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TELESCOPE Page 62 and the land bordering the Oswego Canal." A tribute to the skill and craftsmanship of George Goble is the fact that in 1899, the machinery of the tug Alanson Sumner, a tugboat launched at the Goble yard on April 25, 1872, was installed into a new hull at Port Huron. At the time the Sumner was regarded as one of the best vessels ever built by Goble. The present owners decided to duplicate the hull and sent to Oswego for a set of the original plans. Although 29 years had passed and great advances had been made in ship- building, the fact that the owners had decided to build along the same lines adopted by Mr. Goble was a fair tribute to this skill and ability as a designer and builder. George Goble died at his home on Sunday, October 14, 1903. The buildings and shipyard remained intact until 1915, when they were demolished to make way for the new barge canal terminal. The Oswego Palladium of March 6, 1915 noted: "In the old days when the schooner was the queen of the lakes, this shipyard was busy every day in the year and some of the fastest and staunchest of the great Oswego-owned fleet of schooners which brought grain from the upper lakes and lumber from Canada, and carried back salt, coal and general freight, making Oswego the third largest port in the country, were built there. In those days the business was owned and run by George Goble, then whom there was no more honored and respected citizen, and he not only built schooners for others, but he owned a fleet of no means of importance himself. Even during the last two or three decades, when steam was driving out the sailing craft, the building operations ceased, but the drydocks did a thriving business in repairing and rebuilding the obsolscent schooners and smaller steamers. Older residents of the city hated to see the old buildings go. Almost every male resident born in the First Ward has tender memories concerning it for most of them have been hauled by the seat of their pants, half drowned, from the old drydock. . ."' VESSELS BUILT BY THE GOBLE SHIPYARD IN OSWEGO, NEW YORK Great West (US 10198) 137'6" x 26'2" x10'9" 1854 360 tons Bark. Original owner: Henry Wright, Oswego. Wrecked near Sleeping Bear Point, Lake Michigan in 1857 and later salvaged. William Sanderson (US 26503) 136 x 25 x 11 1856 385 tons Schooner. Original owners: Clemlow & Moore, Oswego. Sunk in 1871 in Lake Ontario. Titan (US 24149) 131'9" x 25'8" x 11'6". Launched on May 6, 1856 361 tons Schooner. Original owners: Doolittle, Irwin & Wright. Lost off Pentwater, Lake Michigan in 1869. Bermuda (US 2100) 138 x 26'1" x 11'9" 1860 394 tons Schooner. Original owner: Thomas Mott. Lost in 1870 in Lake Superior. William L. Preston (US 26563) 136 x 25 x 11 1861 389 tons Schooner. Owners in 1864: Carrington & Company, Oswego. Lost in 1888. George Goble (US 10544) 137 x 25'10" x 12 1863 396 tons Schooner. Original owner: George Goble. Lost in 1871. Thomas S. Mott (US 24334) 137 x 26 x 13 1862 431 tons Schooner. Original owner: David Manwar- ring. Abandoned in Sturgeon Bay, WI.