Pulaski , N. Y., Nov. 19th. -- The schooner VOLUNTEER came ashore at Port Ontario , last night. The crew is supposed to be lost. ...

    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 ...

    Our harbor is filled with vessels and canal boats, and every man you see around the docks is as busy as a beaver. We never saw a more animation in that locality before. The tugs are kept in almost perpetual motion, moving vessels and boats. ...

    OBITUARY. -- The old bark GREAT WEST has been stripped of everything of value, and is to be towed out into the lake and scuttled. In her day she has earned lots of money, but she has now gone to decay. She measures 278 tons. She was built in Oswego by George Goble in 1854. If we had space...

    Freight For A Schooner From Chippawa To Kingston Any person willing to undertake to bring from Chippawa to the Naval Establishment at Kingston, about 170 tons of coals, immediately after the navigation is open, are requested to send in sealed tenders (addressed to "Mr. J.B. Marks, Kingston ...

    FRESHET IN THE RIVER - SIX VESSELS AND A CANAL BOAT CARRIED INTO THE LAKE - NINETEEN PERSONS IN PERIL. - The thaw that dry in Thursday and continued till yesterday, melted the snow very rapidly and has raised the water in the river considerably, causing a very rapid current some distance ...

    MARINE A WELCOME MESSENGER. - The arrival of the steamer St. Joseph, now en route to Mackinaw, will be hailed as a messenger of mercy to the shipping beleaguered by ice and out of provisions. The St. Joseph fortunately took from here a sufficient quantity of breadstuffs to meet their ...

    Schooner PIGEON, ashore at Oswego; owned in Kingston. Valued at $3,000. No insurance. ...

    The history of the tug LADY FRANKLIN is given by a Kingston exchange: The tug LADY FRANKLIN is being torn to pieces and the engine taken out for transference to the tug now building. The old boiler will not be used. The FRANKLIN was built in Cleveland in 1861 by Quayle & Martin. For some ...

    Boiler Explosion. Narrow Escape of the Engineer and Fireman of the Steamer LOTUS SEEKER Thousand Island Park, July 22. - The boiler of the LOTUS SEEKER was blown up yesterday afternoon while lying at the private dock of her owner, E. R. Holden of new York, and vice-president of the Delaware,...

    The schooner MARQUIS, recently ashore, has been towed to Toronto by the tug ROBB. Her main mast has gone by the deck, and her mizzen just below the cross-trees, both carrying away their standing and running rigging and sails. ...

    Dispatch to the Detroit Post and Tribune from Oswego; The schooner RICHARDSON, Captain McKee, with 9,200 bushels of barley from Kingston, mistook the lights and ran hard aground on the west breakwater at 3 P. M. today, and went to pieces in thirty minutes. Her crew was saved, but nothing else....

    Launch of the New Tug. - The new tug of Ald. Dobbie, was launched above the bridge on Saturday afternoon, in the presence of a large concourse of spectators. She was decked in bridal robes and glided into her native element gracefully and beautifully, and sits like "a thing of life" upon the...

    SCHOONER SUNK. ---During the night of Tuesday last, the GREAT BRITAIN in her passage up to Kingston, had the mishap to run foul of the schooner MARGARET MILLER, of Hillier, fully loaded with wheat, off Oak Point, and sunk her---crew saved.--------Kingston Whig ...

    Grand River Canal - We are happy to have it in our power to say, that the contract for the construction of the canal, on the Grand River, has been taken, and the work is expected to commence immediately. The contractor is Mr. John Hunter, of this town. We look for better times soon; as the ...

    Iron Steamer - An iron steamer, for the use of the Royal Navy, on Lake Ontario, has lately arrived out from home. It came, of course, in pieces, but the government having sent out competent persons, it is to be put up forthwith. It is the same vessel which brought out the iron steamer, arrived...

    ICE AT DULUTH. - A telegram from St. Paul dated the 13th inst. says: It is reported to-day that the ice which has continued to occupy the west end of Lake Superior has at last moved out so as to afford a clear channel in and out from Duluth. One of the Duluth papers remarked despairingly ...

    Gale On Lake Ontario --Letters from Sackett's harbor, of the 16th. inst. state that a violent gale was experienced there on that day. The schooner ARIADNE, Capt. Reed, the best vessel of her size on the lake, was capsized at Fox Island, near Grand Island. Crew and passengers saved. She was...

    STORM ON LAKE ONTARIO. --A severe gale was felt on Lake Ontario on the 15th. ult. in which three vessels were wrecked, and three persons drowned. One of the vessels was the Schooner ARIADNE, owned by Messrs. Dennison and Kimball, of Sacket's Harbor. ...

    MOUTH OF SALMON RIVER - AND PULASKI Extracts from the report of the superintendent relative to the improvement of the harbor at the mouth of Salmon River, accompanying the report of the Secretary of War. "The importance of this point as a harbor to the maritime people of Lake Ontario, is ...

  Cleveland Weekly Herald (Cleveland, OH), Friday, June 15, 1827, page 3page 3  Column 1

    Bad News from Lake Ontario! The naval force of the enemy, on lake Ontario, are cruising from Niagara, down the American side of the lake, for the purpose, it would seem, of sweeping the coast, in which they have been but too successful. On Saturday, the 12th inst. near the eighteen Mile ...

    The vessel in question was the LUCINDA of Oswego.

    SCHOONER BEACHED. Lena Neilson's Thrilling Experience In The Storm Nearly Wrecked at St. Joseph, the Vessel Goes Ashore Near Lakeside - Crew Rescued Amid Great Perils by Life Saving Crew. The schooner Lena Neilson is on the beach ten miles north of New Buffalo and will probably prove a total...

    The MADEIRA was out of Oswego, built there in 1871 by Geo. Goble, and was 137 feet keel and 322 gt. She was US#90321. The tug OSWEGO finally came from Detroit to rescue her, but it was too late and she went to pieces in place. She had been carrying grain from Milwaukee.      

    LAUNCH OF THE STEAM PROPELLER HERCULES. - This boat belonging to the Messrs. Hollister, was launched from the ship yard of Carrick & Bidwell, on Saturday afternoon about half past four. She went off in fine style, much to the gratification of a large number of our citizens who had ...

    The propeller HERCULES, after undergoing many useful repairs, is again at her old berth loading for the upper lakes. Capt. F. Wheeler has command, of course. She sails to-morrow morning. ...

    THE PROPELLER HERCULES. - This propeller met with an accident by starting a leak near her shaft. She went into Amherstburgh, from whence she will come up to Detroit, says the Advertiser, to go into dry dock. ...

  Cleveland Daily Herald (Cleveland, OH), Tuesday October 1, 1839, page 3page 3  Column 1 The Schooner NEW YORK of Oswego went ashore and became a total  wreck with the loss of 6 men September 15, 1839 near the abode of John Rose, Esq. Marysburg, Prince Edward County, ( the hull of what was called the NEW YORK was located in four fathoms water, half a mile from shore near...

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    About 12 o'clock on Sunday night last, as the Propeller POCAHONTAS was coming down the lake, about 30 miles above the mouth of the Welland Canal, she was run into by the Propeller RACINE, and received some considerable injury to her upper works. How much the RACINE was injured by the collision...

    Goderich, Nov. 8, 1848 Mr. Editor SIR - The following details will inform your readers of the melancholy loss of the schooner rigged boat WING AND WING of this port, together with crew, consisting of John Bedford, owner, Thomas Miles, John Reynolds, and Francis Longe, on Chiefs Point, about...

    STEAMBOATS ON LAKE ONTARIO. From the Albany Daily Advertiser The following lists of steam vessels employed in the navigation of Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence, include all that have been so employed, from the first use of steam on those waters, and whether built on the United States or...

    The 24 September 1923 edition of the Herald-Press reported that searchers had found an oil slick, grape baskets and basket covers, and and running lights from the Forrelle about three miles from Milwaukee.

    The tolls collected on the canals in New York State to the close of the second week in August amounted to $597,592.58. ...

    Malicious Proceedings - Some malicious persons, on Tuesday night, set fire to, and sent adrift, the new wood scow belonging to the Canadian steamboat Traveller - the result of which was, she burned to the water's edge. Loss not less than $400. At the same time, two wagons, the property of...

    STEAMER PRINCE NOW A TOTAL LOSS Boat Burned Off Kelley?s Id. Is Abandoned to Underwriters Damaged to such an extent the owners believe, that she cannot be repaired satisfactorily without more expense than the insurance will cover the steamer F.H. Prince has been abandoned to the underwriters...

    FLAMES LICK UP BOAT Complete Destruction of the Str: F. H. Prince The steamer F.H. Prince beached off the east shore of Kelley?s Island a week ago today after she had been swept by flames, was totally destroyed and is now a total wreck, the fire having broken out when, it is believed, the high...

    PRESENTATION Yesterday at noon an agreeable affair occurred on board the steamer Pearl, of the People's Line, at the foot of First street, which will be long and pleasantly remembered by Capt. John Edwards and the other officers and crew of the steamer. Capt. Edwards, by his gentlemanly...

    Though not exactly a shining example of professional journalism, this article from way back when a million dollars was real money lists some of the prominent men in the Lake Carriers' Association of 1896. All of the big shooters mentioned came up through the ranks and "paid their dues," so to...