The Maritime History of the Great Lakes
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Subject:  Shipwrecks  Year:  [1970, [1865, [1956, [1849, [1794, 1794]]]]]  Item type(s):  Clippings   Sort by:  Newest date (to oldest)
Sheila II (Shipwreck), sunk by collision, 9 Sep 1947 
TextNewspapers  1947  Reason: sunk by collision Remarks: Total loss
Duck Islands Claim Three More Lives 
TextNewspapers  "Duck Islands Claim Three More Lives," Syracuse Herald (Syracuse, NY), 18 Jan 1931  Duck Islands Claim Three More Lives _______ Solvay Man and Buddies Latest Victims _______ Score Perished There _______ Mariners Recall Wrecks in Vicinity of Isles Periling Boats _______ Exclusive Dispatch to The Herald. Kingston, Ont., Jan. 17. - The Ducks - "Charbydis and ...
Hinckley, Ashore at Stony Point, Is a Total Wreck 
TextNewspapers  "Hinckley, Ashore at Stony Point, Is a Total Wreck," Cape Vincent Eagle (Cape Vincent, NY), 8 Aug 1929  Hinckley, Ashore at Stony Point, Is a Total Wreck According to advices from Henderson Harbor the steam barge Hinckley, which was beached by its owner, Capt. A. R. Hinckley, about ten days ago in Gravely Bay, between Henderson Harbor and Stony Point, is a total wreck, having been lashed to ...
Ontario's Record For Lost Vessels 
TextNewspapers  "Ontario's Record For Lost Vessels," Cape Vincent Eagle (Cape Vincent, NY), 20 Nov 1919  Ontario's Record For Lost Vessels _______ Many Ships Have Mysteriously Disappeared Beneath the Waters of This Lake _______ (Toronto Telegram) Did the "Homer Warren," wallowing the welter of sulky slumbering seas as she pushed her way homeward just a a week ago' ...
Helena (Shipwreck), aground, 17 Sep 1918 
TextNewspapers  1918  Reason: aground Remarks: Total loss ?
Big Lake Steamer is Abandoned 
TextNewspapers  "Big Lake Steamer is Abandoned," Sturgeon Bay Advocate (Sturgeon Bay, WI), 13 Jul 1918  BIG LAKE STEAMER IS ABANDONED       _______       Five Sailors Forced To Play Robinson Crusoe       _____       Five Sturgeon Bay sailors played the part of Robinson Crusoe for five days when the steamer CREAM CITY, of which they were a part of the crew, stranded and had to be ...
Lightship No. 82 (Shipwreck), sunk, 9 Nov 1913 
TextNewspapers  1913  Reason: sunk Lives: 6 Remarks: Total loss
Hero - Chieftain III Collision 
TextNewspapers  "Hero - Chieftain III Collision," The Railway and Marine World (Toronto, ON: Acton Burrowes), November 1911, p. 1081  Following is a summary of the judgment, recently delivered, as a result of the enquiry by L. A. Demers, Wreck Commissioner, assisted by Capts. A. Reid and F. Nash and W. Gauthier, as assessors, into the cause of the collision between the steamboats Hero and Chieftain III., in the River St. ...
The Real Facts of the Sharples' Wreck 
TextNewspapers  "The Real Facts of the Sharples' Wreck," Jefferson County Journal (Adams, NY), 3 May 1911  The John Sharples is a large iron freighter, owned by a Duluth company. In the early part of December she left Chicago for Ogdensburg, loaded with 78,000 bushels of corn. She was seen to pass Olcott light, and Capt. Garant, who is light-keeper there, remarked, "If she gets into the river ahead of...
Perry (Shipwreck), sunk, 1 Apr 1910 
TextNewspapers  1910  Reason: sunk
Garden City (Shipwreck), disabled, 2 Jun 1908 
TextNewspapers  1908  Reason: disabled Lives: nil Remarks: Repaired
Car Ferry No. 2 (Shipwreck), sunk, 1 Jun 1907 
TextNewspapers  1907  Reason: sunk Remarks: Total loss
Total Wreck 
NewspapersText  "Total Wreck," Windsor Evening Record, 12 Dec 1906, p. 1, column 7 
Barge Sherman Towed To Port 
TextNewspapers  "Barge Sherman Towed To Port," Syracuse Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), 15 Oct 1906  Barge Sherman Towed To Port ____ Boat Wrecked in Gale on Lake Ontario Arrives in Oswego. ____ Oswego, Oct. 14, - The barge Sherman that was wrecked and beached on the southern shore of Lake Ontario near Sodus during the heavy gale of a week ago arrived in port tonight. She was ...
Sultana (Shipwreck), aground, 17 Jun 1906 
TextNewspapers  1906  Reason: aground Freight: iron ore Remarks: Got off
Thompson (Shipwreck), fire, 4 Apr 1904 
TextNewspapers  1904  Reason: fire Lives: nil Remarks: Total loss ?
Vineland (Shipwreck), cut tow line, 14 Aug 1903 
TextNewspapers  1903  Reason: cut tow line Hull damage: $793 Remarks: Repaired
Lake Tragedy Stuns Oswego 
TextNewspapers  "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 ...
Norman (Shipwreck), aground, 11 Sep 1900 
TextNewspapers  1900  Reason: aground Lives: nil Remarks: Total loss
North Star (Shipwreck), collision, 1 Nov 1899 
TextNewspapers  1899  Reason: collision Remarks: Repaired
Capt. Pat. Kane 
TextNewspapers  "Capt. Pat. Kane," Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI), 16 Oct 1898  CAPT. PAT. KANE _______ HIS FEAT OF SAVING A SCHOONER AND CREW _______ CAPT. McINTOSH, OF THE MAJESTIC, DID NOBLY _______ Capt. Pat. Kane, who went down with the schooner Churchill Friday night, was one of the best known vessel masters living at this port. About 45 years of age, ...
Safety of vessels 
TextNewspapers  "Safety of vessels," Utica Morning Herald (Utica, NY), 25 Dec 1897  Safety of Vessels _____ Demands Construction of a Lightship on Charity Shoal and Several Buoys _____ CAPE VINCENT, Dec. 24. - The many wrecks on Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence river of late years has caused the owners and masters of steamers, grain and coal transports, to urge ...
Watertown Daily Times (Watertown, NY), 21 Dec 1897 
TextNewspapers    The steamer Rosedale has been released from her dangerous position on Charity Shoal and placed in the dry dock in Kingston....
Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), 20 Dec 1897 
TextNewspapers    The Folgers took the contract to release the steamer Rosedale from Charity shoal for $14,000. They say the expense to them was not more than $600....
Steamer Rosedale 
TextNewspapers  "Steamer Rosedale," Oswego Daily Commercial Times (Oswego, NY), 16 Dec 1897  STEAMER ROSEDALE. _____ The Donnelley's Will Attempt To Raise Her ____ If Successful They Will Receive Seventeen Thousand Dollars for The Job - The Folgers of Kingston Make an Offer for the Stranded Steamer ____ The Kingston, (Ont.) Times has the following: Saturday ...
Oswego Daily Commercial Times (Oswego, NY), 13 Dec 1897 
TextNewspapers    Chicago, Dec. 10 - The loss of the steamer Rosedale on Charity Shoal, Lake Ontario, is the second heaviest loss of the season, being excelled only by the Florida disaster. The Rosedale was built at Sunderland, England, and her arrival at Chicago across the Atlantic was made a great event. ...
Oswego Daily Commercial Times (Oswego, NY), 13 Dec 1897 
TextNewspapers    Chicago, Dec. 10 - The loss of the steamer Rosedale on Charity Shoal, Lake Ontario, is the second heaviest loss of the season, being excelled only by the Florida disaster. The Rosedale was built at Sunderland, England, and her arrival at Chicago across the Atlantic was made a great event. ...
Oswego Daily Commercial Times (Oswego, NY), 10 Dec 1897 
TextNewspapers    Kingston, Ont.,, Dec. 9. - It has been decided to abandon the steamer Rosedale, wrecked on Charity Shoal. This morning the water in her hold had receded, and it was thought there was a prospect of floating her. A tug was made fast to the stern and after a few minutes' pulling, the stranded steamer...
Watertown Times (Watertown, NY), 7 Dec 1897 
TextNewspapers    Saturday morning the steamer Rosedale went aground on Charity Shoal about eight miles out in Lake Ontario. During Saturday night and all day Sunday the wind blew a gale from the west which did considerable damage to the steamer. Yesterday steam pumps were put to work throwing the wheat overboard....
Oswego Daily Commercial Times (Oswego, NY), 6 Dec 1897 
TextNewspapers    Kingston, Dec. 5 - Charity Shoal has claimed another victim. The steamer Rosedale went on that dangerous spot last night, and is now exposed to a strong southwest wind and a rough sea. Tugs are unable to help her, and it is feared the steamer and cargo will be seriously damaged. The Rosedale is ...
Garden City (Shipwreck), collision, 19 Aug 1896 
TextNewspapers  1896  Reason: collision Lives: nil Remarks: Repaired
Shrewsbury (Shipwreck), aground, 26 Nov 1895 
TextNewspapers  1895  Reason: aground Lives: nil Remarks: Got off
Another Wreck at Oswego 
NewspapersText  "Another Wreck at Oswego," Syracuse Herald (Syracuse, NY), 27 Nov 1894, p. 1, column 7 
Marine Disasters 
TextNewspapers  "Marine Disasters," St. Lawrence Republican, 30 Dec 1893  MARINE DISASTERS. ______ Wrecks That Have Occurred off Cape Vincent. ______ The Port Asking for a Government Breakwater _____ (From the Cape, Vincent Eagle) The following is the list of the wrecks and other casualties suffered by vessels, caused by "gales and heavy seas, occurring ...
Maynard (Shipwreck), collision, 1 Jul 1891 
TextNewspapers  1891  Reason: collision Remarks: Repaired
Bohemia (Shipwreck), aground, 9 Aug 1890 
TextNewspapers  1890  Reason: aground Lives: nil Remarks: Repaired
Ohio (Shipwreck), collision, 19 May 1890 
TextNewspapers  1890  Reason: collision Remarks: Repaired
A Schooner Wrecked near Thousand Island Park. 
TextNewspapers  "A Schooner Wrecked near Thousand Island Park.," Syracuse Standard (Syracuse, NY), Aug. 17, 1889  A Schooner Wrecked near Thousand Island Park . Special Correspondence of the Standard : FRONTENAC, N.Y. , Aug. 16. - At 10:30 o'clock last evening the large three masted schooner Vickery of Chicago struck on a shoal off Rock Island light house, just opposite Thousand Island Park ...
Laura Brown (Shipwreck), aground, 1 Jul 1886 
TextNewspapers  1886  Reason: aground Remarks: ?
In the Jaws of Death 
TextNewspapers  "In the Jaws of Death," Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), 4 Aug 1883  In the Jaws of Death How the Edith Sewall Went Down in a Storm- Her Crew at the mercy of the Waves- A two Hour Battle For Life On Wednesday evening last the Palladium contained a short account of the loss of the steamer Edith Sewall off the head of Wolfe Island. The boat was commanded by ...

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