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A. H. J.
Other names : none
Official no. : 211292
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger
Build info : 1912, Elk Rapids, Mich as a gas screw vessel
Specs : 38x10x4, 11g 9n
Date of loss : 1922, Oct 2
Place of loss : off Cross Village, Mich
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying :
Detail : Foundered, no detail. Out of Grand Haven, Mich.
Converted from gas to steam power after 1913.
Sources : mv,hr
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A. M. P.
Other names : none
Official no. : 208599
Type at loss : gas screw passenger vessel
Build info : 1911, Detroit
Specs : 56x13x7, 33g 16n
Date of loss : 1912, Aug 14
Place of loss : Dennis Island
Lake : Detroit R.
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none of 2
Carrying : ?
Detail : Caught fire and burned to a total loss.
Sources : mv,hr,wl
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A. L. ABBELL
Other names : none also seen as C L ABELL
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1855, Geo. Hardison, Buffalo
Specs : 64 t.
Date of loss : 1861, Nov
Place of loss : Waugoschance Pt., Straits of Mackinac
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : 500 half-barrels fish
Detail : Struck bottom in shallows and wrecked. A group from Mackinac sent to pull her off stripped and abandoned her instead. Master: Capt. Stoddard. Out of Grand Traverse [Traverse City], Mich
Sources : slh,hgl,nsp,umr,wmn
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ABBEY
Other names : also seen as ABBY
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1847, Ambrose Morgan, Oswego, NY
Specs : 117 t.
Date of loss : 1851, Oct 5
Place of loss : near Black River, Oh
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Ashore and wrecked, a total loss of $3,500.
Out of Oswego, owned by H. Matthews.
Also wrecked on Jan. 1 of the same year near Sodus, NY
.Sources : hgl ,wmn,rp,nsp,wl,wmhs
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ABBIE
Other names : none
Official no. : 106407
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1886, Ludington
Specs : 88x22x6 88g 83n
Date of loss : 1905, Nov 8
Place of loss : Portage Lake entry, near Manistee, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : bark
Detail : Driven ashore and wrecked. Crew of 4 saved by lightkeeper and Manistee Lifesaving Service. Went to pieces in a few hours. Bound Beaver Isl. for Milwaukee. Not lost near the Keweenaw, Lake Superior, as sometimes stated.
Photo: ABBIE at Sheboygan, 1901
Sources : nsp,h,mv,ks,eas,lss,glmd
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GEORGE M. ABEL
Other names : built as brig JOHN YOUNG, renamed by 1864. also seen as GEORGE M. ABELL & ABLE
Official no. : 10219
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1852, J & J Abbey, Pt. Robinson, Ont. as a brig
Specs : 97x20x9, 146t
Date of loss : 1871, Aug 29
Place of loss : near Port Burwell, Ont
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Went on a reef and broke up. Hailed from Cleveland.
May have been recovered. Reported as receiving repairs in 1871.
Sometimes reported as still a brig at this time.
.Sources : nsp,sagl,h,win,hgl,rsl,wl
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ABELL – see ABBELL
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ABEONA – entry (1877) removed – vessel recovered by tug ANDREW SMITH and operating into the 1880’s
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ABERCORN
Other names : none
Official no. : 105361
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight “rabbit”
Build info : 1873, Morley & Hill, Marine City, MI
Specs : 126x26x11 261g 191n
Date of loss : 1904, Sep 5
Place of loss : At Goderich, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Burned at a dock while unloading. She reportedly caught fire from the explosion of signal lamp. Her remains were abandoned in place, but one source states that the hulk was sold Canadian in 1905. Owned by her master and her engineer Capt..W. Willoughby and Richard Baxter of Cleveland, who had staked their all on her the previous year.
Sources : nsp,phr,slh,ns1,h,mv,mpl,es,glmd
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ABERDEEN
Other names : none
Official no. : C94924
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight “rabbit”
Build info : 1894, J.Tait, Picton, Ont.
Specs : 100x22x9 142gc
Date of loss : 1918, Mar 11
Place of loss : At Picton, Ont., Bay of Quinte
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Burned in harbor in winter quarters, at the “Ways,” Hepburn Shipyard. Part of the large Hepburn Fleet.
Year of loss also given as 1917.
Photo: ABERDEEN at Picton, 1894
Sources : mmgl,ns2,h,csv,hgl,hcgl,glmd
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ABERNETHY
Other names : none
Official no. : C130386
Type at loss : wooden dredge
Build info : 1910, Amherstburg, Ont.
Specs : 86x26x6, 260 t
Date of loss : 1914, Oct 24
Place of loss : Pelee Isl., Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : ?
Detail : Burned, probably in the harbor
Sources : win,h,hr
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ABIAH
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner or brig, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1848, Irving, NY
Specs : 134x27x11, 353 t [om]
Date of loss : 1854, Sep 1
Place of loss : about 10 miles off Sheboygan, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : Bound Chicago for Oconto, WI, she capsized in a squall and sank, a total loss. Her crew and 2 passengers were rescued by the passing schooner L. LUDDINGTON (sic). Out of Chicago
.Sources : bb,nsp,hgl,hr,glmd
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ABIGAIL
Other names : none
Official no. : 368
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1849, T.L. Lyons, Black River, OH
Specs : 99x23x8, 178 t.
Date of loss : 1892
Place of loss : Main part of Georgian Bay or North Channel
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : “lost”
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : none available. Not in 1884 or 92 MVUS, possibly lost before Jul 1.
Major repair in 1862
Ashore and damaged in a storm at Muskegon, Mich., in Novbember, 1875. Recovered the following summer.
Sources : (hgl,mv),slh+,wl,rsl,nsp
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ABYSSINIA
Other names : none
Official no. : 107221
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1896, Jas. Davidson, W. Bay City
Specs : 285x44x19 2037g 1916n
Date of loss : 1917, Oct 18
Place of loss : Tecumseh Reef, near Buffalo
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 8
Carrying : wheat
Detail : While bound Fort William, Ont, for Buffalo, she was lost from tow of the steamer MARUBA in a gale, went ashore and broke up. One of the largest wooden vessels ever built Owned by Corsica Steamship Co. Wreck located in 1962.
Nearly lost in a storm near Eagle Harbor, Mich, Nov 3, 1900.
Photo: ABYSSINIA in St. Mary’s R., tug W. F. MERICK on the hip
.Sources : sbs,vbs,ns2,mv,eas,mpl ,hcgl,svb,ewe
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ACACIA
Other names : none
Official no. : C126424
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood
Build info : 1873, W. O’Mara, Smith’s Falls, Ont. as a schooner
Specs : 102x24x9, 188 t
Date of loss : 1903, May 2
Place of loss : Duck Islands
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : coal
Detail : ACACIA went aground in storm and was declared a total loss. She had been bound Oswego for Kingston. Owned and mastered by Wm. or James Crosby of Kingston. Later recovered, foundered on July 12, 1908. Recovered again and rebuilt to a barge. Sold off the lakes in 1921.
Rebuilt 1888.
Photo: ACACIA in 1905
.Sources : nsp,h,ns3,mmgl,clu,win,mpl, gld,hcgl,svb
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ACADIA
Other names : none
Official no. : C77697
Type at loss : propeller, wood [iron-framed],
Build info : 1867, Malcolmson Bros, Hamilton, Ont.
Specs : 176x25x10 806g 509n
Date of loss : 1896, Nov 5
Place of loss : Near mouth of Michipicoten R., Ont.
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : grain
Detail : Driven ashore and broken up by gale. Her crew made it to shore, and five of them spent more than week trying to make it to the Soo.
Originally 136x25x7, lengthened 40′ in the winter of 1881-2 at Port Dalhousie.
Photo: ACADIA in the Welland Canal
.Sources : nsp,gwgl,is,h,csv,net,mmgl, win,lss,hgl,hcgl
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ACME
Other names : none
Official no. : 297
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1856, G. Hardison, Buffalo
Specs : 190x33x13, 762 t.
Date of loss : 1867, Nov 5 (Mar 4 also given, in error)
Place of loss : 15 mi NNE of Dunkirk, NY
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 7307 bu corn, 2165 bbl flour, 238 bbl & 100 “tierces” beef, 200 tierces of lard and 334 untanned cowhides
Detail : Took on water in a gale and was abandoned in her boats. 2 boats landed along about 20 miles of NY coast, while one was picked up by the revenue cutter COMMODORE PERRY. Master: Capt. Dickson
Major repair in 1863
.Sources : nsp,lhl,hgl,rsl,eas
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ACME
Other names : built as MUSIC, renamed in 1892
Official no. : 90671
Type at loss : propeller, wood, large tug & freighter
Build info : 1874, Cameron, New Jerusalem, OH
Specs : 124x24x12, 320g 234n
Date of loss : 1893, Oct 14
Place of loss : 25 mi from Black River, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : foundered
Loss of life : none
Carrying : raft
Detail : She was towing a large log raft from French River, Ontario, in company with the tug RELIANCE, and was running for shelter at Thunder Bay when she foundered. RELIANCE took the crew off the sinking vessel in a very risky rescue. She lies in about 225 feet of water. Owned out of Bay City by Michigan Log Towing, she was once a Reid Wrecking tug. Master: Capt. Dore Elliott, W. Bay City.
Major repairs in 1881
Photo: Tug ACME at build as MUSIC
.Sources : nsp,slh,mv,phr,wb,hgl,mpl
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ACME
Other names : none
Official no. : 107039
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1893, O’Grady & Mahar, Buffalo
Specs : 67x17x10 59g 29n
Date of loss : 1902, Apr 15
Place of loss : near Buffalo
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none of 4
Carrying : none
Detail : She was breaking ice when when she jammed in and was rammed from behind by the steamer WILKESBARRE, which she had in tow. Her crew made it off in her raft before she sank and were later picked up by the steamer TOM ADAMS. ACME was not declared lost until August because she lay in only 30 feet of water and was thought recoverable. Iron parts were later recovered for scrap. Owned by Hand & Johnson [Great Lakes Towing], Buffalo
.Sources : nsp,is,eas,hcgl,ewe,mv
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ACONTIAS
Other names : sometimes spelled “Acontious”
Official no. : 1394
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1866, Detroit*
Specs : 137x26x11, 264g 251n
Date of loss : 1887, Oct 28
Place of loss : at Presque Isle, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Went ashore on Presque Isle while bound Cheboygan for Detroit, in tow of the steambarge ELFIN-MERE. Broke in half and went to pieces shortly after. Declared a total loss in November. Homeport: Detroit. Owner: Hurley
*This is official, but she was actually built in 1856 at Oswego by Jas. Baker [carpenter: J Navagh] and appears in newspapers from that year on. [Build information above is from mv]. Actually just rebuilt at Detroit in 1866 by J. P. Clark.
This vessel went on a rock and was wrecked at Clay Bank, Lake Erie, 33 miles SE of Detroit, in November, 1863. Out of Oswego.
.Sources : nsp,slh,mv,osdo,hgl,mpl,nsp,rp, hr,wmn,glmd,wl,mr
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ACORN – See also ALASKA
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ACORN
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schoooner, wood
Build info : 1842, T.H. Cobb, Black R. [Charleston] OH
Specs : 84x20x8, 125 t.
Date of loss : 1849, July 31
Place of loss : near West Sister Island
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : flour, oil cake, hoop peles (sic)
Detail : Collided with propeller TROY and sank. TROY struck ACORN directly amidships and the schooner foundered quickly. Her crew made it to the TROY. Master: Capt. Thos. H. Cobb. Later recovered and lasted to at least 1852.
On Aug 31, 1842, bound Buffalo for Chicago on a particularly dark night, she collided with the schooner EMILY and sank off Vermilion, Oh, in 60 ft of water. One life was lost.There were 45 immigrants on board, who lost about $4000 in gold with the wreck.
.Sources : is(4-65),slh,(hgl),nsp,wl,ledc,wmhs
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ACORN
Other names : none
Official no. : C
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1844, Acker, Port Hope, Ont.
Specs : 92 t.
Date of loss : 1869, Oct 26
Place of loss : 1 mi E of Oswego harbor
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Went ashore in a gale along with several other schooners and became a total wreck. She was reported as “an old vessel, and not over and above seaworthy.”
Some lists still show her in 1871, but not later.
Sources : nsp,rsl,clu,wmn
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ACTIVE – See CHARLIE GALE
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ACTIVE
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1845 Green Bay, Wis.
Specs : 49x14x4, 25 t.
Date of loss : 1855, Oct 10
Place of loss : off Port Washington, Wisc.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 3
Carrying : shingles
Detail : Bound Manitowoc for Chicago, she capsized in a squall. Her tiny crew clung to her upturned hull until rescued in a risky maneuver by the schooner THORNTON on the 11th. She was last seen floating bottom-up by the prop SCIOTA on the 13th, 15 miles off Milwaukee. No record of her after this date. Owned by Ealinger or Esslinger of Manitowoc. Vessel and cargo worth about $2500. Master: Capt. A. Rogers.
Struck a bar and sunk off Manitowoc in June of the same year.
Sources : nsp,wl,jm,wmhs,sm,whs,wls
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ACTIVE
Other names : none
Official no. : 105087
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1869, Martin Olson, Sheboygan, Wis
Specs : 69x17x6, 51g
Date of loss : 1898, Sep 29
Place of loss : just off Ford River, Wis
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 40 t. hay
Detail : Bound Sister Bay for Ford River, she went ashore near the pier when her captain mistook the lights of a home for the pier light. She piled ashore 2 miles south of the pier, where she later went to pieces.
Sources : wgts,hr,mv,wmhs
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ADA – See also PETER SMITH
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ADA
Other names : ?
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : ? (1857, E.L. Herrick, Fairport, OH – ADDA)
Specs : ? (88x22x6, 110 t.)
Date of loss : 1859
Place of loss : near Collingwood, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : “sank”
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Went down within sight of Collingwood
Sources : slh,hgl,wl not in mmgl
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ADA
Other names : none
Official no. : 100598
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1888, South Arm, MI
Specs : 52x13x5, 15g 14n
Date of loss : 1894, Sep 26
Place of loss : at Manistique, Mich
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 2
Carrying : ?
Detail : She was overwhelmed and cast on the beach east of the Manistique breakwater in a big storm, but both of her crewmen were rescued.
Out of Grand Haven
Sources : hgl,mv,bb,nsp,hr
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W.A. ADAIR
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2 mast
Build info : 1845, Jacob Walker, Black River, Oh
Specs : 60x18x7, 61 t.
Date of loss : 1860, Oct
Place of loss : near Dunkirk, NY
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Bound Buffalo to Erie, she tried to put into Dunkirk when she sprang a leak in a gale. She was run ashore in an attempt to save the crew and vessel, but only the crew survived.
Sources : eas,wb,h,wmn,wl
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ADAMS – See DETROIT
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E.S. ADAMS
Other names : also seen as E. G. ADAMS
Official no. : C33502
Type at loss : bark, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1857, J & J Abbey, Port Robinson, Ont.
Specs : 135x26x12, 341 gc
Date of loss : 1863, Oct 20
Place of loss : 7.8 mi E of Pt. Pelee
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : 18,500 bu wheat
Detail : On a clear night, with both vessels properly lit and tacking, the downbound ADAMS collided with the upbound American bark CONSTITUTION, resulting in the loss of the ADAMS. No blame was attached to either vessel. Owned by Norris & Neeland, St. Catharines (also shown as owned out of Montreal). Document surrendered Mar 5, 1866, annotated “lost”..
Sources : mmgl,nsp,hgl,umr
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FREDDIE ADAMS
Other names : none
Official no. : C122080
Type at loss : propeller tug, wood
Build info : 1906, G. Adams, Parry Sound, Ont.
Specs : 40x9x5, 16gc 11nc
Date of loss : 1909
Place of loss : Depot Harbour, E side of Parry Sound
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Burned to total loss. Registration closed Sep 13, 1920
Sources : mmgl,hr
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GEORGE W. ADAMS
Other names : none
Official no. : 85393
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1875, Bailey Bros., Toledo as a 4-mast schooner
Specs : 231x40x20 1444g 1372n
Date of loss : 1895, Dec 11
Place of loss : near Colchester shoal
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : ice
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Her hull was crushed by ice while she was bound Cleveland for Chicago in tow of the steamer CALEDONIA and she foundered. A big salvage operation on her the next summer was a failure. Owned by James Corrigan, Cleveland.
The Anchor Line propeller CONEMAUGH lost her prop and stranded on the wreck when she struck it in the low-water year of 1901.
Stranded with damage on North Manitou in fall of 1885. See WILLIAM T. GRAVES.
She was reported at the time of her launch to be the largest sail vessel on the lakes.
Photo: GEORGE ADAMS at Detroit Dry Dock
.Sources : h,mv,ledc,nsp,do2,wb,win, hgl,mpl
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TOM ADAMS – See LANGHAM
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ADDA
Other names : none
Official no. : 1548
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1857, Herrick & Hayes, Fairport, Ohio
Specs : 89 t.
Date of loss : 1872, Aug 28
Place of loss : unreported
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : “lost”
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : ?
Detail : Reported as sunk and wrecked. Out of Chicago. Last known registration, Apr 1872. Owned by Geo. Halveston, Chicago in 1871.
Sources : cbt,hr,glmd,wl,glmd
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ADDAIN
Other names : also seen as ADAIN
Official no. : 1408
Type at loss : schooner(-scow), wood
Build info : 1854, Trenton, MI
Specs : 76x20x7, 62 t.
Date of loss : 1890, Oct 18
Place of loss : near Grindstone City, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 3
Carrying : none
Detail : Bound Port Huron for Grindstone City, she was driven ashore by a gale and became a total loss. The Lifesaving Service rescued her crew.
Sunk at Pt. Pelee in May, 1870, with loss of one life.
Rebuilt at Port Huron, 1868
Rebuilt in 1864
Sources : phr,mv,usls,slh,h,hgl,wl,wmn
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ADDIE
Other names : none
Official no. : 105168
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1872, J. Randall, Benton Harbor
Specs : 64x16x5 30g 29n
Date of loss : 1897, Oct 5
Place of loss : near Frankfort, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : household goods
Detail : No detail.
Shoved between rows of pilings at Lakeside, MI in 1877 and heavily damaged. Also wrecked and temporarily abandoned near Muskegon in 1887.
Rebuilt in 1882.
Image from Dowling collection, UDM
.Sources : nsp,h,mv,hgl,usls
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ADDIE B
Other names : ?
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : schooner, wood, trader
Build info : ?
Specs : “small”
Date of loss : 1888, Nov 28 or 29
Place of loss : near Caseville, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : produce
Detail : Stranded on a bar, broke in two, and declared a total loss. Out of Au Sable, MI.
.Sources : slh,nsp, jb not in mmgl, ‘84 mvus
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ADELAIDE – See CHAMPLAIN
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ADELE
Other names : none
Official no. : 107191
Type at loss : propeller tug and passenger ferry, wood, motor [formerly a steamer]
Build info : 1889, Dulac, Mt. Clemens, MI
Specs : 48x10x4, 9g 6n
Date of loss : 1936
Place of loss : Drummond Island, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Burned, no detail. May have been burned by vandals after being abandoned much earlier.
Sources : mv,slh,hr
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ADELIA – See ARDELIA
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ADELL
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1860, Milwaukee
Specs : 48x12x5, 25 gt.
Date of loss : 1869, Nov 16
Place of loss : 1/2 mile below Bay View pier, WI [near Milwaukee]
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : wood
Detail : Driven ashore and pounded to pieces. Her skipper, who had his every penny sunk into the craft, was able to salvage her rigging and spars and left them on the beach overnight, only to find all was stolen the next day. Reported completely broken up by the 26th, but one source says she was recovered. Master and owner: Fred Webster, Milwaukee.
Rebuilt, 1862
.Sources : nsp,mpl,bb,mdwl,hgl,whs,hr,wls
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ADIRAMLED
Other names : built as CITY OF FREMONT, renamed in 1908
Official no. : C130922
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freighter
Build info : 1866, Quayle & Sons, Cleveland [US#4379]
Specs : 198x27x10 630g
Date of loss : 1912, Jun 18
Place of loss : 6 miles E of Stoney Isl., Dutch John Bay
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : hull failure
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : RR rails & coal
Detail : Her seams opened under the weight of a heavy cargo and she sank. She was probably overloaded. Owned by Lachine Transportation Co.
Sold Canadian, 1912
Built as passenger/package freighter, rebuilt to bulk freighter at Chicago in 1906.
Rebuilt & lengthened in 1870.
Photo: As CITY OF FREMONT in 1887
Sources : mmgl,win,ns2,h,mv,mpl,hcgl,svb
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ADIRONDACK
Other names : also seen as ADIRONDAC
Official no. : 1385
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1862, John Oades, Clayton, NY
Specs : 139x26x11, 300g 285n
Date of loss : 1893, Sep 14
Place of loss : South Manitou Isl.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : bark
Detail : Bound for Chicago, she reported herself stranded in a heavy fog and gale. She was stripped and abandoned by the 20th.
Out of Chicago
Sources : wb,mv,hgl,nsp,rsl,wl,bb,hr
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BELLE ADKINS
Other names : also seen as BELLE ATKINS
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1856, D. Hause, Wilson, NY
Specs : 134x26x12, 394 t.
Date of loss : 1857, Feb 8
Place of loss : E of Oswego, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : flood
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Washed off her winter moorings and out of the Oswego River by a “freshet” (i.e spring runoff flood) and sunk near Port Ontario. She was towed all the way back in by rowboat and a volunteer crew, but soon broke up in a storm of the 10th . Master probably Capt. Daniels. Owned by Collins & Abbey.
.Sources : hgl,osdo,nsp,rp,tol
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ADMIRAL – See also EDWARD U. DEMMER
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ADMIRAL
Other names : none
Official no. : C
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1854, Stevens, Port Hope
Specs : 167 t.
Date of loss : 1867, Nov 4
Place of loss : near Toronto
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Tried to leave Toronto harbor where she had been sheltering in what turned out to be a lull in the storm. The storm renewed and drove the schooner ashore near the lighthouse, where she broke up after a half-day of pounding.
Refastened and strengthened in 1861.
Probably out of Hamilton.
Some sourcess report that she was built as the propeller ADMIRAL, which burned at Toronto in June, 1853, then rebuilt to this schooner in 1862. Other sources give the information above.
.Sources : nsp,hgl,rsl,wmn
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ADMIRAL
Other names : none
Official no. : 106156
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1883, Miller Bros., Chicago
Specs : 49g 24n
Date of loss : 1884, Dec 31
Place of loss : Chicago River near 22nd St. (now Cermak Dr.)
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : boiler explosion
Loss of life : 3 to 5 [all]
Carrying : none
Detail : This tug’s boiler exploded while she was trying to dock the barge D. M. WILSON. Pieces of the tug and remains of her crew were scattered all over the lumber docks. Hailed from Chicago. Master: Capt. Andrew Green(d).
Sources : mv,h,hgl,usls,is,nsp,hr
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ADMIRAL
Other names : built as W.H. MEYER, renamed in 1942
Official no. : 222239
Type at loss : propeller tug, steel
Build info : 1922, Manitowoc Ship Building Co., Manitowoc, WI
Specs : 93x21x12, 130g 88n
Date of loss : 1942, Dec 2
Place of loss : Off Avon Pt., Cleveland
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 14
Carrying : none [barge]
Detail : Towing barge CLEVECO (qv), she encountered a heavy gale & began to founder. She radioed in, but C.G. was unable to locate her in the murk before she went down. Owned by Cleveland Tankers, Cleveland.
Wreck located by a commercial diver in 1969
Completely rebuilt in 1942.
Had the machinery from an earlier tug W.H. MEYER [US#81637]
Sources : eas,is(2-60,4-69),mol,gs,sol,lm, wm2,le,h,mpl,pc,hcgl
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ADMIRAL D.D. PORTER – See HOWARD
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ADRIATIC
Other names : none
Official no. : 302
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1856, VanSlyke & Notter, Buffalo as a propeller
Specs : 178x31x13, 825 t.
Date of loss : 1872, Sep 29
Place of loss : near Long Point.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 7 [all]
Carrying : light
Detail : She was in tow of the tug MOORE with three other barges (see BALTIC). She became separated from the tow in a gale and foundered. Bound for Saginaw.
Some sources say she was lost in Thunder Bay, MI. Noted in 1874 Merchant Vessels as “lost.”
Sources : nsp,slh,(mv),hgl,mpl,mv
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ADVANCE
Other names : none
Official no. : 29091
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1857 or 67, R. Hayes, Fairport
Specs : 49 t
Date of loss : 1871, Jul 12
Place of loss : near Put-in-Bay, S. Bass Isl.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : Collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Collided with steamer U.S. GRANT and sank. Bound for Detroit from Cleveland. Her crew escaped in her yawl.
Homeport: Fairport. Owned by Gallucia and Barnes, Fairport.
.Sources : ledc,hgl,nsp,wl,hr
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ADVANCE
Other names : none
Official no. : C32937
Type at loss : paddle tug, wood
Build info : 1854, J. Wilson, Quebec
Specs : 164x27x11, 373 t.
Date of loss : 1872, Sep 29*
Place of loss : Nicholson Isl., near Port Union, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : raft in tow
Detail : Stranded and reported a total loss while outbound from Toronto. Out of Port Colborne
* date from newspaper acounts, but Oct 15, 1871 is official date of loss.
Spent most of her career as a St. Lawrence River tug
Sources : clu,win,hgl,nsp,wl,mmgl
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ADVANCE
Other names : none
Official no. : 365
Type at loss : schooner, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1853, J.M. Jones, Milwaukee
Specs : 119x26x10, 180g 171n
Date of loss : 1885, Sep 8
Place of loss : 10 mi N. of Port Washington, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 6 of 7
Carrying : bark
Detail : Waterlogged and capsized in a gale and blinding rain while bound Ahnapee, Wis. for Chicago. All but one of crew drowned when her yawl capsized in the surf. Captain’s son was included in the lost. Master: Capt. John Paulson(d). Hailed from Chicago
Major repair in 1861
.Sources : nsp,h,lmdc,mv,hgl,usls,bb,rsl,hr
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ADVANCE
Other names : none
Official no. : C90775
Type at loss : propeller tug/packet, wood
Build info : 1886, W. Bertman, Windsor, Ont.
Specs : 49x15x4, 72gc 49nc
Date of loss : 1903, Oct 25
Place of loss : Between Spanish River and the Soo
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : general merchandise
Detail : Caught fire and burned to a total loss. She was towed to the Soo while fully ablaze, where American tugs and the revenue steamer MORRILL put her out. Canadian official records identify her as this tug, though newspaper reports say she was bound Montreal for Fort William, which would seem to indicate a larger vessel – perhaps the former TILLEY, below.
Owned by Wm. A Kennedy, Manitoulin Isl.
.Sources : nsp,mmgl,hcgl,wl
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ADVANCE
Other names : none
Official no. : 105102
Type at loss : lighter-barge, wood
Build info : 1871, A. A. Turner, Trenton, Mich as a 2-mast schooner
Specs : 139x29x11, 367g 348n
Date of loss : 1921, Oct 19
Place of loss : at Sand Bay, Wis.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal and lightering gear including two derricks
Detail : She was in the process of lightering the stranded steamer FRANK BILLINGS when she was caught by a storm. Abandoned by her tug, she was allowed to drift toward shore. Her crew was rescued by the Coast Guard just before she struck. Her bottom was heavily damaged on the rocks and it was decided the 50-year-old vessel could not be repaired. She was officially abandoned in 1922. Owned by Leathem D Smith Company, Sturgeon Bay.
Converted from a schooner to a barge in 1911 and later equipped as a lighter.
Sources : wgts,mv,bb,hcgl,hr
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ADVANCE
Other names : built as SIR S.L. TILLEY, renamed 1899
Official no. : C88632
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1884, Shickluna, St. Catharines, Ont.
Specs : 175x35x15 1031gc 358nc
Date of loss : 1927, May 12
Place of loss : Manitoulin Isl.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : stranded (storm)
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Went on the rocks near the island. Of little value but she was salvaged anyway, later declared a constructive total loss.
SIR S.L. TILLEY was rebuilt to this vessel after a disastrous fire in 1899 (qv)
In 1889, in what has to be one of the worst examples of navigation in lakes shipping history, she had to pay damages after striking a U. S. lighthouse at the mouth of the Detroit River.
Lengthened from 168 ft in 1904.
.Sources : slh,csv,(nsp),h,mmgl,es3-2,hcgl,pdw
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ADVENTURE
Other names : ?
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : ?
Specs : “small”
Date of loss : 1848, Oct
Place of loss : off Grand River, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : foundered
Loss of life : 3 [all]
Carrying : stone
Detail : No other detail
Sources : is,hgl not in mmgl
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ADVENTURE
Other names : none
Official no. : 105567
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1875, J.Oades, Detroit as a schooner
Specs : 108x28x8 142 g 95n
Date of loss : 1903, Oct 7
Place of loss : at Kelley’s Isl.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lime
Detail : Caught fire while tied to the Kelley’s Isl. Lime and Transport Co. dock. The blaze spread so quickly that those on board barely escaped. Taken in tow by tug SMITH and pulled out into the lake to save the dock and adjacent schooner ANDERSON. Owned by B.,S. & L. of St Clair. Master: Capt. John Lowes.
Built as a 104x24x8 schooner, converted to prop in 1897 (at J. Davidson Shipyard, W. Bay City.)
.Sources : nsp,ns1,mv,ledc,phr,adv,hcgl,ew
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ADVENTURER
Other names : none
Official no. : 107174
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1895, Two Harbors, MN
Specs : 52x11x6, 16 gt.
Date of loss : 1906, Dec 16
Place of loss : near Ontonagon , MI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Broke her moorings and went adrift in gale. Driven on a rocky shore and pounded to pieces. No one was aboard at the time.
Sources : nsp,lss,df,hcgl,mv
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AETNA
Other names : none
Official no. : 358
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1865, Bailey, Madison Dock, OH
Specs : 317 g
Date of loss : 1890
Place of loss : Manitou Passage
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : foundered
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : coal
Detail : Single report that she went down in calm weather while under full sail
Ashore near Long Tail Point, Chicago, in Nov., 1877, with heavy damage.
Also severely damaged in another Lake Mich accident, Oct., 1878.
Few sources show this vessel
Rebuilt from a two to a three master at Chicago in the winter of 1875-6.
Sources : bb,mv,wl,nsp,hr
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AFRICA
Other names : none
Official no. : C92285
Type at loss : propeller, wood, steambarge (former passenger)
Build info : 1873, W. Power & Co., Kingston, Ont.
Specs : 148x26x13, 482gc 328nc
Date of loss : 1895, Oct 5
Place of loss : 15 mi S of Cove Isl. light
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 13 [all]
Carrying : coal, misc frt
Detail : Making for Georgian Bay, she struck a reef, broke up & foundered. Towing schooner SEVERN, which she let go and then disappeared. Bound Ashtabula for Owen Sound. Owned out of Owen Sound, owner: Mrs. A. R. Christie. Master: Capt. H. P. Larsen(d).
Almost destroyed by fire at Kingston, Ont, in ’88 – had a major rebuild (orig 136x24ft, 652g) and number assigned at that time. Also burned at Owen Sound in 1886, rebuilt afterwards.
.Sources : nsp,is(1&3-45,4-63),mmgl,slh,lh,sol,h,lhdc,csv,win,hgl,hcgl
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AGATE
Other names : ?
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner (or slp.), wood
Build info : (1850, Buffalo)
Specs : (22 t.)
Date of loss : 1857, late Nov
Place of loss : near Presque Isle, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : whet and flour
Detail : Went ashore and broke up in a storm. Her crew abandoned her as a total loss and came to Detroit on the steamer SAM WARD, along with the crews of two other shipwrecks.
.Sources : slh,nsp,hcgl (wmhs)
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AGAWA – See also HOWARD M. HANNA, Jr.
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AGAWA
Other names : rebuilt to ROBERT P DURHAM(‘28) later HERON BAY(‘40), FEDERAL HUSKY (’63)
Official no. : C111807
Type at loss : propeller, steel, bulk freight
Build info : 1902, Collingwood, Ont. as a barge
Specs : 379x46x26 3759gc 2468nc
Date of loss : 1927, Dec 7
Place of loss : Manitoulin Isl
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 200,000 bu wheat
Detail : Stranded on Advance Reef in a blizzard and declared a total loss by underwriters. Her crew was taken off by the American tug GENERAL on Dec. 11. She was salvaged and returned to service by Reid Wrecking Co. (repaired at Collingwood). Owned by Algoma Central Steamship Co., Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.
Built as a barge, converted to steamer, ’06. Rebuilt as a barge again in ’63, scrapped in Spain in 1966.
Sources : mmgl,slh,sol,s,csv,gld,hcgl,dr
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AGNES – See ISLE ROYALE
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AGNES
Other names : none
Official no. : 203484
Type at loss : gas screw, wood, passenger ves.
Build info : 1906, Frankfort, Mich
Specs : 26x9x3, 7g 6n
Date of loss : 1912, Oct 7
Place of loss : at Arcadia, Mich
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : foundered
Loss of life : none of 7
Carrying : ?
Detail : No detail. Homeport: Grand Haven, Mich
Sources : mv,hr,wl
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AGNES W
Other names : built as ROSWELL P. FLOWER renamed in 1915
Official no. : 110724
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1887, Wolf & Davidson, Milwaukee
Specs : 264x38x18 1593g 1165n
Date of loss : 1918, Jul 12
Place of loss : Canada Point, Drummond Isl.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 20
Carrying : grain
Detail : Stranded while attempting to enter the St. Mary’s R. in a storm. Later pounded to pieces. Owned by D. W. Stocking.
Also wrecked on a reef near Waugoschance Pt., western Straits of Mackinac, 1892.
Sources : eas,slh,ns2,mv,mpl,hcgl,svb
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AHNAPEE
Other names : none
Official no. : 1549
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1867, Neal McLean, Ahnapee (Wolf R.) WI
Specs : 71x21x6, 118g
Date of loss : 1884, Jun 9
Place of loss : 2.5 mi N. of Sheboygan, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : stranded
Loss of life : none of 5
Carrying : RR ties and cordwood.
Detail : Bound Torch Lake, MI, for Milwaukee, she stranded in fog on North Point. A later strong wind blew her into the rocks, where the bottom was pounded out of her hull. Part of her cargo was all that was saved. Owned by Capt. Fehrenkemp, Milwaukee.
Rebuilt amd lenghtened in 1876
.Sources : h,is,usls,mpl,bb,nsp,hr
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AHTEEK
Other names : built as tug ALBERT WRIGHT, renamed in 1904
Official no. : C77915
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1873, H. Hackey, Port Hope, Ont.
Specs : 57x13x8, 29g 21n
Date of loss : 1911, Nov 22
Place of loss : near Bamford Light, St. Joseph Channel
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Totally destroyed by fire at Richard’s Landing.
Out of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.
Sources : win,mmgl
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AIMEE
Other names : also seen as AIMIE, AIME
Official no. : (105856)
Type at loss : (propeller) tug, wood
Build info : (1879, Ahnapee, Wis)
Specs : 10t
Date of loss : 1880, Nov 20
Place of loss : off Thunder Bay Island
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light station supplies and a pet deer on its way to President-elect Garfield in Ohio.
Detail : Stranded and destroyed by waves. She had earlier taken a load of lumber camp supplies to Thunder Bay Isl., but was unable to return because of ice and damage to her rudder from ice. Later broke her moorings, drifted away and was wrecked. The usls report is long and detailed. Owned by Thunder Bay Boom Co. Master: Capt. Howe.
.Sources : h,nsp,usls,rep,hr,rs
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ADAM AINSLIE
Other names : built as RICHARD S. KING, renamed in 1892. also seen as ADAM AINSLEY
Official no. : C94765 (see below)
Type at loss : propeller tug, wood
Build info : 1883, Wm. Ross, Port Robinson, Ont
Specs : 70x16x9, 59gc 40nc
Date of loss : 1898, Aug
Place of loss : South Bay, Ont
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : none
Detail : Caught fire and burned to a total loss of about $10,000. Owned by Rixon, Ainslie and Stoddart Lumber.
She was rebuilt and enlarged by Simpson at Owen Sound in 1892. She was renumbered at that time as well. Originally C#84421, 60×17 ft., 58 t..
Sources : jh,mmgl,csv,polk,hr
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ISABELLA AINSLIE
Other names :
Official no. : C
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : ?
Specs : ?
Date of loss : 1861, Dec 28
Place of loss : 7 mi N of Limestone Islands, Georgian Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Partially capsized and driven ashore on a rocky reef. Some hope was entertained that she would be released the following spring. Her skipper asked that the bay where the boat went ashore be renamed “St. Margaret’s Bay” in honor of his cool-headed wife, who was aboard at the time. Out of Leith, Ont. [near Owen Sound]. Master: Capt. Whittey.
.Sources : nsp,rnc,wmn
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AINSWORTH
Other names : none
Official no. : US none
Type at loss : schoooner, wood
Build info : 1835, Cape Vincent, NY
Specs : 110 t.
Date of loss : 1846, Nov 20
Place of loss : off Fort Ontario, Oswego, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : salt
Detail : She was blown from the West Pier where she was lying awaiting weather and was dismasted and thrown on her beam ends on the rocks near Ft. Ontario. Her crew were rescued by the next day by members of the Revenue Cutter Service in the yawl from their cutter.
Out of Cleveland.
Maybe H. AINSWORTH built 1842, Luther Moses, Cleveland. If so, she was recovered.
.Sources : nsp,rp,hgl,wmhs
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AJAX
Other names : none
Official no. : 1124
Type at loss : sidewheel tug, wood
Build info : 1865, Florence, MI*
Specs : 107x28x5, 95 t
Date of loss : 1872, Aug 9
Place of loss : Saginaw Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Burned near Bay City on Saginaw Bay. Registered out of Bay City
*maybe built in 1855 at Green Bay, just rebuilt in 1865
Sources : slh,nsp,lhl,hgl,hr
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H.C. AKELEY
Other names : also spelled “Ackley” and “Ackeley” in reports
Official no. : 95639
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1881, Kirby & Akeley, Grand Haven, MI
Specs : 230x35x20, 1187g 794n
Date of loss : 1883, Nov 13
Place of loss : Off Holland, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 6
Carrying : corn
Detail : Bound Chicago for Buffalo, she took the disabled tug PROTECTOR (qv) in tow in a heavy gale, but let her go after her rudder broke off. She came to anchor but fell into the troughs of the waves and began to sink. The disabled schooner DRIVER happened by and saved 12 of her crew who had taken to her yawl just before she went down. Master: Capt. Edw. Strech(d).
.Sources : sol,h,sm,nsp,g8s,sound,hgl,usls, mpl,m&h,bcha,hcgl,mh
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ALABAMA
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1834, Sackett’s Harbor, NY
Specs : 92 g
Date of loss : 1843, Oct 17
Place of loss : at Fairport, OH
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none?
Carrying : wheat
Detail : Collided with the pier at the mouth of the Grand River and a total loss.
.Sources : hgl,nsp,wmhs
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ALABAMA
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1848, W. Gooding, Detroit, MI
Specs : 234x29x12, 799 t.
Date of loss : 1854, Aug 28
Place of loss : just outside the harbor at Buffalo, NY
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : hull failure
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : Sank from a leak which developed just after she left her dock at Buffalo, bound up the lake for repairs. She went down right in the channel. The tug HAMILTON MORTON took her crew off. Her hull was reported to be very rotten. In early September the Navy iron steamer MICHIGAN tried unsuccessfully to tow her out of the way, and late in the same month the schooner WATCHMAN [apparently lacking a good watchman] accidentally came upon the wreck and sailed right between her arches without damage. Dismantled where she lay until there was 30 feet of clear water over her in Sept & Oct of 1855, by I. Coffin of Buffalo. Owned out of Sandusky by Burton, Hall & Russell. Master: Capt. Thos. Jefferson Titus.
.Sources : lhl,nsp,wl,eas,ewe
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ALAMEDA – See ALMEDA
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ALASKA
Other names : built as ACORN, renamed in 1883
Official no. : 356
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1863, A. Muir, Port Dalhousie, Ont. as a bark
Specs : 125x26x10, 316g 303n
Date of loss : 1884, Sep 18
Place of loss : Scott’s Point, 20 miles north of Beaver Island Straits of Mackinac*
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : Outbound from Escanaba, she went aground and broke up in a southerly gale. She soon broke up, despite the efforts of the wrecker LEVIATHAN. Out of Port Huron, owned by Arch Muir.
Had another serious accident in August of the same year at Bois Blanc Isl. Straits of Mackinac
Probably sold American in 1882
Sources : mv,polk,slh,phr,rsl,hr,mr
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ALASKA
Other names : none
Official no. : C117174
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1878, J.P. Clark, Springwells [Detroit], MI [US#105798]
Specs : 165x29x11 511gc 361nc
Date of loss : 1910, Dec 24
Place of loss : a few miles from Tobermorey, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Sheltering from a storm, she caught fire from an overheated boiler and burned to a total loss.
Sold Canadian 1906. Out of Windsor, owned by Williscroft & Pulling.
Built as a sidewheel passenger vessel of 510 t., converted to a barge in 1889 after a fire at Detroit, converted to a propeller bulk freighter in 1895. In the 1889 rebuild her sidewheel engine, which originally came from the U. S. Revenue Cutter JOHN SHERMAN of 1864, went into the steamer FRANK E. KIRBY [see DOVER]
Sources : win,h,mv,mmgl,win,hdm,ns2, slh,mpl,es3-2,hcgl,dr
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ALBACORE
Other names : none
Official no. : C74380
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast, package & bulk frt
Build info : 1872, Muir Bros., Port Dalhousie, Ont.
Specs : 137x26x11, 327 t
Date of loss : 1900, Sep 12
Place of loss : just east of Oswego, NY*
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 7
Carrying : ?
Detail : A storm blew out her sails & drove her into the seawall at Ft. Bank, where she broke up. Tug J. NAVAGH tried to save her, and Lifesaving Service crew rescued her people. Owned by Capt. Bradshaw of Toronto.
*newspapers are divided as to whether the wreck occurred at Oswego or at Kingston, Ont.
Sister of ALBATROSS(qv)[C75633] – both were known as “timber droughers,” built to haul large squared timbers.
.Sources : nsp,ns1,is,mmgl,tfgl,osdo,mpl, hcgl
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ALBANY
Other names : ?
Official no. : none
Type at loss : brig, wood
Build info : (1835, Oswego, NY)
Specs : (110 t.)
Date of loss : 1843, Oct 1
Place of loss : Straits of Mackinac, a few miles from Mackinaw City
Lake : Huron/Mich
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : merchandise, passengers
Detail : She went aground and was wrecked in a gale.
.Sources : slh,nsp,hgl,rp not in mmgl
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ALBANY
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger/package freight
Build info : 1846, C. Worth, Detroit
Specs : 202x29x12, 669 t
Date of loss : 1853, Nov 26
Place of loss : near Presque Isle, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : passengers,misc cargo
Detail : Making for the shelter of Presque Isle harbor, she was driven over a bar by a tremendous gale. Plans were made to haul her back across, but she was destroyed by another storm before they could be realized. 200 passengers & crew came ashore in her boats. Bound Soo to Detroit. Propeller NIAGARA also reported to have helped rescue her people. Master: Capt. Jones. Her boiler and most of her machinery was recovered in Nov, 1854.
.Sources : nsp,slh,is(2-60),lc,lhl,eas,hgl
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ALBANY
Other names : none
Official no. : 106306
Type at loss : propeller, steel, package freight
Build info : 1884, Detroit Dry Dock, Wyandotte hull# 69
Specs : 267x39x18 1918g 1678n
Date of loss : 1893, Nov 7
Place of loss : A few miles off Pte Aux Barques, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : Collision
Loss of life : 8
Carrying : grain(?)
Detail : Collided with iron package freighter PHILADELPHIA(qv) in a thick fog. There was some evidence that both vessels were going too fast for conditions, though each blamed the other. PHILADELPHIA took ALBANY in tow to try and save her, but she sank well offshore. Her crew transferred to PHILADELPHIA, which was soon abandoned to sink in her turn. The casualties of the ALBANY were lost when one of her lifeboats mysteriously failed to make it to shore in calm weather. It is speculated that the abandoned PHILADELPHIA, still underway, circled and ran their boat down in the fog. Master; Capt. A. J. McDonald. Owned by Western Transportation Co., Buffalo.
Ashore with heavy damage near Cheboygan, MI 11/20/1887.
.Sources : nsp,slh,lm,sol,h,mv,lhdc,atl,wb, hgl,mpl,m&h,hcgl,mr
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ALBATROS IV
Other names : ?
Official no. : C190377
Type at loss : tug or yacht
Build info : ?
Specs : 16t
Date of loss : 1953, Aug 22
Place of loss : Toronto Harbour
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Brief report, no detail
Sources : win,h not in mmgl
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ALBATROSS
Other names : none
Official no. : Can.
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1867, H. Cronkite, Oakville, Ont.
Specs : 92x21x9, 143 t.
Date of loss : 1880, Nov 7
Place of loss : near Wellington, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : shingles, lumber
Detail : Bound Port Hope, Ont., to Oswego, her rigging and rudder were damaged by weather and she went ashore. ALBATROSS’ rigging was coated with an estimated 150 t. of ice. A few days later her deckload and part of her belowdecks cargo was removed by the CHIEFTAIN and the vessel was abandoned.
Owned by T. Hyden, Port Hope.
.Sources : mmgl ,jm,nsp
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ALBATROSS
Other names : none
Official no. : C75633
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1871, A. Muir, Pt. Dalhousie as 2-mast schooner
Specs : 137x26x12, 317 t.
Date of loss : 1911, Aug 21
Place of loss : Georgian Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : Tow of tug C.C. MARTIN(qv), she took water and sank in storm. 2 men, 3 women and 2 children survived in an open yawl for 36 hours before coming ashore near Byng Inlet. The vessel hailed from Midland, Ont and was owned by Midland Towing Co. The tug was also lost, and may have been dragged down when schooner sank. Bound Penetang for French R. Master: Capt. Dean.
Major repair in 1878 after going ashore on Middle Island, L. Huron, the previous fall.. May have been enlarged later.
.Sources : nsp,ns2,mmgl,svb
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ALBEMARLE
Other names : none
Official no. : 1730
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1867, C. Bidwell, Buffalo
Specs : 154 ft, 413gt
Date of loss : 1867, Nov 6
Place of loss : Pt. Nipigon, Straits of Mackinac
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : Stranded and wrecked. Bound Escanaba for Cleveland. A tug that was sent to rescue her a few days after the accident found her in a hopeless condition, but wreckers continued to work on her until she was finally abandoned in August of the following year.
Owned by Winslow Bros., Buffalo.
.Sources : ssm,slh,dm,hgl,nsp
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ALBERTA
Other names : none – nicknamed “BERTIE”
Official no. : C85765
Type at loss : propeller steamer, steel, passenger/package freight
Build info : 1883, McConnell & Co., Whiteinch[Glasgow], Scotland
Specs : 264x38x23, 2282gc 1551nc
Date of loss : 1884, Jul 27
Place of loss : 3.5 mi from Whitefish Point
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : Passengers, misc frt
Detail : Collided with steambarge JOHN M. OSBORNE(qv) and sank in shallow water. Single casualty was lost in attempt to rescue crewmen from sinking OSBORNE. The collision occurred in fog. She was recovered soon after. This was ALBERTA’s 1st year and she was sister of the ill-fated ALGOMA(qv), lost HER 1st year of service.
Collided with and damaged by the propeller PACIFIC in the St. Mary’s River earlier the same month.
Rebuilt, 1911. Broken up in 1947.
Sources : mmgl,gsgl,mol,hgl,mpl,hcgl
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ALBERTA
Other names : none
Official no. : C103648
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight “rabbit”
Build info : 1886, G. Hinckley, Cape Vincent, NY, as a schooner (US#106355)
Specs : 103x18x7 122gc 88nc
Date of loss : 1902, Oct 8
Place of loss : between Belleville and Trenton, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : Burned to a total loss while enroute to Belleville. Her crew barely escaped with their lives. Owned by Capt. and Amanda Smith, Belleville.
Converted to a steamer and lengthened at Oswego in 1889
Sold Canadian in 1898
Sources : mmgl,win,is,ns1,csv,svb,jb
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ALBERTA
Other names : none
Official no. : C88247
Type at loss : centerwheel paddle tug, wood
Build info : 1888, W. Evans, Deseronto, Ont.
Specs : 65x30x4, 68gc 62nc
Date of loss : 1899, Jul 21
Place of loss : Pymer’s Point, Bay of Quinte
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : “sunk”
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Reportedly sunk in 75 feet of water, but the wreck identified as her lies in 110 feet of water.
She was a twin-engined sidewheeler. Her engines have been recovered.
Sources : mmgl,tr
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ALBERTA
Other names : none
Official no. : C122177
Type at loss : propeller, wood (tug)
Build info : 1907, Rossport, Ont.
Specs : 30x10x4, 7g 5n
Date of loss : 1917, Nov 22
Place of loss : Thunder Bay, Ont.
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 4-5 tons herring
Detail : Foundered
Registered out of Port Arthur
Sources : mmgl,win,rf
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ALBION
Other names :
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1848, Doolittle and Mollison, Oswego, NY
Specs : 115x21x9, 215 t.
Date of loss : 1858, Oct 8
Place of loss : 12 mi N by E from Erie, PA. light, 12 mi out
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 8 [all]
Carrying : wheat
Detail : The eerie remains of this schooner were discovered by a party of fishermen Oct 14, with the topmasts just below the surface and sails still set, in 75 feet of water. Several detailed descriptions of the wreck were printed in the papers, but it was almost two weeks before she was identified. She apparently went down quickly in a gale on the date shown. Out of Oswego. Master: Capt. Love(d).
Ashore at Oak Orchard, NY, in late Nov of 1855.
.Sources : nsp,hgl,wmhs,rp
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ALBION
Other names : built as BRISTOL renamed in 1876
Official no. : C73960
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight “steambarge”
Build info : 1862, Wm. Saunders, Brockville, Ont.
Specs : 134x26x11 297g
Date of loss : 1887, Oct 3
Place of loss : near Pte Aux Barques, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fog/storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : She went on the rocks NE of Grindstone City and stranded at night in a foggy westerly gale. Towing the schooner ARK. The USLS from Pte Aux Barques rescued her crew and saved some of her gear and cargo. She became a total wreck the next day, but ARK survived. Out of St. Catharines, Ont. Owner: Muir
Assigned her first official number when rebuilt [by Muir] at Port Dalhousie after a 10/1875 fire.
.Sources : nsp,slh,h,lhdc,csv,eas,mmgl,wb,win,polk,hgl,sb, usls,wl,mr
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H.C. ALBRECHT – See THOMAS HUME
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ALCIOPE – See UNITED KINGDOM
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ALDEBARAN
Other names : none
Official no. : 312
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1852, Ketchum, Huron, OH
Specs : 251 t.
Date of loss : 1876, Oct 2
Place of loss : near Amherstburg, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : RR ties
Detail : While loading RR ties at Coatsworth’s dock, she was torn loose by a gale and driven ashore about 200 yards west of the dock. Despite the efforts of the Buffalo tug H. G. NOLTON, she broke up and became a total wreck in a sou’wester which blew up Oct 5.
Out of Buffalo.
Major repairs in 1869 after sinking off Pointe aux Barques in the fall of ’68.
.Sources : es,wl,nsp,wmn
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B.W. ALDRICH
Other names : later W. B. ALDRICH (1903), may have been named J. M. DIVER in Canadian registry, but no record of it
Official no. : 2701
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood, salvage
Build info : 1868, Allen, McLellan & Co., Milwaukee
Specs : 65x15x7 49g 25n
Date of loss : 1899, Dec
Place of loss : unreported
Lake : St Clair R
Type of loss : “sunk”
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Reid salvage tug reported sunk (in a single report). Recovered and later sold Canadian
Also burned near Ludington in 1871, and had at least 3 separate fires at Muskegon in 1870.
Sold Canadian in 1903. Registry closed 1915, annotated “abandoned”
Sources : s,hgl,mpl,wl,nsp,hcgl,csv,glmd
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WILLIAM ALDRICH
Other names : none
Official no. : 26362
Type at loss : schooner, wood, “grand haven rig” 2-mast [built as 3-master]
Build info : 1856, J. Harbridge, Two Rivers, WI
Specs : 123x26x8 192g 182n
Date of loss : 1916, Jun 9 or 7
Place of loss : near Pt. Epoufette, Mi
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : She went ashore and broke up near town of Davenport, MI (now gone)
Knocked down by a white squall in 1891, with the loss of one
Rebuilt 1872. Enlarged in 1875
Sources : slh,ns2,h,mv,mpl,eas,hcgl
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ALERT – former (1844) entry eliminated. The vessel was recovered with $500 damage.
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ALERT
Other names : none
Official no. : 105101
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, bulk frt, 2-mast
Build info : 1871, A. Turner, Trenton, MI
Specs : 143x28x11 360g 342n
Date of loss : 1904, Sep 16
Place of loss : near S. Manitou Isl
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : (none)
Carrying : stone
Detail : Tow of steamer DUNCAN CITY, she broke loose in a gale, swamped and sank. Her crew probably escaped in her boat.
Owned by Leatham & Smith of Sturgeon Bay
Built as 3-mast schooner. Rebuilt, ’84 after ’83 fire at Milwaukee.
.Sources : nsp,ns1,slh
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ALETHA B
Other names : rebuilt as GLEN L
Official no. : C175992
Type at loss : fishing tug, steel
Build info : 1945, Owen Sound, Ont
Specs : 41x12x3, 11gc 9nc
Date of loss : 1974
Place of loss : ?
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 2
Carrying : none
Detail : Sunk by a storm. Later raised and rebuilt
Owned by A. D. Perry, Port Dover
Sources : is,hcgl not in mmgl
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ALEXANDER
Other names : built as GENERAL SHERMAN [US#10630]
Official no. : C61160
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1865, J. Monk, Sandusky, OH
Specs : 104x23x6 129 g
Date of loss : 1879, Oct 4
Place of loss : 4 mi from Belle River, Ont.
Lake : St. Clair
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : lumber [ship plank]
Detail : a fire broke out around her stack, and she burned to a total loss while bound Chatham, Ont. for Detroit. She burned to the water’s edge, broke in two, and sank.
Sold Canadian in 1873. Owned by Joseph Roberts or Peter McKerran of Chatham, but port of hail was Montreal..
Shows in mmgl as sternwheeler, most other sources as a propeller or steambarge, though at the time of her loss she was described as a sidewheeler. A description of her in a Detroit newspaper just after launch describes her arrangements as “she has side wheels on her quarter. . .” Probably a “pollywog.”
.Sources : www,mmgl,lhl,mv,win,h,ledc,csv,es,nsp
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ALEXANDRA
Other names : shows as ALEXANDRIA in many sources
Official no. : C112153
Type at loss : propeller, wood, freighter
Build info : 1902, Chatham, New Brunswick*
Specs : 97x25x 201gc 136nc
Date of loss : 1927, Dec 19
Place of loss : Little Current, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Burned in the harbor, off the Government Dock, where her remains still lie. She was tied up there for the winter. Owned by T. C. Sims, Little Current and valued at $30,000..
*Also seen as Chatham, Ont.
Sources : mmgl,win,csv,slh,do,jh
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ALEXANDRIA
Other names : built as CONSORT, renamed ALEXANDRA[1873], last name, 1883. Known locally as “Alex”
Official no. : C85768
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger/package freight
Build info : 1866, A. Cantin, Hull, Quebec
Specs : 174x31x8 863g
Date of loss : 1915, Aug 3
Place of loss : under Scarborough Bluffs, E of Toronto
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 22
Carrying : foodstuffs, furniture
Detail : Bound Port Hope for Toronto, she was beached on a bar in a storm and fog and broken up by action of waves. She had fought a losing battle with a violent gale for nearly the whole trip. Canadian Lifesavers and locals worked for hours in an ultimately successful operation to take the crew off. Thoroughly stripped by locals over the next decades. Remains of her boiler are still visible at the site. Out of Picton, owned by Ontario & Quebec Navigation Co., div of CSL. Master: Capt. Bloomfield.
Built at 162×25 ft, 940g, rebuilt in 1883
.Sources : tfgl,csv,win,clu,ns2,h,mmgl,do,cr,wssa,hcgl,nsp
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ALFRED W
Other names : none
Official no. : 202643
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, composite
Build info : 1905, Green Bay, Wis
Specs : 66x17x11, 56g 19n
Date of loss : 1906, Jun 27
Place of loss : near Pie Island
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : fog
Loss of life : none of 9
Carrying : none
Detail : Bound Port Arthur for Duluth. Struck a rock in heavy fog and foundered. Crew made it ashore in one of her boats, later picked up by KAMINISTIQUIA.
Belonged to Duluth & Superior Wrecking Co.
.Sources : nsp,lss,wmhs,mv
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ALGERIA
Other names : none
Official no. : 107222
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, bulk freight, 3-mast
Build info : 1896, Jas. Davidson, W. Bay City, MI hull #75
Specs : 285x45x19 2,038g
Date of loss : 1906, May 9
Place of loss : near Cleveland harbor entrance
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 2 of 12
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : Sheltering outside harbor, but overwhelmed by the storm, torn to pieces by wave action & sunk. Local tugs refused to come to her aid due to a strike. 5 men were sent ashore in her yawl, 3 left on board [skipper, chief & cook]. Only the “1-eyed cook” survived, picked up swimming by steamer L.C. HANNA. Owner: Capt. Sidney Scott, Mt. Clemens, Mich. Master: Capt. Martin Elnen(d).
Wreck was removed as hazard in November of the same year.
One of largest wooden vessels ever built.
.Sources : nsp,ns1,h,mv,ledc,eas,vbs,hcgl,ew
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ALGERIAN – See also BAVARIAN, KINGSTON
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ALGERINE
Other names : also seen as ALGERIAN
Official no. : 1085
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1856, A. Miller, Oswego
Specs : 136x26x12, 300 g [436 t. o.m]
Date of loss : 1877, Oct 23
Place of loss : near Springfield, Pa., 20 mi W of Erie, Pa.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : Bound Ogdensburg, NY for Detroit, she was driven ashore and wrecked, going to pieces within a few hours. Her crew was able to escape and reached shore safely. Part of the Corrigan fleet, Cleveland, and skippered by Capt. James Scott, who had given James Corrigan his first job.
Another report shows the loss of a schooner or steamer ALGERINE along the Minnesota shore of Lake Superior in 1875 with the loss of 7 lives, but detail is lacking. One source says she was a steamer but was NOT the Canadian iron steamer ALGERIAN, which was named KINGSTON at this time. Hgl says she was a Canadian steamer, though.
.Sources : osdo,lss,gwgl,is,hgl,mv,rp,wmn,ewl
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ALGOMA
Other names : none
Official no. : C85766
Type at loss : propeller, steel, passenger steamer
Build info : 1883, Aiken & Mansell, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland
Specs : 262x38x23, 1773gc 1153nc
Date of loss : 1885, Nov 7
Place of loss : Isle Royle [Greenstone Isl]
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 37(48?)
Carrying : passengers, merch
Detail : This luxury railway steamer was thought to be one of the sturdiest ships afloat, but she was blown aground, broken in two & destroyed by storm. Later she was pushed off the rocks and sunk. Bound Owen Sound for Port Arthur, Ont. Owned by Canadian Pacific Railway. Master: Capt. John Moore. Engine and gear were recovered in summer, 1886.
Located by divers in 1978.
.Sources : nsp,irs,mol,gsgl,gwgl,is(1-45,1-60,4-65),win,mmgl,hgl,hcgl
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ALGOMA
Other names : ?
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : dredge barge, wood
Build info : ?
Specs : ?
Date of loss : 1918, Nov 18
Place of loss : Manitowoc, WI, harbor
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Foundered in storm
Sources : is
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ALGOMA
Other names : built as CITY OF TORONTO, later RACINE (’63), given this name in 1864
Official no. : C46235
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger/package frt
Build info : 1839, Niagara Harbour & Dock Co. [A. Cantin], Niagara, Ont. year also given as ’41
Specs : 163x24x11 758gc 624nc
Date of loss : 1877, winter
Place of loss : Collingwood, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : Foundered
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : No detail on this loss. Declared a total wreck, but later recovered. Used until dismantled and abandoned for age in 1888 at Collingwood. Included here because she is an interesting boat!
Went from a crack mail/passenger steamer to a towboat in 1852. Sold U.S. in 1863 after a fire at Niagara and completely rebuilt at Detroit. Operated Detroit/Lake Michigan for about a year, then resold Canadian, renamed & given her 1st official number in 1864. Rebuilt at Detroit again in 1866 and yet again 1870.
Originally built on the lines of the Halifax mail steamer ACADIA. Twin engined [one of the first on lakes], showing a pair of walking beams above her decks.
Rebuild in 1850 included replacing her wooden paddles with iron ones.
Image as she originally appeared, from GLMD collection
Near time of wreck, same source
.Sources : mmgl,clu,win,slh,h,csv,eh,mpl, rsl,nsp,ssnr,hcgl,glmd
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ALGONQUIN
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1838, G.W. Jones, Black R. OH
Specs : 55x18x7, 55g
Date of loss : 1856
Place of loss : near Duluth
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Foundered in the harbor and abandoned.
Portaged around Soo in 1839, one of earliest decked vessels on Lake Superior.
Sources : lss,gwgl,h,hgl,mpl,wl
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ALGORA – See ALZORA
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ALGOSOO
Other names : built as SATURN, renamed J. FRATER TAYLOR (’13), last name 1936
Official no. : C130776
Type at loss : propeller, steel, bulk freight
Build info : 1901, American Shipbuilding Co., Lorain, OH hull #306 US# 117023
Specs : 346x48x28 3429gc
Date of loss : 1965, Nov 27
Place of loss : Near Whitefish Point
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : Struck bottom in gale as she was rounding the point and suffered heavy damage to her hull. Continued her voyage but scrapped due to age and condition at the end of it.
Sold Canadian, 1913
Image from GLMD (as SATURN)
Sources : mmgl,is(4-67),csv,hcgl
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ALICE – See HIBOU
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ALICE G
Other names : none
Official no. : C107169
Type at loss : propeller tug, wood (fish tug?)
Build info : 1902, Collingwood
Specs : 60×12, 36 t.
Date of loss : 1927, Nov
Place of loss : near Tobermory, Ont
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Blown ashore by a gale and reported a total loss
Sources : mmgl,slh,do,dr
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ALICE L
Other names : none
Official no. : 208703
Type at loss : gas tug, wood, fish tug
Build info : 1911, Crescent, MI [N. Manitou Isl.]
Specs : 26x8x4, 9g 8n
Date of loss : 1929, Dec 2
Place of loss : E of Grand Marais, MI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : none
Detail : “lost”
Sources : mv,rkr,lssc,gwgl
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ALICE MARY
Other names : none
Official no. : C72564
Type at loss : sloop-barge, wood, 1-mast
Build info : 1875, C. Harris, Dog Lake [Battersea], Ont.
Specs : 80x11x5, 70g 67n
Date of loss : 1882, Apr 24
Place of loss : Bay of Quinte
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : She stranded and became a total loss after springing a leak while bound Kingston for Amherst Isl. Loss of $4,000.
Built as a St. Lawrence River barge.
Sources : win,mmgl,clu,dmt
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ALICE VIVIAN
Other names : none
Official no. : 30240
Type at loss : unpowered dredge barge
Build info : 1898, Islip, NY
Specs : 710g 710n
Date of loss : 1975
Place of loss : Connie’s Landing, St. Louis R., Duluth
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : fire [arson]
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She had been laid up at that spot since 1947 and abandoned for more than 20 years when she was set ablaze by vandals. She burned to the waterline and sank.
Brought to the lakes before 1911 and was used to dredge spilled coal and ore from Duluth Harbor.
Sources : mnhs,glmd,mv
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ALIDA
Other names : none
Official no. : none (inland)
Type at loss : (propeller) packet/tug, wood
Build info : 1856, Kirby & Hoyt, Saginaw
Specs : 81x15x3, 58g 35n
Date of loss : 1867, Dec 20
Place of loss : Saginaw R.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : several
Carrying : ?
Detail : This little tug and packet, for many years the only steamer to regularly venture up the Saginaw R. beyond the mouth of the Flint, was lost when her boiler exploded, she caught fire and burned to a total loss.
Burned at Hess & Bros. dock, East Saginaw on May 23, 1860.
.Sources : nsp,vbs,rsl
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ALLEGAN
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1835 or 6, Chaumont, NY
Specs : 76x20x8, 100 t.*
Date of loss : 1856, Nov
Place of loss : near Presq’ile, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : wheat
Detail : Went ashore and became a total loss. Hull and cargo were worth $11,500, insurance value.
Last owners and homeport not recorded. Owned by Hopkins and Harken, Oswego, up to April, 1856.
* the vessel was rebuilt and enlarged in the winter of 1855-56, but the new dimensions were not recorded.
Sources : hgl,wmn,wl,blu[56]
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ALLEGHANY
Other names : ?
Official no. : none
Type at loss : brig, wood, 2-mast
Build info : ?
Specs : 255 t.
Date of loss : 1855, ca. Sep 12
Place of loss : off Clay Banks, N side of Lake Erie
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : 352 t. coal
Detail : Bound Erie, PA for Mackinaw with bunker coal for the Collingwood Line of steamers, she was rammed by the schooner YOUNG AMERICA off Clay Banks and sank quickly in six fathoms of water. YOUNG AMERICA was bound Chicago for Buffalo with corn. Owned by Gen. C.M. Reed of Erie, PA. Salvagers were still working on releasing her in October.
.Sources : nsp,jm,wmn
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ALLEGHANY
Other names : none
Official no. : 379
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight “steam barge”
Build info : 1856, J.M. Jones, Milwaukee
Specs : 167x29x14 402g 267n [601 t. om]
Date of loss : 1896, Oct 29
Place of loss : Summer Isl.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light, barge TRANSFER in tow
Detail : Went aground in fog and storm with heavy damage while bound Manistique, Mich., from Chicago. Refloated, but found to be unfit for further service and abandoned. Burned in lieu of scrapping in July of the following year. Owned by Tonawanda Barge Line.
Wrecked on Lake Michigan in the fall of 1856 and sat in the ice all winter. Repaired at Milwaukee in ‘57.
1st propeller built at Milwaukee and was built to replace the earlier prop of the same name (but spelled ALLEGHENY) that was wrecked in October, 1855(qv). Her engine came from this earlier vessel.
Rebuilt 1875. Re-engined in 1889, engine from F.R. BUELL.
.Sources : slh,mv,lhl,hgl,nsp,eh,rsl,wgts
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ALLEGHENY
Other names : also seen spelled ALLEGHANY
Official no. : none
Type at loss : propeller, wood
Build info : 1849, Luther Moses, Cleveland
Specs : 178x25x11, 468 t.
Date of loss : 1855, Oct 24
Place of loss : at Milwaukee
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : gen. merchandise, passengers
Detail : Came to anchor near the harbor entrance to shelter. Rolled out her stack and was then unable to get steam up and was helpless. Dragged in close to the beach and was pounded to pieces. She was only a short distance from the SEBASTOPOL(qv). Her engine and most of her cargo was removed by the end of the month. The engine was installed in a new vessel of the same name [US#379] built over the following winter to replace her.
Owned by American Transportation Co.
.Sources : lhl,nsp,eh,eas,wls
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ALLEGHENY
Other names : none
Official no. : 105295
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, lumber, 3-mast
Build info : 1873, W.W. Loomis, Erie, PA
Specs : 187x33x13 689g 599n
Date of loss : 1913, Jun 6
Place of loss : Vermilion Point, MI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1 of 6
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Broke away from tow steamer M.T. GREEN and stranded on a bar in a foggy gale. She was right in front of the lifesaving station, whose surfmen took five of her crew off. The vessel later broke up. Out of Toledo, owned by J. Dunseith.
Sources : phr,eas,lssc,gwgl,ns2,mpl, hcgl,mv
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ALLEGHENY
Other names : built as Navy tug ATA-179, now MALCOLM, renamed in 1979
Official no. : 518191
Type at loss : motor vessel, steel, training vessel
Build info : 1944, Levingston Shipbuilding, Orange, Tx as a sea-going Naval tug
Specs : 143 ft., 900 t
Date of loss : 1978, Jan 27
Place of loss : Traverse City, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : ice
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Training vessel of the Great Laked Maritime Academy capsized at her winter dock from weight of accumulated ice. Recovered but required an expensive rebuild and was sold.
Obtained by the Great Lakes Maritime Academy in Dec, 1968.
Sources : is(1-69),mpl,hcgl
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ADA E. ALLEN
Other names : none
Official no. : C74066
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight “steambarge”
Build info : 1872, W Allen, Walpole Isl (Wallaceburg), Ont. as a bark
Specs : 90x22x6 170gc 68nc
Date of loss : 1887, Sep 22
Place of loss : Heard’s dock, near Amherstburg, Ont.
Lake : Detroit R
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : Caught fire while moored at Amherstburg and cut loose to avoid the spread of fire. Drifted to Bois Blanc Isl. and burned to a total loss. She had recently been laid up and her crew discharged due to her poor condition. Owned by J. Atkinson of Pelee Isl. Not lost in Nov, as sometimes stated.
Originally 107 t. Rebuilt from bark to steambarge in 1873, rebuilt to 135 t. in ’78 & 170 in ’81. Major repairs, ’84.
.Sources : nsp,csv,h,mmgl,win,hgl,es3-1,
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ALFRED ALLEN
Other names : built as J. J. MORLEY, renamed after rebuild in 1862
Official no. : 1360
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1853, H.N. Throop, Pultneyville, NY
Specs : 160 t.
Date of loss : 1869, Oct 27
Place of loss : Mohawk Reef, near Port Colborne, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : (none)
Carrying : 500 bbl salt
Detail : Bound for Toledo, she went on the reef in a blizzard. She washed free, drifted to a mainland beach and pounded to pieces by Nov 30. Still reported in some later sources. Noted in 1874 Merchant Vessels as “wrecked.”
Probably owned by Allen & Hollin, Pultneyville
.Sources : nsp,hgl,mv,rsl,mdwl,wl
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C.F. ALLEN
Other names : none
Official no. : 4554
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood
Build info : 1862 , Gilmore, Black River, Oh
Specs : 146 t.
Date of loss : 1883, May 3
Place of loss : at Muskegon, Mich
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 70,000 board feet lumber
Detail : She was lying at a dock at Farr’s Mill when she was struck by lightning. The bolt struck her foremast, traveled down her wire rigging and set fire to her cargo. Four of her crew, who had slept through the bolt, were awakened by the yelling of the mill watchman, and escaped with their lives. The vessel burned to a total loss. A few days later the hulk was towed to Grand Haven, but there is no record that she ever sailed again.
Owned by Michigan Barge Co.
Major repairs in 1880. She was primarily used as a barge by 1870.
Sources : hgl,polk,wmhs,mv,wmn,nsp,bb,hr
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DAN ALLEN
Other names : yes, but unknown
Official no. : 35474
Type at loss : barge, wood
Build info : 1872, Canada
Specs : 117x23x8, 181 t.
Date of loss : 1885, Apr 9
Place of loss : Black River [Port Huron]
Lake : St Clair R
Type of loss : ice
Loss of life : none
Carrying : probably none
Detail : Pushed by ice in the spring breakup, she collided with the steamer BURLINGTON and barge H. F. CHURCH and drove them into the Military Street bridge at Port Huron.. She was washed completely under the CHURCH and jammed there. A legal squabble ensued over whether the CHURCH should be removed first or the ALLEN. By the time it was settled, the ALLEN had become a total loss. She was reported as being removed by dynamiting in August, 1885. Owned by G. W. Allen of Port Huron.
Rebuilt to this barge at Erie, PA after wrecking in 1880. Given this name at that time. Maybe former Canadian steamer VANDERBILT. Maybe originally built in 1855, Milan, Oh.
Sources : phr,mv,jb,polk,nsp,hr
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E.B. ALLEN
Other names : none
Official no. : 7818
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1864, H.C. Piersons, Ogdensburg, NY
Specs : 111 ft, 275 t
Date of loss : 1871, Sep 18
Place of loss : Off Thunder Bay Isl, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : grain
Detail : Collided with bark NEWSBOY and sank. Out of Chicago.
Homeport in 1869: Ogdensburg, NY
.Sources : stb,slh,lhdc,nsp,hgl,rsl,cbt
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HARRY L. ALLEN
Other names : built as JOHN B. COWLE last name in 1969
Official no. : 207277
Type at loss : propeller steamer, steel, bulk freight
Build info : 1910, American Shipbuilding Co., Lorain, OH hull #379
Specs : 525x58x31 6945g 5451n
Date of loss : 1978, Jan 20
Place of loss : Duluth, MN
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Caught fire during winter layup and declared a constructive total loss. Burned at Capital 4 grain elevator dock, Duluth.
Sources : is,lss,mpl,hcgl
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MARGARET ALLEN
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1844, Chicago
Specs : 80x19x7, 89 t.
Date of loss : 1847, Nov 21
Place of loss : near Death’s Door
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : all hands
Carrying : ?
Detail : Wrecked in a gale.
Owned by J. P. Allen of Chicago. Another vessel – the schooner BOLIVAR – owned by the same person, was reported wrecked the same day.
Sources : hgl,wmn,wl,wls
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W.B. ALLEN
Other names : also seen as WALTER B. ALLEN, WALKER B. ALLEN
Official no. : 26561
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1866, H.C. Pearsons, Ogdensburg, NY
Specs : 137 ft., 296 t.
Date of loss : 1880, Apr 16
Place of loss : Off Manitowoc, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : corn
Detail : Being towed to Manitowoc for repairs when struck by a gale and foundered in 30 fathoms of water after her tow vessel, the tug CAROLINE WILLIAMS’ fires were drowned. Her temporary tow company crew was rescued. She had been damaged by going ashore on S. Manitou Island a few days earlier.
Located in May, 1975
Sources : mv,is,lmdc,hgl,mpl,bb,nsp,hr
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W.F. ALLEN, Jr.
Other names : also seen as WILLIAM F. ALLEN
Official no. : 26214
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1853, Wm. Jones, Black R. Ohio
Specs : 138x26x12, 245g [385 t. om]
Date of loss : 1875, Oct 28
Place of loss : Racine Reef
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : She was driven on Racine Reef by a storm and wrecked. Her crew clung to her rigging all night until finally rescued by local fishermen in the morning. Out of Milwaukee.
Suffered collisions in 1862, 1869 and 1871, and went ashore in Georgian Bay in 1862
Sources : nsp,wmhs,wl,wmn,whs,glmd
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ALLIANCE – See also CHAMPLAIN
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ALLIANCE
Other names : none
Official no. : C
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1856, J. Simpson, Oakville, Ont
Specs : 180 t.
Date of loss : 1863, Dec 2
Place of loss : Oswego, NY harbor
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 8
Carrying : feed, flour
Detail : While entering the harbor behind a tug with her sails furled, she was torn loose by a heavy gust of wind and driven ashore near the fort. There she became, according to the papers, “a perfect wreck.” Her crew was rescued by line from shore. She had been bound for Oswego from Port Credit, Ont. Out of Toronto. Built for Capt. Sidney Hamilton and sailed by him.
.Sources : nsp(rp),hgl,clu,wmn,hr
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ALLIANCE
Other names : none
Official no. : 300
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger [probably a ferry]
Build info : 1857, J.W. Banta, Buffalo
Specs : 87x17x7, 107g 85 t [om]
Date of loss : 1869, Nov 21
Place of loss : Niagara Falls
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : neglect or vandalism
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Laid up on Niagara R. at Lower Black Rock in spring of 1869. Later slipped her moorings and went over the falls.
Owned by H. Thornton of Buffalo.
.Sources : lhl,nsp,wl,mdwl,hr,wmn,jm
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ALLIE
Other names : built as schooner RESCUE
Official no. : C51700
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1859, Norton & Leland, Cleveland US# 21190
Specs : 77x18x5, 60gc 60nc
Date of loss : 1875, Sep 30
Place of loss : near Belleville, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : “lost”
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : No detail. Document not surrendered ’til 1882.
Sold Canadian, 1869
Sources : mmgl,mv,h,wl
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JAMES L. ALLISON
Other names : none
Official no. : 77034
Type at loss : sidewheel self-propelled steam dredge
Build info : 1890, Saginaw, MI
Specs : 60x16x3, 54g 30n
Date of loss : 1892, Oct 25
Place of loss : unreported
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : “Wrecked.”
Document surrendered at Port Huron Oct 27, 1893.
Sources : phr,hgl,vbs
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J.M. ALLMENDINGER
Other names : none
Official no. : 76411
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1883, G.H. Burgoyne, Benton Harbor
Specs : 105x24x9 183g 125n
Date of loss : 1895, Nov 26
Place of loss : Fox Point, N of Milwaukee
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Blinded by snow, she went aground in blizzard-gale. Her crew was rescued. Though considered a total loss at the time, she was not officially abandoned until the spring of 1897, when she finally went entirely to pieces in a single storm.
Owned out of Milwaukee by E.B. Simpson & Son
.Sources : nsp,h,mv,lmdc,wb,hgl,mpl,hcgl
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ALMA
Other names : ?
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : schooner, wood (2-m)
Build info : 1855, Sarnia
Specs : 107x21x10, 211 t.
Date of loss : 1866, Oct 22
Place of loss : midlake
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 6 [all]
Carrying : grain
Detail : Foundered, no detail.
Another ALMA was reportedly lost near Port Hope, Ont., in 1877. This was perhaps the schooner ALMA US#1086, 61 t., out of Oswego, NY.
Sources : (mmgl),wb,hgl,sol,globe,mv,nsp, glmd
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ALMA
Other names : none
Official no. : 106517
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1887, H.S. Downer, Milwaukee
Specs : 57x16x3, 26g 25n
Date of loss : 1892, May 18
Place of loss : near Bradford Beach, just north of Milwaukee
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 3
Carrying : gravel
Detail : Driven into shallows, capsized and later sank in 15-20 feet of water. Her crew clung to her upturned hull for several hours until rescued by the fishing schooner PRINCE. Owned by A. Wronsted Roofing Co. of Milwaukee. Master: Capt. August Rosenow.
.Sources : bb,hgl,hr
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ALMEDA
Other names : also seen as ALAMEDA
Official no. : 313
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood
Build info : 1847, St. Joseph, MI as a schooner
Specs : 216 t.
Date of loss : 1880, May 22
Place of loss : Pelee Isl.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : lumber
Detail : The tow of the steamer ST. JOSEPH, she was anchored in a storm, when her stern was wrenched off and she sank. Her cargo was removed by the scow RUSSIA a few days later.
Out of Buffalo
Also sunk near Buffalo in 1864.
Heavily damaged in a storm in November, 1877, abandoned to underwriters with a broken back, but later recovered.
Damaged heavily in another storm, with loss of all 6 hands, Sep, 1878.
Rebuilt and enlarged at Conneaut in 1867, and rebuilt again in 1873, 78; major repair in 1863
.Sources : ledc,hgl,nsp,rsl,wmhs
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THOMAS ALMERON – See ALMERON THOMAS
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ALMIRA – See also MINNIE DAVIS
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ALMIRA
Other names :
Official no. : ? (C?)
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1849, J. Curtis, Black R., OH
Specs : 85x20x6, 80 t. [om]
Date of loss : 1863, Jul 8
Place of loss : near “Devil’s Nose,” south shore of the lake
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : (all)
Carrying : barrelled fish
Detail : Dismasted and capsized in a violent squall. Cargo found on the 27th by schooner M.L. COLLINS. Vessel found, still afloat, by schooner PETREL on the 30th, and towed in. ALMIRA was bound Milford, Ont. for Oswego.
She may have been rebuilt and lost – another vessel of the name was reported cut by ice and foundered with all five lives – Dec 2, 1871. Master: Capt. Conner(d).
.Sources : nsp,is,hgl,wl
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ALNWICK
Other names : none
Official no. : 565
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1851, L. Goler, Cape Vincent, NY
Specs : 90x20x8, 104 t. [122 t. om]
Date of loss : 1871, Oct 8
Place of loss : Chicago waterfront
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Burned to a total loss in the great Chicago fire.
Owned by John Read, Milwaukee.
Refastened in 1862
.Sources : hgl,nsp,mv,wl,rsl,wl
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ALOHA
Other names : none Merchant Vessels some-times spells it ALO-HA
Official no. : C134264
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, bulk frt, 2-mast
Build info : 1888, W. Dulac, Mt. Clemens, MI, as a schooner US#106542
Specs : 173x32x12 522g 501n
Date of loss : 1917, Oct 28
Place of loss : on Nine Mile Point, W of Kingston, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1 of 5
Carrying : coal
Detail : She sank in a gale while in tow of the steamer C.W. CHAMBERLAIN, while bound Erie, PA for Kingston. Her skipper was lost, but four crew were picked up in varied places by 3 different rescue boats, 2 by CHAMBERLAIN, one near shore by a local gas launch and one by lighthouse tender GRENVILLE. Location of the wreck was known and remains were purchased by Donnelly Salvage the next year, but salvage was not attempted.
Sold Canadian in 1914, owned by Milnes Bros. of Toronto
Sources : ns2,mv,mpl,csql(?),do,hcgl
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ALPENA
Other names : none
Official no. : 404
Type at loss : sidewheeler, wood, passenger & package frt
Build info : 1867, Arnold & Gallagher, Marine City, MI
Specs : 197x27x12, 643g
Date of loss : 1880, Oct 15
Place of loss : probably near Holland, MI*
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 100 (ca.) [all]
Carrying : passengers
Detail : She was overtaken by a storm and went missing – last seen off Racine, WI. The first indication that she had been lost was when masses of wreckage began washing ashore along the coast near Manistee. It took several days for the magnitude of the disaster to be realized. Her paddlebox nameboard washed ashore at “Alpena Beach,” just north of Holland, in 1909, after a storm, the same location where much wreckage and bodies came ashore after the disaster. The beach is located along Lakewood Blvd. (formerly Alpena Rd.). Owned by the Goodrich Line. Master: Capt. Nelson Napier(d).
*A good case can be made for the probability that she lies off Kenosha, near where she was last seen by the bark S. A. IRISH.
Just 15 days earlier, she almost sank in a storm when waves ripped open her baggage compartment just aft of her wheel and the wash from the wheel nearly filled her before it could be stopped.
Thoroughly rebuilt in 1875-6
Image of her in trouble, same source
.Sources : nsp,lm,glss,gs,sol,mol,rsh,eas, is(2-45),hgl,usls,mpl,rsh,hcgl,gdr,wls
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ALPENA
Other names : none
Official no. : 105351
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight “steam barge”
Build info : 1874, Linn & Craig, Gibraltar, MI
Specs : 154x30x11, 369g 285n
Date of loss : 1891, Oct 26
Place of loss : Lake St. Clair, about 3 mi below the Flats
Lake : St. Clair
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Burned to the waterline,a $24,000 loss, in a fire that began in her lamp room. She was downbound from Marquette with the barges CITY OF THE STRAITS, H. C. POTTER, and ANTELOPE in tow. When a company arrived at the site a few days later to retrieve her lost cargo from the beach, they reported that local farmers were making a business of carting it off. Owned by J. W. Westcott, Detroit.
Sources : mv,mpl,hgl,polk,es,jb
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ALPENA – See also DUKE LUEDTKE
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ALPHA
Other names : none
Official no. : C
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1861, J. Simpson, Oakville, Ont
Specs : 116x23x11, 266 t.
Date of loss : 1872, Aug 30
Place of loss : Oswego harbor
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : She was driven ashore and wrecked in a gale, a total loss. Her crew was rescued.
Out of Hamilton, Ont.
Sources : nsp,wl,wmn
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ALPS – See INDIAN
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ALTA
Other names : none
Official no. : 106266
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, bulk freight 2-mast
Build info : 1884, F Wheeler, W. Bay City
Specs : 198x37x16 935g 909n
Date of loss : 1905, Oct 19
Place of loss : E. side of Grand Isl., near Munising, MI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Tow of tug F.A. MEYERS, she broke away and stranded in the rocky shallows, then was broken up by big waves. Her crew was rescued by local fishermen after clinging to the wreck for over a day. Owned by J. J. Boland. Master: Capt. Andrew Scott. Wrecker J. Reid bought her Nov 1, but was unable to save her.
Built as a 3-mast schooner.
.Sources : nsp,ms,gwgl,gs,is,ns1,mv,eas, vbs,lss,mpl,hcgl,svb
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ALTADOC
Other names : built as LAKE SHORE (US#141717) later INDUS(’13), last name in 1926
Official no. : C116577
Type at loss : propeller steamer, steel, bulk freight
Build info : 1901, W. Bay City Shipbuilding, W. Bay Ciy, MI
Specs : 356x50x28 3815gc 2873nc
Date of loss : 1927, Dec 8
Place of loss : Keweenaw Pt. E of Copper Harbor, MI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Making for Ft. William, Ont., went aground in storm. Later broke in two & was finished off by fire in her coal bunker. Remains cut up for scrap during WWII. Her pilothouse was used as a gift shop and 2-room hotel nearby for many years until destroyed by fire Mar 22, 1987. Built for Gilchrist Fleet, sister of GILCHRIST (see PRINDOC), and owned by the Paterson Fleet at time of loss.
Sold Canadian in 1926
Sources : eas,csv,vbs,win,lol,gwgl,gs,sol,is, ns3,mmgl,lss,mpl,hr,hcgl,svb
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ALTAIR
Other names : none
Official no. : US
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1855, J. N. Jones, Buffalo
Specs : 138 ft, 412 t.
Date of loss : 1864, Nov 11
Place of loss : Chantry Island near the lighthouse
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 17,000 bu grain
Detail : Bound Chicago for Buffalo, she went aground and was wrecked on the shoal under the lighthouse while trying to find shelter from a powerful gale. A boat from the Goderich schooner LILY DANCY, anchored nearby, rescued the crew. Owned in Chicago.
Also reported as lost on Charity Island, Saginaw Bay, in error because preserved artifacts bearing the name of the boat were found on the Chantry Island site.
.Sources : slh,hgl,nsp,rsl,hr,ld,wmn,jm
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ALTON
Other names : none
Official no. : 203057
Type at loss : gas screw passenger launch, wood
Build info : 1905, J. Pouliot, Sandusky, OH
Specs : 42x9x4 7g 6n
Date of loss : 1921
Place of loss : Lakeside, OH
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Burned to a total loss. Registry shows her “abandoned” in 1923.
Sources : www,hcgl
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ALVA B
Other names : none
Official no. : 106738
Type at loss : steam tug, wood
Build info : 1890, Union Dry Dock Co., Buffalo
Specs : 74x18x11 84g 42n
Date of loss : 1917, Nov 1
Place of loss : off Avon Lake, OH
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 8
Carrying : none
Detail : apparently mistook amusement park lights for the harbor markers, struck bottom in shallows 1 mi W of Avon Pt and was destroyed by waves. Master: Capt. John Frietas.
Her prop is on display at Avon Lake.
.Sources : eas,ledc,hs,hcgl,ew,mv
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ALVA D
Other names : none
Official no. : C122420
Type at loss : propeller tug, wood
Build info : 1909, Charles Martin, Penetanguishene, Ont.
Specs : 44x10x5, 22 t.
Date of loss : 1909, Aug 22
Place of loss : “The Monks”, Georgian Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : “wrecked”
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Wrecked during logging operations. Registered out of Midland, Ont. to Paul Dupuis. In Sept. she was sold to Mary Martin, the wife of the builder, as a wreck. Document surrendered 23 Apr, 1910.
Sources : dr,NAC,hr,mmgl,hcgl
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ALVA D
Other names : ?
Official no. : C126657
Type at loss : propeller tug, wood
Build info : 1912, Peter (Gavelre), Penetanguishene, Ont.
Specs : 43x10x6 , 22gc 15nc
Date of loss : 1914, Aug 25
Place of loss : between Beaverstone & Collins Inlet, Georgian Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Destroyed by fire.
Owned by Andrew Robetaille, Penetanguishene, registered out of Midland.
Originally owned by Paul Dupuis, Penetanguishene, Ont. Apparently built by him to replace the tug of the same name lost in 1909, and had the same engine.
Sources : win,slh,h,dr,hr not in mmgl
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ALVINA – see ELVINA
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C.G. ALVORD
Other names : also seen as C. G. ALVOORD, CHARLES G. ALVORD Built as the Canadian schr CALIFORNIA, renamed in 1863
Official no. : 4389
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1849, L Shickluna, St. Catharine’s, Ont.
Specs : 264 t.
Date of loss : 1867, Dec 12
Place of loss : Burlington Beach
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 150,000 bu wheat
Detail : Bound Detroit for Toronto, she was caught in a blizzard and driven ashore near Stoney Creek, NY, after being driven the entire length of the lake.. She was reported still ashore at the end of the season and was a total loss of $30,500.
Out of Detroit, owned by Stupinsky & Co.
Spent the winter of 1864-5 ashore on Mission Island, Lake Huron, after blowing ashore in a big fall gale. She was heavily damaged and required a near-total rebuild.
Sold US, probably in 1863. Rebuilt and enlarged in 1863 at Sacket’s Harbor – originally 103x21x8, 176gc
Sources : nsp,rsl,hgl,mmgl,wmhs,wmn
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ALWILDA
Other names : also seen as ALWILDAR
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : before 1854 (Sandusky?)
Specs : 75 t.
Date of loss : 1857, Oct 18
Place of loss : Big Sable Point
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : Bound Chicago for Dean’s Mills (near Two Rivers, Wisc), she sprang a leak during a blizzard and gale and was run onto the beach to save her crew. She immediately broke her baclk and later went to pieces. The crew sheltered in an abandoned cabin, along with crewmembers from the wrecked Canadian steamer REINDEER(qv).
Out of Buffalo
Burned with $2500 damage in October, 1854.
.Sources : nsp,wl,hgl,jm
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ALZORA
Other names : none also seen as ABZORA
Official no. : C73916
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast (scow-schooner?)
Build info : 1864, W. Marlott, Kingsville, Ont.
Specs : 62x17x6, 33 gc
Date of loss : 1895, Oct 21
Place of loss : 1.5 mi from lighthouse, S side Long Point
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Went ashore in heavy weather, a total loss.
Originally 60x16x5. Rebuilt and enlarged, 1873 at Port Dover
Ashore and reported a total loss near Kingsville in October, 1869.
Sources : eas,mmgl,win,h,mdwl
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ALZORA
Other names : also seen as ALGORA
Official no. : C94842
Type at loss : scow, wood, sand
Build info : 1890, Belle R. Ont
Specs : 65x18x4, 43 t.
Date of loss : 1906, May 3
Place of loss : 6 mi E of SE Shoal
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : (hull failure?)
Loss of life : none of 3
Carrying : none
Detail : Was on a pleasure cruise when she waterlogged. Big steamer FAYETTE BROWN picked up her people before she sank. One owner was from Ashtabula, but the vessel reportedly hailed from Belle River, Ont.
.Sources : nsp,wl,hr not in mmgl
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ALZORA
Other names : ?
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : tug (wood)
Build info : ?
Specs : ?
Date of loss : 1908, Jul 22
Place of loss : 2.5 miles off Bay Port, MI, Saginaw Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Burned and sank
Sources : nsp
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JAMES AMADEUS
Other names : none
Official no. : 75616
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1872, Lavayer, Cleveland
Specs : 63x16x8, 44g 22n
Date of loss : 1893, Jun 28
Place of loss : unreported (probably near Cleveland)
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : hull failure
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Sprung a leak and foundered. Crew abandoned just before she went down . Owned by P. Smith, Cleveland.
Heavily damaged in a fire near Cleveland in Aug of 1882. Sunk off Pt. Pelee in early November of 1892 while enroute to rescue the schooner H. P. BALDWIN. The steamer RALEIGH made a valiant effort to keep her afloat with her pumps and tow her into shallow water, but to no avail.
Rebuilt in 1883
Sources : hgl,wb,mv,polk,usls,nsp,wmn
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AMARANTH
Other names : none
Official no. : 1026
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 2 mast, bulk freight
Build info : 1864, W. Shupe, Milan, OH.
Specs : 134x25x11 273g 259n
Date of loss : 1901, Sep 7
Place of loss : near Ft. Gratiot, MI [North Kewahdin Beach]
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber & lath
Detail : Tow of steamer JOHN H. PAULY, she was blown ashore and wrecked. U.S. Lifesavers saved her crew in a daring action. PAULY also went ashore and her crew was also rescued by USLS.The schooner was later pounded to pieces despite a great salvage effort. Owned by C. W. Kotcher, Detroit.
.Sources : nsp,slh,lol,ns1,h,mol,mv,sip, hcgl,ec
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AMAZON
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : brig, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1837, Z. Pangborn, Port Huron, MI as a schooner
Specs : 93x23x9, 172 t. om
Date of loss : 1864, May 9
Place of loss : near Pt. Edward, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Bound Cleveland for Lake Superior, and due to return with a cargo of iron ore, she met her final storm just as she ran out of the St. Clair River. She went out of control and drove ashore on the Canadian side, where she broke up, a total loss. Owned by M. B. Scott, Cleveland.
She was considered the oldest working schooner on the lakes at the time of her loss.
Rebuilt from a schooner to a brig at Cleveland in 1845.
.Sources : nsp,wl,hgl,rsl
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AMAZON
Other names : none
Official no. : 105252
Type at loss : propeller, wood, freighter
Build info : 1873, A.A. Turner, Trenton, MI
Specs : 235x40x21, , 1406g
Date of loss : 1879, Oct 29
Place of loss : Grand Haven Bar
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 68 aboard
Carrying : “provisions” – 900 tons freight plus 7000 bbl flour
Detail : She struck the notorious bar in a gale and broke up. Bound Milwaukee for Grand Haven, she had made an intial attempt to enter the harbor, but had briefly beached. On her second try, she hit the bar. Usls has a good story of her loss. Hailed from Grand Haven, formerly of Detroit. Her engines were later recovered. Owned by the Northwestern Transportation Co. Master: Capt. David Trotter.
Wrecked and declared a total loss in a storm Nov 4, 1873 on North Manitou. Recovered the next summer by the wrecker LEVIATHAN. Stranded near Presque Isle, MI, Lake Huron, in 1875 and largely rebuilt after recovery.
She reportedly had an experimental hull design, with twin screws as well as two keels, two stern posts and two rudders.
.Sources : (nsp),is,sol,h,lmdc,hgl,usls,mpl, mv,es,hcgl,nsp
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AMBOY
Other names : built as HELENA, last name in 1891
Official no. : 95276
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, bulk freight, 2-mast
Build info : 1874, Quayle & Murphy, Cleveland as a 3-mast schooner
Specs : 209x34x14, 894g 819n
Date of loss : 1905, Nov 29
Place of loss : near Thomasville, Ont.
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 6
Carrying : coal
Detail : Tow of steamer GEORGE SPENCER (qv), she struggled against the gale for a full day before finally going ashore. Owned by Tonawanda Iron & Steel Co.. See GEORGE SPENCER for more.
Sunk in Little Mud Lake, St Marys River, in July of 1891 in a collision, with the loss of one life.
Built as a schooner
Sources : nsp,gwgl,mol,ns1,mv,eas,lss,svb
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AMELIA
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1848, Chicago
Specs : 49x14x3, 20 g
Date of loss : 1856, May 15
Place of loss : on a line between Waukegan and Muskegon
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 3
Carrying : light
Detail : She was bound Waukegan for Muskegon to pick up a cargo of shingle bolts when she was thrown over on her beam ends by a sudden squall. Her crewmen tried in the night to hail one of the passing schooners, but six of them passed them by before the schooner Wm. STURGES heard their calls and picked them up off the overturned hull. Master: Wm. C. Milan. Vessel probably later recovered.
Rebuilt in 1855.
.Sources : nsp,bb,mpl,wmhs,hr
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AMELIA – This schooner was reported in several sources to have foundered off Fairport, OH, in Aug, 1861. Supposedly, all that was found of her was her floating rigging and a “message in a bottle,” reporting her loss. The report, however, turned out to be a hoax, though the vessel did arrive in port a few days late.
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AMELIA
Other names : ?
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : schooner, wood (2-m)
Build info : 1836, J. Randall, Oakville, Ont.
Specs : 91x19x7, 106 t.
Date of loss : 1864, Nov (8)
Place of loss : off Goderich, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : foundered
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Foundered in shallow water in a storm and reported pounded to pieces by the 28th. Recovered, rebuilt as barge, which was reported lost soon after.
.Sources : (mmgl),slh,hgl,nsp
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AMELIA GRACE – See GRACE AMELIA
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AMERICA – See also GLENSTRIVEN
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AMERICA
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1847, J.W. Surles, Port Huron, MI
Specs : 240x34x14, 1083 t.
Date of loss : 1854, Apr 5
Place of loss : near Pt. Pelee
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : passengers & freight
Detail : Bound Cleveland for Detroit. After the Captain had set her course and gone to bed, the second mate changed the course to the north. First and second mate then disagreed over the course and just as they awoke the captain she struck. Master: Capt. Stafford. Wrecked by wave action – in a few days there was hardly anything left worth saving. Last of her gear, etc. was removed by the scow FROLIC in late May.
On Jul 31, 1850, she suffered a boiler or steampipe explosion on Lake Erie which immediately killed 9; probably others who were badly scalded died later.
.Sources : lhl,nsp,mpl,umich,wl,eas,ew
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AMERICA
Other names : none
Official no. : 373
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1853, G. Thayer, Ashtabula, OH
Specs : 118 t.
Date of loss : 1866, Aug 8
Place of loss : midlake off Waukegan
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : She capsized in a storm 25 mi out of Chicago with part of her crew plus a woman passenger and her child trapped below. The crew of the passing schooner ELIZA LOGAN was able to assist by rescuing those on the upturned hull and cutting a hole through the bottom to remove those inside. The schooner was later towed in, and MIGHT be the schooner out of Chicago that was reported lost Sep 17, 1868 in Lake Michigan.
.Sources : rsl,nsp,hgl,wmhs,bb,hr
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AMERICA
Other names : none
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, towboat
Build info : 1842, J. Ewings [Niagara Harbour and Dock Co.], Niagara, Ont. as a passenger steamer
Specs : 141x19x9, 407 t.
Date of loss : 1874
Place of loss : at Kingston, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : hull failure
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Sank at her dock at Kingston where she had been laid up for a few years. Abandoned as not worth salvaging. Owned by Calvin & Breck out of Kingston.
Mostly used as a towboat after 1854.
Sources : mmgl,clu,csv,nsp
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AMERICA
Other names : none
Official no. : 105244 or 105337*
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1873, Arch Muir, Port Huron, MI
Specs : 137x26x12, 341g
Date of loss : 1880, Sep 28
Place of loss : 9 mi N of Two Rivers
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : Damaged in a towing collision when struck by two stone scows in tow of the tug A. W. LAWRENCE and began to leak. She was taken in tow by salvagers, but sank before reaching shore.
Local dive target.
*1874 Merchant Vessels lists her with number 105244, then an appendix in the same volume shows her officially assigned number 105377. 1875 edition shows two schooners out of Chicago with identical tonnage, one with each number. 1877 edition has only the former number.
.Sources : bb,phr,nsp,hr,glmd,mv
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AMERICA
Other names : none
Official no. : 29763
Type at loss : scow-barge, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1872, E. Saginaw
Specs : 124 t.
Date of loss : 1881, fall
Place of loss : at Port Burwell, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Driven ashore in the fall of 1881 and reported in May of 1882 as breaking up, her stern having carried away by the waves. Listed in 1884 Merchant Vessels as “lost or otherwise out of service.” Out of Detroit, owned by H. G. Blanchard
Sources : mv,polk,wmhs,bb,nsp
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AMERICA
Other names : none
Official no. : (355)
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood
Build info : (1849, Clayton, NY)
Specs : (138x26x10 271g 257n)
Date of loss : 1907
Place of loss : Chambers Isl.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : Went aground and broke up
(Went ashore near Cross Village, Michigan and abandoned as a total loss in June, 1886.)
Sources : lmdc,mv,(nsp)
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AMERICA
Other names : none
Official no. : 107367
Type at loss : propeller, steel, passenger and package freight
Build info : 1898, Detroit Dry Dock, Wyandotte, MI as an excursion vessel
Specs : 165x31x11, 681g 478n
Date of loss : 1928, Jun 7
Place of loss : Washington Harbor, Isle Royale
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : nav. error
Loss of life : none [a passenger’s dog perished]
Carrying : 48 pas., general merch.
Detail : Struck a reef in good weather and sank. Owned by Booth Fisheries, out of Duluth. A wreck diver died on her in 1970. Lies about 200 ft off a small point on Isle Royale opposite Thompson Isl.
Sources : eas,glp,irs,is,gwgl,sol,mh,ns3, mpl,hcgl,glmd
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AMERICA
Other names : later renamed MIDWAY (1982) and WISCONSIN, (1983)
Official no. : 107302
Type at loss : salvage tug,steel
Build info : 1897, Union Dry Dock Co, Buffalo, NY
Specs : 80x21x12, 123 gt.
Date of loss : 1941, Oct 21
Place of loss : Off Belle Isle
Lake : Detroit R
Type of loss : Towing accident
Loss of life : 6 of 13
Carrying : none
Detail : Capsized while trying to pull steel bulker B.F. JONES off a bar. She was on a cable between JONES and the big tug OREGON when the cable tightened, pulling the AMERICA out of the water and spinning her upside down. Recovered.
“G-tug” – most serious accident in Great Lakes Towing’s History. AMERICA was part of the original 1899 fleet.
Sources : is(2-68,1-76),mv,hcgl
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AMERICA
Other names : none
Official no. : 217862
Type at loss : oil screw fish tug
Build info : 1917, E. F. Anclan?, Bailey’s Harbor, Wis
Specs : 32x9x4, 13g 9n
Date of loss : 1950, May 5
Place of loss : 5 mi off Sturgeon Bay, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : She foundered in a sudden squall. Out of Milwaukee, owned by N. J . Daubner.
Sources : lm,h,bb,mv,hr
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AMERICA
Other names : none
Official no. : 213020
Type at loss : propeller tug, wood
Build info : 1915, Burger Boat, Manitowoc, Wis as a passenger vessel
Specs : 56x17x7, 40g 39n
Date of loss : 1952, Feb 9
Place of loss : at Port Huron
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : hull failture
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Sprung a leak and sank due to age at her dock. A salvage effort from the river was unsuccessful, and the vessel was cut up in place and hauled away by truck in July of 1952.
Sources : hcgl
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AMERICAN
Other names : also seen as AMERICA
Official no. : 1951
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1870, Asa Wilcox, Three Mile Bay, NY
Specs : 137x26x10, 283g 269n
Date of loss : 1894, Oct 1
Place of loss : Stoney Point, east end of the lake
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : foundered
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Bound Oswego for for Prescott, Ont., in tow of the tug PROCTOR, she foundered for unreported reasons.
Out of Oswego, NY, owned by T. Donovan of Toledo
Repaired, 1880, 1882
.Sources : bbas,mv,hgl,polk,rp,jm,jb,nsp,glmd
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AMERICAN CHAMPION
Other names : none
Official no. : 29300
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1866, H. Baker, Trenton, MI
Specs : 117x27x7, 156 t.
Date of loss : 1875, Sep 30
Place of loss : near Leamington Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 8
Carrying : wood
Detail : Bound Leamington, Ont. for Detroit, she dropped anchor to ride out SW gale. Chains parted and she struck a bar, sank to gunwales. A local woman and her two sons affected the heroic rescue of her crew, which had spent the night in her rigging.
After a brief salvage effort, she was stripped of gear and abandoned in late October. Owned by P. Gilcher & Co., out of Detroit. Master: Capt. Jackson.
.Sources : nsp,mv,es,wl,hr
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AMERICAN EAGLE
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1816, Ashtabula, Oh
Specs : 55x17x6, 69 t.
Date of loss : 1820, Nov 26
Place of loss : near Grand River, OH
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 5
Carrying : light
Detail : Bound for the Erie Islands, she was caught in a southwesterly gale and driven ashore near the furure site of Fairport. Ashore near Cleveland the previous week. Master: Capt. J. Manchester(d).
Owned by a number of pioneer lake men including Sheldon Thompson, Nathaniel Sill, Augustus Porter and Alvin Bronson.
Sources : hgl (as EAGLE),wmn,wl
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EAGLE
Other names : none
Official no. : 392
Type at loss : scow, wood
Build info : 1863, G. A. Johnson, Dover, Oh
Specs : 142 gt
Date of loss : 1871, late Oct. or early Nov.
Place of loss : west of the piers at Cleveland
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : stranded
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Ashore, probably in a storm. Much work was done on salvaging her. Listed in 1872 Merchant Vessels as “lost.”
Owned by Fisher Bros, Cleveland. Still noted in 1874 Merchant Vessels as “lost.”
Sources : nsp,hgl,mv,wl
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AMERICAN EAGLE
Other names : none
Official no. : 570
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1865, J. Carroll, Buffalo
Specs : 58x17x7, 35 g 17 n
Date of loss : 1891, Jun 10
Place of loss : .5 mi from harbor entrance at Cleveland
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She collided with the tug ALVA B., which was not in motion, 2.5 mi W of Cleveland breakwater. Then sank while being towed in by the ALVA B. Owned by Capt. Henry Dahlke, who was in command. Around the first of July she was raised by Capt. Dahlke, and was brought inside the Cleveland breakwater suspended on chains and tinbers between two large barges. A squall arose and the bucking of the barges caused her to fall off the timbers and onto the chains, which cut through her hull. She was a total wreck, though her machinery was later salvaged.
Sunk with heavy damage after striking the wreck of the schooner EXCHANGE(qv) at Kelley’s Island in April of 1885. Also sunk with heavy damage 1.5 mi W of Cleveland harbor mouth in June of the same year.
.Sources : mv,ledc,lhl,hgl,usls,wl,nsp
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AMERICAN EAGLE
Other names : none
Official no. : 105936
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger packet & tug
Build info : 1880, J. Monk, Sandusky, OH
Specs : 105x24x9 161g 81n
Date of loss : 1908, Dec 21
Place of loss : Maumee, OH
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Destroyed at her winter dock.
Gave name to “American Eagle Reef” which she was the first to find by hitting it.
Six lives were lost when her boiler exploded while she was racing off Kelley’s Isl., May 18, 1882.
Owned by L. Sullivan of Toledo who had purchased her in 1901 and had her converted to a tug at that time.
Sources : is,www,ns1,mv,hgl,mpl,rp,hcgl,es
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AMERICAN REPUBLIC
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : bark, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1854, Erie, Pa.
Specs : 460 t. om
Date of loss : 1859, Dec 2
Place of loss : at North Manitou Isl.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : lumber
Detail : She stranded in the fall of 1859 and was left for the winter. In the spring of 1860 the tug LEVIATHAN undertook to release her, but after more than a month of effort, the bark was abandoned and stripped. Out of Erie, PA
Drifted onto Buffalo breakwater in a gale and seriously damaged in November, 1856.
.Sources : bb,nsp,wl,hgl,hr,blu[1856],glmd
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AMERICAN SAILOR
Other names : none
Official no. : 167386
Type at loss : barge, bulk freight, wood [probably a canal barge]
Build info : 1918, Kingston, NY
Specs : 112x29x12, 429g 422n
Date of loss : 1937, Nov 2
Place of loss : Off Barcelona, NY (also given as Westfield)
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : sulfur
Detail : Tow of tug BALLENAS, she went down with fellow barges AMERICAN SCOUT and BETTY HEDGER. Details are difficult to find
Sources : eas,h,ledc,mv
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AMERICAN SCOUT
Other names : none
Official no. : 167670
Type at loss : barge, bulk freight, wood [probably a canal barge]
Build info : 1918, Kingston, NY
Specs : 114x29x12, 422g 422n
Date of loss : 1937, Nov 2
Place of loss : Off Barcelona, NY (also given as Westfield)
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : sulfur
Detail : Tow of tug BALLENAS with AMERICAN SAILOR and BETTY HEDGER. All 3 barges foundered.
Sources : eas,h,ledc,mv
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AMERICAN UNION
Other names : none
Official no. : 307
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1862, Ira LaFrinier, Cleveland
Specs : 185x25x13, 543g 516n
Date of loss : 1894, May 6
Place of loss : near Presque Isle, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Stranded in storm with little damage, but she lay in a remote area, and before she could be pulled off, another, larger storm on May 19 destroyed her. Out of Chicago. Master: Capt. James Goodman.
Sources : is(2-92),slh,lhdc,h,nsp,hgl
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CHEENEY AMES – See GRACE G. GRIBBIE
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S.P. AMES
Other names : none
Official no. : 115671
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast, coaster
Build info : 1879, S.P. Ames, Montrose, MI
Specs : 61x18x6 43g 41n
Date of loss : 1895, Sep 11
Place of loss : Pte Aux Barques, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 3
Carrying : light
Detail : She sprang a leak while downbound off Tawas Bay and was driven ashore by a gale. She quickly was stripped by the Pte aux Barques lifesaving crew before she went to pieces.
Montrose, where she was built, is farm country, well inland on the Flint R. Her builder, Seth Ames, built her as a way to return to the sea but died the day before her hull was launched. Rigging & equipment installation were completed by D. Tuickham of Bay City
Sources : vbs,slh,mv,hgl,nsp
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AMETHYST
Other names : none
Official no. : 1712
Type at loss : propeller tug, wood
Build info : 1868, VanSlyke & Notter, Buffalo
Specs : 45x11x5, 14g 7n
Date of loss : 1888, Oct 25
Place of loss : at Duluth
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : (none)
Carrying : none
Detail : Caught fire and burned to total loss. Out of Duluth, owned by Cooley, Lavaque & Co., Chicago, and chartered to Jeffries Bros.
Sources : polk,nsp,hgl,hcgl,oo
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LILY AMIOT
Other names : none also seen as LILLY AMIOT
Official no. : 15899
Type at loss : gas launch, wood, passenger
Build info : 1873, Amiot, Cheboygan, MI
Specs : 46x12x5, 14g 10g
Date of loss : 1909, Jun 6
Place of loss : Ellison Bay, Plum Island
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none of 3
Carrying : general freight, including gasoline and dynamite
Detail : Struck a rocky ledge in harbor, exploded and burned, a total loss. Owned by J. C. and Abraham Jessen, Washington Island
Converted from schooner about 1900 [orig 47x12x5 25g 24n]
Sources : mv,rs,h,wgts
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AMITY
Other names : none also seen as AMILY, ALMIGHTY
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : side propeller, wood, pollywog
Build info : 1856, A. Coutts, Chatham, Ont.
Specs : 102x26x7 217gc
Date of loss : 1864, Oct [8 or 9]
Place of loss : NNE of the tip of Long Pt.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : staves
Detail : Bound Windsor, Ont. for the Welland Canal, she stranded and wrecked in a storm. Out of Chatham, Ont., owned by Eberts.
1867 also given as year of loss, in error.
Rebuilt in 1863
Sources : eas,mmgl,csv,hgl,rsl,nsp,wmn
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AMOSKEAG – See HORACE TABER
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SAMUEL AMSDEN
Other names : also seen as SAM AMSDEN
Official no. : C?
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1862, W. Quidder, Dunnville, Ont.
Specs : 75x20x8, 82 t.
Date of loss : 1880, Nov 7
Place of loss : 3.5 mi N of Saugeen R, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Bound Michael’s Bay, Manitoulin Island, for Goderich when she was driven ashore. She became a total wreck.
Out of Port Dover
Rebuilt and reduced in size in 1873 at Dunnville by Shaw & Small, Orig 76x19x8, 100 t.
Sources : mmgl,clu,wmn,hgl
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ANABEL II
Other names : none
Official no. : 228126
Type at loss : oil screw fish tug [Diesel], wood
Build info : 1928, Burger Boat Co., Manitowoc, Wis
Specs : 59x15x6, 62g 50n
Date of loss : 1956, Jan 12
Place of loss : Sturgeon Bay, WI, Roen SS Co. dock
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Destroyed by fire at her winter dock. She had previously sunk at her dock at Manitique, Mich, and had been acquired by Roen with an eye toward converting her from a fishing vessel to a towing tug.
Sources : eas,h,hh,hr,mv
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ANCHOR BAY
Other names : built as ST-2158 , renamed ANCHOR BAY in 1962
Official no. : none, owned by U. S. Army
Type at loss : survey tug, steel
Build info : 1953, Roamer Boat Co., Holland, Mich
Specs : 43x13x7,
Date of loss : 1968, Dec 12
Place of loss : near Harsen’s Isl.
Lake : St.Clair R
Type of loss : explosion
Loss of life : 1 [3inj]
Carrying : none
Detail : Grounded, then exploded and sank near the mouth of the river. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers tug. Later recovered and converted to a training vessel for the Great Lake Maritime Academy, where she was still operating as of January, 2013.
Sources : is(1-68),nyt,mpl,hcgl
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ANDASTE
Other names : none
Official no. : 106926
Type at loss : propeller, steel, self-unloading sandsucker
Build info : 1892, Cleveland Shipbuilding, Cleveland hull #16
Specs : 246x38x18, 1439gt 1121n*
Date of loss : 1929, Sep 9
Place of loss : ca. 14 mi W of Holland, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : went missing
Loss of life : 25 [all]
Carrying : gravel
Detail : Probably overloaded, she was lost from unknown causes. Bound Grand Haven, MI, for Chicago. She was owned by Andaste Steamship Co.
When built, she was sister of “semi-whaleback” CHOCTAW, but had been shortened 20 ft. in 1920-1 to allow her to negotiate the Welland Canal.
*original Specs : 267x38x18 1574g 1256n
Sources : is,gs,ns3,lmdc,mv,gld,hcgl,svb
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ANDERSON – see also MAJOR ANDERSON
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BOB ANDERSON
Other names : none
Official no. : 21198
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood, rafting tug
Build info : 1859, LaFrinier, Cleveland
Specs : 101x19x11 118g 60n
Date of loss : 1899, Jul 29
Place of loss : off Grand Marais, MN
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none [towing raft]
Detail : Burned to the waterline in shallow water. Towing a large raft of sawlogs at the time. Her crew was rescued from shore by canoe. Tug MYSTIC towed her out into deeper water, where she burned out and sank.
She reportedly lay sunken in Springwells [Detroit], Mich. for many years, along with the tug L. L. LYON [US#14708], before being resurrected prior to 1897.
Official number [as shown in mv], is out of sequence. Number probably 2198
Another tug of this name (US#2866, built 1869) is shown in 1884 Merchant Vessels as “lost or otherwise out of service.”
Sources : lss,gwgl,is,mv,hcgl
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JESSE ANDERSON
Other names : none
Official no. : 13775
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1861, G Woodworth, Sandusky, Oh
Specs : 114x26x10 252g 209n
Date of loss : 1871, Oct 30
Place of loss : 10 miles off “Old Cut”, Long Point
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : foundered
Loss of life : all (ca 6)
Carrying : grain
Detail : Bound Detroit for Oswego. Sprang a leak or sunk from a collison in good weather
Homeport: Detroit – owned by M & J Ryan. Master: J. Ryan.
The wreck was found by the tug W. A. MOORE in June, 1873.
Sources : ledc,www,hgl,nsp,mv
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ANDES
Other names : none
Official no. : 402
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1847, Toledo as a brig
Specs : 130x24x9, 206 t. [268 t. om]
Date of loss : 1868, Oct 24
Place of loss : off Madison, OH
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 16,000 bu wheat
Detail : Bound Detroit for Buffalo, she sprug a leak and quickly sank in deep water. Her crew were saved. Owned out of Detroit by Capt. J. B. Scott, who had reportedly lost 3 additional schooners near the same spot in the few years prior to this.
Dismasted in 1867, rebuilt and and rerigged as a schooner at that time.
Sources : nsp,wl,hgl,
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ANDOVER
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1844, W. Jones, Black R., OH
Specs : 98x24x9, 190t
Date of loss : 1861, Jun 16
Place of loss : Pte Aux Barques reef, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : She went ashore on the reef. Though not thought to be seriously damaged, she resisted all efforts by the tug ZOUAVE and others to release her, and was finally stripped and abandoned. Owned by Elon .W. Hudson, Detroit. Master: Capt. Frawley. May have been recovered years later.
Went ashore with heavy damage on Hen & Chicks, Lake Erie, in May of 1856.
Major repairs in 1855 & 58
Sources : slh,hgl,wl,nsp,rsl
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ANDREW
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1826, “New York”
Specs : 62x15x5, 47 t.
Date of loss : 1832, Nov 18
Place of loss : Buffalo
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : stranded
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : lumber
Detail : She stranded “near the lighthouse above the pier” and wrecked. She had been bound Long Point, Ont., for Buffalo.
Out of Cleveland, owned by Capt. Clifford Belden. Master: Capt. McCloy. Her last registry document was surrendered April, 1833, annotated “broken up.”
Sources : hgl,wlreg,wmn,wmhs,hr,glmd
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ANDREW B
Other names : none
Official no. : C189887
Type at loss : dredge barge, scow, steel
Build info : 1958, Port Weller Dry Dock, Port Weller
Specs : 120x50x8, 388 t.
Date of loss : 1995, Nov 8
Place of loss : 4 mi off Long Point
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : dredging and drilling equipment
Detail : Bound Bruce Mines, Ont, for Whitby, Ont, she was in tow of the tug OFF-SHORE SUPPLIER when her towline broke. Her crew was evacuated before the vessel rolled over and sank in almost 200 feet of water.
Owned by Canadian Dredge & Dock, Toronto
Sources : nsp,ewe
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DAVID ANDREWS
Other names : none
Official no. : C83152
Type at loss : schooner, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1872, Mitchell & Gallegher, South Bay, Ont.
Specs : 161 t.
Date of loss : 1880, Apr 11
Place of loss : 4 Mile Pt., near Oswego, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : rye
Detail : Driven ashore, declared total loss. Skipper’s young daughter Minerva Ann McCrimmon, “the only one who could steer a straighter wake than a picket fence” was at the helm when she went ashore. Crew taken off by breeches’ buoy by Lifesaving Service. Owned by Downey Bros., Napanee, Ont. Master: Capt. McCrimmon. Vessel later recovered by Americans, rebuilt as U.S. schooner DELAWARE [US#157017].
Rebuilt 1880 and 92.
Sources : csqw,cul,is,h,hgl,osdo,usls,mv,hr
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S.G. ANDREWS
Other names : also seen as SAMUEL G. ANDREWS
Official no. : 22340
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1856, Hosea Rogers, Rochester, NY
Specs : 116x25x9, 197gt. 188nt
Date of loss : 1885, Oct 12
Place of loss : Point Scott, Michigan
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : At anchor waiting to load cedar posts when struck by a gale and driven ashore after her anchor chains parted. Driven high on the beach, stripped and abandoned by her crew. Moffat Line wrecking tug MOCKING BIRD attempted to release her, but abandoned the effort as impossible. Out of Chicago. Owner: Zimmans.
Major repairs in 1882
Sources : nsp,hgl,mv,rsl,wmn,bb,hr,mr
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ANDROMEDA
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1848, Lockwood, Madison Dock, OH
Specs : 112x24x9, 568 t. om
Date of loss : 1858, Jul 18
Place of loss : 20 mi from Sheboygan, WI and 15 off shore and 40 NE of Manitowoc
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : hull failure
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 800 bbl salt
Detail : Bound Oswego, NY for Chicago. Sprang a leak suddenly and foundered. Crew escaped in her boat in their underwear, arriving at Manitowoc the next day. Owned out of Sheboygan by her skipper, Capt. Morgan.
Sources : nsp,bb,hgl,whs,hr
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ANGELIQUE
Other names : also seen as ANGELINE
Official no. : 29299
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1855, Detroit
Specs : 67x18x4, 44 t.
Date of loss : 1866, May 27
Place of loss : off North Point, Milwaukee
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1 of 2
Carrying : ?
Detail : While bound Chicago to St Joseph, Mich, she waterlogged off the point and drifted into shore. When she was close in her mate, and old man named “Daft,” jumped overboard to swim in to shore and was lost. The tug DAVIDSON and a volunteer crew from the schooner NORWAY rescued the skipper. The vessel later capsized and drifted into the bay. Owner: Libby & Co. Detroit. Master: Capt. Cameron.
Sources : nsp,wmn,(hr)
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ANGELIQUE
Other names : none
Official no. : C none?
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1863, Jos. Renaud, Belle R., Ont.
Specs : 53x18x3, 32gc
Date of loss : 1887, Jul 13
Place of loss : at Ruthven, Ont.
Lake : St. Clair
Type of loss : hull failure
Loss of life : none
Carrying : molding sand
Detail : After being loaded with the heavy cargo of sand it was found that she was leaking. Despite the efforts of her skipper and a steam pump, she went to the bottom where she soon became a total loss. Owned by Joseph Fecto
Rebuilt at Detroit in 1866.
Sources : mmgl,polk,es3-1,nsp
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ANGLO SAXON
Other names : none
Official no. : C71213
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 2-mast, bulk freight
Build info : 1864, Donaldson & Andrews, Port Dalhousie, Ont., as a bark
Specs : 134x27x11, 253gc 253nc
Date of loss : 1887, Sep 8
Place of loss : Straits of Mackinac, near Waugoschance Pt.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : Posts and RR ties
Detail : Driven ashore with towmate J.A. SMITH. Broke up soon after. The two were bound Cockburn Isl. for Chicago in tow of the steamer MATTEWAN, and were left at anchor while he steamer coaled. Stripped and later broke up. Homeport: Detroit Owner: A.A.T. Co.
Briefly American-owned in 1880 [US#374] – one source says also US-owned 1867-74, but official records show her as Canadian, 1871. 1874 Merchant Vessels of the U. S. has a notation that she was “sold foreign.”
Sources : nsp,slh,mmgl,hgl,ssm,wl,mr
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ANN
Other names : (none)
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1821, Black R. OH
Specs : 11 t.
Date of loss : 1827, Nov 6
Place of loss : Long Point almost opposite Erie, PA
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 7 of 13 (5 passengers lost)
Carrying : salt and general merchandise
Detail : Driven ashore in a gale and wrecked.
Owned by H.H. Wilcoxon & Co of Sandusky, OH. Master: Capt. Allen.
Sources : eas,sol,h,hgl,nsp,wl,wmn,hr
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ANN ARBOR #1
Other names : none
Official no. : 106974
Type at loss : propeller carferry, wood, 24 car
Build info : 1892, Craig Shipbuilding, Toledo, OH hull# 55
Specs : 260x53x15 1128g 564n
Date of loss : 1910, Mar 7
Place of loss : 4 mi off Manitowoc, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : rail cars of lumber
Detail : Caught in ice in February, burned to the waterline while still trapped. Owner: Ann Arbor Railroad. Her hull was later recovered & rebuilt to a sand barge, even though she had been declared a total loss.
Image of her afire from GLMD. In the ice
Sources : eas,glc,ns2,mv,sol,hcgl,svb
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ANN ARBOR #2 – See WHALE
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ANN MARIA
Other names : none [sometimes shown as ANNA MARIA, ANNIE MARIA]
Official no. : 387
Type at loss : schooner, wood, lumber, 2-mast
Build info : 1864, M Capron, Conneaut, OH
Specs : 131x26x11 256g 243n
Date of loss : 1902, Oct 7
Place of loss : a few hundred yards off Kincardine, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 4 of 6 + 1 lifesaver
Carrying : coal
Detail : Struck a bar while attempting to enter harbor. Crew taken off by a volunteer lifesaving crew, but the lifeboat capsized and most aboard were lost, including 1 of the lifesavers. Bound Cleveland for Kincardine. Out of Alpena, owned by A. W. Ziem of that city. Master: Alexander Gordon(d).
Dismasted and abandoned off Frankfort, MI, Oct 15, 1880, with loss of one life.
Rebuilt 1884
Sources : nsp,is,ns1,h,lhdc,phr,win,gs, usls,svb,ade,bbas
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ANNA MAUD
Other names : also seen as ANNIE MAUD, ANN MAUD
Official no. : C
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1855, J. Connacher, Port Hope, Ont.
Specs : 93 t.
Date of loss : 1865, late Oct or early Nov
Place of loss : at Wellington, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : 15,000 bu peas
Detail : Reportedly driven ashore and a total loss. Owned by D. Elliott, Port Hope
Sources : rnc,rsl,hgl,wmn,nsp
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ANNA MILDRED
Other names : ?
Official no. : C153244
Type at loss : ? May have been a yacht
Build info : built or acquired from foreign sources, 1926
Specs : 19gc
Date of loss : 1950, Jul 9
Place of loss : 3 mi off Port Dalhousie
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : explosion
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Exploded and sank. Reports are sketchy.
Sources : win,h not in mmgl
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ANNA RUTH
Other names : built as AMERICAN FAVORITE, renamed 1926. Sometimes shown as ANNE RUTH, RUTH ANNE
Official no. : C138866
Type at loss : propeller tug and packet
Build info : 1920, M.B. Petersen, Sturgeon Bay, WI
Specs : 27 t
Date of loss : 1928, Dec 9
Place of loss : Edward Island, near Thunder Bay, Ont.
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : fuel and supplies for a lumber camp
Detail : Burned to a total loss in Pringle’s Bay, where her remains still lie.
Sold Canadian in 1926. Owned by Pigeon Timber Co., Port Arthur, Ont.
Sources : win,gwgl,is,h,mpl,rf not in mmgl
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ANNANDALE
Other names : none
Official no. : C72525
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, bulk freight, 2-mast
Build info : 1868, J. Carruthers*, Kingston, Ont.
Specs : 112x25x9, 208gc 180nc
Date of loss : 1905, Oct 3
Place of loss : Charity Shoal, near Sacket’s Harbor, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : stranded
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : coal
Detail : Stranded in fog. Later broken up by storm. Bound Oswego for Kingston.
Owned by Geo. Irving, Burlington, Ont.
Ashore and wrecked in storm at Port Credit, Nov 27, 1889.
*also seen as Thurston
Rebuilt, 1879, 89
Sources : nsp,ns1,h,mmgl,win,osdo,wl,svb
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ANNIE LAURA
Other names : none some sources call her ANNIE LAURIE
Official no. : 105106
Type at loss : propeller, wood, sandsucker
Build info : 1871, J.Rice, Marine City, MI
Specs : 133x25x11 244g 189n
Date of loss : 1922, Aug 10
Place of loss : near Algonac, MI
Lake : St Clair R
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Beached, caught fire & burned to waterline. The wreck was removed as a hazard in November of the same year. Owned by D. O. Lockhart.
Converted to a sandsucker in 1913.
Major repairs in 1881
Sources : phr,sol,ns3,mv,hcgl,svb
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ANNIE LAURIE
Other names : none
Official no. : 105476
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1874, E Haight, Buffalo
Specs : 84x15x4 31g 22n
Date of loss : 1893, Aug 19
Place of loss : near Erie, PA
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She caught fire in the harbor , was beached and sank one mile off the entrance. Owned by F. W. Bacon & Co., (Erie?).
Sources : h,mv,nsp
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ANNIE MARIA
Other names : ?
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : ?
Specs : ?
Date of loss : 1869
Place of loss : on Stoney Isl.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Stranded or foundered.
Sources : slh,hgl not in 1869-70 mvus
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ANSPACH
Other names : none
Official no. : 16402
Type at loss : propeller tug, wood. fishing
Build info : 1879, Cooper or Bougy & Seymour, Detroit
Specs : 45x12x5, 15g 8n
Date of loss : 1908, Feb 18
Place of loss : off Waukegan, Ill.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : foundered
Loss of life : 2 of 6
Carrying : fishing gear
Detail : no detail. Out of Chicago
Sources : mv,hr,glmd
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ANTARES
Other names : none
Official no. : 366
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1853, Clark or Stevens, Cattaraugus [Irving], NY
Specs : 96x22x9, 176 t.
Date of loss : 1884, May 1
Place of loss : Ogden Canal, Chicago
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : hull failure?
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : ?
Detail : Sunk in the Chicago River’s Ogden Canal from unknown causes. It was reported in 1884 she would not be likely to be raised from Ogden Canal due to her extreme age and poor condition. She was reportedly dropped from Inland Lloyd’s in 1879 because she was ‘uninsurable.” Out of Chicago, owned by Jacob Waltman.
ANTARES reported aground near Cleveland in 1855, sunk near Manistee in 1867.
Damaged in a gale on Lake Michigan in Nov, 1874. Damaged in a collision with the propeller IRONSIDES off Grand Haven in June, 1883.
Last known registration was Apr, 1881
Sources : nsp,wl,wmn,hr,mr
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ANTELOPE
Other names : none
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1854, J&J Abbey, Port Robinson, Ont.
Specs : 107x20x10, 180 t.
Date of loss : 1860, Sep 18
Place of loss : near Port Stanley, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 2
Carrying : oats and peas
Detail : Bound from Morpeth, Ont., with produce, she sprang a leak and sank, a total loss.
Driven ashore by gale and reported a total loss near St. Joseph, Mi, Nov. 25, 1857, with the loss of five lives. Recovered the next year and rebuilt at great cost.
Sources : nsp,hgl,wmn,mmgl,wl
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ANTELOPE
Other names : built as ELLEN G. COCHRAN, renamed before 1883
Official no. : 135356
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1878, Grand Haven (Muskegon?), MI
Specs : 56x16x5 32g 30n
Date of loss : 1894, Nov 15
Place of loss : near Grand Haven, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 4 [3 crew, 1 passenger]
Carrying : light
Detail : Capsized and broke up in a SW gale while trying to make the harbor. Bound S. Chicago for Muskegon. Owned and skippered by Capt. John Larson, Muskegon(d).
Sources : nsp,h,mv,hgl,es,bb,hr
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ANTELOPE
Other names : none
Official no. : 571
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1861, J. Wolverton, Newport [Marine City], MI as a propeller
Specs : 187x32x12 523g 497n
Date of loss : 1897, Oct 7
Place of loss : Off Michigan Isl. in the Apostles Isls.
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Opened her seams and sank in a relatively mild storm. She had been the tow of steamer HIRAM W. SIBLEY, which took her crew off with some difficulty. Bound Sandusky, OH for Ashland, WI. Newspapers later claimed that the SIBLEY pulled ANTELOPE’s hull apart by towing her too fast.
Rebuilt after a fire at Buffalo in 1867 which caused near her value in damage – $100,000. Abandoned for age in 1883, then rebuilt to a barge in 1884.
Probably the same vessel that burned and sank on the Saginaw R. in 1884 or 5
Built for the Ward Line
Largely intact wreck located in the summer of 2016. Article.
Sources : phr,wb,mv,lhl,lss,slh,hgl,mpl,rsl, nsp,hcgl
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ED. L. ANTHONY
Other names : none
Official no. : 8880
Type at loss : tug, wood
Build info : 1869, G. Notter, Buffalo
Specs : 41x11x5, 14 g
Date of loss : 1885, Jul 8
Place of loss : Chicago harbor off the foot of 59th St.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none of 2
Carrying : none
Detail : She caught fire two miles offshore while bound Chicago for South Chicago. Her fire grate had come loose, tipping red-hot coals into the engine room. She was run for shore into the teeth of a gale, but sank a little short. Owned by her skipper, Capt. Reed, Chicago
Also exploded her boiler at Milwaukee with the loss of one life on Nov 22, 1873.
Sources : lmdc,hgl,bb,nsp,hr,mr
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MARIA ANTOINETTE
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1826, Fairbanks & Church, Sandusky, OH
Specs : 73x21x7 87t
Date of loss : 1829
Place of loss : near Sandusky, OH
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Went ashore and torn to pieces.
Sources : www,wl
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ANZAC
Other names : ? sometimes shown as ANZAC K.
Official no. : C170678
Type at loss : tug [probably fish tug]
Build info : ?
Specs : 9 t
Date of loss : 1947, May 6
Place of loss : 18 mi SE of Port Burwell, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Burned off the base of Long Point.
Sources : win,h not in mmgl
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APPELONA
Other names : also seen as APPOLONA
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : (1814, Henderson, NY)
Specs : (45x15x5, 37 t)
Date of loss : 1822, Oct 14
Place of loss : between Oswego and Genessee, NY, 16 mi offshore
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none, all hands injured
Carrying : potash, salt
Detail : Bound Oswego for Genessee, she was struck by lightning. The streak tore apart much of her deck gear, ripped up her cabin and stowed cargo, and tore a large hole in her flank while exiting the hull. Thoroughly blasted, she sank in about 15 minutes. Her crew, all injured to one degree or another, abandoned her for shore. Master: Willis Merritt.
Sources : rp,nsp,wmn
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APPOMATTOX
Other names : none
Official no. : 107236
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1896, Jas. Davidson, W. Bay City, MI hull #77
Specs : 320x42x23 2643g 2082n
Date of loss : 1905, Nov 2
Place of loss : on North Point, near Milwaukee
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fog
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : She was stranded in smoke and fog, then later destroyed by a succession of storms. Her final destruction came by a big gale on Nov 29, 1905. She had been towing the barge SANTIAGO(qv) which was released the same day. Her boilers were salvaged by Reid Wrecking and sat on a dock at Milwaukee until 1922. Her engine is still in place.
Her loss sparked outcry to build new lighthouse on North Pt.
Sources : nsp,ns1,h,mv,vbs,eas,mpl
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ARAB
Other names : none
Official no. : 311
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast, lumber
Build info : 1854, Lavayea, Buffalo
Specs : 100x25x9, 158 t
Date of loss : 1883, Nov 13
Place of loss : well off Arcadia, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : none
Detail : Beached in storm near St Joseph Nov 1. Quick work by wreckers got her off , but she capsized and sank while being towed to Racine by the tug PROTECTION in a powerful gale. The lost man was an engineer who was desperately trying to start her pumps when she rolled. Master: Capt. Chas. Starke.
Major repairs in 1875 & 81
Rebuilt 1867
Sources : nsp,lmdc,g8s,h,mv,polk,hgl,usls,m&h,rsl,bcha,wls
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ARABIA
Other names : none
Official no. : C32844
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1853, G. Thurston, Kingston, Ont. as a bark
Specs : 132x26x12, 309 t
Date of loss : 1884, Oct 5
Place of loss : near Echo Isl., Georgian Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 20,000 bu corn
Detail : Bound for Midland, Ont., she was blown ashore by a gale, later washed into deep water. Crew abandoned in her yawl and were picked up by a passing tug. Master; Capt. Henry Douville. Out of Kingston
Sailed to Glasgow with wheat and flour in 1854 and remained in the coasting trade of Britain for a year or so.
Rebuilt in 1863, 1874, major repair in 1882.
Wreck found 1971. An anchor with the name A.E. HART(qv) was found on the wreck.
Canadian archives says she was built by N. Ault, most other sources, Thurston.
Sources : eas,mmgl,polk,is(1-85),slh,lhdc,hgl,mpl,do,mr
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ARABIAN
Other names :
Official no. : none
Type at loss : bark, wood, 3-mast – built as a brig
Build info : 1853, Niagara
Specs : 350 t
Date of loss : 1856, Nov 29
Place of loss : off Pt. Betsie
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : foundered
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Stranded on Goose Island shoal, 10 mi ENE of Mackinac Isl. about 10 days earlier. She had been relieved of her cargo and was being towed to Chicago by the propeller OGONTZ when a gale blew up. The tow cable parted and the ARABIAN, with pumps working full force, was on her own. She made for shore with the OGONTZ following, but the two were separated during the night. The pumps finally failed and the vessel went down, her crew abandoning her to her boat and being picked up by the schooner FORTUNE.
Owned by Fitzhugh and Littlejohn of Oswego, NY. Master: Capt. Oliver. May have been recovered, rebuilt as bark ODD FELLOW.
Severely damaged in a citywide fire at Oswego in June of 1853.
Sources : clu,slh,hgl,nsp,rp,blu[1856]
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ARABIAN
Other names : none
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : bark, wood, 3-mast (also described as a schooner)
Build info : 1866, D. Foster, Port Burwell, Ont.
Specs : 90x10x9, 135 t.
Date of loss : 1866, Jun 17
Place of loss : near Cleveland
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 6
Carrying : stone blocks
Detail : She was bound Cleveland for Darlington, Ont., when she was overtaken by a storm. She put back for Cleveland, but was wrecked coming into the harbor. Total loss. Master and owner: Capt. Bentley Haskins(d).
Sources : mmgl,globe,hgl,nsp,jk
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ARAGON – See BAYANNA
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ARAXES
Other names : none
Official no. : 301
Type at loss : propeller, wood,
Build info : 1856, F.N. Jones, Buffalo
Specs : 182x30x10 569g 424n [593 t. om]
Date of loss : 1894, Summer
Place of loss : Saginaw Bay, off Bay City
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Foundered 4 miles off Bay City Ice Co.’s ice house. Wreck located in 1895, but deemed uneconomical to raise or salvage (too old). Owned by Brown & Co. of Buffalo.
Sunk in 1887; also ashore and abandoned near Sand Beach, Mich., in late September, 1890, but rescued by Reid Wrecking and Towing.
Major repair in 1864, 1882. Rebuilt in 1876.
Once part of the large Maytham fleet of Buffalo
Sources : nsp,hgl,atl,polk,mv,eas,lhl, mpl,rsl,es
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WILLIAM M. ARBUCKLE
Other names : also seen as W. M. ARBUCKLE
Official no. : 26167
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1853, Foster & Winal, Erie, PA
Specs : 97x23x9, 126 t. [170 t. om]
Date of loss : 1868, Nov 23
Place of loss : Sister Bay of Green Bay
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : ?
Detail : Put ashore in a gale to prevent her sinking and abandoned as a total loss after the tug AMERICAN EAGLE was unable to pump her out. Out of Milwaukee, owned by Brearly.
Sources : nsp,mv,rsl,hgl,wmn,wgts,whs
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ARBUTUS
Other names : none
Official no. : C92642
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1887, W. McDonnell, Wallaceburg, Ont.
Specs : 63x15x7, 49gc 34nc
Date of loss : 1921, Nov
Place of loss : about 10 mi NE of Grand Marais, MI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : illegal liquor
Detail : Foundered in a storm while being escorted to Grand Marais by U.S. Revenue Cutter. Crew were under arrest for rumrunning. Reports that she “went missing” are erroneous as she foundered in sight of her escort.
Official number also given as C92462
Out of Owen Sound
Sources : mmgl,winlssc,gwgl,is,h,lss,hcgl
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ARCADIA – See also FRANCISCO MORAZAN
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ARCADIA
Other names : none
Official no. : 106552
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1888, Milwaukee Ship Yard, Milwaukee, WI
Specs : 119x26x9 230g 147n
Date of loss : 1907, Apr 12
Place of loss : A few miles off Big Sable Point
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 14 [all]
Carrying : hardwood
Detail : Broke up and went down in a storm; exact cause unknown, but thought to have succumbed to a boiler explosion. Bound Manistee for Two Rivers, WI. A large quantity of wreckage was encountered offshore by several ships, and came ashore near Pentwater, MI, the 17th.
Owned by Capt. Henry May (d) of Arcadia, MI, the port which she was built for and had served for 19 years.
Sources : nsp,sol,ns1,h,lmdc,mv,eas,mpl, hcgl
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ARCTIC
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood,
Build info : 1851, J. Wolverton, Newport [Marine City], MI
Specs : 237x30x13, 861 t. [om]
Date of loss : 1860, May 28
Place of loss : east side of Lighthouse Island.
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : fog/storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : merch,passengers
Detail : Drove ashore in a heavy fog and later destroyed by a storm on Huron shoals. Passengers and crew were able to make it to shore by small boat before a storm arose and pounded her to pieces. They were later picked up by the steamer FOUNTAIN CITY. Owned by Clement Steam Boat Co. of Milwaukee. Master: Capt. Miller. Wreck is now mostly dispersed, salvaged or carried away by wreck divers.
Sources : eas,lss,lhl,mh,hgl,wl,nsp,hr
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ARCTIC
Other names : none
Official no. : 299
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight “steambarge”
Build info : 1864, Peck & Masters, Cleveland, OH
Specs : 194x28x11 596g 411n
Date of loss : 1893, Sep 5
Place of loss : S of Sand Beach (Harbor Beach), MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm/smoke
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Disoriented by smoke and heavy seas, she struck rocks and sank in deep water off White Rock, Mich. Her crew was picked up by her consorts. Bound Toledo for Escanaba, owned at Menominee by A.T. Underwood & Cowan.
Wreck located in 1987.
Drawing of wreck on site by Bob McGreevey (GLMD)
Sources : nsp,slh,mv,lhdc,lhl,wb,mv,hgl, mpl,hcgl
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ARCTIC
Other names : none
Official no. : 359
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1853, Lent, Ashtabula, OH
Specs : 113x24x9 185g 176n
Date of loss : 1895, Sep 16
Place of loss : 9 mi NNW of Pte Aux Barques, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : in ballast
Detail : Rammed and sunk by the steamer CLYDE in broad daylight and calm weather. Almost cut in half by the blow. Bound Detroit for Rogers City for lumber and owned by R. Tollock of Charlevoix. Master: Capt. Antonio Peterson. The skipper of the CLYDE was censured for the wreck itself and for his callous treatment of the schooner’s crew afterwards.
Major repair, 1861, 64, 81
Sources : nsp,polk,mv,lhdc,slh,wb,hgl,rsl,hcgl
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ARCTIC
Other names : none
Official no. : C
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1858, Arch Muir, Port Dalhousie, as a bark on the hull of str WELLAND (qv)
Specs : 130x21x8, 265 t.
Date of loss : 1896, Jul 9
Place of loss : 5 mi W of lighthouse point near Port Rowan, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 2 of 8
Carrying : cedar posts
Detail : She was bound Providence Bay, Ont. for Buffalo when she encountered a storm. She dropped anchor and the pumps were worked constantly, but the vessel finally sank. Two crewmen drowned while trying to make it ashore in the schooner’s tiny yawl, while the rest of those aboard were later saved by a lifesaving crew from Buffalo. Out of St. Catharines, owned and sailed by Capt. Sidley. No record that she was a total loss nor of her recovery.
Rebuilt 1870, major repair in 1881, 1890
Hull of the burned 1847 steamer WELLAND, (qv) was used to build this vessel. Converted from bark to schooner in 1860.
Sources : nsp,wmn,wl,jm,hr,polk
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ARCTURUS
Other names : none
Official no. : 568
Type at loss : barge, wood
Build info : 1853, B. Jones, Huron, OH as a schooner [builder also given as F.D. Ketchum]
Specs : 140x28x11, 300g 291n
Date of loss : 1888, Aug 19
Place of loss : Saginaw Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : foundered
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Tow of tug BRADY, she sprang a leak and sank. Owner: A. A. Pinet, East Saginaw. Master: Capt. John Price.
Probably the vessel that sank due to a collision off Long Pt, Lake Erie in Apr, 1868, and recovered in August.
Major repair, 1881, after damage incurred in the “Alpena Storm” of Oct, 1880
In a spring gale in 1853 her crew rolled a locomotive overboard in Lake Michigan (?) to keep her from capsizing.
Sources : mv,eas,nsp,slh,hgl
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ARDELIA
Other names : also seen as ADELIA
Official no. : C
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1835, Oakville, Ont.
Specs : 72 t.
Date of loss : 1854, Apr 10
Place of loss : 20 mi off Oswego
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : (hull failure?)
Loss of life : 6 [all]
Carrying : peas
Detail : Downbound from Wellington, Ont., she was observed by the crew of the schooner DANIEL WILLIAMS to have suddenly gone over on her beam ends and sunk quickly bow first. Some of her crew survived the sinking, but drowned before help could reach her. No general storm was in progress at the time of her loss, so the cause of her demise is unknown. Owned by Michael Butler, of Oakville, whose young son was among the victims. Master: Capt. Chris. Boylan(d).
Rebuilt at Toronto, 1847
Sources : hgl,wmn,clu,rnc,nsp
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ARDENT
Other names : none
Official no. : 563
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1861, A. C. Stokes, Sheboygan
Specs : 79x18x7, 57g
Date of loss : 1880, Oct 12
Place of loss : Hedgehog Harbor, Green Bay
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : wood and bark
Detail : Broke her anchor chain and drove ashore in storm, she was later stripped and abandoned. Reported as a total loss in a number of sources and her last known registry was December, 1879. Out of White Lake, Michigan.
Sources : hgl,wmhs,bb,wgts,hr
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ARGO
Other names : built as LIZZIE T. DAVIS
Official no. : 140195
Type at loss : schooner, wood former yacht
Build info : 1873, Boothbay, ME
Specs : 36x14x4 15g 14n
Date of loss : 1905, Jul 3
Place of loss : near Ludington, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : “lost”
Loss of life : none of 2
Carrying : ?
Detail : Foundered, no detail. Out of Grand Haven, Mich.
Sources : mv,mv,wmn,jm
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ARGO
Other names : later renamed RACINE (1910), renamed RENE (1917)
Official no. : 107627
Type at loss : propeller, steel, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1901, Craig Ship Building, Toledo, Oh
Specs : 173x32x21, 1089g 740n
Date of loss : 1905, Nov 24
Place of loss : outside harbor at Holland, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : general merch.
Detail : Dropped into trough of wave, hit bottom and sank in relatively shallow water while approaching harbor. 38 passengers & crew were taken off by breeches’ buoy in a thrilling rescue by the U.S. Lifesaving Service . Reportedly broke up after several salvage attempts failed, but actually was recovered the next year. Owned by Graham & Morton. Master: Capt. Stewart.
She was renamed RACINE in 1910 and transferred to French buyers in 1917. Last recorded out of Brest, France, in 1938.
Sources : nsp,is,sol,h,mv,eas,hcgl
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ARGO
Other names : ?
Official no. : (29297)
Type at loss : schooner(-barge), wood
Build info : (1868, G. Notter, Buffalo)
Specs : 68ft, (168g 160n)
Date of loss : 1907, Apr
Place of loss : between Big Sable Point and Manistee
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : 14(?)
Carrying : ?
Detail : Blown ashore and broke up on the beach.
Parts of this report are dubious
Sources : lmdc
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ARGO
Other names : none
Official no. : 164617
Type at loss : oil tanker-barge, steel
Build info : 1911, Baltimore
Specs : 120x35x12, 421g 421n
Date of loss : 1937, Oct 20
Place of loss : 3 mi off Pelee Isl.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 200,000 gal. benzol
Detail : Tow of tug SYOSSET, she sank in 40 ft. of water, 4 mi NE of Kelley’s Island Shoals. Tug rescued her two crewmen after a two hour search. It’s reported that a thin slick of benzol still leaks from her.
Owned by Independent Lighterage Co., New York City, in 1934.
Wreck was likely re-discovered in the summer of 2015, still leaking.
Sources : nsp,h,eas,mv
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ARGONAUT
Other names : none
Official no. : 29755
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1873, Campbell & Owen [Detroit Dry Dock Co.], Detroit hull# 25 as a schooner-barge
Specs : 213x35x12 1119g 985n
Date of loss : 1906, Oct 13
Place of loss : Marysville, MI
Lake : St Clair R
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Burned at her dock while being relieved of her engine. Owned by D.W. Mills Estate, Cleveland.
Sank due to a derangement of her machinery at Escanaba ore dock Aug 19, 1900. Saved from total loss by an expensive salvage operation
Official number is that of an unrigged barge; built as such, converted to steam in 1881.
Sources : nsp,ns1,h,mv,eas,atl,phr,mpl, hcgl,glmd
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ARGUS
Other names : built as LEWIS WOODRUFF, last name in 1913
Official no. : 200211
Type at loss : propeller, steel, bulk freighter
Build info : 1903, American Shipbuilding, Lorain, OH hull# 326
Specs : 416x50x28 4707g 3380n
Date of loss : 1913, Nov 12
Place of loss : Off Kincardine, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 25 [all]
Carrying : coal
Detail : Upbound, she broke in two and sank with all hands in one of largest storms ever to strike the Lakes. Wreck located in 1972. Fleetmate HYDRUS was also lost in the same gale. Owned by Pickens, Mather & Co. of Cleveland. Master: Capt. Paul Goetsch(d).
Image from HCGL collection as LEWIS WOODRUFF
Sources : mv,eas,slh,lol,is,gsgl,sol,ns2,mpl,hcgl
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ARGYLE – See also FRONTIER
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ARGYLE
Other names : ?
Official no. : C
Type at loss : propeller, wood*
Build info : 1864, A. M. Robertson, Hamilton, Ont.
Specs : 94x14x7, 120 t.
Date of loss : 1877, Aug 31
Place of loss : near Port Rowan, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : sank
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : passengers
Detail : Collided with a dock and left in a sinking condition due to a large hole in her side, she was not expected to survive. A steam pump was sent for from Buffalo, but Canadian authorities would not allow it to be used, because it was illegal for U.S. wrecking equipment to be used in Canadian waters. A representative of the insurance company stopped up the 6×6 foot hole in her side and had her bailed by hand to save her. She was carrying passengers, many of whom were rescued by the propeller DOMINION. Owner: Graham & Co., St. Catharines. May have been recovered soon after.
*Described on Mills List (csv) as “a large tug with passenger accommodation.”
Sources : nsp,hgl,es,csv,ib
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ARIADNE
Other names : none
Official no. : C none?
Type at loss : schooner, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1867, Foster, Pt. Burwell, Ont.
Specs : 97x22x8, 158 t
Date of loss : 1886, Nov 30
Place of loss : near Big Sandy Creek, Mexico Bay, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 4 of 7
Carrying : 10,000 bu. barley
Detail : Her sails destroyed and driven ashore by a gale after a three-day struggle, the ship and cargo were a total loss. Two crewmen froze to death lashed to a capstan, two others froze in the rigging. Lifesavers from Big Sandy station rescued the rest with the help from locals after a terrific struggle to bring the surfboat to the scene. Bound for Oswego from Newcastle, Ont.
Owned out of Toronto by her skipper Capt. Hugh McKay(d), & his father Southerland McKay, both lost.
1896 also given as year of loss but this is correct one.
Sources : (csqw),mmgl,nsp,clu,is,osdo,h,usls,hgl,rp,sip,es
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ARIADNE
Other names : none
Official no. : C85708
Type at loss : propeller, wood, fish tug
Build info : 1885, W.J. McDonnell, Wallaceburg, Ont.
Specs : 63x14x5, 38gc 26nc
Date of loss : 1916, Nov 23
Place of loss : Point Pelee, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Beached in a storm and abandoned. Out of Wallaceburg, maybe owned by A Ribble.
Sources : mmgl,csv,mmgl
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ARIEL
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : 4-gun armed schooner
Build info : 1813, A & N Brown, Erie, PA
Specs : 112t
Date of loss : 1813, Dec 29
Place of loss : Lake Erie
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : burned or wrecked
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : warship
Detail : Built for the U.S. Navy and served in Perry’s fleet. Burned by the British at Black Rock [site of Buffalo] after running aground in a squall.
Sources : ussn,hgl,mpl
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ARIEL
Other names : none
Official no. : C
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1854, J. Squires, Sandusky, OH, as a sidewheel passenger steamer
Specs : 127x20x7 166g
Date of loss : 1870, Nov 12
Place of loss : near Collingwood, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : navigational error
Loss of life : none
Carrying : barley
Detail : Bound Thornbury, Ont. for Collingwod, she went aground near the lighthouse and became a total wreck during a storm which struck the next day.
Burned at New Baltimore, MI, due to arson in Aug, 1860.
Burned Mar 31, 1868 at Detroit. Rebuilt to a schooner there and sold Canadian.
Ashore near Collingwood and given up as a total loss in November, 1869.
Sources : slh,www,hgl,nsp,mdwl,eas not in mmgl
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ARIZONA
Other names : none*
Official no. : 1768
Type at loss : propeller, wood, package freighter
Build info : 1868, Quayle & Martin, Cleveland
Specs : 189x33x13, 924g 810n
Date of loss : 1887, Nov 17
Place of loss : Marquette, MI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none of 23
Carrying : oils, acid
Detail : Her dangerous cargo caught fire as she approached harbor in a heavy sea. Poison fumes drove below-decks crew up, leaving her unmanageable. The steamer ran up against breakwater, and the crew jumped off. The burning steamer “chased” the crew down the breakwater, preceded by a plume of poisonous smoke. She finally went on the beach and burned herself out. Owner: Lake Superior Transit Co. Master: Capt. Frazer. Declared a total loss, but hull later recovered and rebuilt as bulker.
Had a very similar accident on Oct 20, 1882.
Sunk in a collision on St. Clair Flats in May, 1873.
Hulk still lies in the St. Lawrence R. near Cape Vincent, NY, where she burned to the water’s edge Dec 1, 1922, reportedly the oldest working steamer on the lakes at the time.
When she was built, newspapers reported the peculiar location of her boiler- on deck forward of the engine.
*Reported briefly as having been renamed CITY OF MARQUETTE after salvage from this accident, but her name was never officially changed.
Rebuilt 1877,79,82,88,93.
Sources : nsp,sol,is(3-60),ns3,mv,lss,hgl,st,mpl,hm,es3-1,hcgl
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ARK
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1844, Averill, Chicago
Specs : 72x16x5, 50 t.
Date of loss : 1853, Nov 30
Place of loss : near Grosse Point, IL 10 miles out
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : wood
Detail : Bound Dutchman’s Point for Chicago, she became waterlogged in a storm and was abandoned by her crew. They were picked up by the steamer SCOTIA which landed them at Waukegan. Owned and sailed by William White of Chicago. She was the eldest vessel working out of that port.
Sources : nsp,wl,wmn
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ARK
Other names : built on burned out hull of steamer E.K. COLLINS(qv)
Official no. : none
Type at loss : barge, wood
Build info : 1853, J. Bushnell, Newport, MI as a sidewheel passenger steamer.
Specs : 151x32x8, 268g
Date of loss : 1866, Oct 25
Place of loss : mid-lake
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 6
Carrying : light
Detail : Downbound from Saginaw, she disappeared into a storm after being lost from the tow of a tug. There was much speculation as to her whereabouts until large amounts of identifiable wreckage began washing ashore 100 miles north of Goderich, Ont. Master: Capt. Buzzard(d). Her three towmates, the barges ELLIOTT, DETROIT and ONTARIO, all survived.
Sources : slh,(lhl),hgl,nsp,hcgl
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ARK
Other names : none
Official no. : C72957
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood [iron strapped], 3-mast
Build info : 1875, A. Muir, Pt. Dalhousie, Ont.
Specs : 177x36x10, 512 t
Date of loss : 1887, Oct 3
Place of loss : Grindstone City, MI, near Pte Aux Barques
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Went aground with heavy damage, tow of steamer ALBION (qv). Owned by A. Muir & Bros., Port Dalhousie. Released, but wrecked October 24, same year, near Port Colborne, in a storm. Dragged anchor and went ashore. Finally released again in late November. Declared a total loss both times.
Sources : slh,nsp,mmgl
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ARKANSAS
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1849, Sherwin’s Bay, NY
Specs : 107x24x10, 240 t. [om]
Date of loss : 1858, Jun
Place of loss : near Kenosha, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Reported ashore and gone to pieces, a total loss of $2,000. She missed the entrance to the harbor, wrecking near t he north piers.
The same ARKANSAS was reported ashore on Long Point Cut, Lake Erie, Nov 15, 1852. Cargo: RR iron. Also stranded and wrecked in Green Bay in late Nov, 1855.
Sources : nsp,eas,bb,wmn,hr,wls
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ARLINGTON
Other names : built as F.P. JONES, renamed GLENCADAM in 1919, last name in 1925
Official no. : C138219
Type at loss : propeller, steel, bulk freight “canaller”
Build info : 1913, Detroit Shipbuilding Co., Wyandotte [US#211084]
Specs : 244x42x21 1870gc 1118nc
Date of loss : 1940, May 1
Place of loss : near Superior Shoals
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1 (capt)
Carrying : 98,000 bu grain
Detail : Sailed into teeth of a gale, in company of steamer COLLINGWOOD, from Fort William, Ont. the night before. After she began to leak, her skipper took the helm to steady the listing ship while the boats were launched. He died when she suddenly plunged to the bottom off a wave. The other 15 crew made it to her boat & were picked up by COLLINGWOOD. Master: Capt. Tate “Tatey Bug” Burke.
Sold Canadian, 1919, and did a stint in the Carribbean as a sugar cane boat.
Sources : eas,mmgl,ttgl,sol,is,ns5,h,csv,mpl,hcgl
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ARMADA
Other names : none
Official no. : 364
Type at loss : barge, wood
Build info : 1847, Asa Wilcox, Sackett’s Harbor as a schooner
Specs : 176g 235 t. om.
Date of loss : 1869, Sep
Place of loss : ?
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Broke loose from a tow and became a total loss.
Also broke loose and wrecked on Lake Michigan in May of the same year.
Rebuilt in 1858. Last registration 1866, Chicago
Sources : mv,wmhs,wl,hgl,jm,bb,hr
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ARMENIA
Other names : none
Official no. : 107219
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1896, Jas. Davidson, W. Bay City hull #73
Specs : 289x45x19 2040g 1919n
Date of loss : 1906, May 9
Place of loss : Off Colchester Reef
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : Tow of steamer FRED PABST, she sprang a leak and foundered. Rested with masts above water until fall. Shortly after they were finally knocked down by a storm, the wreck was struck by the Wheeler- built steamer CHARLES B PACKARD. Wheeler and Davidson were rival Saginaw River shipbuilders. Remains later partly removed, probably in November. Lost the same day as her sister ALGERIA(qv). Master: Capt. Thos. Cooper.
Sources : nsp,gsgl,ns1,mv,eas,vbs,mpl,hcgl,we,es
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PHILIP D. ARMOUR
Other names : none
Official no. : 150459
Type at loss : barge, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1889, Detroit Dry Dock, Detroit hull 93 as a propeller
Specs : 264x41x21 1991g 1453n
Date of loss : 1915, Nov 13
Place of loss : near Erie, PA
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Bound Ashtabula for Welland in tow of tug HENRY E. GILLEN. Broke away, struck a reef and sank off Waldmere Resort. Slipped into deeper water after her crew had abandoned her. Owned by Boland and Cornelius, Buffalo
Rig changed to barge the same year as her loss.
Also sunk in the deepest area of the St. Clair R. in September of 1889, due to a collision. Her raising by Jim Reid was one of the greatest salvage feats of the day.
Sources : atl,ns2,mv,ledc,st,mpl,eas,hcgl,ewe
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C.W. ARMSTRONG
Other names : none
Official no. : 5219
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1856, Albany, NY [phr shows her built at Marine City in 1864, but that was probably a rebuild]
Specs : 57x14x7, 33 t.
Date of loss : 1870, Nov 21
Place of loss : Saginaw River at Bay City
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none of 3
Carrying : none
Detail : Burned at her dock at Bay City, total loss. Burned at night in a blaze which started from an escaped boiler fire. Owner: Chas. M. Little, Detroit (maybe also master)
Possibly recovered, burned again Jan, 1879 – still shows on 1871 insurance list.
Also exploded her boiler with the loss of one crewman, near Erie, PA, in June of 1856. She was later returned to service
Sources : slh,nsp,lhl,phr,hgl,wl
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JANE ARMSTRONG – See A. SEAMAN
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AGNES ARNOLD
Other names : built as BOB MILLS, renamed about 1890
Official no. : 2781
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1864, Mills, Buffalo
Specs : 68x13x5, 30g 15n
Date of loss : 1898, May 30
Place of loss : Chambers Island, Green Bay
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Burned to a total loss while the captain and crew were eating supper at the lighthouse. Owned by Capt. James Clow, Chambers I or M. J. Arnold, Marinete [most likely the former].
Almost destroyed in explosion and fire Jun 12, 1865.
rebuilt 1865, 1880
Sources : lhl,polk,hgl,wgts,nsp
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B.W. ARNOLD
Other names : none
Official no. : 3333
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight “lumber hooker”
Build info : 1885, F.W. Wheeler, W. Bay City, MI hull #24
Specs : 202x36x13 944g 673n
Date of loss : 1896, Nov 21
Place of loss : off Ontonagon, MI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 800,000 bd. ft. lumber
Detail : She was bound Duluth for Chicago with the schooner-barge JAMES MOWATT in tow, and caught fire in her deck load. Her crew abandoned ship to MOWATT, while ARNOLD later drifted ashore 7 mi below Portage Entrance to the ship canal, where she burned out.
Both vessels owned by Mills Transportation of Marysville, MI.
When built she was reported to be the largest steamer in the lumber trade and had accomodations for 20 passengers as well.
Sources : vbs,lss,sbs,gwgl,is,hgl,nsp
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W.W. ARNOLD
Other names : none
Official no. : 26166
Type at loss : schooner, wood, package and bulk freight
Build info : 1863, H.J. Williams, Buffalo
Specs : 426 t 347 nt
Date of loss : 1869, Nov 15
Place of loss : near mouth of Two-Hearted River, MI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 11 [all]
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : Drove ashore in the great gale of November, 1869. The violent storm tore the schooner apart and she quickly sank. Loss of life included several passengers. Downbound from Marquette for Cleveland. Master: Capt. Beardsley(d).
Sources : is(1-65),nsp,lss,lssc,gwgl,gsgl,smgl,hgl,rsl,mdwl
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ARROW
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : coaster-tug, wood
Build info : 1865, E Saginaw
Specs : 70x18x3, 24 t,
Date of loss : 1868, Oct 7
Place of loss : at Crawford’sQuarry, near Rogers City
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : She was caught out in a gale and made for the quarry dock for shelter. She got there, but was pounded so thoroughly that she sank near shore. It was thought that she might be recovered but there is no record of her after this.
She had a regular coasting route along the northern Lake Huron shore.
Sources : nsp, phr,t,wmn,hr
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ARROW
Other names : none
Official no. : 372
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1857 (or 55), Geo. Hardison, Erie. PA
Specs : (281 t) 190 t.
Date of loss : 1869, Nov 18
Place of loss : 6 miles from Milwaukee, off Winnetka
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : all
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Stranded and lost.
Homeport: Chicago
Sources : nsp,lmdc,hgl,rsl,mdwl
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ARROW
Other names : none?
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast, fishing and USLS supply boat
Build info : ?
Specs : 32×9,
Date of loss : 1880, Oct 20
Place of loss : 1.5 miles off Rogers City
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 2 of 3
Carrying : none
Detail : Bound from 40-mile Point Lifesaving Station for Rogers City. Caught in a sudden squall, blown down and sank. Mainmast was emergent and her one crewman and 2 passengers clung to it for hours. The passengers, USLS District Supt. J. Sawyer and 40-mile Point Station Captain G. Feaben, ultimately drowned. The boat was a clinker-built centerboard ketch (foremast longer).
Sources : usls,nsp
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ARROW
Other names : none
Official no. : 548
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1852, W.E. Judd, Chicago
Specs : 85x21x6 69g 66n
Date of loss : 1883, Apr 30
Place of loss : 3.5 mi from Two Rivers, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : navigational error
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : Bound Milwaukee for Leland, MI, ran ashore in darkness, in calm weather. Sunk into the sand over the next few days while a tug powerful enough to pull her out was being located. Finally stripped of her gear and rigging and declared a total loss, she went to pieces in another storm in late May, 1883. Out of Chicago.
Sources : mv,polk,h,hgl,usls, bb,nsp,wmhs,nsp,hr,mr
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ART PALACE
Other names : ?
Official no. : 29359
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1867, G. Gunderson, Ft. Howard, WI
Specs : 51x16x4, 33 t.
Date of loss : 1869, Aug 14
Place of loss : off the Cedar River, Green Bay
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : The ART PALACE was a “floating bagnio” [read “brothel”] and was lying at anchor when driven ashore by a gale and reportedly a total loss. Her skipper, known as “Commodore Peg-Leg” and her crew of “a half-dozen model artistes” made it to shore and lived for a time in the woods nearby. The vessel was eventually recovered, as she was still registered in 1877, out of Manitowoc, but this is SUCH an interesting story, I had to include her.
Sources : nsp,mv,hr not in hgl
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ARTHUR – See D.P. RHODES
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ARUNDELL
Other names : none
Official no. : 105784
Type at loss : propeller, iron, passenger/package frt
Build info : 1878, D. Bell, Buffalo
Specs : 167x27x11 339g 257n
Date of loss : 1911, Oct 18
Place of loss : Douglas, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Burned at dock in Saugatuck Harbor. Had been laid up there for two weeks. Owner: Crawford Transportation Co., Saugatuck. Declared a total loss and document surrendered, but later raised and rebuilt as a barge. Lost in the Atlantic in 1922.
Sources : nsp,ns2,mv,eas,slh,lhl,hcgl
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ASHLAND
Other names : none?
Official no. : none
Type at loss : brig, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1844, D. Sanford, Cleveland
Specs : 104x24x9, 201 t.
Date of loss : 1854, date not given, clipping in Dec 12 paper
Place of loss : Pigeon Bay, 20 miles below the Detroit River mouth
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : stranded
Loss of life : none
Carrying : corn
Detail : Bound Toledo for Detroit, she ran on a rock and was holed.
Owned by Bronson & Crockett, Detroit.
Sources : nsp,hgl,wl,eas
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ASHTABULA
Other names : none
Official no. : 367
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1852, Geo. Thayer, Ashtabula, OH
Specs : 90x21x8, 95 t.
Date of loss : 1883, Nov 11
Place of loss : off North Point, Milwaukee
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 4
Carrying : oil, salt, misc package frt
Detail : Bound Chicago for Escanaba and trying to make Milwaukee for shelter in a gale when she capsized and sank. Crew saved by tug STARKE BROS.
Damaged and one life lost in a collision, Nov 20, 1871.
Major repairs in 1862,71,72,78.
Sources : mpl,polk,hgl,mv,bb,rsl,hr,wls
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ASHTABULA
Other names : none
Official no. : 203071
Type at loss : propeller, steel, carferry, 30 car
Build info : 1906, Great Lakes Engineering, St. Clair, MI
Specs : 338x56x22, 2607g 1525n
Date of loss : 1958, Sep 18
Place of loss : Ashtabula, OH harbor
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : railcars
Detail : Collided with steel steamer BEN MOREELL 350′ from harbor entrance. Sank with just her upperworks above water. Later recovered but considered unrepairable. Scrapped in 1959. Owned by Pennsylvania-Ontario Transportation Co. of Cleveland
Sources : a&f,is(4-58),sol,glc,hcgl,svb,mv
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MAGGIE ASHTON
Other names : none
Official no. : 90593
Type at loss : propeller tug, wood
Build info : 1871, G. Notter, Buffalo
Specs : 45x11x6, 14g 7n
Date of loss : 1899, Oct 5
Place of loss : Pte Aux Barques, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She went on the rocks off the point and was wrecked.. The tug JONES made an unsuccessful effort to save her.
Sources : slh,mv,wl,nsp
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ASIA
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1848, Black R., OH
Specs : 108x23x9, 204 t. [om]
Date of loss : 1855, Sep 21
Place of loss : off the mouth of Grand Traverse Bay
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : corn
Detail : She was bound Chicago for Buffalo when she came into collision with the upbound propeller FOREST CITY(qv). She went down in deep water in about 10 minutes, her crew having just enough time to launch her boat and save themselves. They were later picked up by the schooner HAMLET. Owned out of Cleveland, probably by Mussey & Reed. Master: Capt. Reed.
Sources : nsp,hgl,wl,wmhs
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ASIA
Other names : none
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1864 or 65, Canada (reported as “new”, but probably the 1858 vessel built by Muir at Port Dalhousie)
Specs : 380 t. (1858 ves.) “largest canal class”
Date of loss : 1866, Sep 5
Place of loss : Spectacle Reef, Straits
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 4-500 t. coal
Detail : Bound Erie, Pa. for Chicago, she went on Spectacle reef in a fog and big seas. Her crew abandoned in her yawl and made it to Mackinac Island. New and sturdy, it was expected she could be saved, but after about 1/3 of her cargo had been recovered, the vessel was abandoned in mid-October. Owned by Muir Bros., Chicago, reported as recently sold US. Master: Capt. James Nicholson.
Another schooner ASIA was reported lost off the north end of Long Point, Lake Erie Dec 2, 1878.
Sources : nsp,clu,wmn,wmhs
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ASIA
Other names : none
Official no. : C none?
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger/package freight
Build info : 1873, Simpson, St. Catharines, Ont.
Specs : 144x26x12 453g 364n*
Date of loss : 1882, Sep 14
Place of loss : Georgian Bay, near Byng Inlet
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 123 of 125
Carrying : gen. merch, passengers, shantymen, horses, lumber camp supplies
Detail : Upbound on her regular route, she was assaulted by a terrific gale and stranded off Lonely Island, then was crushed by a huge wave and destroyed by following waves. Nearly all of the passengers and crew left the ship in the lifeboats, but none of those who did made it to shore. The only two survivors were a young crewman and a young woman passenger who had failed to get intoany of the overcrowded lifeboats.
Owned by J. H. Beattie, Sarnia, Ont., and chartered to Great Northern Transportation Co. Her usual route was Collingwood to Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.. Master: Capt. J. W. Savage(d).
The boat was reportedly not designed for open-lake service, but did so for practically her entire career. In the first leg of her final voyage the boat was so battered that some of her passengers disembarkedat Owen Sound.
*inexplicably given by Lloyd’s as 211x25x16, 662 t., built by J & R Swan
Sources : eas,mmgl,win,clu,is(3-45),lol,ml,slh,lh,gs,sol,hgl,mpl,rp,es,hcgl,wa
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ASP
Other names : built as ELIZABETH
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, coaster
Build info : 1808, Mississauga, Ont.
Specs : 57 t.
Date of loss : 1820, Oct 9
Place of loss : Off Salmon R., Mexico Bay, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 9of 11
Carrying : lumber, staves
Detail : Sprang a leak near Long Point, waterlogged and capsized. Driven across the lake and finally went ashore and broke up quickly. 3 of the dead and one survivor were passengers. Owned out of Niagara. Master: Capt. Prosser(d).
Originally a British armed (3-gun) schooner. Captured by American sloop GROWLER, 1812, and became U.S. Naval vessel. Sold commercial at Sackett’s Harbor in 1815.
Sources : hgl,sol,is,h,net,nsp
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JOHN JACOB ASTOR
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : brig, wood, trading and fishing
Build info : 1835, G. W. Jones, Pte Aux Pins, Ont. (precut at Lorain ,OH)
Specs : 78x22x8, 112t. om
Date of loss : 1844, Sep 21
Place of loss : near Copper Harbor, MI [Keweenaw Pen.]
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : foundered
Loss of life : none
Carrying : furs, trade goods
Detail : Owned by Astor’s American Fur Company, reportedly the 1st commercial vessel on Lake Superior. She struck a reef and foundered. Wreckage was still visible in the early 1860’s. Master: Capt. Stannard.
Anchor recovered in 1970.
Sometimes referred to as a schooner
Sources : lss,ls,gwgl,gsgl,is,le,sm,soo,hgl,nsp,df,hr
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ATALANTA
Other names : none
Official no. : 375
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1863, Geo. Fordham, Toledo, Ohio
Specs : 268 t.
Date of loss : 1878, Jun 21
Place of loss : Sleeping Bear Point, Michigan
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : lumber
Detail : She went ashore in a storm and was pounded to pieces by waves by the 25th. Owned and sailed by Capt. Thomas Miller, out of Chicago.
Sources : mv,nb,smi,wl,rsl,nsp
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ATHABASCA (1910) – removed, formerly posted information was erroneous
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ATHENA
Other names : none
Official no. : C100398
Type at loss : propeller launch, wood
Build info : 1894, Wm. Johnson, Hamilton, Ont
Specs : 58x10x6, 18gc 12nc
Date of loss : 1897, Aug 27
Place of loss : Hamilton, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Burned at Hamilton Wharf in a fire which started on the steamer ACACIA.
Owned by McDonald & Clendenning
Sources : mmgl,win,h,ib
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ATHENIAN
Other names : none
Official no. : 361
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood
Build info : 1856, S.C. Jones, Buffalo
Specs : 136x26x11, 283 t.
Date of loss : 1880, Apr 17
Place of loss : at Oscoda, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : after loading lumber at Oscoda, she was caught by a gale while still tied to the dock. The pounding against the dock destroyed most of the vessel, while piles of lumber falling from atop the dock administered the coup-de-grace. Owned by Oscoda Salt & Lumber Co., Oscoda
Probably the same vessel as wrecked in Waiska Bay. L. Superior in 1873 and recovered in ’74.
Rebuilt in 1866.
Sources : lss,slh,lssc,hgl,rsl,jb,nsp
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ATHENS
Other names : none
Official no. : 107276
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, bulk freight, 2-mast
Build info : 1897, Jas. Davidson, W. Bay City, MI as a 3-mast schooner
Specs : 294x45x19 2073g 1953n
Date of loss : 1917, Oct 7
Place of loss : 25 mi W of Southampton, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 5 of 8
Carrying : ?
Detail : Behind the Canadian steamer LUCKNOW(qv), she was lost from tow, broke her back and sank in a blizzard and gale. 3 crewmen were rescued by LUCKNOW.
Owned by Boland and Cornelius, Cleveland
Sources : eas,vbs,is(1-64),slh,is,sbs,ns2,mpl,hcgl,svb,mv
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ATLANTA
Other names : none
Official no. : 150269
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1873, Goble & McFarlane, Oswego, NY
Specs : 142x26x11, 318 gt.
Date of loss : 1874, Nov 11
Place of loss : probably off Au Sable Point
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 6 or 7 [all]
Carrying : 18,000 bu wheat
Detail : Passed Thunder Bay Isl. downbound in company with the schooner FAVORITE on the morning of the11th, parted ways with her shortly after and never arrived at Port Huron. Fishermen at Point au Sable said they saw a white-painted schooner (ATLANTA was white) disappear into a squall the same afternoon and never emerge. She had been bound Chicago for Oswego. Owned by T. S. Mott, Oswego.
Master: Capt. Samuel Morran(d).
MAY be in Lake Erie – one newspaper says she passed Detroit
Sources : nsp,rp,osdo,wl
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ATLANTA
Other names : none
Official no. : 106746
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1890, Jas. Davidson, W. Bay City hull #36
Specs : 172x34x13 599g 570 n
Date of loss : 1891, May 4
Place of loss : 20 miles off Deer Park, MI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 5 of 7
Carrying : coal
Detail : Upbound, tow of steamer S.S. WILHELM. Broke towline and went to pieces an hour later. 7 crew abandoned her in lifeboat, but 5 were lost when it capsized near shore. Went down in 180 feet of water at about 3 am. Outbound from Soo. The new vessel was a total loss of about $37,000. Owned by C. E. Eastman and H. W. Steele, of Saginaw and Chas. E. Jennison of Bay City. Master: Capt. James L. Knowlton(d).
Sources : nsp,lssc,gwgl,gs,sol,h,vbs,eas,usls,lss,wb,hgl,sb,usls,es,mv
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ATLANTA
Other names : none [shows on some official records as ATALANTA]
Official no. : 106823
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger /package freight
Build info : 1891, Cleveland Drydock Co., Cleveland
Specs : 200x32x14 1129g 958n
Date of loss : 1906, Mar 18
Place of loss : near Port Washington, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : 1 of 40
Carrying : porcelain, furniture, gen merch
Detail : Caught fire offshore enroute from Manitowoc to Chicago and was run up on the beach to save passengers and crew, where she burned to a total loss. Part of the passengers and crew were saved by the fishing tug TESSLER out of Port Washington. Some of the ship’s remains were later salvaged for scrap. Owned by Goodrich Transportation Co. of Chicago.
Sources : is(2-45),sol,rsh,ns1,h,mv,eas,mpl,hcgl
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ATLANTIC – See also MANITOULIN, HOMER WARREN
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ATLANTIC
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1833, Cleveland, OH
Specs : 56x18x5, 48 t.
Date of loss : 1840
Place of loss : 6 mi E of Cleveland
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : Collision
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Collided with steamer BUFFALO and sank.
Sources : sol,hgl ,wl
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ATLANTIC
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger/package freight
Build info : 1849, J.L. Wolverton, Detroit [location also given as Newport/Marine City]
Specs : 267x33x13, 1155t
Date of loss : 1852, Aug 20
Place of loss : S of Long Pt.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : Collision
Loss of life : 150-250 of about 600 [passenger manifest was lost with the ship]
Carrying : Gen merch, luggage
Detail : Loaded with immigrants, she collided with the propeller freighter OGDENSBURG and quickly sank at 2:30 or 3 am. The OGDENSBURG continued in a wide circle and came back to the ATLANTIC, while the inrushing waters extinguished the steamer’s fires. She sank quickly bow first, resting for a moment at a 45° angle before making her final plunge. She was a palatial passenger vessel and considered to be the fastest on the lakes. Master: Capt. Petty.
Built for Capt. E.B. Ward of Detroit
According to an 1868 article in the Detroit Free Press, she was still visible from the surface in that year.
Numerous salvage attempts have been made, starting in 1853, including one with a midget sub (see MARINE CIGAR). Her safe was raised during a salvage operation in 1856 by P. Harrington. Other major salvage efforts were made in 1854, 1855, 1873 & 1910. Rediscovered in 1987.
Most of her valuables have been long since recovered, but one entrepreneurial dive group – claiming salvage rights after “finding” her in 1989, still says there is $1 billion (!) in valuables aboard. The Canadian government sucessfully sued this group to protect her, finally winning their case in December, 1996 after several years of litigation.
Sources : nsp,glss,glgs,lm,sol,hdm,le,h,eas,is(4-58,3-63),hg,net,mpl,hcgl,ewe
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ATLANTIC
Other names : ?
Official no. : 29914
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk frt(?)
Build info : 1880, Buffalo
Specs : 112x30x6 158g 147n
Date of loss : 1895
Place of loss : off Harrisville, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : “lost”
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Reported lost off the lumber docks.
Official number is that of an unrigged barge – perhaps built at Detroit as a lighter. Documents say she was abandoned in 1900 – perhaps given up for lost in that year after this wreck.
Sources : slh,mv,mpl
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ATLANTIC
Other names : built as MANITOULIN(qv-C#71189)
Official no. : C85491
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger/package frt
Build info : 1880, J. Simpson, Owen Sound, Ont.
Specs : 147x30x11, 683gc 442nc
Date of loss : 1903, Nov 10
Place of loss : lee of Pancake Isls., Georgian Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : hay, coal oil, etc.
Detail : Bound for Byng Inlet with lumber camp supplies. Caught in a storm & heavily damaged. Her cargo and her aft cabin were thrown overboard to lighten her in an attempt to get her off, but she caught fire and was destroyed. Passengers and crew took to her boats and survived.
Owned by Northern Navigation Co., Collingwood.
Rebuilt in 1882-3 after nearly total destruction by fire in May of 1882 at Manitowaning Bay, Ont.. Renamed at that time.
Sources : is(3-64),mmgl,win,lh,slh,gsgl,sol,ns1,h,lhdc,hgl,csv,mpl,do,hcgl,wl
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ATLANTIS
Other names : built as DESPATCH, renamed in 1953
Official no. : 214319
Type at loss : oil screw salvage tug, wood
Build info : 1916, F. F. Paasch, Erie, Pa
Specs : 47x15x4, 15g 10n
Date of loss : 1958, Nov 21
Place of loss : off Erieau, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Destroyed by a storm, no detail. Owned by Luther & Collins Commercial Divers, Cleveland.
Sources : h ,hcgl ,mv
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ATLAS
Other names : (probably none)
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1836, Dexter,NY
Specs : “small”
Date of loss : 1839, May 4
Place of loss : 6 mi NW of Oswego, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 5 [all]
Carrying : stone
Detail : Bound Chaumont Bay for Oswego. Foundered in a NW gale. Steamer TELEGRAPH rushed out of Oswego to her assistance, but found nothing but a little flotsam. She sank so quickly that it was thought that her cargo shifted and dipped her deck below the waves.
Out of Dexter, NY. Master: Capt. Ashel Westcott(d).
Her wreckage was located and identified off Oswego in the summer 2013, Link
Sources : hgl,lodc,osdo,h,rp not in mmgl
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ATLAS
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : propeller, wood
Build info : 1851, Buffalo
Specs : 153x25x11, 375 t.
Date of loss : 1851, Oct 26
Place of loss : near mouth of Grand River, OH [site of Lorain].
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : flour
Detail : Bound Detroit for Buffalo, she was blown to shore by a gale, stranded and became a total loss.
Out of Oswego. NY. Master: Lewis W. Bancroft.
Sources : lhl,hgl,wl,nsp,eas
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ATLAS
Other names : none
Official no. : 200815
Type at loss : propeller, wood, steam lighter
Build info : 1903, Milwaukee
Specs : 116x30x4, 232g 115n
Date of loss : 1907, Jun 26
Place of loss : Chicago River
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none of 6
Carrying : ?
Detail : Ran into an abutment of the Clark Street bridge, Chicago and sank. Out of Chicago
Sources : mv,hr
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ATLASCO
Other names : built as package freighter RUSSELL SAGE (US#110472), renamed in 1917
Official no. : C138234
Type at loss : barge, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1881, Union Drydock Co., Buffalo hull #17
Specs : 228x33x13, 1224gc 1105nc
Date of loss : 1921, Aug 17
Place of loss : off South Bay Pt. 30 mi W of Kingston
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : wire
Detail : She foundered in a storm. Her crew escaped in her lifeboat. Towmate of barge the CONDOR(qv).
After disastrous fire at Oswego in November, 1912, she was raised and sold to McNoughton Co., Ontario, and rebuilt to a barge at Port Dalhousie in 1917
Dimensions as SAGE: 232x26x13 1224g 1105n
Sources : do2,mmgl,ns3,mv,mpl,rp,hcgl
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SAMUEL T. ATWATER
Other names : also seen as S.T. ATWATER
Official no. : 23363
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, lumber
Build info : 1866, Hardison, Charlotte [Irondequoit], NY
Specs : 136x24x11 323g 307n
Date of loss : 1895, Oct 24
Place of loss : Manitoulin Isl.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : stranded
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Went ashore and wrecked after being cast off by steamer M. GROH in a gale. Master: Capt. McDermott.
Rebuilt, 1888, by Frank Alary, Tonawanda.
Sources : nsp,is,slh,wb,hgl,osdo
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AUBREY – See EDWARD E. GILLEN
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LUCY AUCHARD (often misspelled ANCHARD)
Other names : built on the hull of the schooner DANIEL WEBSTER [1849 vessel]
Official no. : 15147
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1860, R.J.W. Morgan, Henderson, NY
Specs : 80x21x8, 86g
Date of loss : 1871, Oct 15
Place of loss : near Port Albert, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : (none)
Carrying : telegraph poles
Detail : Bound New River for Sandusky, OH, she was driven ashore by heavy gale. Out of Algonac, MI – owned by Falconer Mc Kivern. Master: Capt. Arthur Hemigen. Document surrendered at Port Huron 12/16/78, annotated “Lost in 1871.”
Heavily damaged by a lightning strike in 1862. Major repair in 1861.
Sources : phr,mv,hgl,nsp,rsl
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JOHN J. AUDUBON
Other names : none also seen as just AUDUBON
Official no. : none
Type at loss : brig, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1854, G & W Jones, Black R. [Cleveland], Ohio
Specs : 370 t.
Date of loss : 1854, Oct 20
Place of loss : Halfway between Thunder Bay Isl. and Presque Isle, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : railroad iron
Detail : Bound Buffalo for Chicago, she was struck nearly amidships by the schooner DEFIANCE on a dark night [one source says foggy] and cut almost in half. Both vessels sank quickly. A newspaper clipping gives the location as 15 miles below Pte Aux Barques.
Owned by Merrick & Pierce of Clayton, NY. Master: Capt. Henry Gadsden.
Sources : slh,lhdc,hgl,nsp
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AUGUSTA – see also COLONEL COOK
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AUGUSTA
Other names : none
Official no. : C85422
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1872, L. Shickluna, St. Catharines
Specs : 142x26x12, 342gc 321nc
Date of loss : 1900, Nov 25*
Place of loss : near Port Credit, Ont
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Bound Charlotte, NY for Toronto, she went into the shallows and broke her back. Her crew was rescued by local volunteers. Coal cargo was lightered off before she went to pieces. Her skipper had also lost HIGHLAND BELLE, ISABELLA & UNDINE.
Also wrecked in 1898 with loss of 7 lives and maybe wrecked and declared a total loss in 1890.
*Oct 25 also given, in error
Sources : nsp,hgl,tfgl,wb,mmgl
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AUGUSTA
Other names : none
Official no. : C85419
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1883, Andrews Bros., Port Robinson, Ont
Specs : 66x16x6 57g 31n
Date of loss : 1909, Dec 7
Place of loss : at Port Dalhousie, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Caught fire and burned to total loss 200 ft. S of Muir’s Drydock.
Sources : win,mmgl,h
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AUGUSTUS
Other names : none
Official no. : 29961
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1885, Spoonville, Mich
Specs : 78x20x6, 64g 59n
Date of loss : 1918, Nov 24
Place of loss : at Red River, Wisc
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 58 t. hay
Detail : Burned to a total loss while docked. OwnedCapt. Cota and Larson.
Out of Milwaukee in 1910.
Sources : eas,mv,hcgl,wgts
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AURANIA
Other names : none
Official no. : 107186
Type at loss : propeller, steel, bulk freight
Build info : 1895, Chicago Shipbuilding Co., Chicago as a barge hull#12
Specs : 352x44x22, 3218g 2899n
Date of loss : 1909, Apr 29
Place of loss : near Parisienne Isl.
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : ice
Loss of life : none
Carrying : Coal
Detail : She was trapped in pack ice with many other vessels in Whitefish Bay in mid-April. Her hull was slowly crushed and she sank on the 29th, in sight of a fleet of the others. Her crew walked to steamer J.H. BARTOW on the ice.
Wreck located in 1972.
When launched she was the largest steel schooner on the lakes. Converted to steam in 1899.
Sources : ns1,rs,eas,lssc,gwgl,is,ns1,mv,mpl,hcgl
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AURORA
Other names : none
Official no. : 106493
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1887, Miller & Murphy, Cleveland
Specs : 290x41x22 2282g 1860n
Date of loss : 1898, Dec 12
Place of loss : off Bois Blanc Isl.
Lake : Detroit R
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 85,000 bu wheat
Detail : Stranded near the head of the island with her barge AURANIA, ice froze in around her, then she caught fire and was gutted. Owned by John Corrigan, Cleveland. Her scuttled hull was recovered in 1900 and converted to a schooner-barge, which was reported destroyed by fire in 1932 at Ferrysburg, MI after being abandoned there in 1927..
Sources : win,h,ns3,mv,hgl,mpl,hcgl,es
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D. A. AUSTIN
Other names : ?
Official no. : C(?)
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood
Build info : ?
Specs : 200 t
Date of loss : 1883
Place of loss : Saginaw Bay, off Port Austin
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : foundered
Loss of life : 7
Carrying : ?
Detail : No detail
Maybe barge J. S. AUSTIN (US#12713)
Sources : slh,hgl not in mmgl
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D.S. AUSTIN
Other names : none
Official no. : 6745
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1872, Bailey Bros., Toledo
Specs : 135x26x12 282g 268n
Date of loss : 1898, Nov 8
Place of loss : harbor at Ludington
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : bulk salt
Detail : Let go from the steambarge E. S. TICE, dragged her anchors in a gale and struck the south pier, then drifted near the beach and sank 1/4 mile to the north. Completely broken up by the 16th. Outbound at the time of her loss. Owned by Samuel Neff & Sons, Milwaukee.
Heavily damaged at the same spot, Nov 15, 1894, after having ridden out the great spring storm of the same year at Chicago. Also had serious wrecks in Georgian Bay and at Manitowoc.
Reportedly launched with all of her gear, except her canvas, already in place
Sources : nsp,h,lmdc,mv,hgl,mpl,jb
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AUSTRALASIA
Other names : none
Official no. : 106302
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1884, Jas. Davidson, W. Bay City hull #9
Specs : 282x39x21 1829g 1539n
Date of loss : 1896, Oct 18
Place of loss : Whitefish Bay, near Jacksonport, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 2200 t. soft coal
Detail : Caught fire, burned to the waterline and sank 3 mi E of Cana Isl.. Her crew were saved by Bailey’s Harbor Lifesavers. L. Smith Towing contracted to remove the cargo the 23rd.
Bound Lake Erie for Milwaukee.
Sources : sol,vbs,sbs,lmdc,hgl,mpl,hcgl,wgts
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AUSTRALIA
Other names : none
Official no. : 370
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1862, B. Parsons, Vermilion, OH
Specs : 109x23x9, 159g 151n
Date of loss : 1888, Sep 30
Place of loss : harbor entrance at Holland, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : cedar posts
Detail : Laid on beam ends by gale and sprung a leak. Bound Beaver Island for Chicago, heading into Holland for shelter but struck a bar and foundered in the harbor mouth, blocking it until U.S. gov’t had the hulk removed Oct 5. Master: Capt. P. H. Edwards. Owner: William Horn, Chicago.
Crew saved by U.S. Lifesaving Service
Sources : sagl,h,nsp,mv,eas,wb,hgl,sb,bb,hr,oo
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AUTOCRAT
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood (2-mast)
Build info : 1854, Stevens, Cattaraugus, NY
Specs : 345 t.
Date of loss : 1866, Aug 5
Place of loss : 6 mi NNE of Chicago
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 15,000 bu corn
Detail : She was lying off Chicago, waiting for a storm to die down so she could resume her trip to Buffalo, when the schooner J. S. NEWHOUSE, while searching for shelter, ran into her just before dawn. She sank quickly in 7 fathoms of water. Her crew was rescued by the tug UNION.
Out of Buffalo, owned by N. T. Company.
Sources : nsp,hgl,rsl,wmn
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AVALON VOYAGER 2
Other names : built as TWILLINGATE, renamed THOMAS V HOLLETT (1951), AVALON VOYAGER (1967), last name in 1976. Also seen as AVALON VOYAGER II
Official no. : C?
Type at loss : propeller, wood, Diesel
Build info : 1946, Clarenville, Newfoundland, Can. as a minesweeper
Specs : 136x28x ft., 325 gc 191nc
Date of loss : 1981, Oct 31
Place of loss : W side of Bonnet Isl., near Tobermorey, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Enroute to Owen Sound to be put into use as a floating restaurant, she struck bottom near Cape Hurd and was holed. She later drifted to her present position, on the west side of Bonnet Isl, and sank.
She had been a fixture as a cargo vessel and floating restaurant around Kincardine since the late 1970’s.
Laid down as a minesweeper for WWII use, turned over to Canadian gov’t and completed as a small cargo ship in 1946.
Sources : do,dg
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MAGGIE M. AVERY
Other names : M. M. AVERY
Official no. : 92065
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1888, South Arm, Mich
Specs : 49x12x4, 13g 12n
Date of loss : 1894, Sep 28
Place of loss : South Manitou harbor
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : ?
Detail : Dragged her anchors and went ashore, a total loss. Owned by Mary E. Gykes or Dykes of Grand Haven.
In June, 1889, she left Traverse City for Charlevoix – a distance of only 50 miles – on the 15th. By the 21st she had not arrived at her destination and it was presumed that she had sunk in a squall on the night of the 15th. Both crewmen were from Charlevoix. Cargo brick
Sources : jb,wmn,mv,nsp
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WALDO A. AVERY
Other names : rebuilt as PHENIX, later LIBERTY (1917)
Official no. : 81048
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1884, F.W. Wheeler, W. Bay City
Specs : 204x38x18 1294g 1035n
Date of loss : 1893, Dec 5
Place of loss : 5 mi W. of Mackinaw City, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 70,000 bu corn
Detail : She was bound Chicago for Buffalo in heavy weather when fire was discovered in her lamproom soon after she passed Waugoschance. It was soon out of control and she was beached at McGulpin Pt., Straits of Mackinac, where she was gutted by the flames. Owned by Hawgood and Avery, Bay City. Master: Capt. Chris Smith. Thought to be a total loss but hull recovered in June, 1894 and rebuilt at the Wheeler yard with the appropriate name PHENIX.. Abandoned in 1923 at Ogdensburg, NY and turned into a dock facing after being damaged by the steamer SAMUEL MARSHAL in 1922 .
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AVIS
Other names : none
Official no. : 212467
Type at loss : gas screw packet (tug?) [former fish tug]
Build info : 1905, J. Gaulder, Davenport, Ia
Specs : 36x9x4, 14g 13n
Date of loss : 1939, Jan 1
Place of loss : harbor at S. Manitou Isl.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : “sank”
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : no detail
In 1934 she was owned by C. M. Anderson; out of Chicago.
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AVON
Other names : none
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1857, Thurston, Kingston, Ont.
Specs : 132×23, 307 t.
Date of loss : 1869, Oct 14
Place of loss : near Presque Isle, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : grain & flour
Detail : Sprung a leak in a gale and beached near 40-mi Pt. Raised by the wrecking tug MAGNET on the 22nd. Patched and towed for Presque Isle, she was beached again after a big steam pump failed on the 23rd and she began to sink again. Raised again the 28th, but beached for a third time due to a gale. Abandoned and broke up in storms that followed.
Had the engine from the burned propeller TINTO(qv).
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AVON
Other names : none
Official no. : 105733
Type at loss : propeller, wood, package freight
Build info : 1877, Union Dry Dock Co., Buffalo
Specs : 251x35x15 1702g 1539n
Date of loss : 1901, Jun 30
Place of loss : near Pte Aux Pins, Ont.
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : flour, gen merch
Detail : Fighting a big gale, she caught fire and burned nearly to the water. Declared a total loss, she was later recovered and rebuilt at great expense. Had been bound Duluth for Buffalo. Owner: Union Transit Co.
Struck bottom on Lime-Kiln crossing, Detroit R. during a time of low water in Sep, 1879, and sank, causing more than $40,000 damage to herself and her cargo.
Stranded with heavy damage near Buffalo in the fall of 1883.
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WILLIAM L. AXFORD
Other names : none
Official no. : 62468
Type at loss : scow-schoooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1870, New Baltimore, MI
Specs : 60x15x4, 33g
Date of loss : 1893, May 26 or 16
Place of loss : at Pte Aux Barques
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Stranded and total loss in a storm. Her crew of three was rescued by the local Lifesaving Service crew. Owned by Geo. Manner, Port Huron. Document surrendered at Port Huron Dec 30, 1899.
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AYCLIFFE HALL
Other names : none
Official no. : C147800
Type at loss : propeller, steel, bulk freight
Build info : 1928, Smith’s Dock Co., Southbank-on-Tees, England
Specs : 253x44x18 1900gc
Date of loss : 1936, Jun 11
Place of loss : 18 miles W of Long Point light
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : Collided with steel steamer EDWARD J. BERWIND in fog and sank. Crew was picked up by BERWIND after abandoning. Salvagers brought her to the surface that fall, but couldn’t keep her afloat.
Wreck discovered by U.S. Lighthouse tender CROCUS in 1939 and dynamited by the Canadian government soon after.
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JOHN V. AYER
Other names : also seen as J. V. AYER or AYRE
Official no. : none
Type at loss : bark, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1856, Peck & Martin, Cleveland
Specs : 136x26x11, 353 t.
Date of loss : 1856, Nov 4
Place of loss : off St. Joseph, Mich
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 10 [all]
Carrying : 17,000 bu. wheat
Detail : She foundered in a storm on her 2nd trip as a new vessel. She had not been missed until her captain’s trunk washed ashore near St. Joseph a week later. Out of Milwaukee, owned by B. S. Shepherd of Chicago and Samuel Hale, Kenosha. Master: Capt. Thomas McClelland(d). She was an insurance loss of $34,000.
The vessel had been designed and built for the European trade, and had a substantial passenger cabin.
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MARY D. AYER
Other names : built as JESSE HOYT, last name in 1882
Official no. : 12973
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast [built as bark]
Build info : 1854, S. Kirby & J. Hoyt, E. Saginaw, MI
Specs : 144x29x11 472g 320n
Date of loss : 1896, May 17
Place of loss : off Gross Pointe, IL
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : Collision
Loss of life : 5 of 7
Carrying : light
Detail : She collided with the steamer ONOKO in dense fog, damaging both vessels. The steamer proceeded to Chicago, while AYER was taken in tow by the steamer CITY OF DULUTH. When she suddenly began to sink, the steamer cut her line and lowered her boats, but the effort was not fast enough to save all of those aboard the schooner. She sank stern-foremost. Master: Capt. “Danger” Williamson.
Ashore and thought lost in the Straits, Sep, 1887.
Built as 516 t. bark.
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AZOV
Other names : also seen as AZOF
Official no. : C ?
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1866, J. Simpson, Wellington Square, (Burlington?), Ont
Specs : 108x24x10 195t
Date of loss : 1911, Oct 22
Place of loss : about 15 mi off Pte Aux Barques, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 6
Carrying : piling logs
Detail : Sprang a leak, capsized and foundered in a storm. Her crew managed to escape in her boat and struggled the width of the lake in the gale to land near AZOV’s homeport of Goderich. The ship’s wreckage drifted ashore on the Canadian side days later. Owned by John McDonald.
Collided with the propeller BRISTOL and sank on Lake Ontario in July, 1870.
Rebuilt in 1906.
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AZTEC
Other names : none
Official no. : 106627
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1889, D. Lester, Marine City, MI
Specs : 180x33x14 835g 653n
Date of loss : 1923, Nov 9
Place of loss : Belle River, Marine City, MI
Lake : St Clair R
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Destroyed at her homeport. Lay there until dynamited in ’30s and then removed to L. Huron [remains were placed in previously raised barge PROVINCE(qv), which was then towed into the lake and scuttled].
Owned by L. D. Brown in 1923.
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