THE STEAMER NIAGARA. - This vessel that went ashore early this spring near the mouth of the Genesee River on Lake Ontario, after laying seven weeks has at last been raised. The American says: "She was taken into the harbor between the piers; but in the course of the night her pumps became...

    "The schooner Acadia which was sunk by a collision off Little Sodus on Saturday evening (8th) was owned by Rae & Brothers, Hamilton, C. W. , and was loaded with about 6,000 bushels of wheat, from Bayfield, Lake Huron, bound for Oswego. In going down, the main mast of the Acadia caught on ...

    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...

    "Vessel Sunk - On Friday last, the schooner Andrew Moody, Capt.Morgan, bound from Oswego to Chicago, laden with salt, sank about twenty five miles out from Kewaunee. It is supposed that she sustained injuries in passing through the Welland Canal, which caused her to spring a leak, and, as the...

    THE ANDROMEDA. - The following account of the loss of this vessel is given by the Chicago Press and Tribune: "The Andromeda, Capt. Morgan, was bound up from Oswego for Chicago with a cargo of salt. She sank in Lake Michigan about forty miles north-east of Manitowoc. The crew took to their...

    I believe this was the CHARLOTTE VANDERBILT. The Lytle list gives her date of launch as 1857.

    THE FLORETTA SANK Milwaukee, September 19. - [Special.] - A Manitowoc dispatch says that the crew of the schooner Floretta reached there this evening and report that the Floretta foundered eighteen miles off that port. She sprung a leak in the heavy sea last night and the water gained so fast...

    The next week they probably had a man who wanted to sell them a bridge! A sidewheel steamer that would carry 3,000 passengers and 3,000 tons of freight at 50 mph using less fuel than a conventional steamer - we should get the plans! In fairness, at his time Brunel's mammoth iron steamship GREAT...

    * note: This paper was not published on Monday at this time.

    CONDITION OF THE SCHOONER VIRGINIA - The tug Red Eric returned yesterday from the schooner Virginia, which still remains in a very precarious situation. All efforts so far to get her off have been unsuccessful, and it is now rendered more than probable that she will prove a total loss. She...

    VESSEL DESTROYED BY ICE - We regret to learn that Capt. O. Evans has lost his vessel, Van Raalte, which was crushed to pieces by the breaking up of the ice in the East Bay a few days since. It is a total loss except the rigging. - Traverse City Herald, March 23rd. ...

    *1851 New Brunswick-built ship of 1080 tons, owed in Liverpool.

    DISASTROUS COLLISION - THREE LIVES LOST. - Capt. Dorr received the following dispatch from Kingston yesterday morning: The schooner Exchange, with a cargo of wheat from Chicago, collided with the steamer Comet, last night, off the Duck (sic). The Comet is a total loss. Three men are also lost....

    *at Garden Island, Ont. by Henry Roney.

    *Now Marine City, MI

    TUG EXPLODED. - A dispatch from Oswego on the 6th says: The tug Tornado exploded her boiler this morning, about four miles up the lake. Capt. W. H. Manwarring, Morry Atchison (sic), engineer and Zebulon Stone, deck hand, were all lost. The tug was valued at $12,000, with no insurance. ...

    *a guess - original nearly unreadable

    *timber head - a crude bollard made of a timber projecting through the deck.

    Not Ashore During the severe blow of a week ago one of the schooners reported ashore was the W. H. Rounds. The captain of the tug Hero reported the schooner hard aground on Amherst Island. Yesterday Capt. E. Thomas, who sails the schooner, was in this city and all his acquaintances were ...

    For more information and a current photo of Waugoschance light, see http://www.ipl.org/exhibit/light/GL/Waugoshance.html . The 1883 ironworks can still be seen.

    She was recovered in a few days and repaired at the Wolf & Davidson Shipyard, Milwaukee, over the following winter.

  Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI), 18 Jun 1887, page 1page 1  NEARLY THIRTY LOST _______ The Steamer Champlain Burned On Lake Michigan _______ FIFTY-SEVEN PERSONS, PASSENGERS OFFICERS AND CREW, ON BOARD _______ Twenty-four Persons Known to Have Drowned or Burned to Death. _______ Names of the Victims and The Survivors So Far As Learned _______...

    *tug BOB TEED, as identified in a later article In fairy tale fashion, both the Stampede and her crew lived to sail another day.

    Dobbins' improved surfboat became the standard design for the USLS and was widely used in Canada as well.

    *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....

    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 ...

    STEAMER IS IN TROUBLE ON ERIE _____ Ashtabula Lifesavers Unable to Overtake It - Gale is Subsiding _____ Latest reports indicate a subsidence of the gale on the lakes. No fatalities and no additional mishaps are chronicled, though the lifesavers at Ashtabula had a long pull yesterday, in...

    HISTORY OF LAKE SUPERIOR NAVIGATION - In our issue a few days since, we presented a brief review of the early history of Lake Superior navigation and the traffic to Sault Ste. Marie., with the names of steamers which have plied to that locality during different seasons closing with the season...

    LAKE STEAMERS. - The British steamers of war on the lakes are the Cherokee, carrying 2 eight inch Paixhans, and 40 men, the burthen is 752 tons, the engine of 200 horse power; the Mohawk, two 18 mediums, 25 men, 60 horse power, and 194 tons; the Minos, two guns, size not stated, 25 men and 60...

    NEW IRON FERRY STEAMER - The propeller St. Lawrence arrived at Windsor on Monday morning, from Montreal direct, with a portion of the iron for the new ferry steamer which the Messrs. Jenkins* have contracted to build for the Great Western Railway Company. The above iron plate is now being ...

    VESSELS IN PORT OF BUFFALO The following will show the number and class of vessels that were in winter quarters in the port of Buffalo at the closing of navigation, 1865: Steamers - Relief, United States, Michigan, International Propellers - Merchant, City of Buffalo, Susquehanna, Buffalo,...

    NOT QUITE - Notwithstanding the apparent well-founded reports of the loss of the old schooner Brigham, she surprised our sailing community by running into the harbor at the height of the gale Wednesday night. The captain contradicts the report that an accident had befallen his craft, and says...

    *The schooner E. St. JOHN BEMIS was a 294 ton 2-master built by Salmon Ruggles at Milan, OH in 1855. Ruggles built a number of other schooners with reputations for speed, including CREVOLA, TIM BAKER and BERLIN.

    This is a list of the commanders and forts along the U.S. shore of the Great Lakes, after reorganization following the Civil War. In command is notable general Joseph Hooker, whose numerically superior Army of the Potomac was defeated by Robert E Lee's Confederates in April, 1863, at...

    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.

    The construction of the St. Clair Flats Canal in Lake St. Clair, at the mouth of the St. Clair River, had significant effects on Great Lakes shipping, allowing ships of greatly increased draft to be used in commerce between Lake Erie and the three western lakes. The shallow Flats and its web of...

    MARINE MATTERS _______ Casualties on the Lakes the Past Season. _______ Six Hundred and Twenty-one Disasters. _______ Herewith we present our annual record of marine disasters which have occurred during the season just closed, in part gleaned from exchange papers, which have come to hand,...

    NEW VESSEL - The new schooner White Oak, Captain Coot, arrived here this morning from Oswego, with a cargo of salt, being her first trip. She was visited during the afternoon by a large number of master builders, ship captains, and others interested in vessels, and was prononced by all to be...