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      Schooner Goes Down Kate Lyons Founders at Holland While Trying to Make the Entrance to That Harbor. No Lives Lost. Special to the Press. Holland, Mich., Oct. 20: - After being in ...

      The Richmond (US#11138) was worth $10,000 in 1864.

      "M ft. B.M." = 1,000 feet, board measure [1 board foot = equivalent to a board a foot long, a foot wide and an inch thick = 144 cubic inches] A "true" eight-foot "two by four" is 5 1/3 board feet, while a "nominal" two by four of the same …

      A Gastly Find. _______ Captain Mallett, of the Barge Witbeck, Wants No More Such Nerve Tests Captain Mallett, of the barge Witbeck, had a ghastly find when he began to unfurl his topsails last evening. The barge arrived here about 2 p.m. behind the steamer Avon, ...

      NO TRUCKING _______ Kingston, May 29. - Capt. Crawford, commander of the ferry Fawcett, owned by the city council of Wolfe Island, is now engaged in a life and death struggle for the dignity of his profession. Capt. Crawford allowed that it is beneath his station as a ...

      The THOMAS W. PALMER (US#145513) was of composite hull construction, was 281 feet and 2134gt. She was built at Detroit Dry Dock in 1889. The steel-hulled Pittsburger HARVARD (US#96507) was built at Detroit Shipbuilding in 1900 and lasted until scrapped in 1960. She was 416 ft. and 5054gt.

      CANNON FOR HEAVING LINE _______ Goodrich Passenger Fleet Will Carry Them _______ Same Type Used by Life-Saving Stations _______ Delay in Receiving New Life-Preservers _______ Chicago, May 12. - Chicago steamboat lines are not only supplying ...

      WON'T REDUCE LAKE LEVEL _______ COSTE'S OPINION OF DAM AT ST. MARY'S RAPIDS Ottawa, Ont., August 18. Louis Coste, of the international waterways commission, has returned from Sault Ste Marie, where he went in company with Mr. Mabee, K. C., of Toronto, and Mr. Clinton of ...

      SMITHS NEARLY ALL PASSED. All of the six Smiths but one owned by the United States and the Lyman C. Smith Transportation Cos. passed Detroit in the twenty-four hours between 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon and the same hour Friday. In the down passage were the Monroe C. , the Hurlburt …

      According to the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, the commercial catch of lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) in Lake Michigan for 1996 was about 6.55 million pounds. This is about the same as it was in 1885, the earliest year for which there is a record, and near three times what it …

      Anyone have any information on whether CHEQUAMEGON ever made it to California? She is not listed under this name in the 1910 Merchant Vessels.

      The GEORGE W. ROBY, a wooden steam barge, was converted to a towbarge after this incident, which occurred at the mouth of the Detroit River. Surprisingly, she burned to total loss in a nearly identical incident the following year, in almost the same spot (Lime Kiln Crossing). In that incident, …

      Resorting to more primitive means, the VIGILANT, after a number of verbal warnings and even a shot across the bows, had rammed and sunk the U.S. fish tug GRACIE M. in June of the same year.

      p.1 BURST BUOY. Caused Death and Disaster On Tuesday. MATE BEHEADED What The Crew Have To Relate. During the filling of buoys, for service on lake and river, an explosion of one of them ...

      p.1 FLAW IN WELD Caused The Explosion Of Acetylene Buoy. SO EXPERTS SWORE At The Coroner's Inquest Last Evening. The coroner's jury summoned by Coroner Mundell, to inquire into the ...

      not published April 22, 1905 p.2 GETTING EVIDENCE. Concerning The Cause of Buoy Explosion. It will likely be some days before the government investigation into the steamer Scout catastrophe is concluded. The board of ...

      p.1 NOTICE. All persons who suffered damage to property by the explosion of the gas buoy, on the 18th inst., are requested to put in their claims in writing, with details, to the undersigned for the information of the Department of Marine and Fisheries. ...

      p.2 VERDICT RENDERED In The Gas Buoy Explosion Inquest. The coroner's jury to enquire into the circumstances surrounding the death of the late Frederic Mullen, met Monday afternoon at four o'clock in the police court room. ...

      p.2 MARINE NEWS. M.T. company wharf: steamer Advance cleared for Oswego. The steamer Bothnia clears today for Oswego to load coal. The steamer Fawcett or Wolfe Islander resumed her ferry trips today. Crawford's wharf: schooner ...

      p.1 Old Mariner Dead. Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. - April 27th - Capt. William Milloy, one of the best known residents of Niagara peninsula, died at his residence here this morning, aged fifty-three. Capt. Milloy for years commanded the steamer City of ...