The Wreck of the Ottawa and the Crusader

The Wreck of the Ottawa and the Crusader– On Monday last a telegram reached this city announcing that the schooner Ottawa, owned by Card & Page of this place, laden with coal and bound for Toronto was aground and water-logged, two miles west of Whitby, on the Canada shore. The new tug Crusader, Capt. H. C. Manwarring, was at once got ready and despatched to the schooner’s relief. She took two of Worthingtons’s nine inch pump aboard and reached the wreck on Tuesday morning. At five in the afternoon she had the water pumped out of the schooner; during the night she took off 60 tons of coal, and at daylight had the Ottawa afloat, and with a lighter alongside started for Toronto. Having towed the schooner to her destination she assisted in unloading the vessel, then took her to Port Dalhousie and landed her in drydock. She then started for home and reached here last evening.

The Crusader has proved herself a most efficient wrecking tug,-- for which service she mainly built. and her owners Messr. Smith & Post, have just reason to be proud of her. They will keep her at all times ready for such service, and with Capt. Manwarring in charge, she will prove a most efficient aid to vessels needing her assistance.

The Ottawa was fully insured by Mr. J. B. C. Morris, of this city, who sent Mr. Thomas Dobie to superintend her removal. When the Crusader arrived the vessel’s keel was found completely worn off, and there were apertures in her bottom large enough for a man to crawl through.