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      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 ...

      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 …

      *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

      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 - ...

      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 …

      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 …

      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 …

      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 ...

      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.

      A drawing that accompanied the text is attached. The iron-hulled steamer served with the U. S. Lighthouse Service and Coast Guard until sold for civilian use in 1947 and becoming the dredge MISS MUDHEN II (US#264968). For a brief history and an excellent starboard-bow photo of her with colors afloat, …

      Com. C. V. Gridley was the selfsame naval officer who was recipient of Commodore George Dewey's famous words "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley," when he was captain of the Asiatic fleet flagship OLYMPIA in 1898. The words heralded the opening shots against the Spanish fleet at Manila …

      LIGHTS IN THE ST. MARY'S RIVER. Col. Ludlow, chief engineer of construction of the ninth and eleventh lighthouse districts, will leave on the 20th or 25th inst. on the tug Datlin for Devil's Island, one of the Apostle Islands, Lake Superior, for the purpose of establishing a ...

      VESSEL DISASTERS ON LAKE MICHIGAN Chicago, June 4. - Last night's storm on Lake Michigan was very severe. Great damage was done, the extent of which has not yet been entirely learned. Three wrecks are thus far known to have occurred, and the Evanston life-saving crew was kept busy ...

      The schooner Fayette Brown, as surmised by THE FREE PRESS, was not insured, but her cargo of block stone was covered for $9,000. Mr. Bradley's boats do not have the best of luck in collision cases. Last season the propeller City of Cleveland ran down and sank the schooner Charger, …

      Reid continued to work on the 452 ton GOLDEN FLEECE (US#10197) on and off for years, but was unable to release her before she was burned by arsonists in April, 1895. She had gone ashore in a storm Oct. 14, 1890.