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      EXILE was built in 1867 at Huron (or Milan) OH. She was a good-sized schooner: 152 feet keel by 30 feet beam, by 11 feet depth of hold. She lasted a long time, being wrecked in a storm in 1916. The Chocolay River mouth is a few miles southeast of …

      *Actually Nov 5, 1869. ROMAN was formerly the early propeller OSWEGO and was lost about Oct 10, 1858, while ALBION foundered just two days before that. Only one sailor survived of the 26 men composing the three schooners' crews.

      DEATH OF CAPT. JAMES HACKETT. - At precisely 6 o'clock last evening Capt. James Hackett departed this life at his residence in Amhersburg. He was the oldest of our lake navigators, and there are but few left who survive him. Capt. Hackett was in his 86th year, having been born …

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      BARGES IN A DILEMMA - ONE LOST. - The somewhat sudden though not unexpected settling in of the extreme cold weather, which has brought navigation to a close, has prevented a number of vessels from getting into port. The tug Torrent left Cleveland on the morning of the 28th ult. …

      THE TWO GLOBES. - There arrived here on Sunday the Globe, now a barge but formerly the brig of that name, and at one time was acknowledged the fleetest vessel on the lakes. Captain William Dickson, an early lake navigator, though now deceased, ordered her built at Buffalo, and to …

      LOSS OF THE JAMAICA AND ONE LIFE. - The circumstances attending the loss of this vessel were so unusual that we give the following statement of Capt. David Bothwell, who arrived here yesterday noon: The vessel sailed from Milwaukee on the 15th instant, with a cargo of eighteen thousand ...

      Capt. J.H. Gibbs Drowned. - Saturday night, a telegram was received from Port Sallinac, Lake Huron, saying "Capt. Gibbs was drowned on the morning of the 15th. I started for Port Huron with the body - What shall I do with it." Later John Dunn Esq., rceived a despatch from …

      Captain Jones , of Stonington , is responsible for the following: On his passage from New York a few years ago, he observed one summer afternoon, a heavy cloud arise ...

      MARINE STATISTICS _______ Disasters to Shipping on the Lakes in 1872 _______ Below will be found a continuation of the list of marine disasters, those for the first five months of the season having been published Friday morning: AUGUST Schr Thos. ...

      NOTE: The other propellers were MARY R. ROBERTSON and R W STANDLEY and the steam barge THAMES. Several hundred vessels in all were built up the Thames River at Chatham. Chatham and Detroit had daily communication by water for decades. Later records show the prop CITY OF CHATHAM with 132 …

      *i.e. doughy The hulls of wooden vessels built on the Great Lakes were routinely packed with salt between the planking and the ceiling [hull lining] to prevent decay. A big schooner required tons of salt for this process. As the wood became saturated with water, the salt dissolved and was …

      This was the beginning of the era of the bulk freighter. Carrying cargo in bulk was very much more efficient than hauling grain, coal or ore barrelled, bagged or in piles on deck, as had been standard practice previously, and the barges were more easily loaded by simply pouring the …

      A GOOD IDEA. - The Erie Dispatch says: "A vessel captain, who has just skated up from Buffalo to Dunkirk lighthouse, says the Buffalo shippers, in depair ...

      *the "Great Chicago Fire" had occurred the previous October

      MARINE NEWS. - The marine reporter's office will be found located this season at the foot of Woodward avenue [ Detroit ], in the Trowbridge & Wilcox block. ...

      These launches took place at the shipyard of Lewis Shickluna. ARGYLE was later GLENGARRY and was converted to a barge in 1912. AUGUSTA was wrecked near Port Credit, Ont., in the fall of 1900.

      The SUPERIOR was the 2nd steamboat on the Upper Lakes, having been built at Buffalo in 1822 and using the machinery from the old WALK-IN-THE-WATER.

      PROPELLER MERCHANT SUNK. - The iron steamer Merchant , en route from Buffalo to Chicago , on reaching Bar Point, near the outlet of the

    PROPELLER MERCHANT SUNK. - The iron steamer Merchant , en route from Buffalo to Chicago , on reaching Bar Point, near the outlet of the

Maritime History of the Great Lakes

      Loud, Gay & Co. owned the boat as well as huge tracts of timberland around Oscoda, Michigan. Their primary business was lumbering. EVERGREEN CITY (624 gt., US#7240) may have been recovered in 1873, but if so she did not last long afterwards.