PECULIAR OCCURRENCE AT SYLVAN BEACH _____________ Muskegon, Mich., May 2. - Bennett & Schnorbach, of this city, who have the contract for raising the private launch, Amelia, wrecked at Sylvan Beach, say they have a hard job ahead of them. The Amelia now stands perfectly upright, only ...

    LIGHTNING FLASH SAVED TWO BOATS _______ Revealed Danger When Only A Few Hundred Feet Apart _______ Were Running Under Check During a Very Dense Fog _______ Passengers Profuse In Praise of City of Alpena's Crew _______ Alpena, June 15. - (Special.) - A flash of lightning last night ...

    Below a sketch of the vessel. LAWSON was 369x50x35, 5218 gt, and carried 43,000 square feet of sails. The lakes steel schooner-barge MAIA, part of a class of the largest steel lake barges built by Chicago Shipbuilding in 1898, was 376x48x26, 3804 gt. These vessels were technically...

    The BARNES, MITCHELL, SLAUSEN and WING were 30, 28, 35 and 35 years old, respectively.

    *Canary Islands **About 23 miles per day or less than 1 mile per hour, on average

    The steamer COLUMBIA served as a "Bob-Lo Boat" for nearly nine decades and ferried hundreds of thousands of passengers to the Bois Blanc Island amusement park opposite Amherstburg in the lower Detroit River. She is now a national historic landmark and is in the process of restoration. For...

    *Pere Marquette 17 **Hugoma

    WORK UNDER THE ICE CONQUER THE ELEMENTS _______ PLAN OF CLEVELAND CONTRACTOR TO WORK ALL WINTER _______ Cleveland, November 6. - Contractor Donnelly is about to conquer the elements and work under water to build piers and breakwaters to the lake. He is about to start a test at Fairport, ...

    *Ironclad ram C.S.S. VIRGINIA, built from the burned hull of the Union steam frigate USS MERRIMAC.

    YOUNGEST CAPTAIN ON THE GREAT LAKES _______ Wallace Hill Has Been Granted Master's Papers Menominee, Mich., May 3. - It is declared that Wallace Hill, aged 18, and last year a student at the Menominee high school, is the youngest steamboat captain on the lakes. He recently passed the ...

    This little clipping helps explain why there were so many "unknown sailors" lost on lakes shipwrecks and how late it was in Great Lakes history before anything was done about the problem.

    Three Days In The Lake _____ Steamer Niko Now Fast in Ice at Jaws of Pier _____ Lost Big Anchor and Forty Fathoms of Chain Off Calf Island Shoals - Came Into Port With Fuel Bunkers nearly Empty - Captain's Story. After being buffeted about for seventy-two hours by the angry waves of ...

    The steamer Niko reached the O. & W. trestle last night about six o'clock. Captain Beggs said today that he was not certain whether another load would be taken to Kingston . ...

    Boat has Fierce Battle With Storm. ____ Steamer Niko Arrived Last Night Short of Coal. ____ Thrilling Experience. _____ Left Toronto Thursday and Spent Four Days on the Lake - Did not Have Coal Enough to Break Through the Ice. About seven o'clock last night the steamer Niko, Captain ...

    Captain Beggs Opens Harbor _____ And Well Known Shipper Wants to Load Coal for Toronto on TowBoats. The steamer Niko succeeded in breaking the ice in the channel about half past eight o'clock last night and is now lying at the O. & W. trestle. After Captain Beggs opened the channel ...

  "Rescued from Gale's Clutch," Syracuse Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), Tues., Dec. 16, 1902  RESCUED FROM GALE'S CLUTCH ____ Five Persons, All of Oswego , Saved at Lakeside _____ HAD GIVEN UP ALL HOPE _____ Adrift on Angry Waves Thirty-Six Hours Without Food and Without Prospect of Help - Rescued After One of the Most Heroic Struggles of Man for Man Ever Chronicled on the ...

  "Five Rescued From Wreck," Syracuse Journal (Syracuse, NY), Dec. 16, 1902  Five Rescued From Wreck ____ Charlotte Life Savers Succeed After Hours Of Heroic Work In The Cold. ____ ROCHESTER , Dec. 16. - Exhausted and almost frozen, four men and one woman were rescued from the schooner barge John R. Noyes , in the teeth of a gale yesterday afternoon by the ...

  "Lake Tragedy Stuns Oswego," Syracuse Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), Thurs., Dec. 18, 1902  LAKE TRAGEDY STUNS OSWEGO _____ Seven of Its Popular Citizens Given Up as Lost ____ RAY OF HOPE BLOTTED OUT ____ Vessel Ashore on Salmon Point Proves to Be the Noyes, Whose Crew Was Rescued After Heroic Work - No Tidings Whatever Are Received of the Steamer Hall - Tug Will To-Day ...

    Rochester , Dec. 16. - The crew of the schooner JOHN R. NOYES of Cleveland , five in all, was rescued by Capt. Gray and his crew of surfmen and landed safely at Lakeside. It was one of the most gallant struggles with wind and waves ever fought on the Great Lakes. The schooner had been ...

    ALONG THE LAKES. - The schooner NOYES , from which the crew had been rescued, has gone to the bottom at Charlotte . ...

    No News From Steamer Hall ____ Barge Noyes Anchored Off of Bear Creek ____ Life Crew Left Charlotte With Assistance - Resolute and Andrews Are all Right - Believed That Hall May be Sheltered on the North Shore. Tuesday morning last at eight o'clock the steamer Resolute,...

    BARGE ADRIFT IN THE ICE _____ Stevenson Broke Away from the Avon Yesterday _____ Latter Reached Cape Vincent Last Night and Word Was Sent to This City - Westford and Tow at Kingston - Marshall Leaves for Brockville A telephone message was received here by Thomas Crimmins ,...

    NOTHING FROM STEAMER HALL ____ Crew of Noyes Rescued, Barge Adrift in Lake ____ Captain George Donovan Tells of the Parting With Hall Saturday Morning - Believes Steamer is Disabled in Ice on North Shore - Andrews at Hamilton. Captain George Donovan , of the ill-fated barge John R....

    ALL ASHORE ON SALMON POINT. ______ Believe Crew is Still Aboard Stranded Steamer. ______ Toronto Life Savers on Way to the Wreck With a Life Boat - Rumor Made This Morning That Steamer was on the Main Ducks. Early this morning a telegram was received from Cape Vincent saying that Captain...

    News From Steamer Hall _____ Friends Entertain Fears For Safety of Crew _____ Reported Steamer Ashore on Salmon Point Shoal Proves to be the John R. Noyes - Life Savers Patrol Beach in Search for Hall . Grave fears are entertained this afternoon that the steambarge John E. Hall has...

    NO NEWS FROM STEAMER HALL _____ Sailors Say They Saw Lights on the Main Ducks _____ Tug Ferris Started Out This Morning, But Was Compelled to Return Because of heavy Seas - Rumors of Wreckage at Cape Vincent . At noon today nothing had been heard from the steamer John E. Hall or...

    NO HOPE FOR HALL OR CREW. ______ Foundered With Eleven in Lake Ontario . _____ Crew of Tug Ferris Made Search - Found Wreckage on Main Ducks - Other Oswego Vessels That Went Out Same Way in Past years. There is no further doubt but that the steamer John E. Hall and her crew of ...

    SEARCHING FOR STEAMER HALL _____ Captain Savage Tells of the Wreck of the Noyes _____ Trunks Found on the Beach and a Photograph of Two Little Girls - First Impression Was That the Stranded Boat Was the Hall . The tug Ferris , Captain Charley Ferris , left port this morning for...

    Navigation Is Closed. ______ Vesselmen Interested in the Suggestion of a Revenue Cutter. The tug Ferris leaves today with the schooners Clara Youell and F.H. Burton , coal laden, for Kingston . These are the last schooners at this port ready to sail. All the coal trestles have closed...

    The crew of the tug Ferris took observations on their trip across from Oswego , regarding the lost steam barge Hall , and, from all points at which wreckage was found, concluded that the vessel went down within a radius of from five to ten miles of the Main Ducks . The Ferris left this...

    Wrecks on the Great lakes Casualty List for 1901 July 7, 1901, -- Small steamer ALBERTA, coal laden, wrecked on Lake Ontario, near Cape Vincent. ...

    According to a recent decision of the Court of Appeals, seamen are not entitled to extra pay when throwing overboard in order to lighten a cargo off a reef. This decision is the result of a suit brought against the steamer C. F. Bielman by James Gilbraith, John Welmer and William Bachelor. The ...

    The Jenks Ship Building Co. is building for the US Lake Survey seven catamarans, each 40 feet in width. Each catamaran has two large steel cylinders 30 feet long and 40 inches in diameter. When completed, all will be fastened together and the entire width will be 280 feet. They are being put...

    Three of the steel pontoons built for the Lake Survey by the Jenks Ship Building Co. have been launched and it is expected that the remaining four will go into the water some time next week. When the pontoons are fastened together they will be taken in the St. Clair River where Engineer Sabin...

    The catamarans which have been built by the Jenks Ship Building Co. for the lake survey will be floated down the Black River on Monday next. ...

    The two American Shipbuilding (Lorain) vessels were JOSEPH C. GILCHRIST (US#200414) and R. E. SCHUCK (US#200374). I'm not certain if the Columbia-built boat ever came out.

    "N. W. Napier" was Nelson W. Napier, captain of the steamer Alpena, lost with all hands in 1880. Capt. Withey's first name was John.

    One of the worst storms of the season raged on Lake Michigan, Thursday, and vessels caught out were much battered by wind and waves. In several instances lives were in peril and the Life-saving crews were constantly on the lookout for the wrecking of samll crafts which happened to be out on the...

  Sodus Record (Sodus, NY), June 20, 1902, page 4page 4  The steamer Arundell made her first trip of the season to 1,000 Islands Monday. She left Charlotte on time and ran into a fog, but reached Sodus Point per schedule. She is a fast boat and safe. General Passenger Agent Robert Maxwell, one of the best fellows that ever lived was aboard the Arundell...

  Sodus Record (Sodus, NY), June 20, 1902, page 5page 5  At the very top of this article "The Finest lake and river trip of the American Continent to the" was covered over and I could not complete the heading.