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 | | While on the last trip his steamer grounded slightly during a driving snowstorm, and as a matter of precaution he took the crew ashore for the night, all returning to the stranded vessel the next morning, when they succeeded in releasing her. |
 | | In the year 1879 he shipped in the steamer Southern Belle, of Halifax, as chief officer, remaining in her for five years; the Southern Belle was a blockade runner during the Civil War, and was brought to Lake Ontario at the close of the war by Messrs. |
 | | He was with the steamer Gladstone for part of the season of 1895, and during 1896 was in charge of the pipe-fitting department of the Cleveland Shipbuilding Company. |
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