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      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 …

      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 …

      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.

      BUMPED INTO WRECK SMALL STEAMER RAN ON LINDEN, BUT BACKED OFF. VESSELS CANNOT PASS SUNKEN BOAT TWO ABREAST. Now Quite Certain That Bodies Have Floated Away. The position of the sunken steamer LINDEN, above Sans Souci, St. Clair river, is such that all captains are ...

      A TIMELY RESCUE _______ THREE EXHAUSTED SAILORS TAKEN FROM SCHR. ABBIE _______ MANISTEE LIFESAVERS ARRIVED ON SPECIAL TRAIN _______ One Man Swam Ashore Through the Icy Seas _______ Manistee, November 8. - Early this morning the little ...

      SHIPPERS STAND PAT _______ ORE MEN REFUSE MORE THAN CONTRACT RATE _______ SMALL VESSELS IN DEMAND IN COAL TRADE _______ Buffalo Grain Blockade May Be Broken Soon _______ Cleveland, November 8. - The freight market was quiet all around ...

      Shift in Lightkeepers[sic] _______ Grand Haven, Mich., November 8. - Supt. Charles Norton, of the twelfth lifesaving district, has transferred Keeper Berndt Carlson from the White Lake Station to the one at Ludington. Edwin E. Bedford, surfman at Point Betsey, gets the White ...

      DETROIT SAILOR DROWNED _______ BROTHER WITNESSED TRAGEDY, YOUNG MAN OVERBOARD St. Clair, Mich., November 8. (Special.) - Joseph Boyle, of Detroit, a sailor on the steamer Marigold, which is lying at the dock here, was drowned at a bout 10:30 o'clock tonight. Boyle got ...

      LICENSE IS SUSPENDED _______ STR. CHEQUAMEGON LACKED REQUIRED METAL LIFEBOAT Local steamboat inspectors at Grand Haven have suspended for sixty days the license of Capt. C. C. Fowler, master and first-class pilot, because the steamer Chequamegon had not been provided ...

      October Lake Levels The gauge records of the United States lake survey show the following mean stages of water above sea level for October, 1905: Stage during October Higher than same month last year Lower than same month ...

      $9,000 Repair Bill on the Iowa Milwaukee, November 8. - Repairs to the steamer Iowa, which stranded at Fox Point last week, will cost $9,000.

      Rend Towed to Mackinaw Mackinaw City, November 8. - The steamer Black Rock picked up the steamer W. P. Rend, at anchor near Beaver Island with a broken shaft, and towed her here this morning. Chicago, November 8. - The Rend will be picked up at Mackinaw City by some …

      Pensobscot Damaged in Collision A dispatch from Port Huron states that the schooner Penobscot, which was in collision with the steamer Lake Shore at the St. Clair Flats on Monday, was damaged about $1,000, all above the water-line. Temporary repairs will be made so that she can ...

      *Northern Navigation Co., Collingwood. The CITY OF COLLINGWOOD (C#94766) burned at the Grand Trunk rail docks at Collingwood and was destroyed, along with the dock and nearby sheds. She was 213 feet keel and 1,387 t. The CITY OF PARRY SOUND (C#94762, ex-FAVORITE), which burned in 1900, may have been …

      Floating Theater. Detroit theatrical men are said to be negotiating for the charter of the old BADGER STATE as a floating vaudeville theater, with roof garden features. John Stevenson, manager of the boat, says nothing definate has been done. Mr. Stevenson suggests that the ...

      SANDSUCKER SUNK _______ In a Collision in St. Clair River on Wednesday. _______ Nine Persons Made the Shore in Safety. _______ The sandsucker GEORGE T. BURROUGHS, of Windsor, was sunk in collision with a steamer supposed to be the C. F. BIELMAN below ...