We notice that two or three new schooners are already on the stocks - it is to be hoped that others will be commenced soon: we have not vessels enough to meet the wants of our commerce; and there is every reason to believe that our commerce will be double, if not quadruple, next year to what it...

    Charts Of The Harbors. - The following resolution was adopted at the meeting of the Board of Trade, yesterday morning. The importance and value of those beautifully and carefully executed Charts of our Lake harbors, got up under the immediate superintendence of Col. Graham of the Topographical...

    The Steamer "Prairie State" on Fire in the Harbor. ________ Narrow Escape of the Passengers ________ Children Thrown from the Upper Decks into the Arms of the Rescuers! ________ The Northern Transportation Company's propeller Prairie State, Capt.. Knapp, arrived at this port this morning...

    Disaster - The schooner John Weden, of Detroit, collided with a vessel on the night of Oct. 27th, on Lake Ontario, and came ashore at Fairbanks' Point, about two miles below here, on the 28th. She had on board about 14,000 bushels of corn, consigned to Oswego. The insurance companies have been...

    quoting the St. Joseph Statesman SHIPWRECK - We learn, with regret, that the schooner PRINCE EUGENE was some days since wrecked in Sable Bay, twenty miles North of Sable point and about 180 miles North of the mouth of St. Joseph. We have not yet been able to obtain the particulars, but ...

    THE LATE GALE ON LAKE ONTARIO. - We learn from the Watertown Eagle and Standard of the 18th ult., that on Wednesday preceding, the Robert Bruce, a small schooner, owned in Henderson, Jefferson county, left Kingston, U.C. for some port up the Bay of Quinte, in ballast; was wrecked, and all on ...

    ..., '29, '30 and '31, inclusive, another was added each year, making in all from 1818 to 1831 only ten boats. But in 1833 steamboat navigation received a new impetus by the addition of twelve new boats, and the year following seven more besides the like number during the past season...

    PORT OF DETROIT ARRIVED May 24, S.B. United States, Hart, Buffalo. Andrew Jackson, Atwood, Miami. Sandusky, Titus, Buffalo. Columbus, Walker, " Schr. David Crockett, Day, River Thames (U.C.); cargo barley, peas, corn, hides, &c. May 25, S.B. Michigan, Allen, ...

    ..., and is supplied with steam by a boiler 2 feet in diameter by 3 feet in length, which stands upright, and will hold 30 gallons of water - with a chamber for 15 gallons more. The boiler is constructed on the strongest possible plan - is of a circular form, containing alternately four fire and three water flues...

    ... bark of 30 tons, was built in 1631. The celebrated English patriot and divine, Hugh Peters, caused a vessel of 300 tons to be constructed at Salem, in 1641. The first schooner ever launched is said to have been built at Cape Ann, in 1714. Her name is not known. In 1718, Connecticut had but 2 brigs, 20...

    We understand that the Messrs. Guthrie have contracted for another boat, to be called the Novelty, 109 feet long, 16 feet beam and 6 feet depth of hold, which is already launched, with her deck and guards all completed, ready for her machinery. She is to be driven by one of the powerful engines...

    MARINE INTELLIGENCE VESSELS IN PORT. - The following is a complete list of the vessels in port yesterday. Two or three of them have not taken down their sails, and their captains are talking of trying a short trip for a load of lumber, the others are all laid up for the winter, or are at the...

    The Milwaukee Sentinel says that the propeller WESTMORELAND has hauled alongside the wharf in the river where she will lay up for the winter. The damage to her machinery is supposed to be $1000 to $1500. ...

    VESSELS IN PORT. --- Since we published the list which subsequently reappeared in the JOURNAL, causing that paper so many "pains," the following vessels have arrived and are preparing to lay up: Steamer FRANKLIN MOORE, sloop WUNX, and schooners UNION, BELLE CITY, EQUATOR, RACINE, L. C. IRWIN,...

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    VESSELS IN PORT. - Navigation is pretty much closed up for this season. The weather has been more severe both for wind and cold than it has been for several seasons at this timeof the year. Vessels are mostly stripped, and all are being prepared to sleep out the winter. We do not hear of any...

    DISASTER ON LAKE ONTARIO. - A collision occurred off Genesee, on Lake Ontario, about half past 2 o'clock, A.M. the 20th inst. between the steamer America and the schooner Emblem , of Hamilton. The latter was cut nearly two-thirds through. Five of her crew took to the small boat, but, before...

    EMBLEM was rebuilt and later renamed OLIVIA. She was reportedly still operating as late as 1898.

    Strang's name would have been well-known to Detroit readers. Aside from the fount of legend and odd facts that sprang from the Mormon leader, he was also a Michigan state legislator and a well-known orator. The source of the wreckage described in the letter is unknown. Some possibilities: schr...

    SHIPPING IN CHICAGO. - There are now two hundred and eighteen vessels in winter quarters in Chicago. This number will be increased some twenty or thirty. Supposing them to average 300 tons, actual carriage, this makes 65,400 tons. The following is the list of vessels already laid up in the...

    CAR FERRY BOAT - The Great Western Railway Company have heretofore used, to transport cars across the river, a scow, which they were obliged to tow to and fro. But this item of freight has increased to such importance that they are now fitting a ferry boat, with complete steam propelling ...

    ... FIRST VESSEL FOR LIVERPOOL DIRECT -The fine new schooner Dean Richmond is chartered to take wheat to Liverpool direct, without transshipment, via the St. Lawrence, at 30c per bushel. This is but the commencement of direct shipments to Europe from this port. The advantage gained by rapid and ......

    CHICAGO AND LIVERPOOL - Yesterday evening witnessed the first departure of a Chicago vessel from this port direct to Europe. The vessel is the schooner Dean Richmond, owned by Charles Y. Richmond of this city, and her captain, D. Columbus Pierce. She takes a cargo of 16,000 bushels of wheat,...

    INSURANCE ON THE DEAN RICHMOND - It having been ascertained that the insurance companies were averse to taking full risks on the Dean Richmond, and her cargo, for a trip to Liverpool, the Chicago Board of Trade have undertaken to effect the object by individual subscriptions, the Chicago ...

    THE SCHOONER DEAN RICHMOND - This schooner, bound from Chicago to Liverpool direct with a cargo of wheat, arrived at this port on Sunday morning last (27th), and left this afternoon. We learn that she, with another boat, was towed down the St. Clair Flats by the tug JULIUS D. MORTON, and that...

    quoting Milwaukee Sentinel, 5 Aug. SCHOONER DEAN RICHMOND - We learn from Mr. Kershaw, who shipped the wheat from this city by the Dean Richmond, bound for Liverpool, that the Richmond reached Lake Ontario all right, on Saturday (Aug 2), and would soon be wending her way down the noble St....

    THE SCHOONER DEAN RICHMOND - The Thorold (C.W.) Gazette, of the 6th inst., gives the proceedings of a public meeting held there to welcome the schooner Dean Richmond, now on her way to Liverpool, from Chicago. A lengthy address was made to the Captain and owners by a deputation of the...

    We learn from a late number of the Montreal Pilot that the schooner Dean Richmond, which left Chicago a few weeks since with a full cargo of wheat for Liverpool direct, passed that port on the 15th inst. ...

    quoting Montreal Gazette, Aug 15, 1856 THE DEAN RICHMOND - This vessel, which cleared at Chicago a short time ago, with a cargo of wheat for Liverpool, left this port yesterday afternoon for Quebec, in tow of the steam-tug John MacKenzie, on her way across the ocean. By persons competent to...

    The JEFFERSON DAVIS, for obvious reasons, was renamed SEARCH during the Civil War; she was on the Lakes for many years.

    VESSELS IN PORT [At Chicago] - The river is now frozen over with ice so thick that it is not likely it will be broken again before spring above the bridge, and we therefore present our list of vessels in port. A number of others are known to be bound for this port, and if they arrive we shall...

    The following is a list of vessels laid up at this port, with the places they are owned, so far as it was possible to ascertain them. As navigation is now closed, and the entrance to the river both above and below blocked up with ice, we believe no further departures will occur before the ...

    VESSELS LAID UP AT CLEVELAND. - The following is a list of vessels laid up at this port: Steamers - North Star, Telegraph Propellers - Indiana, Manhattan, Genesee Chief, California, Buckeye, Cleveland, Jefferson, Milwaukee, Potomac, Jersey City, Owego, Evergreen City, Northern Michigan, ...

    VESSELS LAID UP IN BUFFALO - The vessels, of all kinds, laid up for the winter in this port, are as follows: Steamers - Keystone State, Erie; Queen of the West, Crescent City, Minnesota, Hudson, Buffalo; Western Metropolis, Southern Michigan, Empire, Monroe; St. Lawrence, Buffalo. ...

    ...; Millard Fillmore, 385; A. J. Rich, 380; Minnie Kinne, 310; Kate L. Bruce, 310; Game Cock, 290. Included in the above are 1 steamer of 1,800 tons; 12 propellers of 7,486; 4 tugs of 1,085 tons, and 30 schooners of 10,041 tons - making a total of 20,382 tons. - Buff. Courier, 27th. ...

    Yesterday, the schooner Madiera Pet, of Guernsey, Capt. Grange, a schooner of about 120 tons, arrived here from Liverpool for Chicago. She has on board a full cargo of measurement goods, consisting of steel, iron, crockery and paints. She made the passage in 35 days, and received for freight...

    Invincible went ashore near Tawas the next summer and was given up for lost, but was later recovered and lasted until going ashore again in a gale in 1869. Knowing where you are doesn't always mean you are where you want to be.

    FROM LIVERPOOL. - On Sunday last a very ordinary, dirty looking schooner, with the British ensign flying from her masthead, made her way up the river and quietly anchored off the Great Western Railway depot. She was evidently a stranger in our waters, and naturally attracted considerable ...