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      56x13x6 Owned by J. Brown, 1875; A. Fraser, Thorold 1886, 1901. Built by Ross, Chippewa Ont. 1861. Tug.

      187x26x8 Owned by J. & O. T. Macklem, Chippewa Ont.; to I. Smith, Sombra Ont. 1858; W. Smith, Owen Sound 1864. Built by T. Gilbert, Chippewa Ont. and launched 29/11/53. Engine 40x144 by Macklem Iron Works, Chippewa (to "Frances Smith"). Built for Buffalo-Chippewa; Georgian Bay thereafter.

      199x28x13 Owned by O. T. Macklem. Built by Niagara Harbour & Dock Co., Chippewa Ont. (branch yard) and launched 10/06/46. Engine 60x120 by Macklem Iron Works, Chippewa. Used Buffalo-Windsor. Had 180' upper saloon, 42 staterooms, 10 "bedrooms with beds". Fraudulently seized by U.S. Customs July 1849. Cause later held "insufficient" …

      Later Registration: U.S.A. (1850) 161x25x11 Owned by O. T. Macklem, Chippewa Ont.; to H. Van Allen 1849. Built by Niagara Harbour & Dock Co., Chippewa (branch yard) and launched 14/11/44. Used on Lake Erie. Rammed and sank "Kent" 12/08/45 Lake Erie, 9 killed. Seized illegally by U.S. Customs 1850 for …

      Reason: burnt Lives: nil Remarks: Damage slight

      Reason: sunk Lives: nil Remarks: Raised

      Reason: sunk Lives: nil Hull damage: $500

      Reason: sunk Lives: nil Freight: coal Remarks: Raised

      Reason: overboard Lives: 1

      Other Names: Alliance; Later Registration: U.S.A. (1838) as Alliance Approx. 120x40. Owned by J. Hamilton, St. Catharines. Built by Lovering, Chippewa Ont. and launched 09/06/32. Engine by Boulton & Watt, London, originally in "Frontenac" then "Alciope". Re-engined 1835: 48x84 by St. Mary's Foundry, Montreal. Cabins incomplete first season, finished that …

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 29 Oct 1938     Cup Yacht? Fisherman? Lake Schooner? Schooner Days CCCLXIX (369) _______ APPROXIMATE DIMENSIONS Overall length..... 140 ft.

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 29 Oct 1938   Cup Yacht? Fisherman? Lake Schooner? Schooner Days CCCLXIX (369) _______ APPROXIMATE DIMENSIONS Overall length..... 140 ft.

Maritime History of the Great Lakes

     

      The C. V. Line on her bow refers to the company's relationship with the Central Vermont railroad, which had leased the tracks into Ogdensburgh in 1870. The GARDEN CITY was launched in 1873 and rebuilt as a steam barge in 1880.

      One of a series of non-professional stereoviews of canal construction in the Williamsburg and Welland canal from the period 1898-1915. As the COOK was a Welland Canal tug. Others in the series include pictures from Matilda.

      There was a rumor on the streets on Monday, that B.S. Shepard's new schooner Southwest, recently launched from the Shipyard at the Marine Railway, had gone down on Lake Erie, with all on board, on Thursday last. She was in the Welland Canal two days after that time, all right …

 New York Spectator (New York, NY), 9 Dec 1846, p. 4     Welland Canal The breach which at present interrupts the navigation of that canal detains some seventy vessels with their cargoes and threatens them with a Winter's berth in the interior of Canada. The break itself will, as we understand, be repaired in a few days, and the ice, ...

      Reason: sunk by collision Hull damage: $600 Remarks: Damaged

      PRAIRIE STATE Propeller, broke her shaft in Welland Canal. Marine Disasters on the Western Lakes during 1869, Capt. J.W. Hall

      Reason: damaged cargo Cargo: $300 Freight: wheat Remarks: Damaged

      Reason: sunk Lives: nil Hull damage: $2,000 Cargo: included Freight: flour