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    Reason: leak Lives: nil Hull damage: $200

    Reason: fire Lives: 1 Hull damage: $15,000 Remarks: Total loss

    Reason: fire Lives: nil Hull damage: $15,000 Remarks: Total loss

    Reason: aground Lives: nil Remarks: Got off

    Reason: sunk Remarks: Raised ??

Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 29 Apr 1933     Dalhousie to Dublin Schooner Days LXXXV (85) Resuming the history of the Muir Brothers, whose famous drydock at Port Dalhousie, built in 1850, is still a going concern, we come to their "barque" Niagara, a lake pitcher which went once too often to the well of the ...

Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram, 11 Jun 1949     What Happened to the Bavaria's Eight? Schooner Days CMIII (903) by C. H. J. Snider LAKE schooner days offer mystery as intriguing as the Marie Celeste episodes for any on the ...

Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram, 8 Jul 1949     Luck of the Black-and-Grays Schooner Days CMVII (907) by C. H. J. Snider IF several Garden Island schooners, with their characteristic black and gray paint -- black above, with ...

Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram, 1 Jul 1949     "Geography Class" Schooner Days CMVI (906) by C. H. J. Snider THE Bavaria found unharmed on the Great Galloo in May, 1889, with her crew missing from that day to this, was one of ...

Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram, 19 Dec 1951     Little Lady of 55 Years Ago Schooner Days MXXXIII (1033) by C. H. J. Snider DO you recall," asked R. W. Johnson, of St. Thomas, a while back, "a trim fore-and-after, called the ...

   

    Reason: aground Lives: nil Remarks: Got off

    139x24x9 Owned by Calvin & Breck, Garden Island Ont. Built by Roney, Garden Island and launched about 05/11/65. Towboat.

    122x26x12 Owned by Calvin & Breck, sometimes chartered to others. Built by Roney, Garden Island 1857. Engine 57x120 (maker unknown). Towboat, known as "Hercules No. 2". Boiler exploded while towing "New Era" 09/10/58 Rapide Plat, killing several including D. D. Calvin jr. Towed back to Garden Island April 1859. Gunboat ...

    First Rebuild: Propulsion: Sidewheel Dimensions: 255 tons Rebuilt: Kingston, Ontario, Canada in 1845 Approx 140'. Owned by Gildersleeve, Kingston; T. Maxwell & Co. 1853; to Calvin & Breck 1855. Built by Shea, Kingston and launched 04/12/39. First engine by Ward & Brush, Montreal, replaced about 1848 with another (details unknown) ...

    144x43x10 Owned by Calvin & Breck 1877, D. D. Calvin 1886. Broke from moorings and crushed in ice 31/12/95 Garden Island. ; Final Location: Garden Island, Ontario, Canada, Wrecked By Ice

    173x40x9 Owned by various ever-changing partnerships. Built by A. Cantin, Montreal 1850. Engines (2) by Ward & Brush, Montreal, from earlier "Highlander". Accommodations finished over winter 1850-51 at Lachine. Upper saloon extended and four new staterooms 1852. Lake Ontario and Upper St. Lawrence mail steamer, towboat latterly. Broke crosshead and ...

    Official No.: 107735; 216x37x15 Owned by Calvin Company, Garden Island, Ont. 1899-1914; Montreal Transportation Co. 1914-1920; Canada Steamship Lines 1920-1923; India Transportation Co. (Crawford & Co.), Montreal 1923-1925; Ramsay Steamship Co., Sault Ste. Marie 1926-1928. Built by Calvin Co., Garden Island and launched 04/01/99. Engine 18-30-48x30 by builder. Steam barge. ...

    Other Names: City of the Bay (1854); City of Hamilton; First Rebuild: Propulsion: Sidewheel Dimensions: 173 x 26 -- -391 tons Rebuilt: Garden Island, Ontario, Canada in 1862 Second Rebuild: Official Number: ----- Propulsion: Sidewheel Rebuilt: Garden Island, Ontario, Canada 156x24x9 Owned by "Messrs. Davy" 1850; to D. Bethune 1851; ...

    Other Names: Transit (1835); First Rebuild: Propulsion: Sidewheel Dimensions: 129 x 20 -- -225 tons Rebuilt: Niagara, Ontario, Canada in 1838 Second Rebuild: Official Number: ----- Propulsion: Sidewheel Rebuilt: Garden Island, Ontario, Canada 130x26x8 Owned by A. N. McNab, Hamilton; to H. Richardson, Toronto 1835; to M. & W. E. ...