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      MARINE -----o----- Marine Casualties of 1873 -----o----- We herewith present our usual annual statement of disasters on the lakes during the season just ended, in round numbers, figuring up to 1,021, so far as we have been able to obtain them, and which will no ...

      SCHOONER J. W. SARGENT. - There now remains but little doubt that the above vessel during the winter was cut down by the ice, and with her cargo has gone to the bottom. It will be remembered that at the close of the season she, with other craft, was hemmed …

      AN EXPEDITION RETURNED. - The party who set out a few days since for Middle Sister Island, Lake Erie, to recover the lost coal barges left there last fall, returned to this city on Monday with the barge Ritchie, which had on board her full complement of coal and apparently …

      A FRUITLESS SEARCH. - The owners of the barge Morning Star and others have been making a diligent search for the past two weeks near the islands, but thus far the search has been a fruitless one, and all further efforts have been abandoned. A portion of the cabins of …

      STEAMER BURNED ______ Loss by Fire of the Steamer Katy Reid - Loss and Insurance ______ From the Bay City Tribune of last evening we learn that the steamer Katy Reid, owned by Geo. Campbell of Bay City , and engaged in transferring logs from the shore to the ...

      THE TIMBER SHIPMENT. - A raft containing 1,000,000 feet of long timber is en route through the rivers to Tonawanda, consigned to Seth Bliss. It is chiefly Norway and white pine, and was made up at Au Sable. R. McDonald has in readiness for shipment upwards of 8,000,000 feet of …

      THE OLD ATLANTIC . - A statement has been going the rounds concerning the raising of the old propeller Atlantic, sunk in 1852 by collision with the propeller Ogdensburg . From one of the parties ...

      The four wooden propellers that left Port Huron together all belonged to the Northern Transportation Co. The City of Boston, at 431 tons, was slightly the smallest of the four. Their struggle underscores the importance of opening the routes in the exceptionally late spring of 1873. The trip from Detroit …

      At the time the article was written, the barges Warner, Ritchie and Waurecan were ashore on East Sister Island, Lake Erie, and had been so since the previous fall. All three were later rescued, but it was well into the season before they were back in regular operation.

      THE DETROIT AND CLEVELAND ROUTE. - The present is the twenty-second season since the route between Detroit and Cleveland was properly inaugurated, having been organized in 1851, previous to which time the travel and business public were accommodated by steamers plying between Buffalo ...

      DETROIT AND PORT HURON. - Considering the crowded state of the ice in Lake St. Clair, the arrival of the steamer Frost took many by surprise. She left Marine City on Monday morning, thus occupying something over twenty-four hours on the voyage, coming via the south passage. After ...

      DETROIT AND SANDUSKY. - It is now twenty-seven years since boats commenced plying regularly on the above route. The first steamer to commence running there was the Fashion, commanded by Capt. R. G. Evans, which extended her trips for a short time to Port Huron. She was finally placed ...

      PREMATURE. - The information reported by the tug W. A. Moore a few days since respecting the wreck of the Atlantic being raised, by later advices proves to be somewhat premature, which states that she ...

      *ceiling - inside hull "lining"

      THE MACKINAW CABLE. - The party which set out from here for Mackinaw a few days since on board the steamer Marine City , to lay the telegraph cable across the

    THE MACKINAW CABLE. - The party which set out from here for Mackinaw a few days since on board the steamer Marine City , to lay the telegraph cable across …

Maritime History of the Great Lakes

      A WRECK GOT UP. - The old schooner Citizen , which was wrecked early in the season inside the harbor at Fairport , Ohio, and has been a detriment to the navigation since that time, has been raised and ...

      The Great Lakes brigantine (usually called a "brig), was a two-masted vessel, square-rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft rigged on the mainmast. A full-rigged brig was also two-masted, but square-rigged on both masts. 1869 *Merchant Vessels* shows 46 brigs in American registry at that time. The ROBERT BURNS was lost …

      *42 feet

      *figures do not add up in original

      CANADIAN LIGHT-HOUSES. -The following notices to mariners have been issued by Wm. Smith , deputy Minister of Marine and Fisheries, for the Canadian Government, dated at Ottawa August 2d and 13th, ...