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  • Launch of the Steel Ship Algonquin
        Launch of the Steel Ship Algonquin The Big Steamer Rides Gradually Down The railway, and Kisses the Green Waters of the St. Lawrence. A Big Crowd Present to See the Sight. The big steel ship, Algonqu
      Launch of the Steel Ship Algonquin The Big Steamer Rides Gradually Down …
  • Disastrous Conflagration!
        Disastrous Conflagration! Destruction of the 'Union Elevator with some 40,000 Bushels of Wheat - Loss of $127,000 At about half past ten o'clock last night, fire was discovered in the second story of
      Disastrous Conflagration! Destruction of the 'Union Elevator with some 40,000 Bushels of …
  • Passing Hails
        Passing Hails Inland seas For years I've been sailing Though I never seen the sea The Great Lakes and their shipping They are sea enough for me. I've sailed these lakes in summer When the soft sou'we
      Passing Hails Inland seas For years I've been sailing Though I never …
  • Charming Nook-- Where? The Bear: Schooner Days, DCCCIX (809)
        Charming Nook-- Where? The Bear Schooner Days DCCCIX (809) by C. H. J. Snider WHAT-ZIS-WHAT-ZIS? Another quiz, with the answer right under your nose. Where is this ...
      Charming Nook-- Where? The Bear Schooner Days DCCCIX (809) by C. H. …
  • Large Variety of Craft Move in ‘Lake of Thousand Islands’
        Large Variety of Craft Move in 'Lake of Thousand Islands,' Reminiscent of Early History WATERTOWN - Water traffic is teeming this summer through the Lake of a Thousand Isles, in volume and with a var
      Large Variety of Craft Move in 'Lake of Thousand Islands,' Reminiscent of …
  • Old Sloop will be Sunk in Ontario
        OLD SLOOP WILL BE SUNK IN ONTARIO Has Long Rested in Water at Ship House Point At Sackets Over 50 Years Hulk Has been in the Harbor for Many Years - She Will be Towed Out to Deep Water and Sunk. The
      OLD SLOOP WILL BE SUNK IN ONTARIO Has Long Rested in Water …
  • Got Through Steamboating
        Got Through Steamboating. - Two of our citizens who are interested in marine matters went up to Sodus yesterday on the tug J.S. Spinney to help get their vessels loaded, and met with a series of adve
      Got Through Steamboating. - Two of our citizens who are interested in …
  • Schooner W. S. Malcolm Waterlogged
        Schooner W. S. Malcolm Waterlogged - Strange conduct of the Captain and four of the Crew. - Capt. Smith, of the schooner Kyle Spangler, which arrived here last night, reports to us he found the schoo
      Schooner W. S. Malcolm Waterlogged - Strange conduct of the Captain and …
  • Oswego Commercial Advertiser, 23 Aug 1854
        The schooner W.S. Malcolm, Capt. Barck which we noticed yesterday as being waterlogged on the lake, was towed into port last evening by the tug Robert Reed. When the tug found the Malcolm, she was a
      The schooner W.S. Malcolm, Capt. Barck which we noticed yesterday as being …
  • New Vessel
        She cleared Oswego Aug. 18 with 1,650 bushels of salt for Cleveland
      She cleared Oswego Aug. 18 with 1,650 bushels of salt for Cleveland
  • Another New Vessel
        Another New Vessel. - We understand that Capt. Hosea Rogers has made arrangements for the construction of another vessel, the worked to be commenced immediately. A ship builder from Buffalo is to tak
      Another New Vessel. - We understand that Capt. Hosea Rogers has made …
  • Business of Port Ontario
        Business of Port Ontario. - We are indebted to the politeness of Messrs. J. & B.F. Meacham, for the following statement of the Exports and Imports at the mouth of Salmon River, (Port Ontario(,) from
      Business of Port Ontario. - We are indebted to the politeness of …
  • The Heroine of Lake Erie
    Oneida Dispatch, 7 May 1869     The Heroine of Lake Erie The dark, stormy close of November, 1854, found many vessels on Lake Erie, but the fortunes of one alone have special interest to us. About that time the schooner Conductor,
    Oneida Dispatch, 7 May 1869   The Heroine of Lake Erie The dark, stormy close of November, 1854, …
  • Ancient Fortifications of Oswego
        According to a tradition long current among the people of Oswego, the Fort built upon the high ground on the West side of the River, near the present junction of Van Buren and Sixth streets, the the
      According to a tradition long current among the people of Oswego, the …
  • Preliminary Examination for Harbor of Refuge in Mexico Bay, on Lake Ontario, New York
        PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION FOR HARBOR OF REFUGE IN MEXICO BAY, ON LAKE ONTARIO, NEW YORK. [Printed in House Ex. Doc. No. 118, Fifty-second Congress, second session.] Office Of The Chief Of Engineers, Un
      PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION FOR HARBOR OF REFUGE IN MEXICO BAY, ON LAKE ONTARIO, …
  • Gale on Lake Ontario
        Gale on Lake Ontario. - Great damage was done to the shipping on Lake Ontario, on the 21st and 22d ult. In addition to the loss of the Napoleon, we learn from other sources, that several other vessel
      Gale on Lake Ontario. - Great damage was done to the shipping …
  • Flouring Mills of Oswego
        Flouring Mills of Oswego Being desirous to obtain all the information possible upon a subject so important to this city as its milling business, and of imparting it to our readers, we have procured t
      Flouring Mills of Oswego Being desirous to obtain all the information possible …
  • Flouring Mills of Oswego
        Flour Mills of Oswego The following named mills are all located on the Varick Canal, with the exception of the Pearl Mill, which is situated on the West side of the river about two miles from the cit
      Flour Mills of Oswego The following named mills are all located on …
  • Marine Hospital
        Marine hospital petitions are circulating in this city asking Congress to erect and maintain a Marine Hospital at this point. A stronger and better founded claim for such an establishment can not be
      Marine hospital petitions are circulating in this city asking Congress to erect …
  • Marine Hospital
        Marine Hospital Some few weeks since a petition was in circulation in this city, praying Congress to establish a Marine Hospital at Oswego. When we last saw the petition it contained a large number o
      Marine Hospital Some few weeks since a petition was in circulation in …
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Palmer Collection


Primarily Lake Ontario Ships and their stories