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      A Steam Yacht Destroyed ________ A Mystery in Connection With the Burning of the Magic This Morning. Port Ontario , March 28. - (Special.) The steam yacht Magic, owned by

    A Steam Yacht Destroyed ________ A Mystery in Connection With the Burning of the Magic This Morning. Port Ontario , March 28. - (Special.) The steam yacht Magic, owned by …

Maritime History of the Great Lakes

      Obituary. ____ Luke Ratigan. Luke Ratigan , one of the oldest and most respected residents of the First ward, died at his residence in West Eighth street about 11 o'clock last night. Mr. Ratigan has been afflicted for the ...

      James Navagh Dies The late James Navagh who died in Buffalo on December 7th and whose funeral took place on December 10th at the Church of the Holy Angels, was born in June 1826 in Navin County Meath, Ireland. In 1829 he came to this country with his parents, who …

      The "A. E. Wild" was the Alice E. Wilde.

      The passenger steamers Kalamazoo and Pilgrim, both of Saugatuck, the former bound from Holland to Chicago and the latter bound from Chicago to Saugatuck, under full head of steam collided in mid-lake shortly after midnight Wednesday morning, making a big hole in the Kalamazoo, and she now rests ...

      A PARTIAL LIST OF VESSEL APPOINTMENTS FOR THE COMING SEASON ________ WHAT BOATS MASTERS AND CHIEF ENGINEERS WILL BE FOUND ON ________ Fortunate Sailors Who Have Good Berths Secured for Next Season ________ Following is a partial list of appointments of ...

      CANADIAN REVENUE CUTTERS ________ The Government About to Place New Cruisers on the Upper Lakes Ottawa, March 7. - The Dominion Government is about to place three new cruisers on the upper lakes. One will be located on Lake Superior and one at least on Lake Huron. These ...

      Baker ran a successful trial of the boat April 29 of the same year, and by late 1893 he was in hot competition with the famous John Holland to win a contract to provide the U.S. Navy with its first operational submarine. Unfortunately, Baker passed away of appendicitis in March, …

      Chicago, May 25., - The Norwegian steamer Wergeland, with a cargo of herring and cod liver oil direct from Bergen, Norway, will arrive in Chicago to-morrow morning, and will be given fitting reception by Norwegian residents. The consignee of the cargo, A. O. Thorpe, has arranged for the affair ...

      AKA SLIEPNER - Arrived in Chicago in August, 1862 with 105 passengers and returned with wheat; repeated the trip in June of the following year, with the same cargo. History of the Great Lakes calls the other boat SKJOLDOMAN and gives her arrival as July, 1863. The WERGELAND was probably …

      The ANDASTE (US#106926 - 1,573gt) and her sister CHOCTAW (US#126874) were of an unusual early stemwinder type - a sort of cross between the standard steel bulkers of the time and the whalebacks which had captured the public imagination. ANDASTE sailed for nearly 30 years for the steel trust companies …

      A nautical mile of 6077 feet has been measured and marked out near the southeast shore of Owen sound, five and one-fourth miles from the town, for the purpose of testing the speed of steam vessels. Each end of the mile is indicated by a pair of beacons painted white, …

      The trim passenger and package freight steamer CHICORA (US#126902) was a powerful, state of the art vessel when launched. That is part of the reason she chose to issue her usual challenge to the lake gods in deep winter of 1895. On January 21 of that year she left Milwaukee …

      Reason: damaged by ice Lives: 1 Remarks: Repaired

      p.1 Incidents of the Day - This morning there was much activity in the shipyard at Portsmouth, owned by the K. & M. F. Company. Over 100 men began the work of repairing the company's barges. The str. Pierrepont was unable to leave Folger's wharf this ...

      nil Jan. 22, 1892 p.1 Will Test the Engines - Thomas P. Thompson, chief engineer for the R. & O. navigation company, arrived in the city yesterday afternoon and will superintend the testing of the new compound engine of the steamer Corsican. The ice was cut from ...

      p.1 Incidents of the Day - Capt. Davis, of the steamer Antelope, is very ill at Gananoque. Capt. Vanalstine will convert the steambarge Saxon into a passenger boat. Jan. 26, 1892 p.1 W. Hazlett, who has been seven years in the employ of the M.T. ...

      p.1 THE ANNUAL REPORT. The annual report of the Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Company - (part) "Encouraged by the satisfactory results of the past season's business, and looking forward to continued increase, owing to the leasing of the Rome, ...

      p.4 At the meeting of the Canadian marine engineers' association, yesterday, a communication was read from the pilots and captains concerned in the proposed Soulanges canal strongly condemning the project. Feb. 6, 1892 p.1 Canadian Fish - cases of ...

      p.1 Must Take Back Water - information about yacht Where Now is wrong. General Paragraphs - The seven mariners who tried for masters' papers, before Capt. T. Donnelly, have been successful. The famous yacht Iolanthe is to be rebuilt by A.G. Cuthbert, Trenton, and some ...