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 Cleveland Herald (Cleveland, OH), 24 Oct 1820, p. 3, column 1     A series of corrections to these statements in a following issue.

     

The statement in our last paper, respecting the shipwrecks, was in several particulars incorrect. The schooner Aurora rode out the gale without injury. The schooner Wolf was beached near Buffalo. The schooner Commodore Perry remains on shore, having received considerable injury, The Erie Gazette ...

      The scene which is represented by our artist below, was a most heart-rending catastrophe. At the time of the collision a dense fog was prevailing. The passengers were all in bed, and the Atlantic was in charge of the first mate. Immediately following the collision the utmost confusion prevailed ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 17 May 1941     "Cullud" Folks and the Marquis Schooner Days CCCCXCVI (496)

by C. H. J. Snider

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HERE may be a clue as to the identity of the smart schooner Charlie Gibbons drew so long ago, with the ...

 Syracuse Daily Star (Syracuse, NY), 13 Sep 1851     Great Gale on Lake Erie. _____ Loss of Dan Rice's Circus. _____

Mr. Frost, of the Burnet House, Cincinnati, who arrived here on the Express train, yesterday, from Buffalo, informs us that on Saturday night there was a terrific gale on Lake Erie. The ...

 Lloyd, James T., Lloyd's Steamboat Directory and Disasters on the Western Waters... (1856), 28 Apr 1850, 211-13     Explosion of the Anthony Wayne.

The Anthony Wayne was an old steamer belonging to the regular line of Buffalo and Sandusky packets. On Sunday morning, at half-past one o'clock, April 28, 1850, while making one of heir usual trips, this boat exploded, on Lake Erie, opposite the ...

 Lloyd, James T., Lloyd's Steamboat Directory and Disasters on the Western Waters... (1856), 9 Jun 1847, 203-07     Collision of Steamer Chesapeake and Schooner Porter

The steamers Chesapeake and Constellation from Buffalo, were sailing in company on Lake Erie, June 9, 1847, and being off Conneaut about midnight, they met the schooner Porter, which turned aside to avoid the Constellation, and ...

 Lloyd, James T., Lloyd's Steamboat Directory and Disasters on the Western Waters... (1856), 17 Jun 1850, 261-65     Burning of the G. P. Griffith.

The fine steamer G. P. Griffith took fire on Lake Erie, about twenty miles below Cleveland, and was burnt to the water's edge, on June 17, 1850. The passengers were all in their berths when the alarm of fire was given, about three o'clock ...

 Lloyd, James T., Lloyd's Steamboat Directory and Disasters on the Western Waters... (1856), 20 Aug 1852, 148-50     Collision of the Atlantic and Ogdensburg.

At an early hour before daylight, on the 20th day of August, 1852, the steamboat Atlantic ran afoul of the propeller Ogdensburg, about six miles above Long Point, on Lake Erie. The morning was very foggy and the darkness was extreme, and ...

 Lloyd, James T., Lloyd's Steamboat Directory and Disasters on the Western Waters... (1856), 1856, 130-31     Burning of the Washington.

A new and elegant steamboat called the Washington, was burned on Lake Erie, opposite Silver creek, June 16th, 1838. In the early part of the preceding night, the Washington passed the steamer North America, while the latter lay at the town of Erie. On the ...

      Reason: sunk
Lives: 1
Remarks: Total loss

      Reason: sunk
Lives: nil
Remarks: Total loss

      Reason: aground
Lives: all
Hull damage: ?
Remarks: Got off

      Reason: near accident
Remarks: Recovered

      Reason: missing
Lives: all
Remarks: Total loss

      Reason: lost anchor & rudder
Remarks: Repaired

      Reason: lost foresail
Remarks: Repaired

      Reason: sunk
Freight: lumber

      Reason: dismasted
Remarks: Repaired

      Reason: collision
Remarks: Repaired