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      *falcons and culverins were both types of cannon, though the term culverin was also sometimes used to describe an antiquated type of musket. The second usage is probably the one meant in this case. **Bela Hubbard explored and surveyed much of Michigan, along with first state geologist Douglass Houghton. A …

      Pumping grain, dirt and water out of a vessel's hold is a common occurrence, but pumping rats is an unheard of thing; yet it is asserted this feat has recently been witnessed. Capt. Swain of the tug Winslow tells the story. It occurred on the schooner Delos De Wolf when …

      ON THE DOCKS _______ Men Who Dwell by the Side Of the Rolling Deep _______ How They Live and What They Work at -- The Pay They Get _______ What it is to be a "Coal-Heaver," a "Trimmer," or a "Wharf-rat." _______ Among the many other objects ...

      SOME ON GRASSHOPPERS Chicago Times: Capt. Swinburne of the schooner C. Harrison says that while about 10 miles out between Racine and Waukegan, he observed the water in every direction as far as he could see was full of grasshoppers. They were so thick on the surface that it would …

      The Scientific American article appeared in the Oct. 4, 1879 issue. The author apparently did not think much of Lloyd's, and one inflammatory sentence was removed for newspaper use: after "those on board" in the second paragraph, it adds, " The rating characteristics of vessels will then be determined by …

      The following will give and idea of how complicated the 1870's debate had become as to whether American tugs could do wrecking jobs in Canadian waters, and vice-versa.

      A LAKE SCHOONER CONDEMNED Chicago Times: On yesterday the collector of customs received a letter from the treasury department, inclosing a dispatch from the United States consul at Teneriffe, one of the Canary Islands, stating that the lake schooner G. G. Cooper had been seized, ...

      A RECKONING The series of gales that swept over the lakes between the 15th and 24th of November have proven unusually destructive to vessel property and life. There has probably been no parallel in the annals of lake navigation, not even excepting the destructive gale of 1870. Within ...

      WORK OF THE FESSENDEN The revenue cutter Fessenden has gone into winter quarters with the prestige of having done the biggest season's work ever performed on fresh waters. The following abstract from her report will serve to give some idea of what she has ...

      Imagine going back from 2001 and strolling the docks of the Chicago waterfront in the late fall of 1879. Practically every foot of wharf and dock space has a vessel tied to it for the winter. They are every size, shape, condition and color that you can imagine. 370 lake …

      The new Oswego schooner Leadville cannot get through lock No. 3, Welland Canal. A portion of her side gear has been removed without avail.

      During the season the steamer Northwest (Cleveland-Detroit-Buffalo) has made 106 trips and the City of Detroit 91. The former was the first boat out and the last one in. The steamer St. Joseph, now laid up at this port, has made 83 round trips [to Duluth] this season, just two …

      WRECKING CHARGES The wrecking tug Leviathan, now stationed in the Straits, will charge as follows until September 30: For services of boat in wrecking per day $150 For services of 14-inch steam pump ...

      On Sunday the propeller Portage broke her go-ahead eccentric when on Lake St. Clair. She let go an anchor, changed eccentrics by putting the backing eccentric in place of the broken one, and then proceeding to Buffalo.

      Detroit river from the Alexander house to the crossover was a forest of masts on Sunday morning. Before noon, however, the fleet had departed and not an accident of any kind had happened. Boats arriving up say it was a very pretty sight to see them sail away down Lake …

      The reference, of course, is to a set in the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera "H.M.S. Pinafore," which was playing at the Detroit Opera House almost exactly one year after its debut in England. One can imagine the P&T's editor having his little joke at the expense of the marine …

      NOT FOR DANCING PURPOSES The Star line people are ever on the lookout for points that will add profit to the line as well as pleasure and convenience to the patrons. But they will probably object to passengers using the upper or hurricane deck for dancing purposes. On Saturday ...

      During the period of this article the marine reporters of the Detroit Post and Tribune and the Detroit Free Press were having a lively time sniping back and forth, each gleefully pointing out any error committed by the other. The Post and Tribune referred to its rival by the name …

      Fort Gratiot was the long-time military post at the head of the St. Clair River, founded in 1814 on the site of the 1686 French outpost named Fort St. Joseph.. Fort Wayne was the the site of Detroit's primary military establishment from its founding in 1843 to the 1970's. The …