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k— 11 i. 1 "T iuL 1 "rr 1 T] "1 Marine News of 1911-1912 1 Excerpts from the 1 Amherstburg Echo 1 Volume IX 1 2006 '• I" r Apublication ofthe Marsh Collection Society Amherstburg, Ontario I Marine News of 1911-1912 Excerpts from the Amherstburg Echo Volume IX Apublication of the Marsh Collection Society, Amherstburg, Onto 1911 continued from Vol. VIII r July 7, 1911 The Hawgood steamer Umbria, coal-laden, struck hard on the Grecian shoal, Colchester, on the way up Saturday morning and was released Sunday night after lightering about 1200 tons. When the steamer arrived at Hurley's coal dock, Detroit, her master, Capt. George Robarge, received a message from A.H. Hawgood, Cleveland, one ofthe managers of the vessel, directinghim to tum over his command to Capt. Dorian Elliott ofBay City, Mich. A glass cupola has been erected on the Lake Carriers' house at Duff& Gatfield's, Texas Landing, above Lime-Kilns. Depths ofthe recently opened shallow-draft east channel over Ballard's Reefwill be posted on the glass ofthe cupola in black letters by day and illuminated by lanterns at night. The depths for the Lime-Kilns and the regular Ballard's Reef channel will be shown as heretofore. The new service was inaugurated Monday night. Capt. Alex. Cunning, wrecking master of the Great Lakes Towing Co., has completed building a cofferdam around the starboard side ofthe steamer E.L. Fisher, which is sunk below Mamajuda Light,DetroitRiver, and has the cofferdam constructed along two-thirds ofthe vessel's port side,wherethe workis moredifficultowing to the wreck lyingwith a list ofabout five feet to port. Unlesssomeaccident now unforeseen occurs to delaythe work,Capt. Cunning believes he will have the Fisher tied up alongside a Detroit dry-dock by next Saturday night. The Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co., Chicago, was the lowest of six bidders whose proposals forconstruction of concrete masonry for thenew third American lock at SaultSte. Marie, Mich., were opened Thursday afternoon in the office ofCol. C. McD. Townsend, Engineer Corps, U.S.A., incharge ofDetroit district. The company makes a price of $1,054,795 for the work. The amount is $208,700 lower than was asked by the next lowest bidder, the Bates & Rogers Construction Co., Chicago, and $392,080 below the figures of S. Pearson &Sons, New York, the highest bidder. The totals for the various bidders are:- Great Lakes Dredge &Dock Co., $1,054,795; Bates &Rogers Construction Co., $1,263,600; Breakwater Company, Philadelphia, $1,266,460.25; McArthur Bros. Company, Chicago, $1,343,835; W.J. Newman Company, Sault Ste. Marie, $1,423,340; Pearson &Sons, New York, $1,447,875. The work isrequired tobe done 700 days after the date ofacceptance. The schooner.S.Z. Nielsen ofPort Huron was sunk in collision with the steamer Wyandotte ' n 11 miles offPointe aux Barques, Lake Huron, early Monday morning. Her crew offive was saved. The vessels came together ina heavy fog. The Wyandotte, a steel steamer owned bythe Wyandotte Transportation Co., Detroit, was bound from Alpena to Wyandotte with a cargo ofstone. Within r, :I a few minutes afterthe collisionthe Nielsen, whichwas a smallwoodencraft, filled and sank, giving Capt. William Young, hermaster, and hiscrew barely time togetoffintheir small boats. They were taken aboard the Wyandotte byCapt. C.L. Atkinson, who brought his ship about to pick them up, n and were carried down the lake to Port Huron. The damage sustained by the Wyandotte was very slight. Capt. Atkinson was mate of the str. Columbia two years ago and is well-known in Amherstburg. But for the quick work of Capt. B.W. Botigard, the steainer Turbinia with her 1500 1 passengers might have sunk Dominion Day offBurlington lighthouse. Lake Ontario. As it was, Mrs. Edward H. Shepherd, an occupant of the sailing skiff that caused the trouble, was thrown into the -!•E Jo'TMifm water and drowned when the Turbinia, striving to escape running into the cement buttress of the kk. ^ i TOWING and WRECKING lighthouse, swung out and ran down the little sailing craft. WfiECEWC STCAMCR J. E MILLS. TheTU records of theSm^mG.-TheMmne &FishenesYearDepartment1910 Was ashowRecordthatOnethe inyearCanadian1910 wasMarinearecordCirclesone in- Moa/n Pumpa, Air Comprosspra, Sub'MarJno DivorS. j Canadian sluppmg circles. The actual figures for the years between 1902 and 1910 both inclusive AMHERSTBURG. X Number. Tonnage. 1902 758 1,541,272 „A 1903 802 1,890,904 904 796 1,833,853 833 1,935,867 820 1,977,534 749 1,932,236 1909QOQ 948 2,190,7562,154,613 Bill from Trotter Wrecking Co. to Buffalo Dredging Co., July 24, 1911, 1075 2 562 876 including services of tug Trotter in towing drillboat No. 2to Detroit. Trotter Wrecking Co. Papers. Marsh Collection Society the po«. .here were 719 acmirsea^oi^ vessels ""ich entered 1^1 last and after fishing it out discovered that it belonged to Captain Lewis Unbehoun, drowned from the tue OM. Field the day before. Besides anumber of valuable papers it contained $62 and it was July 14, 1911 turned over to James Sutton. The body was shipped to his home in Green Bay on Friday night and The steamer John Mitchell was sunk in collision with the steampr wu i the tug F/eW left on Saturday for the Welland Canal. i. above Whitefish Point. LAe Superior, at midnight Sunday night Ttaee of the The first explosion of the season on lower Detroit River works, occurred Fnday night when lost^ The steamers came together in aheavy fog. The Mitchell was struck aIMe fXarTrf drillboat No. 2of the Buffalo Dredging Co.'s fleet working on the west side of Bois Blanc, touched amidships on her port side by the Mack, which was on her way down light and I Zm f off aleftover charge of dynamite but escaped with only minor damages while of the crew only Alex. the point where the Mitchell sank the lake is about 175 feet deep. Tho^e of the MitcheWs Duff was at all shaken up. The drill is of steel with compartment construction. Acouple of steam were lost werei-Archie Causley. second mate. Detroit; Al. Clemens, steward, Rochester. Ind •George pipes were broken and in order to have permanent repairs made she was taken to Detroit on Saturday Ai^tm. watchman, who shipped at Cleveland. Of the survivors. Mrs. Clemens, wife oithe';tZaM hv the tug Trotter, which was the first tug to the drill after the explosion. IS the only one seriously injured. Her right leg was broken and she is now in the hospital here "One year from today the commerce of the Detroit River will be using the Livingstone rhannel" declared Col. C. McD. Townsend, United States, engineer in charge of the nver ofIS alsoToledo,her masterdaughterofwhothe Mack,collapsedrefusedaftertohergi'veheroismany detailshad savedof thesixaccidentlives. beyondCap. GeorgestatingHtheBumh'amMitchell imnroveinents, Tuesday. "The work has been progressing rapidly this season; there has been has been sunk and three ofher crew lost. actically no delay and indications are that the work on the section of the channel within the The Buffalo Dredging Co.'s dredge No I was in Sunday, making repairs to her dipper, cofferdam will be completed by January. Though the channel will be completed soon after the close reymann Bros, dredge No. 3was also in for minor repairs. of navigation this season, it will be impossible to remove the dams protecting the upper and lower Adam Kiyoshka, the marine diver on the wrecker Mills, and his son Capt. Harry Kiyoshka ends of the cofferdam until the opening of navigation in 1912. I expect to be able to open the ave taken the contract to overhaul all the derrick scows and the stake driver of the Wm. Menzies H channel to the lake fleet by July of next year. Though the sections below the cofferdam will not be tleet. The work will be done mthe slip below the mill all complete, the work can go on after the channel is opened to navigation. The section above the Duerson Gatfield found apocket book floating in the river opposite the coal dock on Friday cofferdam will be completed before the end of the present season." rU| July 21. 1911 Itis unclear to which port the article refers. The Buffalo Dredging Co.'s powerful dredge No. 1had her dipper handle strengthened when It n I. - •' 'A U- /• 'Vkh •* v.*,'.-/ . ,• H ' t N •''f she was in Sunday. traded through the Welland Canal about forty years ago. They formed abustling line in their day and Harry Carlson ofthe tug Shaughraun cut an artery in his left hand Thursday with ajack knife carried passengers as wellas fi-eight. and had to have two stitches put in. He isoffduty. Capt. Lewis Unbehoun of the tug O.M. Fields who was drowned on Thursday July 6th at the The big steel str. Francis Wilder of the Becker fleet ran aground near Bar Point on Saturday dock here, was insured for $3000 in Iron Gate Council, No. 545, Royal Arcanium, Green Bay, Wis. morning. The tug Rooth went toher assistance butshe released herself. The Steel Trust^ fireighter W. Gates was in collision with the wooden boat Tampa in the One ofdie Ballard's Reef gas buoys is on the Murray Street dock for repairs. An unknown river just off Walkerville at five o'clock Tuesday morning, the latter being rammed and sunk in 20 steamer struck it. feet of water. The Gates was not seriously damaged. At atotal cost of$1,500,000, the Detroit «& Cleveland Navigation Co. is having another new ^'''"8in aDetroit passenger steamer built at the plant of the Detroit Shipbuilding Co.