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 Cape Vincent Eagle (Cape Vincent, NY), 23 Jun 1910     Capt. James F. Allen ____ Interesting Sketch of the Life of the Popular Steamboat Man - Commanded all the Folger Boats. ____ The Kingston Whig of June 23 contained the following concerning the late Capt. James F. Allen. Captain Allen was born ...

 Cape Vincent Eagle (Cape Vincent, NY), 8 Apr 1915     The Sailing Schooner ____ Will Soon Be a Thing of the Past On the Great Lakes ____ The indications are that is only a matter of time, and a short time at that, when the sailing vessel will have disappeared completely from the Great Lakes. During the ...

      The day of the old wind jammers on the lake is past. There are now 28 schooners in commission on Lake Ontario, where formerly there were several hundred, and they are nearly all Canadian owned, though nearly all once had an American register. As the old schooners and sail crafts …

 Cape Vincent Eagle (Cape Vincent, NY), 8 Aug 1929     Hinckley, Ashore at Stony Point, Is a Total Wreck According to advices from Henderson Harbor the steam barge Hinckley, which was beached by its owner, Capt. A. R. Hinckley, about ten days ago in Gravely Bay, between Henderson Harbor and Stony Point, is a total wreck, having been ...

 Cape Vincent Eagle (Cape Vincent, NY), 20 Nov 1919     Ontario's Record For Lost Vessels _______ Many Ships Have Mysteriously Disappeared Beneath the Waters of This Lake _______ (Toronto Telegram) Did the "Homer Warren," wallowing the welter of sulky slumbering seas as she pushed her way homeward ...

 Cape Vincent Eagle (Cape Vincent, NY), 12 May 1921     Boat Building at Chaumont ____ Captain Frank Phelps Has the Only Shipyard in This Section ____ About fifty years ago, according to a Chaumont correspondent, this section of Jefferson county could boast of three shipyards, one at Sackets Harbor, ...

 Cape Vincent Eagle (Cape Vincent, NY), 6 Mar 1941     Post Office Closed at Point Peninsula ____ After more than 102 years the hamlet of Point Peninsula, once a thriving shipbuilding center during the early schooner days of the Great Lakes and later an oil-field boom town, lost its post office on the first day of last ...

      The large fishing tug, built at the Phelps shipyard, Chaumont, for Claude W. Cole, of this village, was launched last Thursday afternoon. The craft, considered to be one of the sturdiest built at Chaumont in years, will soon be ready to place in commission.

      p.3 an article by Uncle Philander Jr.: "....What I am going to complain about is the fact that the siren failed to function last Saturday afternoon when the St. Louis, the hulk of the old pulp wood boat that has laid in the water in the eastern portion of the …

      G. S. Weeks' Ship-Yard Situated on Lake-Street between Third and Fourth. This extensive establishment gives employment to about 100 men- a short time since a fine Steamer (the Queen of the West) of 700 tons' burthen, was launched from this yard, and they have now on the stocks, in ...

      Black and white photograph of the schooners DANIEL G. FORT and BALTIC ashore near Oswego on 27 Nov. 1894.

      Black and white photograph of a crowd looking on at the schooners DANIEL G. FORT and BALTIC ashore near Oswego on 27 Nov. 1894. The harbor can be seen to the west in the background.

      At the time, Capt. Throop was only 19 years old. His father, Samuel, drowned while endeavoring to bring in the schooner "Nancy" into Great Sodus Bay during a storm in 1819. - From a long memoir of his life in the History of Wayne County, N. Y. published in 1876.

      During the gale which occurred on the 14th and 15th inst. , the schooner New York , of this port, owned by Messrs. Bronson and Crocker, was lost, and all on board probably perished. She was commanded by Captain George Carlisle, who is said to have been an excellent seaman …

      Sunken Craft Still Visible _______ Hull of Large Boat Can Be Seen in St. Lawrence Below Rock Island _______ The Observer in "On the St. Lawrence," Clayton, has the following: There is a mystery of the deep, that is located near the black ...

      The New Tug " Oswego ." - The new steam tug Oswego, built in Philadelphia , and owned and commanded by Capt. J. Kimball , arrived in our ...

      The following Card of Thanks is deserved. The management of the boat, during the storm, was admirable. The escape was truly providential: Rochester , Oct. 19, 1844 . We, the undersigned, being ...

      A Perilous Situation. - A correspondent of the Rochester Observer , relates the following account of a wonderful escape from almost certain destruction. Mr. Editor: - I had just arrived at the

    A Perilous Situation. - A correspondent of the Rochester Observer , relates the following account of a wonderful escape from almost certain destruction. Mr. Editor: - I had just arrived …

Maritime History of the Great Lakes

      A sketch of this yacht appears in the History of Wayne County

      A Pleasant Supper. - The employees of Goble's ship-yard, with a number of invited guests, last evening sat down to a most capital supper served up in Doolittle Hall, by Ashley of the Oswego Hotel. The ...