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    Woodcut engraving of the burning of the steamboat SEA BIRD in Lake Michigan on 9 April 1868 to accompany a story in Harper's Illustrated Weekly.

    Illustration from J. B. Mansfield, ed., History of the Great Lakes. Volume I, Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1899.

    A woodcut engraving of an artist's reconstruction of the burning of the steamboat OCEAN WAVE for the New York Illustrated News of May 21, 1853. In the distance to the bow and stern are the schooners

Lloyd, James T., Lloyd's Steamboat Directory and Disasters on the Western Waters... (1856), 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

Chapin, John R., Gleason's Pictorial Companion, 11 Sep 1852, p. 161     DESTRUCTION OF STEAMER ATLANTIC. The scene which is represented by our artist below, was a most heart-rending catastrophe. At the time of the collision a dense fog was prevailing. The passengers were

   

   

   

    Drawn 24 August 1946

Lloyd, James T., Lloyd's Steamboat Directory and Disasters on the Western Waters... (1856), 1856, 121-26     Burning of the Erie. This magnificent steamer, Capt. Titus, commander, was destroyed by fire, on Lake Erie, on the 16th day of August, 1841, by which calamity more than one hundred and seventy-five p

Lloyd, James T., Lloyd's Steamboat Directory and Disasters on the Western Waters... (1856), 31 Jul 1850, 246-47     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 a

    Illustrated appeared with article "Notable Rescue of Lake Superior," Marine Review, February 1912, p. 68

Lloyd, James T., Lloyd's Steamboat Directory and Disasters on the Western Waters... (1856), 21 Nov 1847, 177-83     Burning of the Phoenix This terrible accident occurred about four o'clock on the morning of the 21st of November, 1847, on Lake Michigan, within seventeen miles of Sheboygan. The fire was first disco

    Five sketches of the Schooner ANN BROWN dated 31 March 1899, 5 June 1900, 4 March 1901 and 1903.

Lloyd, James T., Lloyd's Steamboat Directory and Disasters on the Western Waters... (1856), 1856, after 331    

    Chalk-plate drawing for the Toronto Telegram

Fitzgunne, G. H., Illustrated London News, 13 Jul 1850, p. 41     THE "EARL CATHCART." STEAMER. (From Correspondent.) THE accompanying Engraving shows the Earl Cathcart steamer, with troops board from Montreal to Port Stanley, en route to London, Canada West, as sh