Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2016 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== The Ludington Record Vol. XVI, Old Series, No. 40 Vol. 4, New Series, No. 3 Thursday, June 7, 1883 [extracts of marine news] The schooner LILLIE PRATT, lost her jibboom by collision in Chicago last Thursday. The schooner C. B. BENSON is loading ties for Buffalo; shipped by D. W. Goodenough. Schooner ST. LOUIS is taking in a cargo of deals for T. R. Lyon. They are for European market. The marine editor of the Inter Ocean, has been grossly mislead with reference to the depth of water in our harbor channel. He says that there is but eleven feet in the bar and it is dangerous for vessels to attempt to enter in stormy weather. According to the Inspectors marks and deeps there is not less than 12 1/2 feet and that is ata point two hundred feet inside of the piers. This in a few days will be removed by the dredge and fifteen feet will be the shallowest place. Even as the case stands at present any ordinary sized vessel can safely shelter with the piers before the bar is reached. The steam barge MARSHALL F. BUTTERS is loading at the railroad dock to day. This craft is one of the finest and most completely equipped on the lakes. He usual cargo is 400,000 feet of lumber. To load and unload this with dispatch, a double hoisting steam winch is provided, which saves much expense and time. It is probably the only lumber craft on the lakes which has a complete system of electric lights on board. The lights can be used during the night time to enable the men to load or discharge cargo, and a connection is made with the mast head light which is al- ways kept burning when making a passage. The cabin is fitted up with great convenience. The boat is only two years old and cost $43,000. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Ludington Record Vol. XVI, Old Series, No. 41 Vol. 4, New Series, No. 4 Thursday, June 14, 1883 [extracts of marine news] Schooner WINNIE WING, Capt. Peterson; took her largest cargo of lumber from Ludington to Chicago this week. There was 240 m on board. Schooner HELLEN, of Chicago, left Ludington last Saturday with a load of shingles from Smith & Gibbs mill and lost 100 M in Sunday nights breeze. The schooner LILLIE PRATT sprung her foremast head in the late gale and will get a new mast while in Milwaukee this week. The mast has been made here by Alex Betters and will be towed across by the PRATT tomorrow. The F. & P. M. R. R. Co. have decided to lengthen their two steamboats on this route, forty feet. They will go to Wyandotte as soon as convenient for alteration. Their carrying capacity will be greatly increased and accom- modations for passengers will be carefully looked after. The dredge employed in deepening the channel last week has gone to Cheboygan to complete the season's work on that harbor and will return here in three weeks, when the deepening process will be carried on as long as the approrpriation lasts. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Ludington Record Vol. XVI, Old Series, No. 42 Vol. 4, New Series, No. 5 Thursday, June 21, 1883 [extracts of marine news] The new yacht recently built for Taylor Bros. has been fitted out with all the necessary machinery and tried for speed last Monday. The boat is said to come up to the owners expectations and will in all probab- ility make fifteen miles an hour. A more extended trial will be made in a day or two. The new propeller, MARKHAM, took aboard 245 m from Cartier, Allen & Co.'s dock. Contractors should read the advertisement in this issue for proposals to do work on the Manistee Life Saving Station. Plans can be seen at the Life Saving Station here by applying to Capt. Broadbent. Dr. Latimer is enjoying a visit from his brothers Edwin S. and C. F. Latimer both of Muskegon. The propeller MILWAUKEE, of which Edwin S. is part owner, arrived here this morning with stone from his quarries on Washington Island, destined for the harbor cribs at Manistee. The boat calls here to carry timber for the same work under contract by Dewar & Wing. The U.S. Tug commanded by Capt. Kendricks of this city, was bound from the north for Holland City last week with a raft of timber, and had to take to this harbor for shelter during the breeze of a few days ago. Capt. Caswell takes commendable pride in the tug ALDRICH and was willing this morning to wager with Chas. G. Wing, that he could be at Lincoln to take in tow a raft of logs for Dewar & Wing before Mr. Wing's old mare could transport him thither. The challenge was accepted, lines cast off and soon the tug was tearing through the water of lake Michigan under a high pressure of steam. At the same time, Mr. Wing's old mare, of gothic architecture could be seen making time northward with Mr. W. clinging to the saddle, a veritable John Gilpin. The tug reaching the dock at Lincoln all right but Capt. Caswell pays the oysters. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Ludington Record Vol. XVI, Old Series, No. 43 Vol. 4, New Series, No. 6 Thursday, June 28, 1883 [extracts of marine news] Schooner R. G. SKIDMORE took a cargo 1010m shingles to Chicago for Smith & Gibbs last Tuesday. The old schooner, GEN. WORTH, at one time owned by Thos. R. Lyons, is now taking a cargo at the P.M.L. Co.'s dock. The name has been changed to J. RABER. ==========================================================================