The Inspection and Rating of Vessels Daniel Lyons & Son (ship chandlers) received a letter this morning from J. g. Orr, manager of the Orient Insurance Company for the lake region, and who lives in Buffalo, calling attention to a subject that seems to be of some consequence to Oswego ...

    This is interesting from because it shows some family relationships to shipbuilders. Oswego shipbuilder George Goble's wife was a Collins whose family built ships at Clayton. The Collins family was related to John Oades, shipbuilder from Clayton, later Detroit.

    Captain Joel Tyler Had Narrow Escape Capt. Joel F. Tyler, whose death occurred yesterday was one of the oldest vessel captains on the lakes. He was born at North Haven, Conn. , may 18, 1802, and was the son of Edward Morris Tyler. He came to Oswego in the spring of 1805. We have not the...

    Obituary Captain Joel F. Tyler Captain Joel F. Tyler, a living landmark not only of our early marine, but also of our early local history, died at his residence in this city yesterday, aged 76 years. Capt. Tyler was born at New Haven, Conn., May 18th, 1802, and came here with his parents...

    ALL NIGHT ON THE LAKE. _______ A Canadian Steamer with Between Three and Four Hundred Passengers Out All Night - Following a Propeller Light Down the Lake - Rescued and Brought into Port by a Woman. _______ An Excursion. The steamer Hastings arrived here about 9 A. M. yesterday with...

    The Trip of the Hastings Belleville Ontario: - Both of the Oswego papers have long and sensational accounts of the steamer Hastings being lost on the lake, and censure her officers very strongly. We are in a position to say that her officers are not in the least way blamable. On the night in...

    *Refers to a Northern Transportation Co. steamer it was following.

    A Canal Boat Lost _______ The H. B. Preston Goes Down About a Mile off Oswego - Boat and Cargo Insured - Rescue of Crew. _______ The canal boats Rising Star, Morning Star, Evening Star and H. R. Preston left here last Tuesday morning for Canada, after ashes, in tow of the tug Alanson ...

    An Old Tar's Twister - The Yarn of the Oldest Oswego Sailor Quitting Salt Water When I arrived at Adams, Jefferson County, I met a cousin who informed me that my parents had left Antwerp and were now living in the town of Henderson. The next day we went there and I met my folks after five ...

    At the time there were gunboat-enforced laws regarding the assistance or salvage of vessels in Canadian waters by American tugs, and vice-versa. It makes one wonder what the hubbub was about, since the American and Canadian tugs were actually not competing, as tugs on either side were...

    *actually 1855 ** actually September 7, 1860

    SYLVAN DELL, US#115657, was 53 gt. By 1884 she was operating out of Pascagoula, Mississippi, on the Gulf of Mexico.

    Through the latter third of the 19th century, Detroit was home to some of the largest and most powerful tugs in the whole lake system. The towing of sail vessels through the Detroit-St Clair river complex from Lake Erie to Lake Huron was big business in the day. The tug CHAMPION , built in 1868, ...

  St. Joseph Traveler-Herald (St. Joseph, MI), September 28, 1878, page 3page 3  Column 1 The schooner "Mary", is most likely the boat that went down on Sept. 10, 1878, about 25 miles out of Chicago - according to the Great Lake Shipwreck file. Perhaps she washed ashore near New Buffalo, Berrien County, Michigan?

    Kingston, Ont., Sept. 25. -- The ocean fellows, WINONA and FLORETTA, arrived here today with the rest of the fleet that have been detained by the break in the canal. They will lighten tomorrow and proceed to the briny. The 1,000 ton ship GARDEN ISLAND, built by Calvin & Breck, opposite ...

    The canal boat PRESTON, which sank several weeks ago a mile off this harbor and in fifty feet of water while in tow of the tug SUMMER, was brought up in the late gale, drifted ashore at Four Mile Point and was wrecked. The PRESTON was laden with leached ashes, and the depth at which she lay ...

    OBITUARY. -- The old bark GREAT WEST has been stripped of everything of value, and is to be towed out into the lake and scuttled. In her day she has earned lots of money, but she has now gone to decay. She measures 278 tons. She was built in Oswego by George Goble in 1854. If we had space...

    A SAD RECITAL Details at Last of the Terrible Disaster to the Schooner J. P. MARCH. Young Morey, the son of Mrs. Morey, cook on the J. P. MARCH, was well educated, his his mother spending all her hard-earned wages to push him forward. He was about 18 years of age, and a very promising young...

    Kingston, Ont., Sept. 14. -- The wind began blowing a gale from the southwest last night, and the water in the harbor has raised three feet. The schooner HIBERNIA, lumber laden, capsized. The WACOUSTA stove a hole in her bottom at Charlotte, and filled. The schooner PEARL is ashore there,...

    The catamaran GIROFIE GIROFIA, en route from Pultneyville to Oswego, in charge of Augustus A. Kimball, son of Captain Joseph Kimball, of Oswego, was found off Sodus Point on Friday morning in a waterlogged condition and towed into the harbor. Kimball is supposed to have drowned in endeavoring...

    STEAMER SUNK. -- The steambarge PETRONILLE, which loaded coal at Oswego for Henderson, July 20, sank in Henderson Harbor on her arrival. The coal is being unloaded. She will be raised. ...

    The Tug Crusader ____ Particulars of the Burning as Given by Capt. Manwarring. ___ Capt. Manwarring writes from Duncan City to Capt. C.W. Ferris the following particulars of the burning of the tug Crusader, formerly of this port: Capt. Manwarring says he had just towed up a lighter for ...

  Door County Advocate (Sturgeon Bay, WI), Thursday, 15 Aug 1878, page 3page 3  Column 3

  Door County Advocate (Sturgeon Bay, WI), Thursday, 22 Aug 1878, page 3page 3  Column 4

  Door County Advocate (Sturgeon Bay, WI), Thursday, 29 Aug 1878, page 3page 3  Column 5

    The Goodrich Transportation Company. The arrangements of the Goodrich Company for season of 1878 are as follows: Steamer Chicago (side-wheel), West Shore Route, Chicago to Ahnapee - B. Sweeney, commander; Edson W. Dorsey, first officer; Cowen, engineer; Henry Pates, clerk; Gavin Watson, ...

    The Loss of the Schooner Mary. The following account of the loss of the schooner Mary, off New Buffalo, is given in the Chicago Inter-Ocean of Monday: New Buffalo, Mich., Sept. 13. - As you have already announced, the schooner Mary was lost on the night of Sept. 9. Additional authentic ...

    NEW WRECKING MACHINE. - Capt. Wm. Foster, of Cleveland, has invented a machine for raising sunken ships. The power employed is the inflated pontoon system, with an entirely new and inexpensive apparatus, made of three-ply canvas-rubber. A full outfit of 200 pontoons, capable of raising any ...

    A NEW WRECKING PONTOON. - Saturday afternoon a test of the lifting power of Capt. William Foster's new patent pontoon for raising vessels was tested in the old river bed, and proved to be a great success - even greater than the inventor himself had anticipated. To make the experiment a ...

    CUSTOMS REPORT. - The following are the abstracts relating to this customs district, as contained in the report of the collector of customs recently sent to the Treasury Department for the quarter ending March 31, 1878. Class No. of Vessels Tonnage ...

    THE ST. CLAIR CANAL. - The following regulations for the government of vessels passing through the St. Clair Flats Canal are established by authority of the Secretary of War as necessary for the proper protection of the banks of the canal from injury. All concerned will please take notice: ...

    THE CANAL AGAIN. - In the regulations published Saturday governing transit through the St. Clair Flats Canal, the first article states that vessels are forbidden " to land or tie up to the banks, unless on Government business." The United States engineer at this port states that this is not to...

    A good story is told of a three-card monte sharper who boarded a lake craft at Buffalo bound for Bay City. He desired to work his passage, and was shipped. Once out on Lake Erie, he began to throw his three cards. He succeeded in getting all the money the captain and crew had, and then the ...

    Here's an interesting account of the domino effect of the breaking of a piece of gear in wrecking the sails of this big schooner. The HELVETIA of Buffalo was a 793gt three-master, built in Tonawanda, NY, in 1873, and was US#95213. In 1898 she was chartered for ocean service and, as far as I can...

    One is not sure where this launch took place, the vessel described sounds very similar to the modern day pontoon paddle boat, except for it's hand-operated paddle.

    *Rouge River, Detroit

    A fairly detailed description of a Great lakes overnight passenger steamer of the late 1870's. The boat, CITY OF DETROIT (US#125662) was one of the very few sidewheelers of composite construction ever built. She was named CITY OF THE STRAITS in 1893 and served the D & C until sold in 1914. She was...

    Times were bad on the lakes as well in 1877, with as much as 1/3 of the fleet lying idle.

    The propeller City of Toledo, which touched here last night on her way down, had on board 150 coops of wild pigeons. ...

    A GEOLOGICAL EXCURSION. - Almost every summer a geological excursion starts from Cleveland for a trip along the south shore of Lake Superior, returning by the north shore. Arrangements have been made for such an excursion this year, and the steamer Keweenaw has been engaged for the trip. She...