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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 …

      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.

 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 ...

      SAILING OUT INTO A STORM _____ A Vessel Starting for Toronto in a Gale of Snow and Wind - Bound for a Harbor Still Ice Locked. ____ The little schooner Marcia A. Hall, Capt. M. Fitzgerald, which has been lying here coal laden all winter, having been detained by ...

      THE MARCIA A. HALL'S VOYAGE. ____ Beating About With the Wind Dead Ahead - No Incidents. ____ Special despatch to The Palladium: Toronto, Ont., April 2. - About five o'clock yesterday afternoon the schooner M.A. Hall made her way around the island and tied ...

      Schooner Snow Bird Salvaged The schooner Snow Bird which ran ashore near the fort last fall and which was recently rebuilt on the beach is being caulked in Goble & Macfarlane's yard. She will be commanded by her new owner, Capt. Andrew Beard of Toronto. ...

      MISLED BY THE HARBOR LIGHTS. _____ Loss of the Schooner Richardson on the West Pier at 8 o'clock this Morning. ____ The schooner Richardson, Capt. William McKee, of Kingston, with a cargo of barley, 9,190 bushels, consigned to Failing & Pratt of this city, ...

      Working Up a Vessel Case _____ The Suit of the Alpena against the Hyderbad for Salvage _____ Capt. John Gormley of the schooner Hyderbad of Kingston was in town yesterday getting the affidavit of Daniel Gunn, an Oswego sailor, who was aboard the Hyderbad when ...

      Along the Docks. The steamer Kingsford, lumber laden, which arrived this morning with the schooner Delaware in tow from Brockville, ran ashore at 12 o'clock Wednesday at Johnson's Light, off Thousand Island Park. The Delaware was brought alongside and the Kingsford's deckload ...

      Loss of the Ontario. Picton, Sept. 12. - The schooner Ontario from Charlotte to Picton with coal, foundered yesterday morning fifteen miles west of Point Petre light, but the crew were saved. the Ontario left Charlotte about twelve o'clock Saturday night, a heavy wind from the ...

      The schooner City of Toronto, that went ashore outside the Piers is being stripped of her sails and tackle. She lays close alongside the pier, is filled with water, and probably has lost most of her bottom by pounding; but sits square and erect. She appears to be little injured …

      A Deadly Fall. ____ A Sailor Plunges from the Cross Trees of the Schooner Bentley, Eighty-five Feet to the Deck - A Rotten Rope. _____ About 8 o'clock last evening, Andrew Skillin, of West Eighth street between Seneca and Schuyler, a sailor on the schooner J. ...

      Our Steam tugs Some Corrections. The times on Wednesday gave what purports to be a list of the Steam Tugs plying in Oswego Harbor, their power and average cost. There are several important errors in its statement, a few of which we will mention If the first place Messrs. ...

      OBITUARY Abner C. Mattoon Abner C. Mattoon, one of Oswego's oldest and best known citizens died at the family residence in West Second street a few minutes before noon to-day in the eight-first year of his age. Few men in this country had a more eventful career ...

      ADRIFT IN A NOR'EASTER The Tug Seymour Disabled and Her Tow Tossing About the Lake - All Brought to Port. At 11 a.m. Saturday the tug George D. Seymour, Capt. Fitzgerald, left Ogdensburg for this port with the barges Erie, Michigan, Kent, Argo, the "pin-flat" Rock City and ...