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      The six alleged river pirates, who were arrested at Port Huron a few days ago, were brought here yesterday by Marshal Petit and arraigned before Commissioner Graves on a charge of attacking a vessel with intent to plunder. Their names are William Johnson, William Murphy, William Cooper, Thomas ...

      Though I don't know all of the relationships, the Hacketts of Amherstburg were a fixture on the Detroit River for decades. Capt. James Hackett, Thomas' grandfather, was an early lakes skipper and later (1830's-40's) light-keeper on Bois Blanc ("BobLo") Island, where he lived until his death in 1872. He commanded, …

      This is one of the first large quadruple-expansion steam engines that I have seen referenced in the lakes trade. The passenger/excursion steamer UNIQUE , built at Marine City, Mich., and launched a few months earlier also had a quad, but had a lot of trouble with engine and boilers and …

      In The Hands of a Receiver Chicago, June 24. - The Columbian Navigation Company went into the hands of a receiver to-day on application of the owners of the Chief Justice Waite. The company's liabilities, mostly owing to the boats chartered for it's world's fair service, will ...

      This light was the one built for Columbian Exhibition and then accepted by the government in the fall 1893. It still stands on Rawley Point.

      New Light Keepers Washington, September 24. - (Special) - The secretary of the treasury has appointed Michael M. Cooney the keeper of Thunder Bay Island light station; Henry Metiber, keeper of Bois Blanc, vice Lorenzo O. Holden, deceased; Thomas Gallagher, second assistant keeper ...

      New Light-Keeper at Point Betsey Washington, September 28. - (Special.) - The secretary of the treasury to-day appointed Medad Spencer assistant keeper of the light station at Point Betsey.

      Michael J. Cooney, lighthouse keeper on Thunder Bay Island, was married Saturday to Miss Alice Erickson. This was the first marriage ever celebrated on the island.

      New Lightkeepers Washington, October 16. - [Special] - The secretary of the treasury has appointed Thomas L. Kean as master of light vessel No. 63 at Ballard Reef, Detroit, vice Christopher Crisp, resigned; George R. Holden, assistant signal station keeper at Detour, vice David ...

      The the old (1855) three-master GIBBS foundered at anchor while riding out a storm off Bar Point and her wreck lay in only 30 feet of water, directly in the shipping channel to Pt. Pelee. The Dominion government eventually did have the boat removed, but Capt. Pope was relieved of …

      The 1688 t. wooden bulker FRANK W. WHEELER (US#120767) ran on a sandbar near Michigan City, Indiana, December 3, 1893 in a blinding blizzard, and became a total loss. Being that she was relatively new (built at W. Bay City in 1888), a great effort was made to salvage her …

      Raised From the Deep Muskegon, Mich, October 23. - (Special.) - The big wrecking tug Protection, of Bay City, is in the harbor with a scow she has been at work on for several days raising from a depth of 100 feet. The scow was loaded with $5,000 worth of …

      R. P. Joy was a prominent Detroit lawyer and investor and was later a source of the money used to found Packard Motor Co. Joy's concerns notwithstanding, the flow of the Chicago River was famously reversed to put an end to the tendency of southern end of Lake Michigan becoming …

      All of the four vessels mentioned lived to sail again, the BOYCE having her expensive salvage and repair bills paid by the old ATLANTIC and the BALDWIN hers by the IRON KING. The BOYCE was lost in a fire in 1917, the BALDWIN in a storm in 1908 and the …

      Chicago, March 23. - (Special.) - The American Lloyds, which is the first of the outside vessel registers to appear in competition with Inland Lloyds, was issued to-day. This is the work which many vesselmen have attempted to boycott for fear it would reduce the valuation of their boats. A …

      WALDO was 204 feet and 1,294 g.t., US#81048. Her cargo burned for several days and was still smoldering when the insurance representative inspected her on the 7th. She was abandoned as a total loss, but was resurrected the following year and rebuilt at her birthplace, the Frank Wheeler yard in …

      The SELWYN EDDY was a steel bulker of 2846 t. and 343 feet, built at Wyandotte in 1893 (US#116555). She was abandoned in 1945.

      The boiler, if it ever belonged to the LADY, must have been replaced, as both of the boat's boilers are recorded at the wreck site off Winnetka. See Brendon Baillod's excellent site on the LADY ELGIN: http://www.ship-wrecks.net/shipwreck/projects/elgin/

      The PROTECTOR (US#150050) was renamed JAMES REID after being sold by Hall (a sometime business partner of James Reid) to Reid Wrecking and Towing in 1904-5. In '93 Reid was based at Bay City and moved to Port Huron in 1900. By 1904 Reid's Company was based in Sarnia, Ontario …

      A Raftsman Walked the Tow-Line A rather unusual diversion was enjoyed yesterday by the people on the boats and along the docks. The Grummond tug Crusader, Capt. James Canniff, passed down about 2 o'clock, towing a large raft of telegraph poles for W. C. Sterling, from Au Gres to ...