnage 8,454,435, or 22 per cent greater than the tonnage passing through the Suez Canal. It is reported that the whaleback barge 107 carried the largest cargo - 3,021 net tons - ...

      Orders have gone forth that the United States man-of-war Michigan is not a hunting smack, and the crew will lose a good deal of fun, as well as choice grub the remainder of the season. The gatling gun, which fires 1,000 bullets a minute, is said to be the best …

      It is understood that C. A. Coon, who projected the ill-fated expedition to recover the cargo of the Pewabic, had closed an arrangement with Mrs. Pelkey, the widow of the unfortunate diver who lost his life in the hazard, by which he secures, after a term of years, of the …

      It is reported that on Thursday last the fishing tugs Anderson and Maxwell, of Manistique, gave up their day's fishing, a loss of several thousand dollars, to rescue the schooner H. P. Baldwin, which had been abandoned by her crew. They towed her to Manistique. There they found the crew, …

      HAVE LIBELED THE BALDWIN Marquette, November 18. - The A. Booth Packing Company to-day libeled [i.e. sued] the schooner H. P. Baldwin at Manistique for salvage. The schooner was found last week adrift on Lake Michigan by Booth's tug and towed to Manistique. A dispute over the claim ...

      WHAT KIND OF BOAT IS SHE? At Sturgeon Bay recently the steamer Pewaukee was engaged in taking on a load of stone at Brewster & Jewett's quarry. About seventy cords had been placed on the deck of the craft, there being nothing in the hold, when the boat suddenly took …

      PASSAIC (US#19691) had been downbound with lumber and four barges in tow when she sprung a leak and went down six miles west of Dunkirk, NY on Oct 31 of the same year.

      The MONTCALM (US#16343) was part of a series of seven canallers built for Esseltyne & Co. of Detroit in the 1860's. All of their names used the prefix "Mont" - i.e. MONTANA, MONT BLANC, MONTCALM, MONTEREY, MONTGOMERY, MONTICELLO and MONTPELIER. MONTAUK was built at Oswego in 1863, and MONTICELLO at …

      The "government boat" CONSTANCE was built as a fisheries protection cruiser. She was sold to private owners in Nova Scotia in 1919 (C#100412) and was still operating in 1923. She was not removed from Canadian registry until 1966, but it's not known if she actually was used up to that …

      SOUTHERN BELLE (C#29290) was built as ROTHESAY CASTLE by W. Simons & Son, Renfrew, Scotland, in 1861 and came into Canadian waters in 1866. She was rebuilt and renamed after a fire at Shediac, New Brunswick in 1874 and was sold to Toronto parties as above. She was a twin-screw …

      This was not quite a fair comparision, as the iron-hulled CAMPANA (Br#51646) was a passenger and package freighter with side hatches and not quite built to compete directly with the deck-hatched lakes grain bulkers. It shows the built-in bias the American lakemen had against foreign-built boats. She was 1,288 tons, …

      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 ...

      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 …