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 Sault Star (Sault Sainte Marie, MI), 11 Dec 1906     Men were to blame Magistrate Reed's story of Golspie Wreck Victims would not do as the Mate Ordered How the poor fellows suffered and came near losing lives after the wreck Michipicoten River, Dec. 11 1906 Editor Soo Star: Dear Sir, ...

 Sault Star (Sault Sainte Marie, MI), 13 Dec 1906     Str Monarch is Lost The Northern Navigation Co. loses a Good Boat Was wrecked on Isle Royale Went aground Last Friday Night and pounded to pieces Passengers Saved. The steamer Monarch of the Northern Navigation Company is a total wreck on Isle Royale, about forty ...

 Sault Star (Sault Sainte Marie, MI), 31 Jan 1907     Golspie Captain Held Responsible The inquest into the Golspie wreck was finished last night at the town hall when the coroner's jury returned a verdict holding Captain Boult, responsible for the death of Sydney Neil, who died as a result of his hands and feet being frozen, all four ...

 Sault Star (Sault Sainte Marie, MI), 10 Nov 1913     Navigation is at a standstill on Lake as result of storm Foot of snow has fallen in Sault Ste. Marie since Saturday Many telegraph wires are down. Which accounts for short wire service in the Sault today Navigation is at a standstill today. All the passenger boats on ...

      FATE WAS AGAINST HIM. -- It was the Canadian schooner BABINEAU & GAUDRY , laden with coal oil to Europe, which ran on a shoal in the St. Lawrence River , above

    FATE WAS AGAINST HIM. -- It was the Canadian schooner BABINEAU & GAUDRY , laden with coal oil to Europe, which ran on a shoal in the St. Lawrence River …

Maritime History of the Great Lakes

      The Lake Erie Steam-Boat carried the United States Mail from Buffalo to Erie, Fairport, Cleaveland, Sandusky City, and Detroit.

 Cleveland Herald (Cleveland, OH), 6 Nov 1821, p. 3, column 1     STEAM-BOAT LOST! Information was received in town, last evening, that the steam-boat Walk-in-the-Water, Capt. Rogers, was driven ashore near the Buffalo light-house, during the gale on Wednesday night last, and materially injured, if not totally lost. The passengers (about 40 in ...

 Cleveland Herald (Cleveland, OH), 13 Nov 1821, p. 3, column 2     LOSS of the STEAM-BOAT The report of the loss of the steamboat Walk-in-the-Water, is fully confirmed. We learn the following particulars from one of the passengers, who arrived in town a few days since by land: the boat left Black-Rock on Wednesday the 6th instant, at 4 o'clock, ...

 Cleveland Herald (Cleveland, OH), 3 Jul 1850, p. 1, column 7     Quick Trip The Propeller Ontario made the passage from Montreal to Quebec [sic: probably meant New York] in twelve days.--She took on board at Erie, some 300 tons of coal, and had 100 tons remaining on her arrival at New york. We understand her owner intends to take the Propeller …

 Cleveland Herald (Cleveland, OH), 8 May 1850, p. 1, column 5     PROPELLER ONTARIO.-- We are informed that the Propeller Ontario, built at this port about two years since, is now fitting up as a sea steamer at Buffalo, and is intended to run between Ogdensburgh and Quebec, with occasional trips to Halifax to meet the Cunard steamers from ...

 Cleveland Herald (Cleveland, OH), 11 Dec 1850, p. 1, column 3     Lake Propeller for Chagres The Propeller Ontario which left the lakes in May having made one trip to Charleston S. C., returned to New York for new boilers and outfit and cleared on the 2d inst. for Chagres.-- The time is coming when lake built vessels will be numerous on …

      The steam-boat Walk-in-the-Water, Capt. Rogers, left Black-Rock on the 28th instant, bound for Mackina and Green Bay. She touched at this port on Sunday evening lest, having on board, besides other passengers, 130 recruits, destined for the northern posts, and several officers of the army, among ...

 Cleveland Herald (Cleveland, OH), 28 Nov 1820, p. 3, column 2     Another Shipwreck - The Schooner American Eagle, belonging to the estate of capt. Wm. Gaillard, late of this place, and Sill, Thompson, & Co., of Black Rock, left this port on Saturday evening last, in ballast, bound for the Islands, commanded by Captain J. Manchester, When she sailed the wind …

      A NEW SCHOONER. -- The schooner HIGHLAND BEAUTY, a new craft, has just been built at Oakville, Lake Ontario. Her dimensions are as follows: Length of keel, 75 feet; over all 86 feet; beam18 feet; hold, 6 feet 7 inches, capacity about 65,000 feet of lumber. She is owned by …

      The history of the tug LADY FRANKLIN is given by a Kingston exchange: The tug LADY FRANKLIN is being torn to pieces and the engine taken out for transference to the tug now building. The old boiler will not be used. The FRANKLIN was built ...

      The schooner MARQUIS , recently ashore, has been towed to Toronto by the tug ROBB . Her main mast has gone by the deck, and her mizzen just below the cross-trees, both ...

      Dispatch to the Detroit Post and Tribune from Oswego ; The schooner RICHARDSON , Captain McKee , with 9,200 ...

      Oswego , Sept. 26. -- The steamer THOMAS KINGSFORD , of Oswego, during a storm yesterday broke from her moorings at Wellington , a Canadian lake shore dock, and sank ...

      The steambarge T. KINGSFORD , barley laden, which sank at Wellington , has been pumped out, and is now at Oswego undergoing repairs. ...

      The following particulars of the burning of the steamer FLOWER CITY , at Clayton , are given by an Oswego exchange: "A fire had just been started in her engine, as she had been engaged to carry an excursion to ...