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Lloyd, James T., Lloyd's Steamboat Directory and Disasters on the Western Waters..., 31 Jul 1850, 261-65     EXPLOSION OF THE AMERICA This afflictive event took place on Lake Erie, July 31, 1850. The head of one of the starboard boilers blew off, turning the boiler deck upside down, raising the upper deck about four feet, and making all the central part of the boat a complete wreck. ...

Lloyd, James T., Lloyd's Steamboat Directory and Disasters on the Western Waters..., 17 Jun 1850, 261-65     BURNING OF THE G. P. GRIFFITH The fine steamer G. P. Griffith took fire on Lake Erie, about twenty miles below Cleveland, and was burnt to the water's edge, on June 17, 1850. The passengers were all in their berths when the alarm of fire was given, about three o'clock ...

Daily Palladium (Oswego, NY), 5 Apr 1858     THE ONTARIO STEAMBOAT COMPANY--SALE OF THE STEAMBOAT PROPERTY--A NEW ORGANIZATION.--the protracted contest in regard to the affairs of the old Lake Ontario and St. Lawrence Steamboat Company, has been finally brought to a close. The Receiver's sale of the property of the line took place at ...

Daily Journal (Ogdensburg, NY), 9 Nov 1857     LAKE ONTARIO AND ST. LAWRENCE STEAMBOAT CO.--The following item in regard to the affairs of the above company we clip from the Utica Telegraph:-- The stockholders held a meeting at Bagg's Hotel on Thursday, to take action to relieve the company from its present embarrassed ...

Albany Evening Journal, 26 Dec 1857     RECEIVER'S NOTICE.--Notice is hereby given that the subscriber has been appointed by the supreme court, receiver of the stock, property, assets and effects of the Ontario and St. Lawrence Steamboat Company. All persons indebted to said Company are required to pay the debts owing by them ...

    The Lake Ontario and St. Lawrence Steamboat Company, whose stock a few years ago, was so good that it could not be obtained, has gone into liquidation. The company owes seventy-five thousand dollars, with nothing to meet it but the boats and furniture. In order to save the property from ...

Buffalo Daily Republic (Buffalo, NY), 16 Nov 1857     NEW STEAMBOAT MOVEMENT.--We understand a numerous meeting of the principal mechanics of the city of Oswego, and a portion of the stockholders in the old Ontario and St. Lawrence Steamboat Company, was held in this city yesterday, for the purpose of considering the propriety of ...

Wisconsin Free Democrat (Milwaukee, WI), 27 Nov 1850     MARINE DISASTER.--We learn that the Brig Lowell, bound to this port with a cargo of salt, went ashore near the mouth of Detroit river, but was got off in a damaged condition, and has been taken out on the marine railway at Malden, for repairs.

Wisconsin Free Democrat (Milwaukee, WI), 12 Dec 1853     SHIP BUILDING.--Caleb Harrison has just commenced laying the keel for a vessel, just south of John Jennings' Tannery. the dimensions are to be, length of keel 96 feet, breadth of beam 32 feet, depth of hold 8 feet. Capt. Barber has two new vessels well underway at his yard below ...

Syracuse Daily Star (Syracuse, NY), 12 Aug 1851     Oswego. - We paid a flying visit yesterday to Oswego, and were gratified to find so manny evidences of its prosperity on every hand. The present population is about 14,000, who are chiefly employed in the navigation of the lakes and canals, in the manufacture of flour and in the ...

St. Lawrence Republican, 6 May 1856     NOTICE. CASH PAID FOR OAK, ELM, PINE, TAMARACK, and CEDAR TIMBER, also , for Oak and Tamarack Crooks, Masts, Spars, &.c., &c.;, delivered at the Ogdensburgh Marine Railway Company's Ship-Yard. For information as to quality and size, call on the Superintendent at the Ship-Yard, or ...

St. Lawrence Republican, 4 Dec 1855     The Marine Railway and Ship Yard ___ Having but few opportunities to stroll about town ourselves, and supposing a large majority of our citizens are similarly situated, it is not improbable that much is going on in many localities in our immediate vicinity, unknown to the ...

St. Lawrence Republican, 29 Aug 1854     Marine Railway Stock For Sale. 44 SHARES OF STOCK IN THE OGDENSBURGH MARINE RAILWAY for sale. Inquire of JEREMIAH BALDWIN. Ogdensburgh, May 30, 1854

St. Lawrence Republican, 6 Jun 1854     This would not have been the Michigan Central Railroad's MAYFLOWER would was too big to come down the Welland Canal. It would have been the Canadian MAYFLOWER, ex-COMET.

Ogdensburg Sentinel, 18 Apr 1854     The Marine Railway. - This work was put in operation for the first time, yesterday. The Steamer British Queen was taken out of the water in fine style and at the first trial. When all the machinery is complete and thoroughly tightened, any of our largest Lake steamers may be ...

Oswego Daily Times, 23 Jun 1852     Marine Disaster. - Capt. Cochran, of the schooner Pearl, who arrived here yesterday, reports that he boarded a vessel capsized, floating on her beam ends, at about 7 o'clock yesterday morning, some eight miles from shore, off Pultneyville, which he found to be the schooner Anawan, with no one to ...

Ogdensburg Sentinel, 14 Mar 1854     The Ogdensburgh Marine Railway. - We paid a visit to this work, the other day, and were gratified to see every thing in such an advanced state as we found it. The engine was entirely put up and is in running order. The carriage is nearly completed, and the stupendous ...

St. Lawrence Republican, 21 Dec 1853     Ogdensburgh Marine Railway ___ In the course of the past Summer a new Marine Railway, furnished with a steam engine, &c.;, for drawing out vessels, has been erected about a mile and a half above Ogdensburgh, on the American side of the river. We notice four steamboat have ...

    NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, THAT THE undersigned will apply, to the Honorable the Commissioners of the Land Office, for a grant of the following described land, pursuant to statute, that is to say: A lot of land covered by the waters of the River St. Lawrence, situated in the town ...

Geneva Gazette (Geneva, NY), 25 Jun 1852     Steamboat Collision on Lake Erie Buffalo, June 23d, 1852 The steamer Northern Indiana left here yesterday on a pleasure excursion, with some three hundred people on board, among whom were Christopher Wright, Gov. Marcy and others, She put in to Cleveland this ...