The New Schooner Leadville The dimensions of the new schooner Leadville, owned by M.J. Cummings and launched at Goble & Macfarlane's yards yesterday, are as follows: Length 142 feet 6 inches; beam 26 feet 3 inches; depth of hold in the shoalest place, 12 feet, and at the forward hatch, 13 ...

    An Interesting Relic. A Rocking Chair Made from the Keel of Vessel Built Sixty Years Ago. The sailing packet Duke of Richmond, 70 tons burthen, launched spring, 1820, at the foot of Frederick street, York; owned and sailed by Capt. Edward Oates; December, 1826, bound from Oswego to York with...

    A Deadly Fall. ____ A Sailor Plunges from the Cross Trees of the Schooner Bentley, Eighty-five Feet to the Deck - A Rotten Rope. _____ About 8 o'clock last evening, Andrew Skillin, of West Eighth street between Seneca and Schuyler, a sailor on the schooner J. Bentley, was assisting to ...

    WRECK OF THE HATTIE HOWARD. _____ She Goes Ashore Against the Oswego Pier - Vessel and Cargo a Total loss and Not Insured - Captain Becker's Statement. _____ About 11 o'clock yesterday forenoon, the schooner Hattie Howard, from Port Hope, with 271,000 feet of lumber, attempting to make ...

    A TERRIBLE CATASTROPHE Loss of Life on Lake Ontario -- Thirty one Persons, including Several Women and Children Drowned -- An Abandoned Tug Afloat off Oswego -- The Tug Seymour Looses Her Entire Tow in Sight of Oswego Light -- Adrift in a Howling Waste of Snow and Wind -- Full Particulars of...

    THE GREAT DISASTER Further Particulars -- Eleven Lives Not Accounted For -- None Reported Saved Since Last Night -- The Pecuniary Loss $ 100,000 with No Insurance -- Statements of Survivors -- How the Lost Were Swept off and Drowned -- How the Survivors were Rescued -- A Story of Great Heroism...

    THE GREAT DISASTER Full list of the Lost and Saved -- The Property Loss Valued at About $ 40,000 -- No Insurance -- A Review of the Dreadful Calamity. ___________________________ There seems this morning to be very little to add to the very full and graphic story of the loss of the tug...

    THE GREAT DISASTER. The Company's Safe, Containing Valuable Papers, Wages of the Crews and Money Lost on the Gordon -- A Large Sum of Money and Valuable Papers on the Body of Mr. Arnoldt -- Reward for its Recovery -- The Fleet Warned at the Cape -- Mr. Hall Opposed to the Undertaking -- ...

    THE NOVEMBER GALE. News from the Stranded Vessels -- The Schooner Ashore at South Bay -- Another Vessel Breaks from her Anchorage but Gets into Oswego -- A Plucky Sailor -- Condition of the Gerrit Smith -- Vessels in Lake Ontario Ports. _________ WRECKS AND LOSS OF LIFE ON LAKE HURON. ...

    BROWNE . -- At 5 o'clock this morning there passed from this earthly scene another of Hamilton's enterprising citizens who have contributed much to the building up of the city as a great commercial centre. We refer to the death of Mr. Michael W. Browne which took place at his residence, No 8...

    WRECKING CHARGES The wrecking tug Leviathan, now stationed in the Straits, will charge as follows until September 30: For services of boat in wrecking per day $150 For services of 14-inch steam pump per day $40 For services of 12-inch steam pump per day $35 For ...

    Along the Docks The old schooner Carleton, which has for a long time been an eyesore to spectators on the lower bridge, is being dismantled today. John Gibson, who is doing the work, says he will break up the hull for kindling wood if he does not succeed in selling it. We understand that the...

    Along the Docks A long looked for effort to remove the old burned hulk of the schooner Powhattan from near the lower bridge is, at least, being made. One of Dobbie's steam pumps is at work on her today with a force of men and she will be raised and run out side upon the beach. Now the Sassacus!...

    * Clara Hill of Fair Haven, two masted schooner, 16.09 tons, 45'x12'x5' US Registry No. 125753. Enrolled 4 Sept. 1879 by Charles S. Hill of Fair Haven. Later listed in records as "wrecked."

    Henderson Harbor, Sept. 11. - The September fishing at Henderson Harbor has never been better than this year. Splendid catches of bass are made daily and over twenty-five muskelunge have been taken this month. Two were taken yesterday, one of which weighed 25 lbs. The notable improvement in the...

    The Gardner and Barges Off. _____ How They Went on the Shoal - Cleverly Released by the Morey and Manhattan. ____ The tug Gardner and barges which were ashore on Galloo shoal arrived in this port about 9 o'clock last night. The Gardner and her barges ran on during a very thick fog about 12...

    The O.M. Bond Ashore and Sunk. Mr. J.H. McCollum received a despatch this morning from Capt. S. Lefevre of the Oswego schooner O.M. Bond, dated Sand Beach, October 19, as follows: "Bond ashore here and full of water." A special to this morning's Buffalo Express, dated Sand Beach at 10 o'clock...

    The Loss Of The Rooney ____ How the Cook Came to be Drowned - The Charlotte Life Crew Blamed - The Vessel to be Raised. _____ The Rochester papers contain a few particulars of the loss of the H. Rooney off Charlotte, yesterday morning, not given in our special despatch yesterday. The Rooney...

  "Old Zack. Barnes," Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), June 28, 1879  Old Zack. Barnes. _____ Death of the Most Notable Man in the Early History of Boating on the Erie - The Murderer of Van Schaik and His Eventful Life. ____ Zachariah Barnes died in Forestport, Oneida county, a few days ago, aged about 67 years. Zack. Barnes was one of the earliest and most ...

    Mr. Mattoon's New Steamer. Mr. John E. Riley has just completed a handsome model for a steamboat which Hon. A.C. Mattoon contemplates building. The proposed steamer is to be of the following dimension: 98 feet overall; 17 feet 10 inches beam; 8 feet depth of hold. She will be built to carry...

    The 30-year-old PORTLAND was lost north of False Presque Isle, Mich. Oct 10, 1877. The GARDNER, built in 1873 and still owned by Pridgeon, was lost about 25 miles south of the same spot Oct 14, 1883.

    *falcons and culverins were both types of cannon, though the term culverin was also sometimes used to describe an antiquated type of musket. The second usage is probably the one meant in this case. **Bela Hubbard explored and surveyed much of Michigan, along with first state geologist Douglass...

    Pumping grain, dirt and water out of a vessel's hold is a common occurrence, but pumping rats is an unheard of thing; yet it is asserted this feat has recently been witnessed. Capt. Swain of the tug Winslow tells the story. It occurred on the schooner Delos De Wolf when the schooner, in tow of...

    ON THE DOCKS _______ Men Who Dwell by the Side Of the Rolling Deep _______ How They Live and What They Work at -- The Pay They Get _______ What it is to be a "Coal-Heaver," a "Trimmer," or a "Wharf-rat." _______ Among the many other objects useful and ornamental, which one sees who takes...

    SOME ON GRASSHOPPERS Chicago Times: Capt. Swinburne of the schooner C. Harrison says that while about 10 miles out between Racine and Waukegan, he observed the water in every direction as far as he could see was full of grasshoppers. They were so thick on the surface that it would have been ...

    The Scientific American article appeared in the Oct. 4, 1879 issue. The author apparently did not think much of Lloyd's, and one inflammatory sentence was removed for newspaper use: after "those on board" in the second paragraph, it adds, " The rating characteristics of vessels will then be...

    The following will give and idea of how complicated the 1870's debate had become as to whether American tugs could do wrecking jobs in Canadian waters, and vice-versa.

    A LAKE SCHOONER CONDEMNED Chicago Times: On yesterday the collector of customs received a letter from the treasury department, inclosing a dispatch from the United States consul at Teneriffe, one of the Canary Islands, stating that the lake schooner G. G. Cooper had been seized, condemned as ...

    No major accidents proved to be forthcoming and the PASSPORT (C112142, renamed CASPIAN in 1898) continued to operate as a passenger and freight steamer until reduced to a barge in 1921. Most records give her launch year as 1846 and her builder as McCausland, Kingston.

    NOT FOR DANCING PURPOSES The Star line people are ever on the lookout for points that will add profit to the line as well as pleasure and convenience to the patrons. But they will probably object to passengers using the upper or hurricane deck for dancing purposes. On Saturday night a party of...

    A RECKONING The series of gales that swept over the lakes between the 15th and 24th of November have proven unusually destructive to vessel property and life. There has probably been no parallel in the annals of lake navigation, not even excepting the destructive gale of 1870. Within the...

    WORK OF THE FESSENDEN The revenue cutter Fessenden has gone into winter quarters with the prestige of having done the biggest season's work ever performed on fresh waters. The following abstract from her report will serve to give some idea of what she has accomplished: Number of vessels ...

    Imagine going back from 2001 and strolling the docks of the Chicago waterfront in the late fall of 1879. Practically every foot of wharf and dock space has a vessel tied to it for the winter. They are every size, shape, condition and color that you can imagine. 370 lake carriers all in rows with...

    During the period of this article the marine reporters of the Detroit Post and Tribune and the Detroit Free Press were having a lively time sniping back and forth, each gleefully pointing out any error committed by the other. The Post and Tribune referred to its rival by the name of the street on...

    The new Oswego schooner Leadville cannot get through lock No. 3, Welland Canal. A portion of her side gear has been removed without avail. ...

    Fort Gratiot was the long-time military post at the head of the St. Clair River, founded in 1814 on the site of the 1686 French outpost named Fort St. Joseph.. Fort Wayne was the the site of Detroit's primary military establishment from its founding in 1843 to the 1970's. The restored fort and...

    During the season the steamer Northwest (Cleveland-Detroit-Buffalo) has made 106 trips and the City of Detroit 91. The former was the first boat out and the last one in. The steamer St. Joseph, now laid up at this port, has made 83 round trips [to Duluth] this season, just two less than she...

    Along the Docks. Hon. A.C. Mattoon arrived here at 6:30 A.M. today with the engine and boiler of the steam barge Ellsworth from Stony Island. After a week's hard work with sixteen men under the eficient management of John E. Riley, the task of raising the heavy engine and boiler from a depth of...

    The Ellsworth's Machinery Next week Hon.A.C. Msttoon will pobably raise the machinery of the propeller Ellsworth, sunk at Stony Island. There is considerable talk of building a first freight and passenger boat to run between Oswego and the river. It is believed that a safe, reliable and ...

    The New Steamer and Her Route. ____ Hon. A.C. Mattoon has contracted the timber for the passenger and freight propeller which he proposes to build this winter, and work will be commenced probably about the first of January. She is to be 110 ft. keel, 120 ft, over all, 20 feet beam and will...