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      Master: Joseph Duchene

      National Register of Historic Places nomination for the Schooner barge PRETORIA. Includes in depth history, archaeological site description, site plan, and map.

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 26 Aug 1932     The Hill In The Bottom Of The Lake Schooner Days CII (102) Everyone has heard of the "hole in the bottom of the sea," but how many know of the volcano in the middle of Lake Superior? Capt. Jas. McConnel and other lake farers corresponding ...

      National Register of Historic Places nomination for the wooden scow schooner MAY FLOWER. Includes in depth history, archaeological site description, photographs, and map.

 Milwaukee Journal, 2 Dec 1902     No News of Bannockburn Chicago Dec.1-- No tidings whatever have been received up to a late hour this afternoon from the Canadian steamer Bannockburn, missing on Lake Superior. The underwriters waited anxiously for a telegram from the wrecking tug Boynton, sent out from Sault Ste. ...

      Reason: sunk Lives: 19 Hull damage: $20,000 Remarks: Total loss

 Duluth News Tribune (Duluth, MN), 14 Nov 1913, p. 2     HOPE TO SAVE WRECKED TOMLINSON FREIGHTER. Reports from the Soo last night said that work on the steamer Fred G. Hartwell of the Tomlinson line, Duluth, was proceeding as fast as the weather permitted. Ore is being thrown overboard, and the lighters expect to float it ...

 Buffalo Courier, 17 Jul 1847, p. 3     Sail Craft on Lake Superior _______ From the Detroit Free Press We notice in some of our exchange papers, various accounts of the number of vessels on Lake Superior, which are very imperfect. Many seem to be under the impression that until a ...

 Bogue, Margaret Beattie, The Northern Mariner / Le marin du nord (St. John's, NL), Jul 2001, 1-21     Neglected in the history of the Canadian-American experience on Great Lakes waters, the acerbic and at times violent interaction between American commercial fishers and defenders of Canadian fish resources deserves attention. As tenders of the nets competed for the rich harvests of the Inland Seas, friction, minor incidents, and bad …

 Calnan, Joe, The Northern Mariner / Le marin du nord (St. John's, NL), Jul 2013, 213-238     The French explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle (1643-1687) had a small rigged sailing coaster built in 1679 to travel between the Niagara River and Lake Michigan. La Salle hired a qualified and experienced pilot to conduct the vessel on these waters, but within nine months of starting on the …

 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 ...

 Buffalo Evening News (Buffalo, NY), 27 Aug 1917, p. 10     BARGE LOADED WITH ORE FOUNDERS OFF LONG POINT _______ Crew Abandons the Magnetic When Steering Gear Becomes Disabled---Fills Rapidly. _______ The barge Magnetic, owned by the Juliett-Graverate Steamship company of Fairport, foundered two miles off Long Point, ...

 Buffalo Commercial, 28 Aug 1917, p. 7     Sinking of the Magnetic The barge Magnetic, which foundered in Lake Erie last Saturday, was insured for $30,000 in companies represented by Willcox, Peck & Hughes. Captain K. Pedersen and the members of the crew, who were here yesterday made statements. Henry Thorsen, a ...

      The Captain of the steamer R. B. Hall which arrived this evening reports passing a quantity of wreckage, bin, masts and hatches, about thirty miles west of Erie. Thought to be from the barge Magnetic.

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 17 May 1941     "Cullud" Folks and the Marquis Schooner Days CCCCXCVI (496) by C. H. J. Snider _______ HERE may be a clue as to the identity of the smart schooner Charlie Gibbons drew so long ago, with the ...

 Milwaukee Journal, 26 Sep 1902     The Marine News Chicago, Sept. 26 Dense fog prevails today on Lake Huron, extending past Sault Ste Marie and Mackinaw City. While the storm of Wednesday has completely passed over, navigation is being seriously delayed by the fog which succeeded it. Underwriters are fearful of ...

 Milwaukee Journal, 26 Sep 1902     Marine News. Schooner Bar Founders Chicago Sept 26, An underwriters' dispatch states that the schooner H.B. Barr foundered on Lake Erie, off Port Stanley, in the recent storm. The crew reached Buffalo early today. The Barr was under charter to the Clergue syndicate and was ...

 Milwaukee Journal, 26 Sep 1902     Wreck sighted by Rome Detroit. Mich. Sept. 26--Capt. Dennis of the steamer Rome reported having sighted the wreck of the schooner H.A. Barr, which sank twenty-five miles east of Rondeau, directly on the course of vessels between the dummy light and Buffalo. The foremast and ...

 Daily Commercial Register (Sandusky, OH), 30 Sep 1853, p. 2     Quoted in Plain Dealer (Cleveland), 1 Oct. 1853, p. 2

 Cleveland Leader (Cleveland, OH), 2 Oct 1854, p. 3     MARINE ACCIDENT .-- The steamer Southern Michigan met with a serious and somewhat singular accident, while coming up the Lake yesterday. When about 20 miles from Monroe, one of the wheels which had been racked a little in a previous storm, burst into bands, and the ...