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      The 1907 brochure of the Erie & Western Transportation Company's Anchor Line. The brochure features rates for passage, deck plans, itineraries, schedules, maps, and images of the new company steamers JUNIATA and TIONESTA

     

     

      Death Of Brower Morgan. A Veteran Ship Carpenter Passes Away. Brower W. Morgan , a well known resident of this city, died at an early hour this morning at his home, 168 West Seneca St. He was eight-three years old and for ...

      Death of Brower Morgan. _______ A Veteran Ship Carpenter Passes Away. Brower W. Morgan, a well known resident of this city, died at an early hour this morning at his home, 168 West Seneca St. He was 83 years old and for eighty one years had lived continuously in this …

      On lake bottom the barge Onondaga founders on Lake Ontario The coal barge Onondoga foundered on Lake Ontario, one mile North of Stony Point Light, Tuesday and is at the bottom with 632 tons of coal in her bulk. The Black Diamond, a sister coal barge, is sunk near Navy …

      The Death of Captain Ferris _________ The End Came at His Home Early Yesterday Morning. _________ For Forty five Years He Had Commanded Tugs - Loved and Respected by a Large Number of Friends. A Brave Man Has Gone to His Reward. Captain Charles W. Ferris, ...

      The schooner Elizabeth Day capsized in Lake Michigan off Pyramid point Wednesday night during a storm and is a total loss. The crew of four men left the schooner just before it went over and succeeded in getting to Sleeping Bear point in their yawl. The Day was 97 feet …

      Muskegon, Mich., April 22 - It is believed the little passenger steamer R. I. Gordon of South Haven has been lost in Lake Michigan. The Gordon was in Muskegon for the purpose of getting a supply of coal Sunday, April 14, leaving for Manitowoc the same evening. It is reported …

      Detroit, Mich., Sept. 23 - The $50,000 lake steamer Alexander Nimmick, of Cleveland, O., was wrecked Saturday night on the bleak southern shore of Lake Superior, 13 miles west of White Fish point. No living soul was within many miles of the desolate place where the survivors ...

      The Evening Herald gave brief mention Tuesday of the loss of the steamer Naomi, of the Crosby line by fire in mid-lake, between Grand Haven and Milwaukee, later advices show that the disaster as to the life was greater than at first reported. A Grand Haven dispatch of the 21st …

      The October 19-20, 1905 storm was one of the most devastating in the history of lakes shipping, with the following additional vessels removed from lake rolls forever: propellers SARAH E. SHELDON, SIBERIA, ALVIN A TURNER, JOSEPH S FAY, KALIYUGA and PROGRESS; tugs CYGNET and JAY OCHS; schooner-barges ALTA, FOSTER, IVER …

      The proposal to establish a dry dock at Port Dalhousie , or between there and Port Colborne , does not appear to be favorably received in marine circles, owing to the fact that large vessels could not ...

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      1907 DAILY BRITISH WHIG (available on microfilm at Kingston-Frontenac Public Library or Queen's University - Stauffer Library) Jan. 2, 1907 p.1 Golspie Victim Dead - Sault Ste. Marie, Jan. 2nd - Neil (or Macdonald) one of the five sailors wrecked ...

      p.4 Picton, Jan. 2nd - John Tait, foreman ship builder and draughtsman, and four Picton shipcarpenters, are busily engaged at Deseronto on a new steamyacht, the cost of which it is estimated will be between $50,000 and $60,000, for Dr. Oronhyatekha, supreme chief ranger of the ...

      p.5 Pith of the News - The ship yards of the great lakes have under construction, for delivery, this year, seventy-one vessels. Forty-five of them are bulk freighters and four are passenger steamers. Fifteen of the vessels will be built by Detroit yards.

      p.5 Will It Sell - rumor that C.P.R. intends to absorb the R. & O. Navigation company; it would have to go before the shareholders of the company. [Montreal Witness] p.6 A Big Breakwater - Work Done and Hoped For At Cape Vincent, N.Y. - detailed history ...

      p.1 Bought Steamer - Toronto, Jan. 8th - The steamer Tadousac, owned by John Waldie and A.A. Wright, has been sold to the Northern Navigation company for $150,000. The navigation company will place the boat on the grain and package freight route to some port from Port Arthur and ...

      p.1 THE RAPIDS KING Was Launched At Toronto This Afternoon. Toronto, Jan. 9th - The new Richelieu & Ontario Navigation steamer, Rapids King, was launched at one o'clock this afternoon, from the yards of the Canadian Shipbuilding ...