Shipwreck on Lake Ontario - On Tuesday, last about 11 o'clock A.M. the Schooner "Henry Clay," Captain Campbell of Oswego, when within 10 or 12 miles of the mouth of the Niagara River was struck by a heavy squall which capsized her instantly and she sank in a few minutes. Captain Campbell and...

    Steam Boat Racing. - An accident occurred on board the Sir Robert Peel on her passage from this port to that of Oswego on Wednesday last, in consequence of the temerity, or we may say the wickedness of running that vessel against the Great Britain. When the two vessels were near each other and...

    For the Chronicle and Gazette, THE GREAT BRITAIN AND SIR R. PEEL. Mr. Editor, On Wednesday the 16th instant, the Sir Robert Peel arrived from Prescott fully prepared for a trial of speed with the Britain; the Peel started at 8, instead of half-past 9, her usual hour, without giving any...

    Steam-Boat Racing. - Our hearts have been pained time and time again within a few months past, at the thrilling accounts of the loss of life and destruction of property which have reached us from different sections of our country, through the pernicious practice of steamboat racing: and this ...

    ..., passed through this town on Wednesday last for the Niagara frontier. The Queen's Own are doing duty at Bundy's Lane. The 85th Regiment has left Montreal for Kingston. _____ Four companies of the 34th Regiment, we understand, are to be stationed in this town. Several houses have been...

    The trade of this Port has never, perhaps, been in a more prosperous and flourishing condition, than at the present moment. The quantity of produce on our wharves is enormous; and though many new storehouses are being erected, the want of Store Room is severely felt. The Ottawa and Rideau ...

    The Gale On Friday night last, the wind shifted suddenly at about 2 a. m. blew a gale; which continued with unusual severity for about 12 hours. At 4 a. m. the steamer Oneida, Capt. Childs, was seen off our harbor in her trip up the lake - she was unable to make the port, and after an ...

    Sunday Report. By the Morse Line. ________ DESTRUCTION OF THE OCEAN WAVE BY FIRE. ________ Twenty-eight Lives Lost. Ogdensburgh, Sunday, May 1st. The Ocean Wave, a Canadian steamer, in the employ of the Ogdensburgh Northern Railroad, was destroyed by fire about 2 o'clock on Saturday ...

    A Propeller Burnt. - We learn from Capt. Ledyard, of the Bay State , that the new Prop. Tinto was burnt to the water's edge on Thursday night. She took fire about nine miles above Kingston, and floated down the river, and lodged against an island a few miles below Kingston, where she lay...

    The Serpent in Silver Lake We hear this monster has again made its appearance in Silver Lake. The people of Perry don't say much respecting the "critter," as they are charged with "humbugging" the public ; but many of them are firm believers in the "article" and that, too, of an enormous size....

    The storm of Saturday and Sunday was a most terrible one on the Lakes, and we hear of disasters in all quarters. The Revolving Light, of Henderson, loaded with wheat, and the Minnehaha, of Detroit, bound for Ogdensburgh, loaded with corn, went ashore at Cape Vincent, with others, names unknown....

    St. Catharines, Monday, June 10 - Ship-Carpenters Strike - A few months since an organization call "The Welland Canal Ship Carpenters and Caulkers Union," was formed in this town, all the hands employed on the line of canal becoming members. They demanded an increase of wages and pay every...

    The Propeller Wisconsin Disaster The steamer "Watertown" yesterday brought further information of the dreadful disaster to the Northern Transportation Co.'s propeller "Wisconsin," near Grenadier Island on Tuesday. Our account of the disaster has been substantially correct, with the exception...

    A Sad Story. Among the passengers of the steamer Wisconsin, recently burned near Cape Vincent, was a Mr. Chisholm of Canada, on his way to Missouri with his family and goods. When the fire broke out, he was sitting on deck, but his wife and children had retired for the night.. He called them...

    The members of the Ship Carpenter's and Caulker's Union are on a strike to-day. They wish to adopt an eight hour system and demand $2.50 for eight hour's work. The bosses have been paying $3.00 for a day's work of ten hours, and they now unanimously agree to pay the men at the same rate, 80 ...

    The steamer "Watertown" made another trip to Grenadier island yesterday morning, but did not receive any more of the dead bodies. The body of one of the deckhands who were lost in the lifeboat was recovered the day before, in a mangled condition, and brought to Cape Vincent. It is supposed that...

    A New Tug in the Harbor. - We were this morning treated to a very pleasant excursion over the blue waters of Old Ontario, on the tug. "G.S. Dodge," - a recent accession to the tug force in our harbor. The "Dodge" is owned by Baltis Bros. & Hoffman, of this city, and was built two years ...

    The Tug Fulton. - On invitation, this morning, we took a short "scoot" this morning upon the lake, on the new tug "Fulton," a new candidate for favor in our harbor. The "Fulton" was built in Buffalo last summer, and is about as smart a thing of its size we have seen. She is fifty feet in ...

    A Splendid Canal Boat - One of the largest and staunchest boats ever built for the canals is now lying at the dock-yard in Texas. It is owned by Geo. A. Marsden, of Texas, and was built by S.M. Robinson of Oswego. The keel was laid about the 10th day of last May, and the boat was launched on...

    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 ...

    Death of Brower Morgan. _______ A Veteran Ship Carpenter Passes Away. Brower W. Morgan, a well known resident of this city, died at an early hour this morning at his home, 168 West Seneca St. He was 83 years old and for eighty one years had lived continuously in this city. Up to a year or...

    The Chances Sailors Take _______ News from the Bay of Quinte of the safety of the schooner William Jamieson relieved the fear that another tragedy has been added to the long list that saddens the story of the lakes. Under-manned schooners have sailed, are sailing, and will continue to sail ...

    The Loss of the Schooner Marsh. She Went to the Bottom Just as Day was Breaking, Throwing Everyone Into the Water. Kingston, Aug. 10. - The schooner George A. Marsh, which foundered on Wednesday with a loss of twelve lives, is sunk in twenty-five feet of water and probably no attempt will be...

    Services at Belleville - Memorial for the Victims of the Schooner Marsh Will be Held Tomorrow Night. Kingston, Ont. , Aug. 11. - A memorial service for the twelve victims of the wrecked schooner George A. Marsh will be held in St. Thomas's church, Belleville, on Sunday evening at seven ...

    To Investigate Wreck. Canadian Government to Look Into the Loss of the Marsh. The Kingston Whig says: An official investigation by the Dominion government into the foundering of the schooner George A. Marsh with the death of twelve persons is taking place at the scene of the wreck between ...

    Sudden Death of Commodore Thomas Crimmins _______ Found Dead at His Home This Morning - Apoplexy Caused the End - Widely Known in Marine Circles. Thomas Crimmins, sixty-eight, one of the last of the old-time Oswego marine men, was found death at his home, No. 133 W. Schuyler street, this ...

    Schooner Horace Taber May Be A Total Loss _______ Effort to Get Her Coal Cargo Out before She Goes to Pieces. _______ There appears to be no doubt that the schooner Horace Taber, which went ashore at Four Mile Point is a total loss. The weather has been too rough for tugs to get very close...

    Lake Freighter Burns, Sinks; Crew Rescued _______ 16 Men and One Woman Found by Canadian Steamship After Their Ship Had Burned to Water's Edge on Lake Ontario - Rescuers Stand By until Vessel Disappears. _______ Sixteen men and one woman, members of the crew of the freighter Charles Horne,...

    Harbor Bay Took Name From Wreck _______ Schooner Grampus Went Ashore Under Fort in Fall of 1846 _______ Speculation along the waterfront always has been rife as to the origin of the name of Grampus Bay, that cove lying west of the embankment of Fort Ontario, on the Oswego River. Actually,...

    SINGULAR PRESERVATION The Schooner Wolcott of Sacket's Harbor, Samuel Knapp master, bound to Niagara with 30 passengers, was driven into Mexico bay on Wednesday last, by a severe gale blowing from the lake. In this perilous situation she was tossed on the waves 38 hours, expecting every ...

    A few days ago, an Irishmen deserted from the British garrison at Fort George, and swam across the Niagara river. Having divested himself of those articles which would impede his swimming, he exclaimed on reaching the shore, "By Jesus I'm an American born - I've just come stark naked." ...

    It is reported that the schooner Traveller, Capt. Coffin, was lately run upon a rock and bilged on Lake Ontario. Of the three persons on board, the captain and a sailor perished. ...

    Wreck of the Asp (Letter dated Richland, N. Y. , Oct. 16, 1820, from James F. Wright, Oswego, county coroner and district attorney, to Thomas Racey of Niagara, owner of the vessel). Dear Sir: The schooner Asp , commanded by Capt. Prosser, was wrecked near the mouth of Salmon River at this...

    Liverpool, (Onondaga County) N. Y. Oct. 16, 1820 DISTRESSING SHIPWRECK --A Gentleman who arrived at this place yesterday from Salmon River, gives the following account of the loss of the British schooner ASP , of Fort George,(Newark) Captain Prosser, from Newark bound to Kingston. At ...

    The following more particular account of the late wrecks on Lake Ontario is taken from the Sackets Harbour Gazette. The Schooner Triumph, Capt. Davis, with 153 barrels Salt, was driven on the Genessee bar, - vessel and cargo totally lost. The Schooner Swallow, Capt. Pond, in ballast, on...

    The following more particular account of the late wrecks on Lake Ontario is taken from the Sackets Harbour Gazette. "The Schooner WOLCOTT, Capt. Stulson, rode out the gale, and kept the lake with the loss of 10 bbls. flour, washed from her deck, with her boat and galley stove. The water...

    *DAVID DOWS - 5-mast schr built by Bailey Bros, Toledo, 1881. She was 265 ft., 1481 gt. Lost 11/25/1889 off Whiting, Ind, 10 mi SSE of Chicago. The larger lakes "schooners" mentioned were actually schooner-barges. An example: CHATTANOOGA, built 1898 by Jas. Davidson, W. Bay City, in 1898....

    A schooner was capsized opposite this town on Monday last, a strong gale from the South West prevailing at the time. She had neither cargo or ballast on board, and had she not been improperly managed the accident would not have occurred. No lives were lost; proper assistance was rendered from...

    THE BROTHERS Ye steamers on the River Thames, Though great your fame -- and loved your names-- And so wonderful your speed; Take down your brooms, and own at last, With deep hoarse groans, and flags half-mast, That you are outdone at last. Don't you see the dashing foam, ...

    The ERIE. -- It is understood that the steamer STAR has been engaged for the purpose of recovering, if possible, the engine of the lost ERIE. The location where it sunk has been tolerably well marked out, and the prospect is, that the undertaking will prove successful. -- Buffalo ...