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    Bird's Eye View Lake Huron Division, Detroit and Cleveland Steam Navigation Company

    Bird's Eye View of the Straits of Mackinac, showing the Inland route, Mackinac to Petoskey, and Sault Ste. Marie

    Propellor Arctic, 1864-1893 Robert McGreevy 42/100

    Artist Leo V. Kuschel was popular for evocative image of ships and lighthouses. This rather whimsical oil study, dated 1972, shows salvage vessels working to refloat the Sidney E. Smith, Jr. after it

    Like the Nancy, the last hours of this hard-working ship were not pleasant as she tried to claw her way off the Lake Huron shore in 1816, worn out with a damaged main mast. Her crew ran her ashore at

    The British captured the Tigris in a daring night raid on September 3, 1814, and used it to capture the Scorpion a few days later, while flying the American enemy's flag as a disguise.

    Oil on canvas

    Watercolour, pencil, touches of gouache, scraping on coated paper

    The image is believed to have been produced in Detroit in the 1840s for publication in one of the local newspapers. This MICHIGAN was launched in 1833, served until 1847, and was broken up in 1853-54

    Illustration from Stanton, Samuel Ward, American Steam Vessels, 1895, page 461

    Illustration from Stanton, Samuel Ward, American Steam Vessels, 1895, page 488