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 Evening News (Sault Sainte Marie, MI), 27 Sep 1921, p. 3     Other sources have her sinking on the Julia Bay side of the island.

 Evening News (North Tonawanda, NY), 5 May 1913, p. 1, column 4     FIRST LUMBER BOAT ARRIVES _______ Steamer Edward Buckley Has Aboard 600,000 Feet of Hemlock. _______ IRON CITY GOES DOWN _______ Schooner Rammed in St. Clair River by Steel Freighter Thomas F. Cole -- Captain and Crew of Vessel Escaped in Life ...

 Evening News (Sault Sainte Marie, MI), 14 Sep 1904     New Steamer is in Port Steamer Haddington Recently built at Toronto Brings Coal for New Ontario Dock & Coal Co. The new steel steamer Haddington arrived in port this morning with a cargo of 2,100 tons of soft coal from Cleveland for the new Ontario Dock and Coal Company. ...

 Evening News (Sault Sainte Marie, MI), 5 Dec 1905     Wreck of Monkshaven Story of dangers hardships and hunger told by crew Had nothing to eat between Monday night and Thursday morning. The Paliki was in trouble Members of the crew of the Algoma Central steamer Monkshaven, which was stranded on Angus island near ...

 Evening News (Sault Sainte Marie, MI), 8 Nov 1905     Rosedale Was in Peril Had An experience rare in annals of Great Lakes In last week's big storm on Lake Superior was thrown on beam ends and her cargo shifted By an exceedingly narrow margin the steamer Rosedale, of the St. Lawrence and Chicago Steamship Company line, ...

 Evening News (Sault Sainte Marie, MI), 20 May 1921     Spar Buoy Placed Over Wreck of Barge Miztec _______ Later a Gas Buoy will be placed there. _______ A spar buoy now marks the wreck of the barge Miztec, according to a bulletin issued today by L. C. Sabin, general superintendent of the locks. The position given of ...

 Evening News (Sault Sainte Marie, MI), 20 Aug 1903     THE DIXON BURNED HIRAM R. DIXON BURNED TO WATER'S EDGE TUESDAY NIGHT WAS TIED UP AT DOCK AT MICHIPICOTEN CAPTAIN GANLEY AND CREW ESCAPED BUT LOST CLOTHING Fire Broke Out in the Engine Room and Spread with Wonderful Rapidity-Only Hull of Boat Remained When Fire ...

      Storm on Lakes Superior's seas are running high today No Serious Accident Reported So Far Feared that lumber barges may go on rocks Steamer Tionesta went aground at Six Mile Point during heavy snow squall on Hay Lake today but was released Boats coming in ...

 Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI), 26 Aug 1917, p. 11     BARGE SPLITS OPEN; CREW OF 8 IN PERIL _______ Men Narrowly Escape Being Drowned When Magnetic is Buffeted About. _______ Heavy Sea Makes Rescue work Difficult for the Towing Steamer Breitung. Buffalo, N.Y., Aug. 25.--Captain Knud Peterson, of the barge ...

      Column 1 Note that this article, which offers a scathing indictment of Great Lakes skippers, first appeared in the New York Sun. I leave it to you to decide whether Capt. Brown's comments are deserved.

      NOTE: The BENTON was a small (308 gt) passenger and freight steamer built in 1867 by Hitchcock & Gibson, Buffalo. She was converted to a bulk freighter in about 1883 and burned to a total loss at the Ford Rouge Plant, near Detroit, in August, 1909.

      This little article shows a pair of the hazards of "stern-launching." Parentheses are in the original.

      The average opening date was March 24, about a month later than the official openings of today. In 1871, wooden-hulled vessels had to be sure most of the ice was gone from their routes before they set out for the first haul of the season.

      CLARK'S DRY DOCK. - At Clark's dry dock and ship-yard a very large amount of work has been done during the winter and spring, and the greatest activity now prevails the various vessels ready for service. Since last fall the large bark

    CLARK'S DRY DOCK. - At Clark's dry dock and ship-yard a very large amount of work has been done during the winter and spring, and the greatest activity now prevails …

Maritime History of the Great Lakes

      The DISPATCH lost her way and went ashore in smoke from the great Peshtigo Forest Fire of October, 1871, with five lumber barges in tow. She was built in Ste. Antoine de Tilly, Quebec, in 1856, but had come into U.S. registry by 1866. The engine and boiler of the …

      WRECKING PONTOONS. - John Oades , at his shipyard in this city, has nearly completed two barge pontoons for the Coast Wrecking Company , capable of raising a weight of eight hundred ...

 Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI), 6 Nov 1861, p. 4     THE PROPELLER BUFFALO.--The propeller Buffalo, of which we have had occasion to notice during the past week as being aground at the head of Fighting Island in the river below, has been finally liberated.The services of steam tugs proving of little or no avail the marine boxes of the Messrs. …

      NO POOLS SOLD YET ON BADGER STATE ______ The floating pool room, BADGER STATE, was not opened for business yesterday and the promoters say that it will not be, because a permit is necessary to lay a cable for telegraphic service. They have spent several thousand dollars in ...

      SAND SUCKER WAS RUN DOWN _______ BURROUGHS CRUSHED IN THE ST. CLAIR RIVER. _______ NOW IN DEEP WATER AT GUS TRAUTZ'S DOCK. _______ NERVE OF MRS. ALLEN, OF DETROIT, CAPTAIN'S WIFE. _______ The steam sand sucker GEORGE T. BURROUGHS, owned ...

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