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  • Detroit Post (Detroit, MI), 15 Sep 1884
        *August 29, 1880 - up to 20 lives were lost **ignis fatuus - "A wide variety of spectral lights, whose alleged purpose is to herald death or play tricks on travelers at night. It literally mean "fool
      *August 29, 1880 - up to 20 lives were lost **ignis fatuus …
  • Detroit Post (Detroit, MI), Dec. 9, 1884
        Kelley's Island is still the center of the range of the (now rare) Lake Erie Water Snake. The shipwreck may refer to the loss of the schooner PARROTT somewhere in western Lake Erie in 1835. She was l
      Kelley's Island is still the center of the range of the (now …
  • Detroit Post (Detroit, MI), September 10, 1884
        THAT ANCIENT WRECK A Pentwater correspondent of the Marine Record says: "The tug Neilson, Capt. C. J. Heath, and the schooner Experiment have been wrecking what is supposed to be the schooner John B.
      THAT ANCIENT WRECK A Pentwater correspondent of the Marine Record says: "The …
  • Detroit Post (Detroit, MI), Apr. 17, 1885
        READY FOR THE OPENING Preparations by Marine City Vessel Men - Appointments Special to the Detroit Post. MARINE CITY, April 16. - Vessels are preparing to resume business. During the winter considera
      READY FOR THE OPENING Preparations by Marine City Vessel Men - Appointments …
  • Detroit Post (Detroit, MI), Apr 17, 1885
        MASTER MARINERS ST. CLAIR CAPTAINS ASSIGNED TO THEIR COMMANDS The following assignments have been made for St. Clair captains during the season, the larger number of which are for steam craft: Capt.
      MASTER MARINERS ST. CLAIR CAPTAINS ASSIGNED TO THEIR COMMANDS The following assignments …
  • Detroit Post (Detroit, MI), Wed., May 27, 1885
        Photos of the MANISTEE: http://webpac.wayne.edu/graphics/shipping/picture.html?msg1=http://image.udmercy.edu/marine/manistee1c.jpg&msg2;=%20Manistee http://webpac.wayne.edu/graphics/shipping/picture.
      Photos of the MANISTEE: http://webpac.wayne.edu/graphics/shipping/picture.html?msg1=http://image.udmercy.edu/marine/manistee1c.jpg&msg2;=%20Manistee http://webpac.wayne.edu/graphics/shipping/picture.
  • Detroit Post (Detroit, MI), Aug. 3, 1885
        A PIRATICAL CRAFT Yesterday the scow schooner Trader was tied up by an officer at Wyandotte on a charge of piracy. The Trader has been under suspicion for some time of appropriating the loose propert
      A PIRATICAL CRAFT Yesterday the scow schooner Trader was tied up by …
  • Detroit Post (Detroit, MI), Tues., Sep. 15, 1885
        River pirates continue to victimize the craft lying along the docks. The latest victim is the schooner M. P. Barkalow. While lying at the wharf foot of Eighteenth Street Saturday night her supply box
      River pirates continue to victimize the craft lying along the docks. The …
  • Detroit Post (Detroit, MI), April 2, 1885
        Captain Gillman lost track of the iron steamer MICHIGAN, sister of the WISCONSIN, because that vessel had sunk on the 20th - finally crushed after having been trapped in the ice since February 9. Cap
      Captain Gillman lost track of the iron steamer MICHIGAN, sister of the …
  • Detroit Post (Detroit, MI), Oct 21, 1885
        Though the charts show a light at this position (Cleveland pierhead), photos of the light there don't match this description. Anyone know if this light was replaced? I'd heard that one Cleveland ligh
      Though the charts show a light at this position (Cleveland pierhead), photos …
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