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    Courtesy Canada Steamship Lines' Marine Hist. Coll. H.M.S. WOLFE, Yeo's Flagship on Lake Ontario, 1813 This vessel participated in most of the principal engagements on Lake Ontario. She was completed

    Courtesy Canada Steamship Lines' Marine Hist. Coll. H.M. Armed Luggers, KINGSTON, QUEBEC, and BLACK SNAKE, 1813 and 1814 A number of such vessels were used by the British naval forces to convoy briga

    Courtesy Canada Steamship Lines' Marine Hist. Coll. H.M.S. DETROIT Barclay's flagship on Lake Erie, 1813. This vessel was named Detroit in honour of Sir Isaac Brock's victory at that place in the yea

    Courtesy Canada Steamship Lines' Marine Hist. Coll. United States' Brigs JONES and JEFFERSON These vessels were in the United States Fleet on Lake Ontario in 1814.

    Courtesy Canada Steamship Lines' Marine Hist. Coll. H.M.S. PRINCE REGENT and Part of Sir James Lucas Yeo's Fleet on Lake Ontario, 1814 The other vessels are: Left wing, the Princess Charlotte and Nia

    Note: despite the title of this image, FRONTENAC did not move under steam until the spring of 1817.

    Courtesy Canada Steamship Lines' Marine Hist. Coll. S. S. VANDALIA, Passing Through the Old Welland Canal This vessel was built at Oswego, N.Y., in 1841, and was propelled with the Ericsson Patent Sc

    Courtesy Canada Steamship Lines' Marine Hist. Coll. S. S. WALK-IN-THE-WATER, Lake Erie, 1818 This United States registered vessel was the first steam-driven vessel to navigate on the upper Great Lake

    Courtesy Canada Steamship Lines' Marine Hist. Coll. The Five Mast Barquentine, DAVID DOWS, One of the Carrington Line Ships The last large sailing challenger against steam-powered vessels in the uppe

    Courtesy Canada Steamship Lines' Marine Hist. Coll. Norwegian Sloop Skjøldmøen, of Bergen In 1863 this vessel crossed the Atlantic, and, by way of the St. Lawrence and Welland Canals, reached the upp

    Courtesy Canada Steamship Lines' Marine Hist. Coll. Brigantine COLUMBIA Which took the first cargo of iron ore from a Lake Superior port to Cleveland, through the Sault Ste. Marie Canal, in 1855.

    From a sketch (made by the author) of the vessel at sea on Lake Erie. Whaleback Type of Vessel for Bulk Cargo Transport A class of ship which originated on the Great Lakes. Whalebacks, turret and tru

    The canal boats W.R. RYAN and G. M. Reed Jr. of Erie are show at the wharf in an unnamed port. In the background are three propellers. In the left foreground is an empty row boat.

    Williams Cin O. [probably Cincinnati, Ohio]

    THE SARATOGA The steamer Saratoga, in her day one of the most elegant and popular craft on the Great Lakes, was built in 1846 by Moses & Sanford, at Cleveland, for Messrs. Winslow, of Cleveland, and

   

   

    The image of the steamboat has WAITE on the paddle box, and is disproportionately small relative to the other elements of the scene. The only steamboat on the Great Lakes with WAITE in the name was t

   

    Put-in-Bay House Chicago to Quebec -- Steamboat Landing, Put-in Bay