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- Comet
- 1 picked up the following morning by the schooner COMET, Capt. Bray of Oakville. While on the subject of
- 2 over the success of the steamers BRITANNIA and COMET in the Quebec-Hamilton trade and one cannot help
- 3 PASSPORT and the NEW ERA were withdrawn and the COMET was maintained on the Hamilton to Montreal run
- 4 service with the PASSPORT, the NEW ERA and the COMET and a new vessel HIGHLANDER (ii) was expected to
- 5 ERA, Capt. Maxwell and Purser Farrell and the COMET, Capt. Taylor and Purser
- 6 also reported the sudden demise of the steamer COMET, owned by Macpherson & Crane. It reads: "Steamboat
- 7 trio was the MAYFLOWER, which was the rebuilt COMET, under command of Capt. Patterson, late of the
- 8 were the MAPLE LEAF from Kingston and the MAYFLOWER from Ogdensburg. The ROCHESTER was expected to
- 9 St. Slip and, with the assistance of the steamer MAYFLOWER, moved the burning steamer up the Bay until she
- 10 the PRINCESS ROYAL and the ADMIRAL. The steamers MAYFLOWER, CHAMPION and HIGHLANDER were scheduled to run
- 11 burns, but was able to return to Hamilton on the MAYFLOWER.
- 12 the Hamilton Spectator, stating that the steamer MAYFLOWER, Capt. MacDonald, would depart from Hamilton on 25
- 13 on the Hamilton to Montreal mail service. The MAYFLOWER, which had operated on the Cape Vincent Line in
- 14 astern of her, while the PEERLESS and the MAYFLOWER, together with several schooners, were endangered
- 15 it; the MARY SELINA ashore at Chaumont Bay; the COMET ashore at Big Sodus; propeller COASTER went to
- 16 steamer COMET, Capt. Francis Patterson, was lost on the night of
- 17 56,000, LADY MORTON, Capt. Keith, 14,000 and MAYFLOWER, Capt. Miller, 30,000. The schooner VICTOR, Capt.
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