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To celebrate the launch of Bill McNeil's "Great Lakes Vessel Renaming" database, I've included the portrait of the Corsican here. Renamed Picton as part of the wholesale renaming of the vessels of the Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Company's Western Division in 1905, she burned on the Toronto waterfront two years later and was rebuilt into a barge. Independent of the renaming of the Corsican were the editorial liberties taken with this striking photograph of her in the Lachine Rapids. I've set up a page called Shooting the Lachine Rapids, Montreal which shows a small variety of the uses of this picture from my own collection. Anyone willing to share another variation on this is encouraged to email me at lewisw@hhpl.on.ca This site is an ongoing experiment in the design of a "digital library", a collection of documents intended to be of value to those researching Great Lakes History. A number of people have combined their efforts to bring you this collection: Dick Palmer, Dave Swayze, Peter Warwick, Ken Macpherson, Bill McNeil and Rick Neilson, not to mention the talented and creative people at a number of linked sites. Compiled U. S. Great Lakes Vessel Enrolments to 1860 A database of almost 6000 American vessel enrolments from American Great Lakes ports between 1816 and 1860. It includes all the surviving steam enrolments for this period that were legible on the microfilm. The sail enrolments include Cleveland and Detroit to 1860 and Buffalo to 1840. Great Lakes Vessel Renamings, Compiled by William R. McNeil List of Vessels Employed on British Naval Service on the Great Lakes, 1755-1875, Compiled by Ken R. Macpherson Historical 1837: Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, 1837. 1849: 14 pages from the back of the directory. 1854: Register of British Shipping, Inland Waters, Toronto: Geo. E. Thomas & Co., Printers, 16 King Street East., 1854. The oldest surviving published ship insurance classification list for the Great Lakes. 1855: The Democracy, (Buffalo), 28 February 1855. The Democracy , a Buffalo N.Y. newspaper printed the articles "Tonnage On the Lakes," on the above date, however, the "Casualty List" was not included, but was published as an EXTRA sheet with the Feb 28, 1855 date, and was presumably sold separately. The newspaper ran from mid-1854 to mid-1855. 1856: Globe, (Toronto), 1856. 1857: Globe, (Toronto), 26 May. 1857. 1864: Thomas, Robert, Register of the Ships of The lakes and River St. Lawrence, (Buffalo: Wheeler, Matthews & Warren, 1864). 1866: Association of Canadian Lake Underwriters, Lake Vessel Register, Toronto: W. C. Chewett & Co., 1866. Canadian ship classification list. 1869: Association of Canadian Lake Underwriters, Lake Vessel Register, Toronto: W. C. Chewett & Co., 1869. Canadian ship classification list. 1870: Hall, Capt. J. W., Marine Disasters on the Western Lakes during 1869 1871: 1871. Classification of Lake Vessels and Barges: Adopted by a Board of Marine Inspectors, April 1, 1871, (Buffalo: Warren, Johnson & Co. 1871). 1873: Association of Canadian Lake Underwriters, Lake Vessel Register: (Private Property of the Association) Designed Exclusively for the use of its Members and their Agents in Effecting Assurance, Toronto: Copp, Clark & Co., 1873. Canadian ship classification list 1884: Directory of the Marine Interests of the Great Lakes: Comprising A Complete List of All Vessels Navigating the Lakes, Arranged Alphabetically..., Detroit, Mich. : R. L. Polk & Co., 1884. 1890: Inland Lloyds, 1890. Vessel Classification of the Inland Lloyd's, Canadian Hulls, Toronto: Budget Printing and Publishing Company, 1890. 1897: Blue Book of American Shipping, Cleveland, OH: Marine Review, 1897. The 1897 edition of a business directory for the American merchant marine with a particular emphasis on the Great Lakes. 1903: Blue Book of American Shipping: Marine and Naval Directory of the United States, 1903, Cleveland, OH: Marine Review Publishing Co., 1903. 1916: Green, Fred W., Green's Marine Directory of the Great Lakes, Cleveland, 1916. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Lists: Canadian Ship Registers (Linked) from Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston Canada Steamship Lines (Linked) from Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston the New Mills List (Linked) from Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston Ship Information Database (Canadian) (Linked) hosted by CHIN Great Lakes vessel files Linked from the catalogue of the Great Lakes Marine Collection at the Milwaukee Public Library (includes the Runge Collection) Father Edward J. Dowling, S.J. Great Lakes Shipping Collection Database from University of Detroit Mercy Libraries Loudon S. Wilson's Great Lakes Directory of Commercial Sail This site is a "digital library", a collection of documents intended to be of value to those researching Great Lakes. Maritime History of the Great Lakes