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      The schooner GRANADA (US#10543), went down off Muskegon October 17, 1880, in the same storm that sank the passenger liner ALPENA. Steward Claason was one of four crewmen lost in the GRANADA sinking.

      The steamer Canadian, which left for Chatham yesterday morning, is yo lay up for almost two weeks in order that upper cabins may be put upon her. When this is done, she will, as we have heretofore stated, ply between Chatham and Monroe, each place tri-weekly.

      PUEBLO - Wooden bulk freighter, US#150512, b. 1891, Milwaukee Shipyard, Milwaukee. 1,493 gt. Dismantled 1927 BALIZE - Wooden propeller tug, US#2714, b. 1863, Ira Lafrinier, Cleveland as tug MARY GRANDY. 247 gt. Bought by U.S. Navy for off-lakes use and renamed USS BIGNONIA, 1864; returned to private hands 1865 and …

      THEY HAD A LONG ROW _______ SAILORS HAD TO PULL SIXTEEN MILES TO TELEPHONE FOR A TUG _______ Chicago, May 16. - After beating against light southerly winds for five days, Capt. Mark Anderson, of the schooner E. B. Maxwell, left his lumber-laden vessel eight ...

      LAKE MARINE NEWS TWO BOATS SUNK CITY OF ROME and the LINDEN Came Together in St. Clair River. TWO LOST ON THE LINDEN Boat Sheered Across the Bows of the Rome. Latter at Tashmoo Dock, and Linden is Farther Up and in the channel - Both Are Wooden Vessels, and …

      The two Ottawa steamboats were the E. H. BRONSON (C. 103445) and HAMILTON (C. 103842). BRONSON was rebuilt as a barge in 1917 and HAMILTON converted to propeller in 1921. Andre E. Lamirande and Gilles L. Seguin, _A Foregone Fleet: A Pictorial History of Steam-Driven Paddleboats on the Ottawa River_ …

      CLIPPER CITY was US#4347 and had a long and relatively uneventful career on Lake Michigan until being abandoned to sink in the Chicago River about 1885.

      CHICORA WRECKAGE Benton Harbor, Mich., May 14 - (Special) - Several pieces of Chicora wreckage were picked up late to-day at Devil's Hole, one mile north of here on the lake shore, with silver trimmings attached, showing that it came from the clerk's office and the main deck. The ...

      STEAMER BADGER STATE IS ALL READY TO DO BUSINESS IN THE POOL ROOM LINE _______ Craft is Anchored Near Peche Island in Canadian Waters and Within the Jurisdiction of the Ontario Government. _______ Photo caption: STEAMER BADGER STATE, THE ...

      NOTHING DOING YESTERDAY _______ BADGER STATE Pool Room Operations Had to Be Deferred Till Tomorrow. The corps of board markers, sheet and ticket writers and cashiers on the BADGER STATE had nothing to do yesterday, Falvey and Considine having left word ...

      The Canadian government is asking for tenders for the removal of the wreck of the schooner R. J. Gibbs, which was sunk May 22, 1893, with 310 tons of coal on board, and became a total loss. She was owned and sailed by Capt. Pope, of New Baltimore, who never …

 Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI), 4 May 1859, p. 4     DISABLED.--As the propeller Mendota, of the New York Central line, was coming up Monday night, about 11 o'clock, when five miles below Malden, she broke her main shaft, and consequent upon that drove her piston through the cylinder head, nearly or quite ruining the cylinder. The engine was an ...

 Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI), 8 Jul 1862, p. 4     FROM LAKE SUPERIOR .--The steamer Planet, Captain Ward, from Lake Superior, reached Brady's dock early yesterday morning. She had but trifling freight and but few passengers, in consequence of having to tow the propeller Water Witch from Mud Lake, which detained her one day on her trip ...

 Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI), 27 Jun 1862, p. 4, column 4     From Lake Superior .--The steamer Illinois, Capt. Ryder, reached her dock in this city yesterday, bringing the following memorandum of news, for which we are indebted to Mr. Atwood, Clerk of the steamer: Left ontonagon the 22d inst. at 6 1/2 P.M. The propeller Gen. Taylor was at ...

 Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI), 25 Oct 1871, p. 1, column 1     $50 REWARD The undersigned committee hereby offer a reward of Fifty Dollars for the recovery of the body of JOSEPH J. RHODES, Who was lost with the Steamer R. G. Coburn, on Sunday Oct. 8th 1871, off Saginaw Bay. The said Joseph J. ...

 Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI), 23 Jun 1874     LAUNCH AT BAY CITY.--The Chronicle gives a long account of the successful launch of the new steamship James Davidson, from which the following is extracted." The successful launch of this mammoth steamship occurred yesterday afternoon about six o'clock, at Capt. Davidson's ship-yard. Her ...

 Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI), 12 Oct 1898     Schooner A. J. Rogers Went to Pieces. Traverse City, Mich., October 11.--(Special)-- The schooner A. J. Rogers, which ran on a reef near the lighthouse Sunday night and stove a hole in her bottom, was released by the wind, but afterwards went to pieces and sank. The captain, Frank ...

 Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI), 19 Apr 1898, p. 6     History of the Old Maine The old Steamer Maine, recently burned at tonawanda, was one of the second instalment of the famous old Ogdensburg Transportation Co.'s fleet, the building of which ruined the line. She was built at Cleveland in 1872, measured 255 tons, rated A2 and had an ...

      Sorry, no information on the dimensions or specifics of the LITTLE FRANK. A yacht of the name is on the registry, out of Buffalo in 1889. She was just under 12 tons. 6,000 board feet of lumber is enough to build a modern 3-bedroom house of about 1200 square feet. …

 Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI), 8 Nov 1861     THE STEAMERS KEYSTONE STATE AND BALTIC.--The steamer Keystone State, which, for several years was engaged as a passenger boat between Buffalo and Chicago, but for some time past out of commission, has been put in running order again, arriving at this port yesterday morning, and will, we understand, ...