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Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 18 Dec 1946     Schooner Days at Christmastide Schooner Days DCCLXXVI (776) by C. H. J. Snider Captions GRIST TO THE MILL, Toronto, Winter, 1835," is the title of this ...

Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram, 13 Jun 1931     The name ROBERT C. PORTER does not appear in most sources of vessels on the Great Lakes.

Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 6 Jun 1931     Dusty Diamonds Schooner Days XIX (19) It's all over and done with now, but this is how we used to get our coal cargoes when the schooners went to Cleveland for them, in pre-prohibition days. The little hooker--for no matter ...

   

    "Schooner Days was a newspaper column which ran Saturdays in the Telegram for more than a quarter of a century beginning in 1931. In it, C.H.J. Snider described in vivid detail the lake shipping scene of the late nineteenth century, touching on both sail and steam, and drawing on experience ...

Register of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA), Mar 1831, p. 160     SHIPPING ON LAKE ERIE The following list of vessels on Lake Erie furnished us by a friend who has taken great pains to ascertain their number and the exact tonnage of each will be read with satisfaction by all who feel an interest in the prosperity of the west ...

    Reason: capsized Lives: 6 Hull damage: $1,500 Freight: stone Remarks: Total loss ?

Sackets Harbor Republican, 18 May 1821     LAUNCH. Another beautiful schooner was launched at this place on the 13th inst. In her present appearance she bears a close resemblance to the celebrated Lady of the Lake. She is called the "ROBINS," in honor of Lieut. William M. Robins, of the Navy, now on this station...

    FOR SALE a SCHOONER Forty tons burthen, in service three years on the Lakes, in good repair, sails well; a reasonable credit will be given for good security: Or the Schooner will be exchanged for real estate, in or near the village of Buffalo. For further particulars, ...

    Reason: aground Lives: nil Remarks: Got off These writings pertaining to early sailing days as well as some incidents regarding the War of 1812 on Lake Ontario are excerpted from: A Narrative of the Life, Travels, & Adventures of Capt. Israel Adams: Who Lived at Liverpool, Onondaga Co., N.Y. Utica, ...

    Reason: sunk Remarks: Total loss

    Reason: lost deck load Lives: nil

    ex UTICA

Cape Vincent Eagle (Cape Vincent, NY), 8 Apr 1915     The Sailing Schooner Will Soon Be a Thing of the Past On the Great Lakes The indications are that is only a matter of time, and a short time at that, when the sailing vessel will have disappeared completely from the Great Lakes. During the ...

    The day of the old wind jammers on the lake is past. There are now 28 schooners in commission on Lake Ontario, where formerly there were several hundred, and they are nearly all Canadian owned, though nearly all once had an American register. As the old schooners and sail ...

    renamed ANTELOPE

Oswego Palladium-Times (Oswego, NY), 1 Mar 1895     Article signed at the bottom 'S.J."

The Monthly Nautical Magazine and Quarterly Review (New York, NY: Griffiths & Bates, 1855), May 1855, pp. 106-11     TABLES OF THE SCHOONER CHALLENGE. In giving the mould-loft tables of this vessel, it may not be improper to make a few remarks, even though the writer and the builder should be found in the same individual. We are not of those who hold, that silence is always to be ...

The Monthly Nautical Magazine and Quarterly Review (New York, NY: Griffiths & Bates, 1855), October 1854, pp. 9 - 16     INLAND NAVIGATION. MODELLING SAIL VESSELS FOR THE LAKES. To achieve utility in the production of any class of shipping, it is necessary to consider carefully at least three grand governing conditions, which seem to demark the main outline of adaptation to commercial purposes. These ...

    goes to Atlantic coast