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 Niles Weekly Register, 7 Oct 1826, p. 87     WEALTH AND POWER WESTWARD. We meet with the following in the papers without knowing whence it was derived, but presume the information which it gives is nearly correct. Commerce of Lake Erie -- American side. Steam brig Superior built at Buffalo 346 tons; steam boat Henry ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 26 Sep 1936     Finding the FOAM Schooner Days CCLIX (259) _______ MORE sailing vessels were moored in the mouth of the Niagara in the first week of last August than have used the river all this century, although Youngstown on the American side ...

      Fatal Accident Archibald Woods of Lindsay, Canada Lost Overboard About nine o'clock yesterday morning as the Schooner Philo Bennett, was on her way from Deseronto to Oswego a young man named Archibald Woods was lost overboard. Captain Eccles gives us the following ...

      Schooner W. S. Malcolm Waterlogged - Strange conduct of the Captain and four of the Crew. - Capt. Smith, of the schooner Kyle Spangler, which arrived here last night, reports to us he found the schooner W.S. Malcolm, Capt. Barck, with a cargo of lumber for this port, waterlogged, ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 25 May 1946     End of the AGNES HOPE Schooner Days DCCXLV (745) by C. H. J. Snider _______ PHIL McCRIMMON was at the wheel of the Agnes Hope, and sweating, though it was the 6th of November, 1884, and ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 5 Oct 1946     Last Trip of the Season Schooner Days DCCLXIV (764) by C. H. J. Snider Sympathy, Suggestions And An Experience

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 5 Oct 1946   Last Trip of the Season Schooner Days DCCLXIV (764) by C. H. J. Snider Sympathy, Suggestions And An Experience

Maritime History of the Great Lakes

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram, 20 Jan 1951     Stairway to the Stars Schooner Days CMLXXXVI (986) by C. H. J. Snider BANG! PING! CRASH! A hard puff struck the Ella Murton, and all it left standing in her was about ...

 Onondaga Gazette (Baldwinsville, NY), Nov. 30, 1846     Terrible Gale on Lake Erie - Sixteen Bodies Found _____ Lake Erie was visited by a tremendous gale on Thursday, the 19th inst., which occasioned the loss of several vessels and a number of lives. Accounts state that sixteen bodies were picked up along ...

 Geneva Gazette (Geneva, NY), Oct. 30, 1822     Dreadful Shipwreck. - The schr. Apellona, W. Merritt, master, sailed from Oswego the 14th inst. bound to Genesee. About half past 9 p. m. same day, 16 miles from land, a heavy squall arose from the west, and the vessel was struck by lightning, which knocked down the master and …

 Geneva Palladium (Geneva, NY), Nov. 6, 1822     From the Sacket's Harbor Republican , Oct. 18. DREADFUL SHIPWRECK - Loss of the Schr. Appelona, W. Merrill. - This vessel left Oswego on the evening of the 14th inst. , partly laden with pot-ashes, salt, and about 16 tons of salt ballast, bound to Genesee; about half ...

 Onondaga Standard (Syracuse, NY), Sep. 29, 1847     From the Oswego Commercial Times History of Steam navigation on Lake Ontario _______ The rapid increase and general improvement in the commercial marine of the Lakes, impart a high degree of interest to every thing relating to the early history and progress of our steam ...

 Ontario Repository (Canandaigua, NY), Tues., Aug. 18, 1818     The Steamboat Ontario, in going up the lake, encountered a severe gale on Wednesday night and Thursday last: when within three miles of the Niagara river, she was driven back as far as Sodus, but without receiving any damage. A few days previous, a small vessel, which plies as sort …

 Oswego Daily Times, 31 Aug 1857     Marine News Schooner Iceberg supposed to be Lost with All on Board. - The schooner Iceberg, with a cargo of coal from Cleveland for Kingston, left the Welland Canal on the 12th, since which time nothing has been heard of her, and it is supposed she is lost with all …

 Baltimore Patriot, 13 Jun 1826, p. 2     Lake Ontario .--We have been informed by a gentleman from Lake Ontario, that the steam boats on that lake, have been newly fitted up. The Ontario, on the American side, is still under the command of Captain Vaughn; the Frontenac, on the British side, is in charge of her old …

 Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), 26 May 1871     *The C.N. Johnson (U.S.#4547) was built in 1856 by Bidwell & Banta of Buffalo. It was 138 feet log, 26 foot beam and 11-foot hold, 288 gross tons and 273 net tons. It foundered on Oct. 16, 1895 at Bar Point near Amherstburg, Ont., on Lake Erie with a cargo …

 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 …

      Reason: lightning Lives: nil Hull damage: $350

      Reason: gale damage Lives: nil Hull damage: $150

      Reason: sunk Lives: nil Hull damage: $3,600 Cargo: $8,000 Freight: wheat Remarks: Total loss