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      PROGRESS docked in the South Pond at Chicago - from a Columbian Exposition guide of 1893.

      Note: The marine mail has been delivered under contract by the J. W. Westcott Co. of Detroit ever since. For photos and more information on the mail service, past and present, see:

      A CORKER ________ READ, AND JUDGE WHETHER THE BOAT OR DESCRIPTION IS MEANT A polar bear at the equator or an ostrich in Alaska would not be much more out of place or attract more attention than a stern-wheel steamboat on Lake Superior. Nevertheless a stern ...

      SEEING SIXTY MILES _______ United States Engineers Did it on Lake Superior _______ The lake survey parties under Assistant Engineers Haskell and Russell have recently measured some angles of the triangulation, which involved seeing across Lake Superior from ...

      THE EAGLE SCREAMS The Detroit Dry Dock Co. is the lucky shipbuilding firm to figure in what is probably the most noteworthy shipbuilding contract on record for the lakes, in receiving an order from the Russian government for the construction of three monster car ferry steamers ...

      The lighthouse board yesterday gave notice that on July 5 the color of the skeleton iron tower at the station at White Fish Point, southeast part of Lake Superior, will be changed from brown to white, to render it more prominent as a day mark.

      The big WAHNIPITAE (US#81115) of 1886, was one of the first of James Davidson's giant wooden towbarges, and a fairly unique vessel. She was built specifically for the lumber trade, and though technically a schooner, her "masts" were actually huge derricks used to load her cargo. What made her unique …

      This was J. H. Wade's palatial steam yacht WADENA (US#81346). The 133-foot beauty was built at Cleveland in 1891 and sailed by the Wade family until commandeered by the U. S. Navy in 1917. After her wartime service she returned to private hands, but not to the lakes. She was …

      OFF KENOSHA _______ Schooner Kate Kelly and Steamer Petoskey Supposed to be in Trouble _______ Kenosha, Wis., May 14. - The fishing tug Engel picked up a portion of the schooner Kate Kelly, bearing the vessel's name, also a yawl boat and pail marked steamer ...

      STILL UNKNOWN _______ That Capsized Schooner Located off North Point, near Racine Racine, May 15. - The wreck of a vessel was located this morning two miles east of North Point by the life-saving crew. The wreck lies in ten fathoms of water, and the fore top-mast is ...

      Notice is given that the wreck of the schooner Kate Kelly, off Wind Point (Racine Point), Wis., has been removed.

      It may not be generally known that the submerged copper thrown from the Centurion off Isle Royale, had to be guarded all winter by armed men. Capt. Tuttle, who had the matter in charge, was about to place one man on the spot, but he was assured that one man …

      ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL _______ And Gus Peterson was Rudely Awakened by a Slap While trying to snatch a wink of sleep at the wheel of the schooner Nassau, bound up, at daybreak yesterday morning, Gus Peterson, able bodied seaman, was rudely awakened by a resounding slap on ...

      The NORTH LAND (US#130690) and NORTH WEST (US#130661 ) were nearly identical 4200 t. passenger steamers built in 1895 at Cleveland. NORTH LAND was cut in two to transit the Welland Canal in 1918 to join WWI, but was too late and was never reassembled. She was scrapped in 1921. …

      SIX MEN ARE LOST _______ No Longer a Doubt of the Kelly's Loss _______ Tug Charm Finds a Large Amount of her Wreckage _______ Which Indicates That She Pounded to Pieces _______ She Was Nearly 30 years old Rated Only ...

      When the flames in the fire-hold of the W. H. Gilbert were at their height and that part of the steamer a mass of of fire from the burning oil, one of the steel plates on the ship's side cracked and the steel parted three-sixteenths of an inch wide by …

      SUPERIOR'S PECULIARITIES ----------------------- A Surveyor Sees a Few Interesting Things to Tell About That Lake The lake survey party at work on Lake Superior in charge of Engineer Thomas Russell have returned to the Soo. Mr. Russell's party ...

      The BLANDINA was the former wooden yacht of the same name [C#85520], built in 1883 at Bronte, Ont. by W. G. Walton. She was 67.0x12.2x4.6 and 46 register tons. Her success must have been limited, as she became the property of H. H. Booth, Toronto, in the same year as …

      The old whaling vessel Progress, which was brought from New Bedford, Mass., to the Columbian exposition was sold a few days ago for $300. She is lying, waterlogged in the south pond since the close of the exhibition and the purchaser is trying to dispose of her copper-lined hull. The …

      BIG SCHOONER ADAMS SUNK _______ CUT BY ICE AND SANK IN THIRTY FEET OFF COLCHESTER _______ Amherstburg, Ont., December 12. - (Special.) - The steamer Caledonia, which passed here at 10 o'clock this morning, reports that her consort, the schooner George W. Adams, ...