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      PUEBLO - Wooden bulk freighter, US#150512, b. 1891, Milwaukee Shipyard, Milwaukee. 1,493 gt. Dismantled 1927 BALIZE - Wooden propeller tug, US#2714, b. 1863, Ira Lafrinier, Cleveland as tug MARY GRANDY. 247 gt. Bought by U.S. Navy for off-lakes use and renamed USS BIGNONIA, 1864; returned to private hands 1865 and …

      LIES 105 FEET DEEP _______ BUT AN ATTEMPT WILL BE MADE TO RAISE THE OLD OCONTO _______ Kingston, July 24. - One of the most difficult wrecking jobs ever undertaken in deep water on the lakes will be the contract the Donnelly Wrecking & Salvage Co. has taken ...

      It is reported that an attempt will be made to secure the old schooner Porcupine, now in Spring lake, a relic of the Battle of lake Erie, for the Field Columbian museum of Chicago. The wreck is the property of Mr. Bulthouse, a mechanic, who says he will cut it …

      Jim Reid Moves to Port Huron Port Huron, August 15. - Capt. James Reid, the Bay City wrecker, will take up his residence in Port Huron and will station his tugs and wrecking outfit here. The captain is interested with Edmund Hall in the large sawmill which is being erected …

      Eight lives were lost when the FOSTER (US#125581) foundered off Presque Isle, Pa., December 9

      TOOK FOUR WEEKS ________ SCHOONER ABBIE'S RUN FROM LUDINGTON TO HOLLAND ________ ONE SAILOR LOST OVERBOARD AND DROWNED ________ Holland, November 25. - The schooner Abbie arrived here to-day having been four weeks making the trip from Ludington. During ...

      Vessels Were in the Way Work on the damaged natural gas pipe from Canada to Detroit was being done yesterday. The trouble was caused by some vessel which dragged her anchor across the pipe in the course of the heavy blow last week. The Martha and Roumania were lying at …

      * Equivalent to about $440,000 2007 dollars.

      Work began on reducing the wreckage of the MARTIN the next day and soon after removal of the FONTANA, which had sunk in a collision in early August, began. The channel was not completely clear until early November. Remains of both wrecks are still at the site.

      BARGE NO. 3 and BARGE NO. 4 were total losses in this incident, having foundered off Long Point after being cut loose by the FISCHER in a gale. BARGE NO. 1 grounded in a storm on Thunder Bay Island, Lake Huron in November, 1918, and NO. 2 capsized and foundered …

      * PUEBLO was on a mud flat 1/3 of a mile from the channel.

      FIRST ON THE GREAT LAKES _______ WOMAN PASSES EXAMINATION AND GETS A PILOT'S LICENSE _______ SHE IS NOW CAPTAIN ALICE C. CHANEY, OF THE YACHT MARJORIE _______ DR. WILLARD CHANEY, HER HUSBAND, IS THE ENGINEER AND CREW _______ "Captain" will ...

      MARINE NOTES . . . The schooner Arthur is just now engaged on one of the shortest routes ever assigned to a lake vessel - the carrying of 500,000 bu of grain from Wabash elevator No. 4, Toledo, to the elevators of the National Milling Co., Toledo, a distance of …

      The schooner Nordkyn, a seagoing vessel 50 feet in length and 23 tons gross measurement, has been enrolled at Duluth. She is owned by Capt. Redmeyer, who lives down on the north shore and who intends to take a trip to Norway in her. She was built in the woods …

      A SAD THANKSGIVING DAY _______ WAS THE LOT OF MRS. SMITH, WIDOW OF THE MAUMEE VALLEY'S MATE _______ HIS EVENTFUL CAREER, AND THEIR ROMANTIC MANNER OF MEETING _______ Chicago, November 29. - (Special) - Death stayed the Thanksgiving preparations in the ...

      AS A "PERSUADER" _______ SCHOONER CAPTAIN FLOURISHED A REVOLVER TO MAKE HIS CREW WORK _______ THEY WERE "GREEN" AND SCURRIED BELOW WHEN A SQUALL HIT _______ Joseph Recor has laid a complaint against Capt. Edward Cummerford, of the schooner John Miner, ...

      A RELIC OF EARLY STRUGGLES A diver who is working on the Soo river bottom in removing boulders from the steamboat channel, discovered a cannon which is believed to have been one of three guns that were thrown from a scow, to prevent their capture by our friends, the Yankees, …

      SCHOONER T. R. MERRITT A TOTAL LOSS. Oswego, Sept. 12. -- The life-saving crew has just returned from the schooner ashore nine miles west of Oswego, having found that it was the Canadian schooner T. R. MERRITT. The MERRITT was bound from Hamilton to Oswego when struck ...

      MATOA ASHORE _______ CAPT. WESTCOTT SENT A TUG AND LIGHTER TO AID HER _______ Capt. J. W. Westcott reported to the Free Press yesterday that the steamer Matoa in rounding to about three miles below Courtwright, St. Clair river, about 10 o'clock Saturday night, ran ...

      NO WINTER LINE _______ MUSKEGON-CHICAGO BUSINESS DOES NOT WARRANT IT _______ Muskegon, Mich., November 25 - (Special.) - Local agent Ed S. Hogan, for the Barry line, has been informed that a winter line between his port and Chicago will not be maintained this ...