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      At Bidwell & Banta's yard some eighty men are at work on the Propeller Ontario , preparing her for California. She is to be copper-fastened and made as staunch as any sea-going craft afloat. Permission, we understand, has been obtained for her egress through the St. Lawrence. She is ...

 Buffalo Commercial Advertiser (Buffalo, NY), 20 Sep 1849, p. 2     We find the following in the Erie Com. Adv. of Wednesday. There was a rumor current yesterday that the body of Mr. CARRICK had been found in the Ship Canal, but on inquiry, we ascertained that it was unfounded. We trust that vigilant efforts will be made to ascertain the …

 Buffalo Courier, 21 Sep 1849, p. 2     The Erie Commercial Advertiser of the 19th inst. contains the following article, relative to the disappearance of Mr. John Carrick, for many years a well known resident of this city, and one of the first individuals whose name was identified with the now extensive ship-building interest "on the ...

      Buffalo, April 4. The Steam Boat Walk-in-the-Water, started on Friday last for Detroit, with one hundred and fifty-six passengers. In overhauling the Machinery some defects were remedied, and the improvements and those of lessening the diameter of the Water Wheel, which by ...

      DISASTER. ---The Oswego Times says a severe thunder storm passed over that city on Friday noon, and the schooner PRINCESS ROYAL, lying wind bound off the mouth of the river, was dismasted. The steamer LADY OF THE LAKE went out and towed the disabled vessel into port. ...

 Cleveland Herald (Cleveland, OH), 6 Nov 1821, p. 3, column 1     STEAM-BOAT LOST! Information was received in town, last evening, that the steam-boat Walk-in-the-Water, Capt. Rogers, was driven ashore near the Buffalo light-house, during the gale on Wednesday night last, and materially injured, if not totally lost. The passengers (about 40 in ...

 Cleveland Herald (Cleveland, OH), 13 Nov 1821, p. 3, column 2     LOSS of the STEAM-BOAT The report of the loss of the steamboat Walk-in-the-Water, is fully confirmed. We learn the following particulars from one of the passengers, who arrived in town a few days since by land: the boat left Black-Rock on Wednesday the 6th instant, at 4 o'clock, ...

 Milwaukee Journal, 16 Nov 1929     Crew Abandons Grounded Ship Buffalo N.Y. Battered for 12 hours by heavy seas, the freight steamer Briton was filling rapidly Friday and seemed beyond hope of salvage, according to reports received by the coast guard here. Capt. Johnson and the crew of 27 men on board since ...

 Buffalo Daily Republic (Buffalo, NY), 27 Sep 1848, p. 3, column 2     COMMON COUNCIL.-- ... Mr. L. Barker was denied permission to occupy a portion of Buffalo creek with his floating elevator -- and certain suits against him for obstructing the creek were ordered to be continued. A communication from the harbor master informed the Council that the ...

 Buffalo Daily Gazette (Buffalo, NY), 21 Oct 1844, p. 4     TERRIBLE GALE! GREAT LOSS OF LIFE And Destruction of Property _____ Our city was visited last night by one of the most severe and destructive gales which was ever experienced here. The whole lower part of the city, extending into Seneca street, on the east side of ...

 Buffalo Journal, 19 Jun 1827     Buffalo Light House .--the contract for building the new light house, at this place, has been given to Messrs. Johnson & Wilkeson, who are to complete the work by the 15th day of Nov. next. It is to be located immediately at the end of the present pier, at the …

      It may refer to the CHIPPAWA then under construction, or to the PIONEER which was originally intended for the river and then enlarged for Lake Erie service.

 Buffalo Emporium (Buffalo, NY), 27 Aug 1825, p. 3     WESTERN TERMINATION OF THE GRAND CANAL First arrival of a Canal Boat at Buffalo .--On Thursday morning, the Canal boat Superior, Capt. Sloan, arrived in this Village, from the East. She staid but a short time. Our citizens, generally, were not aware of the fact ...

 Evening Courier & Republic (Buffalo, NY), 7 May 1867     THE ICE-BOUND FLEET. -- Buffalo harbor is still firmly barricaded. Now and then a vessel more fortunate than the others happens to strike a channel through the ice and makes port, but each day adds to the number of luckless crafts in sight of the harbor, but unable to get …

 Evening Courier & Republic (Buffalo, NY), 8 May 1867, p. 3, column 1, 4     [col. 1] THE "SOUTHWEST." -- This vessel, which struck a reef on the Canada shore and sunk, Saturday morning last, was got afloat at five o'clock yesterday afternoon, and towed to port by the tug O. L. Nims. She is now laying alongside the Reed Elevator discharging the wet corn …

 Evening Courier & Republic (Buffalo, NY), 6 May 1867, p. 3, column 2     THE ICE -- ARRIVALS . -- The large fleet of vessels outside of this port, is still able to move, the strong S. S. W. wind which prevailed Saturday night having wedged the ice still more densely. Friday evening the schooner Ottawa, with coal from Erie, came in all right, …

      Port of Buffalo Arrived Schr. GEO. WASHINGTON, D. Dobbins, from Erie Open Boat J. Harris, from Fort Erie Schr. BLACK SNAKE, S. WiIkinson, from Cleveland Schr. NEPTUNE, L. Johnson, from Detroit Sloop VENUS, J. Knowles, from ...

      Port of Buffalo Arrived Schr. FRANKLIN, J. Justine, from Erie Cleared Schr. WIDOW'S SON, J. Haskell, for Detroit Schr. RACHEL, H. Barnard, for Erie ...

      The body of a man was found on the shore of lake Erie, about a mile above the mouth of Buffalo Creek, which had the appearance of having been in the water two or three weeks, he was about 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high, light hair; had on …

      The inhabitants of this village are requested to meet at Pomeroy's Coffee-House on Friday evening next, at 6 o'clock for the purpose of taking into consideration the importance of improving the harbor at this Port and adopting such measures as shall then be deemed proper. ...