The Maritime History of the Great Lakes
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Oswego Commercial Times (Oswego, NY), March 30, 1850 
TextNewspapers    "O Pilot, 'tis a Stormy night, There's danger on the Deep. " On a bleak and dismal night, last December, past midnight, a large number of hardy looking men were seen hovering in the darkness near the foot of Fort Ontario. In the distance, surrounded by gloom and the roar of the tempest, the...
Oswego Commercial Times (Oswego, NY), April 6, 1850 
TextNewspapers    The First Propeller. - In looking among the lake craft the other day, we were not a little surprised, to be told that the first Propeller ever built in this country was before us. The "Vandalia" was set afloat about eight years since; and had per Propellers attached by Mr. Doolittle, from a ...
Oswego Commercial Times (Oswego, NY), April 16, 1850 
TextNewspapers    Severe Gale. - A severe gale from the northwest began on Saturday evening and continued through Sunday, up to a late hour in the night. It was accompanied with alternate snow squalls, which at times gave everything a most dismal, wintry aspect. Quite a number of vessels came down the lake and...
Oswego Commercial Times (Oswego, NY), April 27, 1850 
TextNewspapers    Novel Craft for Lake Navigation . - Near the Marine railway, at the ship-yard, may be seen a new craft for lake navigation in progress. It is the hull of a large canal boat, covered with a projecting steam boat deck, in the sides of which wheels are to be inserted. - This strange looking craft...
Oswego Commercial Times (Oswego, NY), Aug. 12, 1850 
TextNewspapers    Melancholy Marine Disaster. The schooner Nekick, Capt. Sias, of about 40 tons burthen, cleared from this port on Friday the 9th instant for Cape Vincent, partially loaded with merchandize. She touched at Sackets Harbor and discharged part of her cargo on the same day, and proceeded from...
Oswego Commercial Times (Oswego, NY), Thursday,  Oct. 10, 1850 
TextNewspapers    From the Rochester Daily Advertiser A Thrilling Incident - Lake Ontario crossed in an open boat, during a violent Storm . On Wednesday last, as one of the heaviest gales of the season was sweeping over the broad bosom of Lake Ontario, the little schooner Prosperity, was riding safely at...
Oswego Commercial Times (Oswego, NY), Oct. 19, 1850 
TextNewspapers    From the Sackets Harbor Observer. Loss of the Schooner Neptune. The undersigned, master and seamen on board the schooner D.W. Church, make the following statement in regard to the loss of the schooner Neptune, Saturday, Oct. 5, 1850: The Neptune left Oswego about one hour before us, and...
Daily Times (Oswego, NY), Jan. 3, 1851 
TextNewspapers    .... In our foreign trade, we beat all the rest of the lake ports together. The foreign imports of the three prominent articles of flour, wheat and lumber at Oswego and Buffalo, during the season of 1850, compares as follows: Oswego Buffalo Flour, bbls 260,874 13,910 Wheat, bushels 1...
Daily Times (Oswego, NY), March 21, 1851 
TextNewspapers    LAKE COMMERCE - A REMINISCENCE. The Buffalo Courier has obtained possession of the Letter Book of Messrs. Phyn & Ellice, who were Merchants at Schenectady more than 80 years ago. They are curiously interesting, as will be seen: Schenectady, 22d Dec. 1769 To Commodore Grant - Sir: We ...
Oswego Commercial Times (Oswego, NY), Thurs., April 10, 1851 
TextNewspapers    The New Steam Tug "O. S. Howard" We understand from Mr. Abner C. Mattoon, the Proprietor of this trim little steamer, that she will be ready for business by the 18th inst. She is designed expressly for towing canal boats and vessels in and about our harbor; and we should judge from the ...
Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), Thursday, April 17, 1851 
TextNewspapers    The opening of navigation has imparted new life and energy to every branch of trade and commerce. A flood of travel is beginning to pour into the city by lake and from the east and west. Our streets are thronged with busy, anxious men engaged in commercial pursuits, and eagerly watching the ...
Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), Friday, April 18, 1851 
TextNewspapers    The opening of canal navigation has brought large numbers of boatmen and canal drivers into the city in search of employment, and horses, the motive power of this branch of inland commerce, are again called into active requisition along the line of this great thoroughfare. Where all the canal...
Oswego Daily Commercial Times (Oswego, NY), Monday, April 21, 1851 
TextNewspapers    Tow Boat Howard - This new steam boat, built for towing vessels out and into the harbor, is nearly finished, and made her first trial trip on Saturday afternoon. She worked admirably with her two engines, which are entirely new and before untried, and runs with remarkable speed for a boat of...
Daily Palladium (Oswego, NY), Monday, April 21, 1851 
TextNewspapers    The new steamboat O.S. Howard makes a trial trip today. her completion was hampered by lack of competent artisans. It has been difficult to obtain workers in brass and copper in this city. We are in need of a brass foundry. ...
Daily Times (Oswego, NY), Wed.,  April 23, 1851 
TextNewspapers    The Disaster of the Comet Our hasty account yesterday of the explosion of the British steamer Comet, was imperfect, and in some respects incorrect. The Comet was not a new boat, but she had been recently re-built. and newly fitted up and painted. It is said her exploded boiler had been in use...
Daily Times (Oswego, NY), Friday, April 25, 1851 
TextNewspapers    The Comet. - The steamer Porcupine arrived yesterday, from Kingston, with men to aid in raising the wreck of the Comet. Mr. Robinson, the Engineer who tested the boilers of the Comet this spring, is in the city, and has made a thorough examination of the wreck and the exploded boiler. He ...
Daily Times (Oswego, NY), Friday, May 2, 1851 
TextNewspapers    Our Harbor presents a most interesting appearance in commercial point of view, crowded as it is with vessels at all our docks, warehouses, elevators and mills. There are nearly three hundred sail vessels, we should judge, now in the Harbor, beside the canal craft. Every storehouse is filled to...
Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), Friday, May 6, 1851 
TextNewspapers    We observed yesterday that a number of chains had been drawn under the wreck of the Comet, preparatory to another attempt at raising it. A barge is to be place on each side of the wreck, and pulleys will be employed to lift the wreck from the bottom of the river, after which it can be readily ...
Daily Times (Oswego, NY), Wed. , May 7, 1851 
TextNewspapers    Our marine list of yesterday contained the arrival of 40 vessels during the preceding 48 hours. Of these arrivals 31 were from ports on Lake Ontario - 4 from Sandusky, 1 from Detroit, 1 from Chicago, 1 from Toledo and 3 from Cleveland. Canadian flour and grain are coming forward in increased ...
Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), Tues. , May 13, 1851 
TextNewspapers    The auction must have been postponed.
Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), Saturday, May 17, 1851 
TextNewspapers    Our gallant Firemen very generously volunteered their services on Thursday evening, in assisting to raise the wreck of the unfortunate Comet. Five engines, well manned, besides eight or ten large pumps, were vigorously plied for nearly five hours, with but partial success. The water was lowered...
Daily Times (Oswego, NY), Sat., May 17, 1851 
TextNewspapers    The O.S. Howard We had the pleasure, in company with quite a large party of ladies and gentlemen of this city, of a ride up the lake on Thursday evening, on the little steamer O.S. Howard. The evening was one of rare beauty, and the ride one of the pleasantest "on record." We left the wharf ...
Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), Wed. , May 21, 1851 
TextNewspapers    The wreck of the steamer Comet was bid off on Saturday last, by Mr. Miller, of Montreal, for the sum of $1,050. We noticed yesterday that a large number of hands were busily engaged with pumps, screws and levers, endeavoring to lighten her again, the steamer Porcupine laying along side in ...
Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), Thursday, May 22, 1851 
TextNewspapers    The steamer Comet was raised last night by the aid of a canvass jacket and two powerful pumps, propelled by the engines of the steamer Porcupine. She will be towed down to the Dry Dock to-day for repairs. ...
Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), Thursday, May 22, 1851 
TextNewspapers    The undersigned, Citizens of Oswego are happy upon this occasion in being able to give their cheerful testimony in favor of the good conduct of Capt. O'Connor, of the steamer Comet, at the time of the Melancholy disaster which cast a gloom over this city - that he was unceasing and unremitting...
Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), Wed. , May 28, 1851 
TextNewspapers    The steamer Comet is on the Marine Railway, in the lower harbor, undergoing temporary repairs, sufficient to enable her to be towed down to Montreal, where she will be overhauled forthwith and rebuilt in the most approved and substantial manner. Capt. Conner, late of the Comet, proceeds to ...
Oswego Commercial Times (Oswego, NY), May 30, 1851 
TextNewspapers    A Duel at Oswego. When and how the fashion arose, whether or no instituted as an appeal of the weak from the insults of the strong, whether as a tribunal of rights, its decrees have not punished the innocent as often as the guilty, whether not often used to wreak the hate of a murderer under...
Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), Saturday, June 6, 1851 
TextNewspapers    Revenue Cutter Harrison - This vessel, it is generally known, is in the service of the Treasury Department, and renders essential aid in the protection of the revenue and the suppression of smuggling along the frontier of the State. The Harrison has her rendezvous at this port, cruising up and...
Daily Times (Oswego, NY), Aug. 16, 1851 
TextNewspapers    Loss of the U. S. Steamer Jefferson. - An arrival at new York from Rio De Janeiro reports that the U. S. surveying steamer Jefferson was lost in July last at the mouth of the Straits. A portion of the machinery would be saved but the vessel will prove a total loss. A schooner had been ...
Daily Times (Oswego, NY), Aug. 30, 1851 
TextNewspapers    What was thought of Rail Roads Forty years ago. The following Letter, in reply to a suggestion about Rail Roads, written forty years ago, by Chancellor Livingston, who had been associated with his Brother-in-Law, Robert Fulton, in application of steam to Vessels, shows the state of improvement...
Daily Times (Oswego, NY), Sept. 10, 1851 
TextNewspapers    ... in 1849, and the "Onondaga," (1850), all built at Brewerton. ] ...
Daily Times (Oswego, NY), Thursday, Sept. 11, 1851 
TextNewspapers    New Steamer. - The new steamer building at the ship yard of Alderman Weeks, in this city, is now being corked and receiving the finish to her hull. She will be ready to launch in three or four weeks. Her deck planks are fitted , and the carpenter work of her cabins and upper works, is ...
Daily Times (Oswego, NY), Sat. , Sept. 20, 1851 
TextNewspapers    Fire. - A fire broke out about 7:30 o'clock last evening in the long ship building connected with the Marine Railway of Messrs. Carrington & Pardee. It was occupied by Capt. Weeks and his ship carpenters and joiners, employed in preparing the upper works of the steamer. The building ...
Daily Times (Oswego, NY), Oct. 6, 1851 
TextNewspapers    Newly Invented Wheel for Steam Vessels. - Capt. George S. Weeks, the Oswego ship builder, has invented a new wheel for propelling vessels, and has taken the necessary steps to secure a patent for the same. The wheel is believed to be an important improvement, which will supersede the wheels...
Daily Times (Oswego, NY), Oct. 11, 1851 
TextNewspapers    *The "O. S. Howard" was the first tugboat in Oswego Harbor.
Daily Times (Oswego, NY), Saturday, Oct. 11, 1851 
TextNewspapers    The Loss of the Schooner Osceola. The loss of the schooner Osceola, of this port, during the gale of the 2d inst. , on Lake Erie, was announced in the Sandusky Register, of the 4th inst. , upon information derived from Capt. Gibbs, of the schooner Scotland, who rescued the crew of the...
Daily Times (Oswego, NY), Saturday, Dec. 6,  1851 
TextNewspapers    The Launch. - At about 12 o'clock at noon, to-day, Captain Weeks launched the hull of his new Steamboat, and as she dipped the water Mr. Geo. Weeks, Jr. christened her the "Queen of the West," and at the same time a flag bearing the name was run up from the bows. The Launch was a beautiful ...
Daily Palladium (Oswego, NY), Monday, Dec. 8, 1851 
TextNewspapers    Launch -- The hull of the new Steamer, "Queen of the West," was launched from Capt. Weeks's yard on Saturday, at 12 o'clock. It was a beautiful launch, the boat gliding into its destined element, amid the firing of guns and the cheers of a large assemblage of spectators. The Queen of the ...
Buffalo Daily Republic (Buffalo, NY), December 11, 1851 
TextNewspapers    A new steamer, the QUEEN OF THE WEST was launched at Oswego on Saturday. She has been sold to a company in Canada, and will run between Hamilton, Toronto and Oswego next season. ...
Daily Times (Oswego, NY), Tuesday, Dec. 23, 1851 
TextNewspapers    The Disaster on Saturday During one of the most tremendous storms of wind and snow on Saturday afternoon ever known here, Capt. Samuel Freeman, keeper of the Light House at this port, procured aid and proceeded to the Light House at the east end of the west pier, in a small boat. There being...

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