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      Chicago Special: The departure of the schooner Sophia J. Luff with a cargo of corn for Kingston, Canada, marks the permanent removal of five of Chicago's schooner fleet this spring. The Luff, as well as the four others formerly named, have been sold to parties not in the Lake Michigan …

      CHANGE ITS NAME. _______ Shipmasters' Association Not a Labor Union. Chicago, July 9. - Since practically every branch of men employed on the lakes are now in unions, and there is more or less agitation going on at all times, the associations organized along the lines ...

      The schooner was the MONTEZUMA (US#93397), Davidson hull number 102. She was 341x46x22, 2,722 gt, one of the largest wooden vessels ever built. It was later stated in the press that the reason Davidson's last large vessels took so long to build was the inavailabilty and resultant expense of the …

      While she was a very small vessel by Great Lakes standards, hauling the steamer (tonnage =20) seven miles to Long Lake must have been a significant project. Either the article is mistaken or the excursion business didn't pan out, as JOSIE (US#77112) ended her days cut down to a tug …

      The bulk freighter MARQUETTE foundered in good weather October 15,1903, shortly after leaving Duluth with a heavy cargo of iron ore.

      The three boats mentioned were all sold to Interlake Steamship in 1913. Perhaps speed of construction and strength do not automatically correllate. R. E. SCHUCK (later HYDRUS) and LEWIS WOODRUFF (later ARGUS) were both lost with all hands in the Big Storm of 1913 while GILCHRIST (later CYGNUS) was scrapped …

      HATTIE WAS SQUEEZED _______ The little steamer Hattie was quite seriously damaged yesterday afternoon while lying at the public lighting dock just before her 2 o'clock trip to Wolf's. The steamer Mascotte was tied just outside the Hattie, when the Union liner Rochester made a ...

      OFFICIAL TEST DELAYED _______ EASTLAND DISABLED BY PICKING UP A WIRE CABLE _______ Chicago, August 19. - Friday is the time set by the Jenks Shipbuilding Co. for an official test of the new steamer Eastland. Instead of proving her speed in a effort to win a bonus ...

      WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY _______ Messages May Be Sent on the Lakes Early Next Week Buffalo, April 30. - Wireless telegraphy on the great lakes will soon be given its first practical test, according to the plans of W. W. Tompkins, lake manager of the DeForest Wireless ...

      SWALLOWED HER WHISTLE _______ The new Anchor Liner TIONESTA arrived at Detroit yesterday morning, completing her first round trip to the city of her nativity. On the whole trip, which was a continuous ovation, but one accident, and that one slight, occurred aboard the new ...

      Sorry, no word on the fate of the fugitive.

      Actually, though used as a barge after this date (as were nearly all of the large lake schooners, including DOWS), she was not "cut down" (masts truncated) until 1906, when she was converted to a bulk fuel carrier. She stranded and was lost on the Scilly Isles, England, in December, …

      BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF THE PLANTS OF THE GREAT LAKES ENGINEERING WORKS (aerial-view drawing of the facility as it will appear when finished) The shipbuilding plant of the Great Lakes Engineering Co. will be the largest on the lakes. Work is being pushed on it and a greater ...

      ANOTHER NEW FREAK _____ Chicago, July 11. - One of the queerest steamers ever operated on the great lakes was given its trial trip out of St. Joseph today. The vessel is the Willow, built to run the St. Joseph river between Berrien Springs and Cook's Landing, where no ...

      *Built in 1854 by Kirby and Hoyt, East Saginaw, Michigan, as a bark, she was 160 x 30 x 12, 390 gt. She burned to a total loss a few blocks from this point in 1906.

      The speech reported accompanied the written annual report which was presented to the government each year. It should be noted that this does not reflect, by any stretch of the imagination, all of the accidents occurring on the American side of the lakes, nor all of the deaths occurring in …

      This is one of the few press mentions I have found of the U.S.S. YANTIC, a Civil War-era screw gunboat that served for more than thirty years on the Great Lakes before sinking at her dock in 1929, at age 65! Built in 1864 at the Philadelphia Naval Yard, the …

      Here's a pretty interesting article on a fairly unusual wreck, the propeller MARQUETTE (ex-REPUBLIC, US#110465), which went down in fair weather off the Apostles, Lake Superior. The wooden steamer was built by Presley at Cleveland in 1880 and was 235 feet keel. The other Gilchrist vessels lost in 1903 were …

      p.1 To Make Investigation - Detroit, Mich., Sept. 30th - The new revenue cutter Tuscorora has arrived here from the Atlantic coast. One of her missions in these waters is to look fully into the trouble which United States fishing boats are giving the Canadian revenue cutter ...

      p.2 MARINE INTELLIGENCE. Craigs' wharf: steamers Persia down, Ocean up. Crawford's wharf: schooner Tradewind from Fairhaven with coal. Capt. Allen took over command of the steamer New Island Wanderer today. The schooner Sophia Luff is ...