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D & C
Other names : none
Official no. : C190435
Type at loss : propeller tug, steel
Build info : 1950, Russell Hipwell, Owen Sound
Specs : 47x12x4, 13gc 9nc
Date of loss : 1995, Sep 3
Place of loss : Howdenville, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Caught fire and burned to a total loss at her dock, where she was being reconditioned after mysteriously sinking eight days earlier. Arson was suspected due to a continuing dispute between the native tug owners and local sprot fishermen. Owned by Francis Nadjiwon, Owen Sound and others. May have been recovered.
Struck Evelynn Rock Lat.48deg 29’N Lon 88deg 19’W , lost her rudder and foundered on Lake Superior Nov 19, 1957. Location is on the North Shore, due north of of the northern tip of Isle Royale, MI. No loss of life, but crewmen struggled to survive on the rock for 30 hours until rescued by the tug JOHN C. Out of Owen sound, owned by D. Drever of Collingwood
Sources : is,win,lss not in mmgl
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D.D.A. 43 – See CORMORANT
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D.R.C.L. #2*
Other names : ?
Official no. : C192576
Type at loss : construction scow
Build info : ?
Specs : 46 t.
Date of loss : 1955, Nov 20
Place of loss : off Port Crewe, Ont. Lat.42deg10′ Lon82deg15′
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Foundered in a gale, about 38 km W of Leamington.
Registered out of Windsor.
*Detroit River Construction Limited
Sources : h,win not in mmgl
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DACOTAH
Other names : also seen as DAKOTAH
Official no. : none
Type at loss : propeller, wood, freighter
Build info : 1857, Luther Moses, Cleveland
Specs : 198x30x13, 688 t.
Date of loss : 1860, Nov 24
Place of loss : near 18-mile Creek, close to Angola, NY [Evans Centre]
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 24 [all]
Carrying : copper ingots, cash
Detail : Though most sources say she went missing, she actually was driven ashore and destroyed quickly with her entire crew in one of the most powerful storms of the decade. Those aboard included members of the crew of the propeller MARQUETTE, who had been traveling home after that vessel was laid up for the season. Her engine and boiler were salvaged by the tug HOMER the following July. Owned by New York Central Railroad. Master: Capt. Wm. S. Cross(d).
Sources : eas,gs,sol,sagl,h,ledc,mpl,nsp,hgl,ewe
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DACOTAH
Other names : more often seen as DAKOTAH, above is official
Official no. : 6145
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1867, R. Hayes, Fairport, OH
Specs : 138x28x9 281g 267n
Date of loss : 1901, Sep 24
Place of loss : Georgian Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : (lumber)
Detail : Driven ashore & wrecked in a gale.
Sources : ns1,wl
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DAGMAR
Other names : none
Official no. : 213130
Type at loss : gas screw tug, fisher
Build info : 1914, Beaver Bay, Minn.
Specs : 45x12x4, 14g 9n
Date of loss : 1935, Jun 1
Place of loss : 1 mi E of Chippewa Harbor, off Isle Royale
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : sank
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Ran ashore in fog and holed. Later slipped off into deep water.
Sources : lss,irs,mv
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DAHLIA – See also FLORA M. HILL
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DAHLIA
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1847, Stephen Lockwood, Ashtabula
Specs : 106x24x9, 210 t.
Date of loss : 1857, Oct 22
Place of loss : near Port Burwell, Ont (also given as “on Mouse Island, south shore of Lake Erie”)
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : staves
Detail : Driven ashore on a rocky beach and sunk by unpredictable winds under high bluffs. As the vessel thrashed against the jagged rock, her crew waited for the opportunity to leap ashore, and finally made it one by one with only one injury.
Sources : ledc,hgl,nsp,wl,rnc
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H. DAHLKE
Other names : none
Official no. : 205145
Type at loss : propeller, steel, self-unloading sandsucker
Build info : 1907, Manitowoc Dry Dock Co., Manitowoc, WI
Specs : 142x34x10, 442g 374n
Date of loss : 1938, Dec 22
Place of loss : Sandwich, Ont.
Lake : Detroit R.
Type of loss : cargo shift
Loss of life : none
Carrying : clay
Detail : An error in unloading caused her to capsize and sink at the dock. She was considered a total loss, but was later recovered, sold off the lakes and converted to a banana boat.
*dimensions as bulker
Converted to a sandsucker from regular bulk freighter in 1911.
Sources : ns4,mv,gld,hcgl
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DAISY
Other names : none
Official no. : 157038
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1881, Huntoon, New Baltimore, MI
Specs : 44x14x4 25g 19n
Date of loss : 1895
Place of loss : at Port Hope, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : no detail
Probably erroneous reporting of a tug which burned on River Trent, Ontario, in December of 1895. She was out of Port Hope, Ont.
Sources : slh,hgl,wmn
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DAISY
Other names : none
Official no. : 157465
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood (perhaps a yacht at one time)
Build info : 1896, Vermilion, OH
Specs : 57x14x5, 18 t.
Date of loss : 1909, Apr 15
Place of loss : at Lorain, OH
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : no detail
Sources : mv,csv?,hr
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DAKOTAH – See DACOTAH
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DALHOUSIE
Other names : none
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger and package freighter
Build info : 1869, L. Shickluna, St. Catharines, Ont.
Specs : 144x26x11, 323 t.
Date of loss : 1872, Sep 26
Place of loss : 2 miles off Charlotte, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : passengers, pig iron and general merchandise
Detail : Outbound from Kingston, she caught fire near her stern while about midlake off Oak Orchard. Her crew was unable to extinguish the flames and all were about to abandon ship when the steamer CITY OF CONCORD(qv) hove into view. She took the passengers and crew aboard and attempted to tow the burning vessel to Charlotte, but the DALHOUSIE burned through her hawser and foundered two miles short, in about 8 fathoms of water. Owned by the Welland Railway Co. of St. Catharines, which had built her to replace their burned steamer PERSEVERANCE(qv), lost in 1868. Master: Capt. Maurice McGrath.
Sources : csv,hgl,mmgl,pdw,pg,hr
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DALHOUSIE ROVER
Other names : renamed TOWMASTER after recovery [1946], SHEDIAC [1949] and TRAVELLER [1949]
Official no. : C170519
Type at loss : propeller tug, steel
Build info : 1941, Muir Bros. Drydock, Port Dalhousie, Ont.
Specs : 78x20x9, 104gc
Date of loss : 1946, Jun 29
Place of loss : Lock #1, Welland Canal
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : sank
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Sank in the lock – cause not stated. Owned by Boone Dredging and Marine Construction, Toronto. Later removed and declared a constructive total loss, but rebuilt and renamed as shown above. She went on to a long career and was finally scrapped in 1995.
Sources : h,hcgl,hr
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ANNIE DALL
Other names : none, probably built on the hull of the schooner MARY (US#16409, b. 1848, Milan, Oh)
Official no. : 106182
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1883, Chicago
Specs : 111x25x8, 149g 142n
Date of loss : 1898, Oct 23
Place of loss : S of Jacksonport, Wis.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : steam pump, lumber
Detail : Went ashore a few days earlier and was freed by the tug NELSON. Enroute to Sturgeon Bay for repairs in tow of the tug WRIGHT, the schooner began to fill faster than the wrecking pump’s ability to keep her dry. She tried to turn for shore, but careened over, dumping the pump overboard and swamping. She washed ashore later, a total wreck.
Sources : hgl,wmn,wgts,wmhs,nsp
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LINCOLN DALL
Other names : none
Official no. : 15577
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1869, Miller Bros, Chicago
Specs : 116x25x9, 207g 196 n
Date of loss : 1894, May 18
Place of loss : off Glencoe, IL
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Inbound, she was driven into the shallows by gale after long fight all across the lake. Broke up soon after Lifesaving Service took her remaining crewmen off (one had drowned as she struck.) Master: Capt. S. Johnson. Out of Manistee, Mich.
Stranded with heavy damage in 1883.
Major repair, 1882.
Sources : is,h,lmdc,mv,polk,hgl,mpl,hcgl
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MARGARET DALL
Other names : none
Official no. : 17746
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast, lumber
Build info : 1867, John Gregory, Michigan City, IN
Specs : 115x26x8 150g 138n
Date of loss : 1906, Nov 16
Place of loss : near harbor at S. Manitou Isl.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 5
Carrying : potatoes
Detail : She attempted to make the harbor in gale, but was driven ashore near the lighthouse. Her crew waded ashore.
The vessel broke up the following winter. Owner: Henry Caesar, Chicago.
Ashore near Glencoe, IL, with a load of Xmas Trees 11/10/98.
Major repair, 1880 after stranding near Grand Haven the previous fall.
Converted from 2-mast to 3-mast schooner in 1892
Image as a wreck [earlier accident] from HCGL
Sources : is(1-61),nsp,gs,is,ns1,h,ns2,mv,nb,usls,mpl,eas,hcgl
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PETER DALTON
Other names : none
Official no. : 150192
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1880, Robertson, Grand Haven, MI
Specs : 63x15x6 49g 25n
Date of loss : 1896, Apr 12
Place of loss : off Grosse Point, IL
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She caught fire while returning to Chicago from near Kenosha with the salvage schooner A.J. DEWEY [which had been in use as a lighter] and the salvaged boiler from the steamer SOLON H. JOHNSON. She burned in two, finally sinking in 50 feet of water. DALTON’s crew and DEWEY were rescued by the tug WELCOME, which tried to save the tug as well. Owned by the “Independent Line” out of Chicago.
Almost totally destroyed by fire in 1880 at Whitehall MI
Sources : nsp,slh,mv,
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GEORGE DANA
Other names : none
Official no. : 39390
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood
Build info : 1869, C. Hinman, Algonac
Specs : 138x24x9 304n
Date of loss : 1876, Sep 1
Place of loss : 3 mi from Grindstone City, Mich.*
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Bound Bay City for Detroit in tow of the steamer DUBUQUE, she was driven ashore by a gale & broke up. Cargo salvaged by tug WINSLOW. Owned by Amelia Dana of Algonac
*near Alabaster also given as location
Sources : slh,nsp,hgl,nsp
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LILY DANCEY
Other names : none also seen as LILLIE DANAY
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1856, Marlton, Goderich, Ont.
Specs : 92x21x10, 132gc 125nc
Date of loss : 1865, Nov 7
Place of loss : near Port Elgin or Kincardine, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : grain
Detail : She was driven ashore by a gale and vessel and cargo were reported a total loss, but her cargo was later recovered. The vessel broke up by Nov 27. Probably owned by Dancy & Marlton, Goderich.
Also sunk near Port Elgin, Ont., in 1856.
Shown in 1866 Canadian Lake Underwiter’s List as “on the beach.”
Sources : clu,mmgl,slh,hgl,rsl,nsp
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F.L. DANFORTH
Other names : none
Official no. : 9155
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1867, G. Notter, Buffalo
Specs : 58x15x7., 29g 15n
Date of loss : 1892, Jun 21
Place of loss : Duluth-Superior harbor, MN/WI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : an overheated boiler caught her decks on fire; she burned to the waterline, a total loss. Owned by Williams & Upham, Duluth.
Rebuilt, 1883. Burned nearly to the waterline at Duluth Aug 8, 1872.
Sources : mv,is,gwgl,lss,mpl,hcgl
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F.L. DANFORTH
Other names : none
Official no. : C90011
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast, bulk freight
Build info : 1872, F.N. Jones, Tonawanda, NY [US#120018] as a schooner
Specs : 193x34x14 715g 679n
Date of loss : 1893, Apr 20
Place of loss : near Chicago
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 10
Carrying : corn
Detail : Broke adrift from her tow steamer, A. P. WRIGHT, in a gale, blown ashore and wrecked. Her crew was rescued from her rigging by the U.S. Lifesaving Service from the grounds of the World’s Fair [Columbian Exposition] to the cheers of a large crowd. Owner, Capt. J. L. Higgie. Recovered in May after being reported broken in two, but soon declared a constructive total loss. However, the hulk was auctioned off and appears in later official records, first out of Milwaukee and then Chicago. Sold Canadian in 1898 (C97011). Final disposition unknown.
Also wrecked in a collision with the bark NORTHWEST 12 mi off Kenosha, WI, in Oct, 1876.
Rebuilt 1883
Sources : h,mv,hgl,mpl,usls,sip,nsp,es
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GRACE DANFORTH – See CORNELL
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DANUBE
Other names : none
Official no. : 6109
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood
Build info : 1853, Baker & Co., Oswego, NY as a bark
Specs : 134x25x12, 278 t. [ca. 400 t., om]
Date of loss : (1884)
Place of loss : unreported
Lake : unreported
Type of loss : “wrecked”
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : No detail. Document surrendered at Port Huron Nov 20, 1890 annotated “Wrecked, total loss.” An article regarding the loss of the DOLPHIN in 1887 mentions DANUBE as lost about 3 years previously.
Hgl & osdo say she was abandoned in 1895, but not in mv after 1888.
Converted to barge in 1868, lengthened three feet
Went ashore on Round Island, Straits of Mackinac, in Dec of 1856, and expected to break up, but was later “got off.”
Sources : phr,osdo,polk,hgl,nsp,rp
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DARDANELLES
Other names : none
Official no. : US (reported in some sources as Canadian)
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1856, Merry & Gay, Milan, Oh
Specs : 132x26x12, 308 t.
Date of loss : 1861, late Oct
Place of loss : 15 mi N of Presque Isle, Mich
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : coal
Detail : Stranded and wrecked. Salvage attempted by the tug One source said “may be got off later.” Shows as a total loss in a wreck list of January, 1862. Owned by Hazard, Buffalo.
Sources : hgl,wmn,wmhs,glmd
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DARIEN
Other names : none
Official no. : 6142
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1855, R.E. Steele, Milan, OH
Specs : 119x25x11, 221g [298 t. om]
Date of loss : 1870, Oct 31
Place of loss : near Presque Isle, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : stranded
Loss of life : none
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : Sunk in 11 feet of water and broke in two. Her crew were rescued by the U.S. lighthouse tender WARRINGTON. Homeport:Cleveland
Wrecked on L Erie in 1866 with the loss of several lives. Fully rebuilt in 1867.
Major repair in 1863
Sources : nsp,slh,hgl,rsl,ec
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DART
Other names : none
Official no. : 6658
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1867, H.L. Turner, Green Bay, WI
Specs : 57x16x6, 26g 25n
Date of loss : 1883, Oct 28
Place of loss : near Two Rivers, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 2
Carrying : 450 bu. apples
Detail : Bound Holland, MI, for Manitowoc in gale, she was driven ashore and broke up, a total loss. Most of her cargo, however, was recovered. Owned out of Manitowoc by Capt. Halvor Helgerson, who was also her master.
Possibly wrecked near the same spot in Dec, 1882.
Rebuilt in 1880
Sources : mv,h,lmdc,hs,hgl,usls,mpl,bb,gc,hr
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MARY A. DARYAW
Other names : built as KEWAUNEE, renamed 1921
Official no. : C150481
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1866, Arnold, Port Huron US# 14065
Specs : 124x27x8 195gc 195nc
Date of loss : 1927, Oct 15
Place of loss : 4-mile Pt., near Simcoe Isl., Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm/fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Driven ashore by storm in Sept. Still lying there when she was set fire and was destroyed as a spectacle. Sold Canadian in 1921, registered out of Kingston to Capt. Henry Daryaw, who also sailed her.
Ashore with heavy damage near Racine, Apr 20, 1893.
Sources : ns3,mv,win,is(2-90),mpl,hcgl
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DASHING WAVE
Other names : none
Official no. : 6393
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1862, J. Oades, Clayton, NY
Specs : 134x25x11, 269 gt
Date of loss : 1902, Jun 20
Place of loss : off Amherstburg, Ont.
Lake : Detroit R
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : (none)
Carrying : ?
Detail : Tow of the steamer ANNIE LAURIE, she was struck by the steamer WYANDOTTE, which was rounding to to come into the A-burg dock. She was cut nearly to the keel, but her crew was able to beach her downriver to keep her from sinking.
Sources : nsp,hgl,bb
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J.C. DAUN
Other names : also seen as J.C. DANN, I.C. DANN, J.C. DEAN, J. C. DUAN
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1847, Sackett’s Harbor, NY
Specs : 210 t.
Date of loss : 1848, Jul 7
Place of loss : near Rondeau, Ont
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : staves
Detail : She anchored off Rondeau to shelter from a storm, but her anchors dragged and she was wrecking tin the shallows. She was abandoned to her underwriters a few days later, a total loss.
On May 7, 1847, she capsized and sank in a squall off Conneauet, Ohio. Eight crewmen died, but four crew members made it up to the the bottom of the craft after she went over. One died of exposure during the night. The other three were taken off the next morning by the schooner UNCLE SAM. The vessel was later found by the steamer SARATOGA, floating upside down with all of her sails up and the bodies of part of her crew lashed to her rigging. She was righted by the schooner D. SMART a few days later, and was later towed in. Out of Sackett’s Harbor, NY. Master: Capt. Lyman Miner.
Sources : sol,hgl,nsp,wmhs,hr,wmn
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DAUNTLESS
Other names : none
Official no. : 6128
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1857, B.B. Jones, Buffalo
Specs : 299 nt
Date of loss : 1870, late Nov
Place of loss : St. Martin’s Island, Death’s Door
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : 525 t. iron ore
Detail : Stranded and wrecked. She was stripped of her outfit and abandoned in early December. Homeport: Chicago, owned by Doyle of Buffalo
MAY have been recovered later – still in 1872 mv.
Sources : slh,hgl.mv,nsp,wgts
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DAUNTLESS
Other names : none
Official no. : C71139
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1875, W. Allen, Port Dover, Ont
Specs : 101x22x9, 143gc 143nc
Date of loss : 1895, Nov 21
Place of loss : 7 mi above Ft. Gratiot, Mi.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Came to anchor offshore in a gale, later dragged in. Her crew was rescued by tug CROSBY. She was reported breaking up and a total loss a few days later, but recovered.
Another report of a DAUNTLESS wrecked at Sarnia Bay in 1889 is also this craft.
Built on the bottom of the 1857 schooner BAY QUEEN
Sources : mmgl,slh,clu,hgl,st,jb,glmd
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DAUNTLESS
Other names : none
Official no. : C83021
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1862, Simpson, Oakville, Ont.
Specs : 102x22x9, 144gc 144nc
Date of loss : 1895, Oct 4
Place of loss : off 30-mile Point
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 5
Carrying : 300 t. coal
Detail : She foundered in a a gale while bound Charlotte, NY for Hamilton, Ont. Crew was taken off by the schooner CLARA YOUELL. Owned by Morton Coal Co. of Hamilton.
Rebuilt in 1882.
Ashore near Sand Beach, Michigan, in a gale in Oct, 1890.
Sources : mmgl(nac),nsp,ib,hr
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DAUNTLESS
Other names : none
Official no. : C64967
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1871, Levis, Que.
Specs : 82×18 81 t.
Date of loss : 1905, Apr 28
Place of loss : Ford’s Shoal, near Oswego, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Ran on the shoal with two barges, BLACK DIAMOND and ONONDAGA, in tow. Tipped over & wrecked. Barges rescued by tug CORTLAND.
Sources : mmgl,csv
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DAUNTLESS #12
Other names : none
Official no. : 237962
Type at loss : diesel propeller tug, steel
Build info : 1938, Brooklyn, NY
Specs : 82x24x10, 140g 95n
Date of loss : 1951, Oct 29
Place of loss : Buffalo harbor
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : 7
Carrying : none – pushing barge
Detail : She was pushing the gas tanker-barge MORANIA #130(qv) when the barge was struck by the steamer PENOBSCOT and exploded. The tug and the barge were both destroyed. A passing error and lack of adequate lookouts was blamed for the accident. Out of New York City, owned by Dauntless Towing Co. Master: Torbjorn S. Sorensen.
600 hp; normal crew – 8
Sources : nsp,smgl,mv,uscg,bv
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W. H. DAVEY
Other names : also seen as W. H. DAVY
Official no. : C
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1856 or 7, Hazelton, Bath, Ont
Specs : 98x24x9, 250 t.
Date of loss : 1860, Sep 8
Place of loss : near Middle Island
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Sprang a leak and sank. Her crew clung to her rigging for 17 hours until finally rescued by the tug T. WHITNEY.
Sources : wmn,clu,glmd
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E. M. DAVIDSON
Other names : none
Official no. : 8879
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1871, Gibson & Davidson, Bangor, Mich
Specs : 143x25x12, 281 t.
Date of loss : 1879, Oct 18
Place of loss : on Pilot Island
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Driven ashore in a storm. It was thought that she could be rescued but more storms and ice made it impossible that year. In 1880 more attempts were made to pull her off the reef, but a storm almost a year to the day of her initial crash tore her to pieces. Owned by Charles Mader, Chicago.
Sources : wgts,bb,wl,whs,hr
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FRED DAVIDSON
Other names : none
Official no. : C92302
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1887, J. Storey, Penetang
Specs : 62x15x5, 43gc 29nc
Date of loss : 1916, Sep 4
Place of loss : 6 mi N of Pte Au Baril, Georgian Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Foundered, a total loss.
Owned out of Collingwood
Sources : mmgl,slh,h,win
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JAMES DAVIDSON
Other names : none
Official no. : 75786
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1874, J Davidson, W. Bay City
Specs : 231x37x20 1456g
Date of loss : 1883, Oct 4
Place of loss : near Thunder Bay Isl., MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 18
Carrying : coal
Detail : Towing barge MIDDLESEX, she drove on a reef and ripped up her bottom. She broke up and slid into deeper water over the next few days. The barge was rescued by the tug V. SWAIN. The pair had been bound Buffalo for Duluth . Owned by McQueen & Jenks of St Clair, MI. Master: Capt. H. G. McQueen.
Heavily damaged in the “ALPENA Storm,” Oct 16, 1880.
Sources : vbs,nsp,stb,slh,sbs,h,lhdc,phr,hgl,usls,mpl
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JOSIE DAVIDSON
Other names : none
Official no. : 76501
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1884, R. A. Davis, Chicago as a passenger steamer
Specs : 59x16x5 28g 20n
Date of loss : 1900, May 5
Place of loss : Duluth-Superior harbor
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Burned to a total loss. Owned out of W. Superior, WI.
Sources : is(1-71),gwgl,mv,lss,hcgl,glmd
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GEORGE T. DAVIE
Other names : none
Official no. : C107233
Type at loss : barge, composite, bulk freight
Build info : 1898, Geo. T. Davie & Son, Levis, Que
Specs : 177x35x12, 680 t.
Date of loss : 1945, Apr 18
Place of loss : 3 mi N of Pigeon Isl Lat44deg6’N, lon76deg34′
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : sank
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Bound Oswego for Kingston in tow of the tug SALVAGE PRINCE, she capsized. The one crew member ran up the side of her hull as she went over, and was sitting on her keel when rescued by the PRINCE. She sank in deep water.
Location also described as “2 mi W of Nine Mile Pt.”
Sources : mmgl,h,win
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ANNETTE DAVIS
Other names : ?
Official no. : C ?
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1864, H. Vantine, Port Bruce, Ont.
Specs : 81 t.
Date of loss : 1873, Oct 21
Place of loss : at Port Stanley, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber & staves
Detail : Driven ashore and broken up after striking the west pier. Possibly recovered.
Out of Port Stanley, owned by Price. Master: Capt. Starke. Cargo owned in Detroit
Sources : nsp,hgl,wmn
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CAL DAVIS
Other names : often seen as COL. DAVIS but CAL is correct
Official no. : 125282
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1873, Carroll, Buffalo , NY
Specs : 58x14x7, 25g 12n
Date of loss : 1889, Oct 9
Place of loss : Opposite Marine City, MI
Lake : St Clair R
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Burned to a total loss at Kenyon’s dock. Owned out of Algonac by John Stonebraker.
Some sources say she was built at Brooklyn, NY
Rebuilt, 1883
Sources : mv,slh,www,nsp,phr,hgl,st
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CHARLES H. DAVIS
Other names : none
Official no. : 34107
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1881, A Kenyon, Saginaw
Specs : 145x31x9 391g 333n
Date of loss : 1903, Jun 13
Place of loss : off Cleveland breakwater
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : limestone
Detail : In a NW gale she developed a leak, which quickly enlarged in excess of her pumping capacity, and sank near the breakwater. Two tugs stood by to take her crew off, but it was later found that neither had rescued her skipper.
An unusual vessel, reportedly built of pine and pointed at both ends, with hull planking set diagonally.
Sources : nsp,ns1,h,vbs,phr,ew
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C.S. DAVIS
Other names : none
Official no. : 5989
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1870, C. Olson, Sheboygan, Wis.
Specs : 82x19x6, 65g
Date of loss : 1881, Dec 11
Place of loss : near Manitowoc, Wis
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : slabs
Detail : Beached and became a total loss. Out of Whitehall, Mich.
Sources : nsp,wmhs,whs
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DAN I. DAVIS
Other names : none
Official no. : 6883
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1875, Whitney, Pentwater, MI
Specs : 77ft, 67g 64n
Date of loss : 1886
Place of loss : near Port Sheldon, MI, 8 mi N of Holland
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Driven up on the beach and wrecked. Out of Pentwater
Sources : mv,lmdc
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DICK DAVIS – See JOSEPH E. RUMBELL
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GEO. DAVIS
Other names : none
Official no. : 85719
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1882, G. Davis, Sebewaing, MI
Specs : 47x12x3 15g 14n
Date of loss : 1901, May 25
Place of loss : near Wenona Beach, Saginaw Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Driven ashore nearly high and dry. It was stated that a dredge would have to run a channel to her to get her off, and she apparently was not worth it.
Location also given as near Point Edward, Lake Huron. Date also given as Oct 1, 1901
Sources : nsp,slh,mv,vbs,phr,pf
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GEORGE DAVIS
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1846, S. Ruggles, Milan, OH
Specs : 111x24x10, 238 t. om
Date of loss : 1863, Oct
Place of loss : near Port Burwell, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : “ashore”
Loss of life : none
Carrying : salt
Detail : Bound Oswego for Chicago, she went ashore and was reported a total loss.
Missing for a month in the fall of 1848.
Enrolled at Chicago Apr 8, 1863
Image from GLMD [right center]
Sources : nsp,hgl,wl,wmn,ec,sagl,umr
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GEORGE W. DAVIS
Other names : none
Official no. : 85251
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1872, Bailey Bros., Toledo
Specs : 136x26x11 299g 284n
Date of loss : 1895, Oct 27
Place of loss : at Hoover’s Point, 20 mi W of Port Maitland, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : She stranded a couple days before the date above, then sank after floating off on her own during a storm and drifting two miles up the beach. Bound for Toledo. Owned by Martin Elnen of Milan, OH
In December, 1885, she stranded with heavy damage near Bayfield, Ont. A Canadian man who rescued her crew singlehandedly was later awarded a medal by the USLS.
Sources : nsp,ledc,wb,hgl
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J.C. DAVIS
Other names : sometimes seen as J.A. DAVIS
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1847 or earlier
Specs : 97 t.
Date of loss : 1868
Place of loss : off Grand Haven, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Blown down and capsized.
Sources : is,sagl,hgl
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J.H. DAVIS
Other names : none
Official no. : 46033
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1887, Gibraltar, MI
Specs : 84x19x5, 47g 44n
Date of loss : 1893, Sep 1
Place of loss : unreported
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Caught in northerly squall, she dragged her anchors and went ashore, where she was pounded to pieces.
Value of vessel and cargo estimated at only $1000.
Sources : slh,mv,wb,hgl
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LIZZIE T. DAVIS – See ARGO
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MINNIE DAVIS
Other names : built as ALMIRA (mv says ALVINA), renamed before 1883
Official no. : 90635
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1862, Geo. Dakin, Port Burwell, Ont.
Specs : 95x22x10, 173g 164n
Date of loss : 1892, Nov 14
Place of loss : near Amherstburg, Ont., off Bar Pt.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Rammed and sunk by the schooner HUNTER SAVIDGE(qv) on a dark night, sinking in 21 feet of water. She was stripped the next day, and the wreckage removed in May, 1893 by F. B. Hackett, Amherstburg.
Sold U.S. in 1881. May have been owned in U.S. earlier as well. Registration of a vessel of this name and official number was announced in the papers in 1874.
Rebuilt, 1882
Sources : mmgl,sagl,nsp,dm,phr,mv,wb,hgl,jb,nsp
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W.L. DAVIS
Other names : also seen as WALTER L. DAVIS
Official no. : C96811
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood, fishing
Build info : 1882, Dean & Co., Detroit US#80916
Specs : 46x12x5, 46gc 37nc
Date of loss : 1907, May 9
Place of loss : near Pt. Maimanse, Ont
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Wrecked and a total loss.
Out of Soo, Ont. Sold Canadian in 1889.
Sources : mmgl,csv,polk
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WILLIAM B. DAVOCK
Other names : none
Official no. : 204121
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1907, Great Lakes Engineering, St. Clair, MI
Specs : 420x52x23, 4220g 2671n
Date of loss : 1940, Nov 11
Place of loss : off Pentwater, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 33 [all]
Carrying : coal
Detail : Bound for Chicago, she was hit by the most violent storm in decades, the “Armistice Day Storm” and sank. Location was unknown until wreckage was discovered in 1982. For a long time it was thought that she collided with ANNA C. MINCH(qv), which sank the same day in the same area.
Sources : mv,mol,gs,gsgl,sol,sagl,ns4,lm,mpl,eas,hcgl
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B.F. DAVY
Other names : none
Official no. : C
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1855, A. L. Hazelton, Bath, Ont.
Specs : 459 t.
Date of loss : 1867, Nov 29
Place of loss : at Port Colborne, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : (none)
Carrying : corn
Detail : Reported ashore on a reef with her back broken and a total loss. She had been bound Chicago for Kingston.
Out of Kingston, Ont., owned by Swift & Co., Port Colborne.
Major repairs in 1861, rebuilt in 1867
Sources : nsp,rsl,hgl,rnc,wmn,clu,glmd
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W.H. DAVY
Other names : none
Official no. : C ?
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1856, (Hazelton), Bath, Ont
Specs : 226 t.
Date of loss : 1860, Sep 8
Place of loss : 2 mi W of Middle Sister Island
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Bound Cleveland for Goderich, Ont, she sprung a leak and foundered in a storm. Her crew managed to climb her rigging as she went down, where they clung for 18 hours until rescued by the tug T. WHITNEY. Out of Bath, Ont.
Sources : mmgl,clu,nsp,hgl
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DAWN – See also DAUN
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DAWN
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1847, W. S. Lyon, Milan, OH
Specs : 105x22x9, 202 t. [om]
Date of loss : 1859, Oct 21
Place of loss : 12 mi W of Port Stanley
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : She was bound for Monroe, MI, when she was run down by the 700 t. propeller NEW YORK and sank quickly. All of her crew made it safely to the steamer. Her skipper claimed the the propeller cut across his bow and rammed the little schooner amidships. Master: Capt. E. B. Gibson. Owners, Gibson, Wallace and Sterling, Monroe, Mich..
Several sources says she was lost in a squall in the Straits of Mackinac with the loss of five lives. Other sources say five lives lost, but in this collision on Erie. Information above is from news clippings, hgl.
This is probably the vessel which was sunk by a storm off Madison Dock, OH, in July of 1855. Recovered from 25 feet of water a month later.
Sources : hgl,slh,sagl,nsp,hr,ec,ewe
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DAWN
Other names : none
Official no. : 6127
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1858, John Oades, Clayton, NY
Specs : 87x19x8, 82g 78n
Date of loss : 1891, Aug 23
Place of loss : off Port Washington
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : She waterlogged, capsized and later drifted ashore, a total loss. Her crew was picked up by the steamer JOHN SCHROEDER.
Out of Sheboygan, WI. Master: Capt. Williamson.
Major repair in 1882. Rebuilt in 1871.
Sources : bb,mv,polk,wl,es,hr
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DAWN
Other names : none
Official no. : 157211
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1888, T. Eggers, Milwaukee
Specs : 60x14x4 26g 25n
Date of loss : 1903, Sep 18
Place of loss : Kewaunee, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Struck Kewaunee’s south pier, drifted ashore and wrecked. Her crew was rescued by the Lifesaving Service. She had been bound Milwaukee for Portage Bay, Michigan. Owned by Capt. R. Kierwan and sailed by him.
Sources : h,nsp,bb,wgts,hr
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DAWSON – See WILLIAM C. MORELAND
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DAY SPRING
Other names : none
Official no. : 6204
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1860, H. Kelly, Milan, OH
Specs : 98x21x6 87g 83n
Date of loss : 1904, Aug 1
Place of loss : near Little Sable Pt., 15 miles from Whitehall, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : sawdust
Detail : Sprang a leak and sank in a localized summer gale. She had been bound Frankfort or Ludington, Mich, for Chicago. Master and owner: Capt. L. C. Ludwig of Benton Harbor.
Struck by lightning off Algoma, WI, in Aug, 1872, I life lost.
Built as a 2-master, lengthened and 3rd mast added in 1871.
Sources : h,lmdc,mpl,mv,hr,hcgl,nsp
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DAISY DAY
Other names : none
Official no. : 157002
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight “steam barge”
Build info : 1880, Jasper Hanson [Hanson & Scove], Manitowoc
Specs : 103x21x8, 146g 125n
Date of loss : 1891, Oct 11
Place of loss : near Little Point Sable, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Stranded near Lee’s Pier and a total loss.
Owned by G.A. Wayas of Mears, MI
Sources : mpl,mv,hgl,polk
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LEWIS DAY
Other names : none
Official no. : 15410
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1868, D. Clow, Chambers Isl.
Specs : 155x31x11, 381 t.
Date of loss : 1881, Oct 1
Place of loss : Plum Island, Green Bay
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : cedar posts
Detail : Missed her stays while beating to windward in company of the schooner SOUTH SIDE. Went ashore on the E side of Plum Island and pounded to pieces. She had just the previous day escaped from being ashore on nearby Cedar River Point, and had escaped by throwing her deckload overboard. Out of Chicago, owned by Capt. David Clow, Waukegan, and sailed by him.
Ashore on Beaver Island in late Nov, 1871
Sources : nsp,bb,mv,jm,wgts,hr
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DAYLIGHT
Other names : none
Official no. : 6200
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood
Build info : 1865, Ferrysburg, MI
Specs : 117g 68n
Date of loss : 1870, Oct 7
Place of loss : at Ferrysburg, MI [Grand Haven]
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Caught fire at a lumber mill dock and burned to a total loss, along with the mill.
Owned by Capt. Joseph. Brittain of Ferrysburg.
Sources : lhl,nsp,mv,eas
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DAYTON – See OLIVER CROMWELL
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DAYTON
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1835, Grand Island, NY
Specs : 69x20x7, 85 t.
Date of loss : 1844, Oct 20
Place of loss : near Dunkirk, NY
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : all
Carrying : ?
Detail : She was reported capsized and sunk in a terrific gale.
HGL, rp says lost in 1846, at least some schooner of this name: Went ashore near Erie Nov 19, 1846, and reported a total wreck.
Sources : lho,hgl,rp,nsp,wl not in mmgl
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J.H. DE GRAFF – See RHEATA
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DE PERE – See STATE OF MICHIGAN
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DE SOTO
Other names : none also seen as DESOTO
Official no. : 6441
Type at loss : bark, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1856, Peck & Masters, Cleveland
Specs : 161x34x11, 583g
Date of loss : 1869, Dec 12
Place of loss : at Marquette
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : collision/storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 480 t. iron ore
Detail : Lying to at Marquette in a gale Nov 19, she dragged her anchors and ran afoul of the schooner ATHENIAN, losing her jibbom and bowsprit. Laid up at a dock at Marquette awaiting repairs when a nor’easter tore her loose and caused her to drag ashore just south of Cleveland dock, Dec 12, where she pounded to pieces. Owned by R.K. Winslow of Cleveland, who had owned her profitably since her building 13 years before.
Sources : nsp,letter,mv,df,mdwl
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JULIA DEAN
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : brig, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1854, Peck & Masters, Cleveland
Specs : 150 ft. 498 t.
Date of loss : 1855, Oct 6
Place of loss : Isle Aux Galets (Skillagalee), MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : navigational error
Loss of life : none
Carrying : grain
Detail : Bound Chicago for Buffalo, she stranded and wrecked on the reef. Her skipper claimed he was lured into disaster by a false light set out by Mormon pirates from Beaver Island. Later dismasted and then pounded to pieces. Owned by B.S. Shepherd of Chicago
A wreck found near Skillagallee Reef was tentatively identified as her in the summer of 2014.
Sources : slh,hgl,ssm,nsp,rr
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J.P. DECONDRES
Other names : also seen in error as J.P. DE COUDRES, DESCONDRES and DEDONDRES
Official no. : 75530
Type at loss : schooner, wood, lumber
Build info : 1873, Youdie or Elliott, Charlevoix, MI [also seen as Saugatuck, MI, Ventura, MI]*
Specs : 146g
Date of loss : 1882, Jun 3*
Place of loss : 1 mi N of Milwaukee
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 7
Carrying : wood products
Detail : Stranded and wrecked. Bound Charlevoix for Milwaukee. Out of Charlevoix, owned by Carpenter, Bartholomew, Bleyer & Mason.
Also reported wrecked at “Owena” in 1881, actually Northport/Omena, Mich, where she piled into the Mission pier, tearing it down and sinking herself in 17 feet of water.
Year also given as 1883, still in ’84 mvus, but shown as “reported lost”
Also reported as built on the hull of the schooner APPLETON [US#1551], b. 1863, 108 t. b. Fox R., Wis.
Sources : mv,h,lmdc,hgl,usls,hr,es,nsp,bb
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DEER
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1849, Geo. Meldrum, Swan Creek, MI
Specs : 65x17x5, 49 t. om
Date of loss : 1857, Nov 7
Place of loss : near Chicago harbor mouth
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : wood
Detail : Tried to make the harbor at night in a gale and went ashore north of the piers. Her crew were just able to save themselves before she went to pieces.
Sources : nsp,wl,rnc,wmn
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DEER
Other names : none
Official no. : 157344
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1892, F. W. Kirby, Grand Haven, MI
Specs : 77x17x7 48g 25n
Date of loss : 1908, Jun 9
Place of loss : off AuGres, MI, Saginaw bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Burned while underway. Document surrendered at Port Huron Jun 15, 1908.
Sources : slh,mv,phr,hr
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DEFIANCE
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1848, Perrysburg, OH
Specs : 115x26x10, 253 t. om
Date of loss : 1854, Oct 20
Place of loss : near Middle Island [reported as halfway between Presque Isle and Thunder Bay Isl.]
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : wheat
Detail : Bound Chicago for Detroit and Buffalo, she was lost in a collision with the new, deep-laden brig JOHN J AUDUBON(qv) and sank within 15 minutes. The combined loss of the two vessels cost underwriters $60,000. Out of Buffalo, owned by H. C. Walker. Master: Capt. Ingrahm.
The wreck was probably located in 1996.
Sources : nsp,wl, ee,hcgl
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DEFIANCE
Other names : none?
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1856, Roderick Calkins, Cleveland
Specs : 137x26x11, 350 t.
Date of loss : 1856, Sep 27
Place of loss : off Presque Isle
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : wheat
Detail : Bound for Oswego, she collided with her upbound fleetmate, the lumber-laden brig WILLIAM TREAT and sank in 35 fathoms of water. Her crew abandoned ship and were taken aboard by the TREAT. Owned by Lake Navigation Co. and sailed by Capt. John Eastwick. It was the second loss of a schooner DEFIANCE in that area in two years.
Sources : hgl,wmn,wmhs,wl, blu[1856]
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DEFIANCE
Other names : none
Official no. : 202375
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1905, J. Larson, Marinette, Wis
Specs : 91x24x7, 111 t.
Date of loss : 1909, Nov 19
Place of loss : mouth of Bark R., 10 mi S of Escanaba, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Stranded and total loss. Owned by Capt. James Larson of Menekaunee, Wis.
Not in 1910 mvus – document surrendered 1/3/1910.
Sources : eas,mv,hr,wgts
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DELAWARE
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1833, Huron, OH
Specs : 105x25x8, 178 t.
Date of loss : 1836, Jun 19
Place of loss : just W of Michigan City, Ind.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : gen merch, pass.
Detail : She was caught in a storm shortly after leaving St. Joseph, Mich, was thrown ashore, broke in two and wrecked. Her passengers and crew reportedly stood in water up to their necks for a full day before being rescued.
Out of Sandusky, OH
Sources : eas,lm,sol,is,(lhl),hgl,nsp,wl,lotl
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DELAWARE
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : propeller, wood
Build info : 1846, Thomas H. Cobb/L. D. Burnell, Black R. [Charleston], OH*
Specs : 173x24x12, 368 t.
Date of loss : 1855, Nov 3
Place of loss : 8 miles S of Sheboygan, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 10 or 11 of 18
Carrying : General merchandise
Detail : Bound down from Chicago for Buffalo with a stop at Milwaukee. Driven ashore by a gale and sank. Within a few days only her arches were visible above water. Owned by Davis & Sutton of Buffalo. Master: Capt. D. H. Dixon(d).
*Black R., NY also given
Sources : lhl,hgl,nsp,mpl,bb,wl,hr,mbw
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DELAWARE – see CHARLES B. HILL
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DELIA B
Other names : none
Official no. : 210337
Type at loss : gas screw, wood, passenger ves.
Build info : 1910, Detroit
Specs : 45x8x4, 11g 9n
Date of loss : 1919, Aug 10
Place of loss : Detroit R.
Lake : Detroit R.
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Burned to a total loss – no detail. Out of Detroit.
Sources : hr,wmn,mv,wmhs
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DELIGHT
Other names : none
Official no. : C96817
Type at loss : propeller, wood
Build info : 1890, Bruce Mines
Specs : 47×13 26gc 14nc
Date of loss : 1899, Aug
Place of loss : Richard’s Landing
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Destroyed by fire.
Out of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont
Sources : h,win,mmgl
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NANCY DELL
Other names : none
Official no. : 130147
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1878, Van Putten, Port Sheldon, MI
Specs : 105x23x7 107g 101n
Date of loss : 1902, Jun 21
Place of loss : near Middle Village, MI, Inside Passage
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : (lumber)
Detail : Driven ashore and broke up. Owner: William Braun, Bailey’s Harbor, Wis.
Stranded with heavy damage near Sheboygan, WI, in November of 1881.
A newspaper report of her launch says she was christened NANCY-DELL VAN PUTTEN, after the builder’s wife & son. NANCY DELL is her official name.
Sources : is,ns1,mv,nsp,usls,mpl,bbas
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DELTA
Other names : none
Official no. : 157109
Type at loss : propeller tug, wood
Build info : 1883, J. Martel, Saugatuck, Mich
Specs : 65x19x9, 47g 23n
Date of loss : 1915, Sep 23
Place of loss : Windmill Pt., Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none of 4
Carrying : ?
Detail : Caught fire and burned to a total loss west of Ft. Erie, Ont. Out of Buffalo., owned by Great Lakes Towing.
Used as a wrecking tug for a number of years.
Sources : mv,hr,glmd,wmhs
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DELTA
Other names : none
Official no. : 157276
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, bulk freight, 2-mast
Build info : 1890, A. Smith, Algonac, MI
Specs : 134x30x10 269g 206n
Date of loss : 1919, Aug 21
Place of loss : harbor mouth at Holland, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 7
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Under tow when she broke loose in the harbor entrance, was driven on the breakwater, and went to pieces. Out of Chicago.
Sources : eas,ns2,lmdc,mv,hcgl
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DELVER No.1
Other names : ?
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : (dredge?)
Build info : ?
Specs : 305 t.
Date of loss : 1914, Jun 15
Place of loss : Port Dalhousie harbour
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : sank
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : no detail
Sources : h,win
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C. DEMING
Other names : also seen as C. DEEMING
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1837
Specs : 117 t.
Date of loss : 1844, Dec 7
Place of loss : Charlotte, NY, harbor
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : 3,000 bu. wheat, 160 bbl. flour
Detail : Bound Toronto for Oswego, she tried to put in to Charlotte, NY for shelter. She dropped anchor, but it dragged and she went on the east pier and broke up. Owned by Bronson & Crocker, Oswego
Sources : rp,glmd
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EDWARD U. DEMMER
Other names : built as the propeller ADMIRAL, named J.K. DIMMICK in 1913, last name in 1920
Official no. : 107523
Type at loss : propeller, steel, bulk freight
Build info : 1899, Detroit Shipbuilding, Wyandotte, MI hull #133
Specs : 424x52x28, 4651g 3547n
Date of loss : 1923, May 20
Place of loss : 30 mi offshore from Harrisville, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : approaching Thunder Bay, MI, in a fog, she collided bows-on with thr steamer SATURN and sank in deep water. 24 of her crew were rescued by the steamer AGASSIZ and 1 by JAMES B. EADS.
Sources : stb.slh,gsgl,ns3,mpl,hcgl
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JAMES DEMPSEY
Other names : built as steamer JIM SHERIFFS(qv), renamed PETERS in 1907, CHARLES HORN in 1915, last name in 1920
Official no. : 76392
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freighter
Build info : 1883, Wolf & Davidson, Milwaukee
Specs : 183x32x13 841g 768n
Date of loss : 1922, Dec 10
Place of loss : at Manistee, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none of 15
Carrying : ?
Detail : She was destroyed by a fire while lying at the Manistee lumber docks for the night. The fire began at 2 a.m. and gained headway quickly, destroying the vessel during her last week of the season. Homeport: Grand Haven.
Ashore and wrecked at Big Summer Island, Death’s Door, with schooner MATTIE C. BELL(qv), Nov 25, 1895. Declared a total loss and document surrendered, but recovered and rebuilt the next spring.
Sources : ns3,mv,mpl,hcgl,nsp
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DENMARK
Other names : none
Official no. : 6129
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1845, Sanford & Moses, Cleveland as a bark
Specs : 108x23x9, 169 t.
Date of loss : 1873, late Oct
Place of loss : in Hedgehog Harbor, near Death’s Door
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light?
Detail : She stranded in a gale. Reported completely broken up by Nov 3. Owned by J. Long, Chicago.
Sources : nsp,rsl,mmgl,wgts,whs
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DERRICK
Other names : also known as BISHOP”S DERRICK
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, salvage
Build info : 1853, Bishop, Buffalo
Specs : 150×25
Date of loss : 1854, Sep 29
Place of loss : off Silver Creek, NY
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none*
Carrying : gear
Detail : Went down in a gale over the wreck of the steamer ERIE(qv). She had just moved to the site after spending the summer trying to salvage valuables from the steamer ATLANTIC(qv).
*a horse used to turn the windlass was lost
Probably owned by Bishop of Grand River, Oh.
This may not have been the name of the vessel, but only a descriptive term, though the newspapers of the time referred to it as if it were a name.
Sources : nsp,rnc,ewe
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DESMOND
Other names : none
Official no. : 157350
Type at loss : propeller, wood, sandsucker
Build info : 1892, Jenks Shipbuilding, Port Huron hull# 2
Specs : 149x31x10 456g 355n
Date of loss : 1917, Dec 8
Place of loss : off South Chicago, IL
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 7 of 13
Carrying : ?
Detail : She capsized in a gale and sank after springing a leak, 6 crewmen being saved by local tugs.
Converted from bulker to sandsucker in 1910 at Milwaukee.
Sources : sol,ns2,lmdc,mv,mpl,hcgl
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CORNELIUS W. DESMOND
Other names : none
Official no. : 127360
Type at loss : propeller tug, wood, fishing
Build info : 1899, Buffalo
Specs : 60x15x5, 32g 22n
Date of loss : 1908, Jun 20
Place of loss : at Erie, Pa.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none of 10
Carrying : ?
Detail : Burned to a total loss. No detail given. Out of Erie, Pa.
Sources : mv,hr,wl,wmn
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DESOTO – See DE SOTO
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DESPATCH
Other names : none
Official no. : US
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood
Build info : 1842, Hamilton, Ont.
Specs : 225 t.
Date of loss : 1859, Jun*
Place of loss : at Chatham, Ont.
Lake : Detroit R
Type of loss : ?
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Sunk and total loss in Thames R.
Seized by U.S. for breach of customs laws in 1851.
*1856 also given
Sources : csv,lhl,mmgl
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DETROIT – See also CONGRESS, B.B. McCOLL
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DETROIT
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : armed sloop (military vessel)
Build info : 1796 [ca.], Lake Erie
Specs : ca. 50 t.
Date of loss : 1797
Place of loss : 3 mi off Erie, PA
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : military supplies
Detail : Upbound, she foundered, probably in a storm.
1st American-flagged vessel on Lake Erie
Sources : ledc,hgl
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DETROIT
Other names : built as ADAMS, renamed after capture
Official no. : none
Type at loss : armed brig, 14 gun [military vessel]
Build info : 1802, U.S. Govt., Detroit
Specs : 100 t.
Date of loss : 1812, Oct 12
Place of loss : near Squaw Isl. Black Rock, NY, Niagara R.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Surrendered to the British by General Hull in Aug, 1812 and recaptured by American Lieut. Elliot in October. She stranded and burned during the gun battle that ensued.
Not to be confused with the British Put-in Bay flagship DETROIT, built in 1813 at Amherstburg, Ont. and left in Misery Bay (Erie, PA) to sink after capture in the War of 1812. Her remains were raised in 1837 and converted for commercial service, but she was condemned in 1839. She was reportedly later sent over Niagara Falls as a spectacle.
Sources : le,mpl,nsp
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DETROIT
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger and freight
Build info : 1833, Swan Creek, Mich
Specs : 126x18x7, 138 t om
Date of loss : 1837, Oct 23
Place of loss : Southport [Kenosha], Wisc
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : passengers, freight
Detail : Driven ashore by a gale, probably just below the present harbor mouth. Her hull broke up over the next few days, but her cabins were recovered locally and her machinery was salvaged and reportedly later used in the steamers G. W. DOLE (qv) and COLUMBIA. She was the only steamboat regularly servicing Chicago and Lake Michigan at the time of her loss. Owned by Lake Michigan Steamboat Co., Detroit, and sailed by Capt. John Crawford.
Source material on this important accident is sparse and conflicting.
Sources : lhl,hgl,wls,wmn,wmhs,tcmh
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DETROIT
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1828, Cleveland
Specs : 64x18x6, 67 t.
Date of loss : 1842, Jun 14
Place of loss : off Sodus Point
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm/collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 2200 bbl wheat
Detail : She collided with the schooner ELI HART while trying to enter Sodus Bay on a stormy night. Both vessels were wrecked and drifted ashore, where they broke up. She had been bound Cleveland to Kingston, Ont.
Sources : rp,pdw,wl,hgl
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DETROIT
Other names :
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1837, Milwaukee
Specs : 67 t.
Date of loss : 1842, Nov 17-18
Place of loss : off Gravelly Bay, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 6 [all]
Carrying : ?
Detail : Went missing in a heavy gale. Specifics of her loss were not reported in the papers until the following April. Out of Cleveland.
Wrecked off Kenosha in 1837.
Sources : nsp,hgl,wl,hr
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DETROIT
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood
Build info : 1846, Wolverton, Newport, MI*
Specs : 157x23x10, 354 t.
Date of loss : 1854, May 25
Place of loss : about 15 miles off Pte Aux Barques, Saginaw Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber, coal, hay
Detail : Collided with brig NUCLEUS in a heavy fog and sank, exact location unreported until she was located in 1994. Bound Detroit to Chicago with 2 lumber scows in tow. Most of her cargo was for the Sault Canal Co. Owned by Capt. E.B. Ward of Detroit
*Samuel Ward also given as builder
Wreck discovered by Trotter, et. al. in July of 1994, north of Pte Aux Barques in 200′ of water.
Sketch of wreck as she lies, GLMD
Sources : eas,nsp,slh,lhl,hgl,wl
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DETROIT
Other names : none
Official no. : 6198
Type at loss : propeller, wood, steam barge
Build info : 1859, Mason & Bidwell, Buffalo as a sidewheeler
Specs : 239x34x13, 1039 t.
Date of loss : 1872, Sep 29 [Mar 29 also given, in error]
Place of loss : between Greenbush and Harrisville, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber or coal, like-laden barge in tow
Detail : Driven ashore and destroyed by pounding of waves in a great gale. She had the barge HUNTER(qv) in tow. Many other vessels were lost in the same area, including her barge. Much of her machinery and gear was recovered in June and July of 1875.
Converted from sidewheeler to a schooner-barge in 1870; to a propeller, 1871, using the engine from the HUNTER, the same vessel she was towing at the time of her loss. Some sources say she was still a schooner at the time of her loss, but not so.
When built she was sister of sidewheeler MILWAUKEE (qv,1868). Their hulls were among the first to be diagonally strapped with iron.
Image as a sidewheeler from GLMD
Sources : eas,nsp,is,lhdc,lhl,eh,mpl,rsl,hcgl
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DETROIT
Other names : none
Official no. : 35052
Type at loss : barge, wood
Build info : 1845, Matthew Gooding, Detroit as a propeller
Specs : 124x24x10, 217 t.
Date of loss : 1874, Nov 6 or 7
Place of loss : off Point Abino
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : (coal)
Detail : She reportedly went to pieces in a gale, a total loss. She had been outbound from Buffalo in tow of the steamer NEW YORK with four other barges and had been lost in stormy, foggy weather.
Owned by Lapham of Saginaw.
Document surrendered at Port Huron, Jan 14, 1879, annotated “wrecked in Lake Erie, 1874.”
Condemned and retired around 1860, returned to service as a propeller in 1862, but condemned again in 1863 after sinking in the Saginaw River in the fall of ‘62 and again in the fall of ‘63 near the Rifle River, Saginaw Bay. She came out as a barge for the lumber trade soon after.
Sources : phr,hgl,wl,nsp,jb
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DETROIT
Other names : also seen as CITY OF DETROIT
Official no. : 6150
Type at loss : sidewheel ferry, wood
Build info : 1864, Zadoc Pangborn, Algonac, engine and boiler installed at Detroit
Specs : 126 t.
Date of loss : 1875, Sep 27
Place of loss : on Detroit R. near the mouth of River Rouge.
Lake : Detroit R
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Caught fire and burned to waterline. She had been moored to her dock, but was cut loose to save the local piers from the blaze.
For many years she had run the Detroit R. route between Windsor and Woodward Ave. Her route was Sandwich, Ont. to Springwells, MI at the time of her loss. Her machinery was probably salvaged by the tug MONITOR in November.
Sources : lhl,hgl,es,nsp
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DETROIT
Other names : built as MARY BATTLE, renamed in 1885.
Official no. : 157157
Type at loss : schooner, wood built as a bark
Build info : 1872, L. Shickluna, St. Catharines, Ont. [C#85418]
Specs : 143x26x12 316 t.
Date of loss : 1886, Nov 7
Place of loss : near Summer Isl., Death’s Door*
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : Bound Escanaba for Cleveland, she was driven on a reef by a gale and wrecked. Abandoned as a total loss.
As a Canadian vessel she was wrecked on Keweenaw Pt. in fall, ’84. Given to Detroit salvager S.A. Murphy in payment for rescuing her. He rebuilt and returned her to service as an American bottom in August, 1885. Owned by S A Murphy. Master: Capt. Thomas Wilson.
*some sources say she was wrecked on Skillagallee, others 20 miles off Sheboygan, WI
Sources : nsp,eas,slh,h,mmgl,wb,sb,bb,es,hcgl,wgts,hr
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DeVANDREUILL – See MARQUISE DeVANDREUILL
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DIANA – See GENERAL HAMILTON
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D O DICKINSON
Other names : also seen as DANIEL O. DICKINSON
Official no. : 6133
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1854, J. M. Jones, Milwaukee
Specs : 127x26x11, 241 g
Date of loss : 1869, Oct 8
Place of loss : Green Bay, Strawberry Shoal, near Chambers Island
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Bound Oconto for Chicago, she drove on the shoal and was wrecked over the following ten days. Her skipper watched from a distant hill as she finally went to pieces in a storm. Owned out of Chicago by Capt. Cardwell.
Sources : mv,wmn,hgl,bb,wgts,hr
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DON. M. DICKINSON
Other names : built as ELLEN S. TERRY, renamed in 1881
Official no. : 8210
Type at loss : propeller wrecking tug, iron
Build info : 1858, Wilmington, Del
Specs : 354g 268n
Date of loss : 1888, Oct 11
Place of loss : near Belle Isle
Lake : Detroit R.
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : She was tied to some pilings at the head of the island for the night, when she caught fire and burned to a total loss. Fire may have been deliberately set. Hull may have been recovered and used as a barge.
Out of Detroit, owned by Westcott & Co.
Sources : mv,es3-1,lhl,hgl,oo,glmd
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FLORENCE M. DICKINSON
Other names : built as T.U. BRADBURY*, renamed in 1880
Official no. : 24109
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1855, Luther Moses, Cleveland as a propeller
Specs : 180x28x10, 391g 371n
Date of loss : 1886, Nov 17
Place of loss : near Kewaunee, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 3 of 7
Carrying : coal
Detail : Tow of steamer JUSTICE FIELD, along with 3 other barges, she went ashore in a gale and was totally wrecked. Master: Capt. Thos. Robinson.
See also EMERALD.
*’69 mvus shows her as T.U. BRADLEY as 677 t. out of Buffalo
Rebuilt in 1878 and 80, came out as a barge in ’80.
Sources : mv,nsp,h,lhl,wb,hgl,sb,mpl,bb
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WILLIAM DICKINSON
Other names : most often seen as just DICKINSON
Official no. : 81431
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1893, E.W. Heath, Benton Harbor, MI
Specs : 78x19x11 78g 49n
Date of loss : 1923, Sep 16*
Place of loss : at Marine City, MI
Lake : St Clair R
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Burned while tied up at a shipyard dock.
*Also given as Sep 6.
Twin engined.
Sources : ledc,mv,phr,mpl,eas,hcgl,nsp
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GEORGE B. DICKSON
Other names : none also seen as GEO. DICKINSON. Later HENRY
Official no. : 85501
Type at loss : propeller tug
Build info : 1876, Gibson & Craig, Buffalo
Specs : 60x15x8, 33g 17n
Date of loss : 1886, Dec 2
Place of loss : East end of 3rd St. Bridge, Saginaw River
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : ice
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She was breaking ice in the Saginaw R. when she suddenly sank, cut through by ice. Declared a total loss, but later recovered, renamed HENRY in 1892. Owned out of Bay City, owned by George King.
Major repair, 1882
Sources : mv,nsp,slh,hgl,hcgl
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DICTATOR
Other names : none
Official no. : 6208
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood
Build info : 1865, Mason & Bidwell, Buffalo as a propeller
Specs : 500 t.
Date of loss : 1880, Nov 21
Place of loss : On Long Point
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 21,000 bu wheat
Detail : In tow of steamer MORELY or JARVIS LORD (newspapers disagree). When she began to labor in a gale her skipper ordered her crew to abandon her to the MORLEY, which was herself disabled by the towline. Shortly after, DICTATOR lurched to starboard and went down. Owned by M.M. Drake of Buffalo. Master: Capt. Taylor.
As a steamer, she was sunk in the harbor at S. Manitou Island, Lake Mich., in 1871 when she was inexplicably rammed at her dock by the steamer JAY GOULD. Cut almost in two and declared a total loss, but in 1872 her hull was recovered and rebuilt to this barge.
Sources : nsp,hgl,lhl,mpl,wl
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DIE VERNON
Other names : none
Official no. : 6544
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1857, F. N. Jones, Buffalo
Specs : 281 t. [414 t. om]
Date of loss : 1868, Oct 30-31
Place of loss : near Port Burwell, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 18,000 bu wheat
Detail : She was driven ashore by a gale and wrecked, a total loss. After several other vessels had passed her by or made ineffectual rescue attempts, her crew was finally saved in a very risky and heroic effort by the bark FOREST KING. The heavily-laden bark came to and anchored windward of the stricken schooner, then trailed a lifeboat and crew back to the schooner.
Owned by R. K. Bruce, Chicago.
Also suffered a serious accident in 1857.
Sources : nsp,mpl,mv,rsl,rnc
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EMMA DIETRICH
Other names : ?
Official no. : US
Type at loss : ?
Build info : ?
Specs : ?
Date of loss : 1903, May
Place of loss : Sugar Loaf Reef, off Port Colborne, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Struck reef and wrecked
Sources : h,win
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J.K. DIMMICK – See EDWARD V. DEMMER
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DINAH
Other names : ?
Official no. : C unreg.
Type at loss : (tug)
Build info : ?
Specs : 16 t.
Date of loss : 1910, Jul 4
Place of loss : off Long Point
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Foundered
Sources : win,h
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DISCOVERY
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : ?
Specs : 20 or 100 tons
Date of loss : 1829, Fall
Place of loss : Rapids of St. Mary’s R.
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : “wrecked”
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Risked running the rapids of the St. Mary’s in order to avoid the time and expense of portaging through Sault Ste Marie. Wrecked in the process.
Sources : ls
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DISPATCH
Other names : none
Official no. : 6155
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1856, Beaudry, Ste. Antoine De Tilly, Quebec [C#33249]
Specs : 108×21 103 t.
Date of loss : 1871, Oct 10
Place of loss : off Pte Aux Barques, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : wrecked
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none [five barges]
Detail : DISPATCH lost her way in forest fire smoke with her long tow of barges, ran aground on the point and tore her bottom out. The barges all survived. In the spring of 1872 Lake Huron skippers said the the wreck made an excellent marker to help them avoid the reef. Her engine and boiler were recovered in Sep,1872.
Burned and declared a total loss at Sandusky in the spring of 1867. Thoroughly rebuilt in late 1867.
Sold U.S.by 1866
Sources : rkr,lhl,slh,h,lsp,csv,nsp,mmgl,hgl,rsl,wl
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DISPATCH
Other names : none
Official no. : C?
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1857, Miller, Kitts & Moore , Oswego [US#6153]
Specs : 114x24x10, 232 t.
Date of loss : 1874, Nov
Place of loss : Manitowoc, Wis
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : {storm}
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : unreported
Detail : Struck Manitowoc pier and a total loss of $5,000. Listed on a wrecklist as a total loss.
Into Canadian registry in about 1865. Listed as an American vessel out of a Canadian port on insurance lists.
Sources : nsp,clu,wmn,rp
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DISPATCH
Other names : built as COL. WOODWARD, renamed in 1914
Official no. : 202019
Type at loss : gas screw passenger vessel, wood
Build info : 1905, J. Poilot, Sandusky, OH as a yacht
Specs : 49x12x4 14g 11n
Date of loss : 1931, May 6
Place of loss : St. Mary’s R.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Burned to the waterline, a total loss.
As COL. WOODWARD she had also sunk in Sandusky Bay in the Big Storm of 1913. Rebuilt and renamed DISPATCH at Sandusky in 1914.
Image from HCGL as excursion vessel
Sources : www,is,mpl,hcgl
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DISPATCH BOAT #1
Other names : none
Official no. : 227876
Type at loss : gas screw utility boat, steel
Build info : 1928, Chicago
Specs : 35x9x5, 11g 7n
Date of loss : 1935, Apr
Place of loss : 2 mi off Chicago waterfront
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : no detail
Out of Chicago, owned by Great Lakes Dredge & Dock.
Sources : lmdc,mv
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DIXIE
Other names : none
Official no. : 175285
Type at loss : unrigged dredge scow
Build info : 1941, Cheboygan, MI
Specs : 88x28x7, 152g 152n
Date of loss : 1964, Dec 4
Place of loss : east of Ashtabula, OH
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : no one aboard
Carrying : ?
Detail : Sank with the launch SURVEYOR (qv) when they were separated from the tug SUPERIOR in a storm. The Coast Guard rode herd on the barge for several days until she finally rolled over and sank.
Wreck lies in 43 ft of water, 3.8 mi, 66 deg. from Ashtabula E. Breakwater light.
Out of Toledo, OH, owned by Price Bros., Toledo.
Sources : eas,glp,ledc,gmw,hcgl,ewe,mv,nsp
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C.K. DIXON
Other names : (none)
Official no. : 33616
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1869, Detroit
Specs : 103x26x8, 149 t.
Date of loss : 1877, Oct 1
Place of loss : on or near Middle Island
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : (none)
Carrying : cedar posts
Detail : Driven ashore and a total wreck. Her outfit was salvaged by the schooner CARRINGTON and she was abandoned by the third.
Owned by James Wallace, Detroit
Sources : nsp,phr,mv
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HIRAM R. DIXON
Other names : none
Official no. : C107600
Type at loss : propeller, wood, pass. & package freight coaster
Build info : 1883, Mystic Marine Railway & Machine, Mystic, Ct. US#95761
Specs : 147x21x9 483gc
Date of loss : 1903, Aug 18
Place of loss : Michipicoten Isl., Ont.
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : camp supplies
Detail : Burned to a total loss in Quebec Harbour. Owned by Booth & Co, Soo.
Brought to the lakes before 1890. Lengthened 30′ at Chicago in 1892, Sold Canadian, 1901.
Sources : nsp,gwgl,is,lss,ns1,mv,csv,win,mmgl,do,jb
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MARION DIXON
Other names : none
Official no. : 16629
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1864, R. Hayes, Fairport, Oh
Specs : 88x20x5, 69g
Date of loss : 1881, May 14*
Place of loss : halfway between Kenosha and Racine
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm?
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : bark
Detail : She began to leak ten miles off shore, then waterlogged and capsized. The next day what was left of her washed ashore south of Kenosha. Out of Milwaukee, owned by Andrew Little, Racine.
*Jun 14, 1880 also given.
Sources : hr,wmhs,mv,wls
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ELLA DOAK
Other names : none
Official no. : 8205
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1868, Jas. Corlette, Pentwater, Mich
Specs : 81x21x6, 75g
Date of loss : 1875, Aug 5
Place of loss : at Hedgehog Harbor, Death’s Door
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : stone
Detail : Bound from Ludington, Mich. to Hedgehog with a partial load of riprap, she was driven ashore and wrecked. She was recovered the following year and taken to Kewaunee for rebuilding. However, she was abandoned before the work was completed. Owned at the time of wrecking by Capt. J. R. Doak of Ahnapee. She went ashore so many times that she was locally dubbed “Queen of the Beach.”
Article regarding the boat and her colorful skipper
Sources : bb,wgts,mv,hr,mmo
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KATE DOAK
Other names : none
Official no. : 14062
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1864, Robert Doak, DePere, Wis
Specs : 68x19x6, 55 t.
Date of loss : 1867, Nov
Place of loss : near Pere Marquette [Ludington], Mich
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 3 (or 2)
Carrying : ?
Detail : Foundered in a storm, she was reportedly poorly fastened.
Sources : hgl,hr,wmhs,nsp,mmo
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LIZZIE DOAK
Other names : none
Official no. : 15640
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1868, Gibson, Winneconne or Milwaukee
Specs : 75x20x6, 64g 60n
Date of loss : 1892, Aug 30
Place of loss : near Ludington, Michigan
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : sawdust
Detail : She sprang a leak in a storm and was beached south of the piers to prevent her sinking. Later wrecked by the action of waves. Total loss of only $825 for vessel and cargo. She had been bound Muskegon for Chicago. Master and owner: Capt. J. Nilson.
Stranded near Muskegon with heavy damage in Nov, 1889 – no lives lost.
Major repairs in 1880 and 81.
Sources : wb,mv,hgl,polk,usls,nsp
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MINNIE DOAK
Other names : none
Official no. : 17994
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1867, Alexander Doak, Depere, Wis.
Specs : 44x12x5, 14 gt
Date of loss : fall of 1870 or Feb of 1871
Place of loss : 1 mi N of entrance to Black Lake
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Blown onto ice floes and wrecked near shore. It was believed she could be saved the following spring, but an expedition to the site in March 1871 showed that she was a total wreck. Owned by Robert Miller and W. H. Ewing.
Sources : nsp,lt,mv,hr
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J.W. DOANE
Other names : none
Official no. : 75660
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1874, Sturgeon Bay, WI
Specs : 180 ft., 617 t.
Date of loss : 1882, Nov 23
Place of loss : near entrance to Buffalo harbor
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : She went out of control in gale and was driven on the old stone breakwater. Eight crew were rescued from her rigging or from the breakwater, and the vessel broke up the same day. Bound Erie, PA for Buffalo. She was finally stripped and abandoned the following summer, after being towed across the harbor under water. Owned out of Chicago, by Wm. M. Eagan. Master: Capt. Long.
Sources : nsp,is,h,usls,mv,es,ms
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THOMAS DOBBIE
Other names : built as CAMANCHE(qv), renamed in 1892
Official no. : 4932
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1867, J. Navagh, Oswego, NY
Specs : 137x25x11 322g 306 n
Date of loss : 1904, Dec 3
Place of loss : Deseronto, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : ice
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Hull cut by ice while being towed into harbor by the tug W. J. CARTER. Bound Sodus Pt., NY for Deseronto, Ont.
Major repairs in 1879 and 82. Owner given as R. & J. Greenwood, Port Colborne, hence Canadian(?).
Image from Richard Palmer collection
Sources : mv,osdo,ns1, not in mmgl
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ANNA DOBBINS
Other names : none
Official no. : 395
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1852, Mills & Walsh, Buffalo
Specs : 93x18x10, 83g 41n
Date of loss : 1886, Sep 24
Place of loss : SE of Big Charity, Saginaw Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : foundered
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : (lumber)
Detail : Struck a reef and went down. Salvagers contracted to raise her the following summer, and actually located and buoyed the wreck, but were unsuccessful in recovering her, though it was reported in the press at the time that she had been raised.. Wreck located in 1897 and again in 1997.
She had a powerful [for the time] 292 hp engine and was considered one of the fastest tugs on the lakes. Named for the daughter of the famous Capt. D. P. Dobbins.
Out of Cleveland in ’84
Rebuilt in 1881, major repairs in 1871.
Sources : mv,nsp,is(2-64),slh,lhl,hgl,rsl,wl
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GEORGE S. DODGE
Other names : also seen as GEO. J. DODGE
Official no. : 10546
Type at loss : propeller tug, wood
Build info : 1864, Philadelphia, PA
Specs : 65x18x6, 37 t.
Date of loss : 1870, Sep 29
Place of loss : in harbor at Oswego, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : explosion
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none of 5
Detail : She was lying to at the Columbia Grain elevator when her boiler exploded without warning at 4 am, blowing the tug to pieces and blasting high-velocity fragments all over the west side of Oswego. Miraculously, nobody was hurt in the explosion, even though her fireman was sitting in the engine room at the time. Shrapnel from the blast caused a number of amusing and amazing incidents in the town. It was later speculated that a jammed safety valve had caused the disaster. Owned by Thos. Dobbie & the Frost Bros. of Oswego.
Sources : rp,lhl,nsp,eas
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MIKE DOHEARTY
Other names : none
Official no. : 162498
Type at loss : scow, wood
Build info : 1899, Sturgeon Bay, WI
Specs : 726g 726n
Date of loss : 1918, May 23
Place of loss : Cedar R., WI, Green Bay
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : hull failure
Loss of life : none
Carrying : RR ties
Detail : After being loaded with a cargo of ties, her hull gave way and the vessel sank. She was deemed unsalvageable and was left to rot. Out of Milwaukee.
Date of loss also given as early June, 1919, in error.
Sources : eas,mv,wgts
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GEORGE W. DOLE
Other names : none often seen as G.W. DOLE
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1838, Calvin Case, Goose Island, Chicago* as a sidewheeler
Specs : 125x19x8, 175 t.
Date of loss : 1856
Place of loss : at Buffalo
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : unreported
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : “Sunk”
Also reported lost at Buffalo 10/18/1844. Sunk in Buffalo Creek in the spring of 1846, raised and taken to Detroit, where she was converted to this schooner.
*location also given as Detroit
Sources : lhl,hgl,nsp,wl,
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T.D. DOLE – See J.C. CLARK
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DOLPHIN – See also SOLON H. JOHNSON
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DOLPHIN
Other names : ?
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : (1817, Sacket’s Harbor, NY)
Specs : (24 t.)
Date of loss : 1818, Dec 26
Place of loss : Pultneyville, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : ice
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Crushed and sunk in the harbor by wind-driven ice. Master: Capt. Eliot Brockway.
Sources : sol,hgl,wmn
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DOLPHIN
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1836, Hawley Reed, Avon, Oh
Specs : 72x20x7, 91 t.*
Date of loss : 1853, Jun 13(ca.)
Place of loss : between Grand Haven and Chicago
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : all
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Left Grand Haven for Chicago on the above date. By the 27th she hadn’t arrived at her destination, Chicago, and was presumed to have foundered with all hands. Last registration document is dated 5/1853. Owned by John B. Wier, Chicago. Master: Capt. James Clysdell.
*Built as 66x20x7, 78 t., rebuilt and enlarged 1839-40
Sources : nsp,wmhs,wl
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DOLPHIN
Other names : none
Official no. : 6205
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1862, Allen & McClelland, Milwaukee
Specs : 119 ft., 233 nt.
Date of loss : 1869, Jul 6
Place of loss : near Waugoschance Point, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : collision/storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Collided with the bark BADGER STATE and sank in the narrow channel west of the point. BADGER STATE rescued her crew. She may have been recovered. Homeport: Racine
Sources : slh,nsp,hgl,ssm,mpl,mdwl
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DOLPHIN
Other names : none
Official no. : 6407
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1867, J. Cusson, Bay City, MI
Specs : 70x19x4, 46g 44n
Date of loss : 1875
Place of loss : at Saginaw, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : “wrecked”
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : No detail. Document surrendered at Port Huron Jun 30, 1879, annotated “wrecked at Saginaw in 1875.”
Sources : phr,vbs,mv
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DOLPHIN
Other names : built as Canadian schooner LARWICK, renamed in 1860
Official no. : 6132
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1854, A. M. Shaw, Port Dover, Ont.
Specs : 91x23x8, 154 g
Date of loss : 1876, Sep 7
Place of loss : Racine Reef, off Racine
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : Bound Chicago for Frankfort, Mich., for a lumber cargo, she was caught in a storm and driven on the reef . Within a few days she had broken up completely. Out of Chicago.
This or another DOLPHIN was sunk in a collision near Ludington in 1874. Recovered.
Other sources believe this is DOLPHIN US#6205 [gone from mv by 1877] or 6152 [still registered in 1878]. There were at least 5 DOLPHINs on the lakes at the time.
1st U.S. registration Jul, 1862.
Sources : nsp,bb,mv,wmn,hr,cbt,wls,mmgl
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DOLPHIN
Other names : none built on the hull of the 1854 schooner TOM DYER, renamed in 1862
Official no. : 6152
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood
Build info : 1854, Gay, Milan, OH
Specs : 107x24x9 147 t.
Date of loss : 1887, Oct 24
Place of loss : off Harbor Beach, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 7 (6)
Carrying : lumber [mill culls]
Detail : Tow of steamer OSWEGATCHIE, she capsized after her towline broke and foundered. Her fate was unknown for nearly a week. The barge NORRIS(qv) of the same tow, was also lost. Cargo and wreckage of both washed ashore north of Kincardine, Ont. Out of E. Saginaw, owned by Jennesen. Master: Capt. Garrett Johnson(d).
Rebuilt, 1862, at Detroit.
Sources : mv,nsp,slh,h,phr,hgl,usls,rsl,wmn,ec
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DOMINION
Other names : none
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, riverine
Build info : 1867, John Bruce*, Wallaceburg, Ont.
Specs : 117x25x8, 175gc 117nc
Date of loss : 1875, Jul 30
Place of loss : Thames R., 5 mi below Chatham, Ont.
Lake : St. Clair
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 65 cords wood
Detail : Caught fire in her galley during the process of loading her cargo and burned to a total loss. Her crew fought the fire until compelled to jump overboard and save themselves. Owned by J.W. Steinhoff, Chatham
*”Broper” also given.
Sources : clu,csv,mmgl,jb,wmn
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DOMINION
Other names : none
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1867, D. Tait, Wellington, Ont.
Specs : 79x19x6, 76 t.
Date of loss : 1879, Nov 20
Place of loss : Ford’s Shoal, near Oswego
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : Caught in a great storm which swept the lakes, she anchored under South Point for shelter. Her anchor chains soon parted and she set sail to try and run before the wind to Oswego. While trying to make the harbor she went on one end of Ford’s Shoal, where she pounded to pieces. She had been bound from Oswego for Mill Point, Ont. Owned by her skipper, Capt. O’Hagan and E. W. Rathbun of Oswego.
Collided with the steamer DROMEDARY at Hamilton and sunk in November, 1871.
On Sep 18, 1870, she was outbound from Charlotte for Shannonville, Ont, in company with her fleetmate, FLORENCE HOWARD. About 15 miles out the two crossed tacks and the HOWARD, under full sail, rammed the DOMINION amidships. The latter heeled over and sank quickly, her crew barely having time to abandon in her yawl. They were picked up by the lumber schooner GEARING. Both vessels were owned by David Andrews of Charlotte or Napanee, Ont.
Sources : nsp,mmgl,wl,wmn,rp,njs
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DOMINION
Other names : none
Official no. : C90526
Type at loss : barge, wood [built as a propeller]
Build info : 1890, D. Hook, Chatham, Ont.
Specs : 95x24x5, 138gc 94nc
Date of loss : 1898, Mar
Place of loss : at Chatham, Ont.
Lake : St Clair
Type of loss : ice
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Sunk and a total loss after being crushed by ice in the Thames River while tied to a dock at Chatham.
Rebuilt as barge in 1898 at Chatham. This is probably the vessel which went ashore at Michael’s Bay, Manitoulin Island, in October of 1895.
Sources : mmgl,csv,nsp
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DOMINION
Other names : none
Official no. : C90707
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight “rabbit”
Build info : 1868, L. Shickluna, St. Catharines
Specs : 135x26x11 478gc 304nc
Date of loss : 1900, Oct 2
Place of loss : at Sandwich, Ont., Sulphur Creek Canal
Lake : Detroit R
Type of loss : Fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Gutted by fire while preparing to go into winter quarters and declared a total loss, but her hull was later recovered and rebuilt as the barge CANADA. Hailed from Windsor. Master: Capt. Edward Horn. The next month the hulk was purchased for $300 and an attempt was made to raise it.
Rebuilt from 137x23x11, 601 t., 1887
Sources : mmgl,ns2,csv,hcgl,wmn,nsp
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DON
Other names : none
Official no. : 157619
Type at loss : propeller fish tug, wood. steamer
Build info : 1901, Erie, PA
Specs : 44x12x5, 11g
Date of loss : 1918, Sep 27
Place of loss : Cleveland, Oh
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none of 4
Carrying : gear
Detail : Collided with the steamer BUCKEYE near Cleveland and sank.
Sources : mv,hr,wmn,wl
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DON QUIXOTE
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1836, Toledo, Mich.*
Specs : 81x16x4, 51 t.
Date of loss : 1837, Jan 14
Place of loss : near Thunder Bay Island
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : stranded
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : in part, a printing press and printing equipment for the 1st newspaper of Grand Rapids, Mich.
Detail : Ashore and sunk in shallow water, apparently a total wreck. The printing press and other cargo were transferred to a schooner and finished the journey. DON QUIXOTE had been bound from the Buffalo area to Grand Rapids. Her engine was later used in the Grand River steamer GOVERNOR MASON (qv). Owned by J. M. Mills, Detroit
This accident may have been on the return voyage of her very first trip, as she was built as a river steamer for the Grand and delivered in late October, 1836, passing Detroit in mid month.
*Toledo was part of Michigan Territory until 1837
Sources : slh,is,sgr,nsp,wl,ap,acpl,dcd
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DONALDSON
Other names : none
Official no. : 6094
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, bulk freight, 2-mast
Build info : 1866, F. Martel, Tonawanda as a bark
Specs : 156x31x12 420g 399n
Date of loss : 1913, Aug 17
Place of loss : at Cleveland
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Began to leak heavily in storm. Her tow vessel made a run for the harbor, but DONALDSON went down near the entrance. Considered too old to salvage, and left in place.
Driven aground with heavy damage near Muskegon by a gale in November of 1882. Also heavily damaged in a grounding near Washington Harbor, Wis., in 1890.
Rerigged as a 3-mast schooner in 1881
Major repairs in 1880, 83, 91
Sources : ns2,mv,wl,hcgl,nsp
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JAMES P. DONALDSON
Other names : none
Official no. : C116575
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1880, Anderson & Holland, Marine City, MI [US# 76183]
Specs : 185x30x12 522g 426n
Date of loss : 1923, Mar 18
Place of loss : at Thunder Bay, Ont.
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : empty
Detail : She caught fire and burned to a total loss at her winter layup dock at the Paterson elevator. The remaining hulk was towed out and scuttled near the Welcome Islands May 6, 1923.
Sold Canadian, 1922. Owned by Paterson Steamship Lines.
Heavily damaged in a fire at Bay City, MI, in Dec, 1898 and sunk by ice at the same place in December, 1897.
Sources : ns3,mv,csv,mpl,rf,nsp
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DONNA MARIE
Other names : none
Official no. : 237994
Type at loss : wood gas tug, fishing
Build info : 1938, Bodin and Mulke, Houghton Pt., Wisc.
Specs : 38 ft. 13 t
Date of loss : 1938, Nov 11
Place of loss : 15 mi off Duluth 6 mi offshore
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : fishing gear, herring
Detail : Her crew was pulling nets when they sighted the fish tug SEA BIRD approaching. They thought she was coming alongside to compare catches, but in reality her skipper was unable to see DONNA MARIE because of conditions. She was struck broadside and nearly cut in two. SEA BIRD rescued her crew and then took her in tow, but she soon sank in 200 feet of water. Master and owner: Capt. A. Bodin.
Sources : mnhs,wl,ftgl,mv
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WILLIAM DORAN
Other names : built as HAPPY JACK, probably renamed in 1863 Also seen as B. DORAN
Official no. : 26833
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1855, Murray, Oak Orchard, NY
Specs : 20 t.
Date of loss : 1868, Nov 25
Place of loss : between Rochester & Cobourg
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 5 [all]
Carrying : salt
Detail : Left Rochester, NY for Cobourg, but never arrived. Master: Capt G. S. Way.
Rebuilt in 1863 at Pultneyville
still in 1872 mvus
Sources : wmn,hgl,mv,mr,wl
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DORMER #2
Other names : ?
Official no. : 219891
Type at loss : barge, bulk freight
Build info : 1918, Jas. Larsen, Menominee, Mich as a tug
Specs : 61x25x8, 82 t.
Date of loss : 1940, Jul 7
Place of loss : Saginaw R., N end of Crow Isl.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : sank
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : no detail
Converted from tug to barge in 1939.
Sources : eas,slh,h,hr
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GRACE DORMER
Other names : none
Official no. : 10997
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger & package freight ferry
Build info : 1868, E. Osman, Buffalo
Specs : 71x17x6 66g 49n
Date of loss : 1925, early spring
Place of loss : at boneyard at Buffalo
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She had been abandoned at the boneyard and was destroyed by fire. Document surrendered March 26, 1925.
Sunk in a collision with the tug FRANK MOFFATT at Port Huron, July, 1883.
Also burned on July 3, 1872 at St. James, Beaver Island, just after loading a cargo of fish. One life lost.
Rebuilt, 1873
In 1888 her boiler was condemned as unsafe and she was pulled from service until a new one could be installed.
Sources : is(1-71),lhl,nsp,mv,phr,hcgl
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DOROTHY MAY
Other names : none
Official no. : C130284
Type at loss : propeller tug, wood
Build info : 1912, Port Dalhousie, Ont
Specs : 53x15x9, 55gc 29nc
Date of loss : 1941, Oct 7
Place of loss : 15 mi off Port Alma, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Foundered in heavy weather
Built or acquired from foreign sources about 1911
Out of Goderich
Sources : h ,hcgl not in mmgl
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ANNIE P. DORR
Other names : also seen as ANNA P. DORR
Official no. : 105207
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1870, W. Crosthwaite, E. Saginaw, MI
Specs : 76x20x6, 44g 22n
Date of loss : 1888, Nov 26
Place of loss : near Dunkirk, NY
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She and the tug JAMES ADAMS came to Dunkirk to release the stranded tug EDWARD MAYTHAM. A gale prevented them from entering the harbor. They worked around outside the harbor until DORR sprung a leak and foundered in about 30 minutes. Her crew were taken aboard the ADAMS with difficulty. Owned by the famous O.W. Cheney tug fleet of Buffalo.
Sources : vbs,phr,mv,nsp
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E.P. DORR
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : propeller wrecking tug, wood
Build info : 1855, Van Slyke & Notter, Buffalo
Specs : 161x25x , 300 t.
Date of loss : 1856, Jun (24)
Place of loss : Saginaw Bay, Mi
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : eight valuable steam pumps
Detail : Collided with the steamer OLIVER CROMWELL(qv) and sank while bound Detroit for Chicago. Her crew were rescued by the CROMWELL. She had been such a successful design that a new tug the SALVOR, which was identical to her, was built to replace her. She was a total loss of $38,000.
Owned by the Garden City and Mutual Insurance Companies
Sources : slh,lhl,hgl,nsp,rnc,ctw,blu[1856]
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E.P. DORR
Other names : none
Official no. : 8107
Type at loss : propeller tug, wood
Build info : 1865, Crosthwaite, Banks [Bay City], Mich
Specs : 57x13x6, 23 t.
Date of loss : 1877, Oct 22
Place of loss : at Detroit
Lake : Detroit R
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She was in custody of the United States Marshal when she was discovered to be ablaze. The fire, thought to be the work of arsonists, burned her top a total loss.
She had the machinery from the former steam lighter CROSBY’S EXPRESS.
Sources : nsp,hr,wl,vbs
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E.P. DORR
Other names : none
Official no. : 7546
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1861, J. Banta, Chicago
Specs : 263 g 216 n
Date of loss : 1881, Nov 15
Place of loss : Tecumseh Reef, 20 mi E of Long Point
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 7 [all]
Carrying : oak and chestnut lumber
Detail : Bound for Oswego, she struck bottom in a gale, filled and sank. Out of Buffalo; owned by her skipper, Capt. Peter Dufrane(d), and his father.
Ashore near Charlotte, NY with heavy damage, September of 1878.
Burned by arson at Buffalo in Oct, 1877.
Collided with bark ALICE with heavy damage in Oct, 1865.
Heavily damaged by a waterspout in 1861.
Rebuilt 1871,74,77, major repairs in late 1878
Sources : mv,eas,h,ledc,osdo,win,hgl,usls,rp,nsp,es
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G.J. DORR
Other names : built as tug GERTRUDE. Also seen in press as “J. G. Door”
Official no. : 85890
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1885, Saugatuck
Specs : 57x14x7 26g 13n
Date of loss : 1899, Sep 24
Place of loss : 8 mi off S. Chicago
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : towing 2 dump scows
Detail : Pulling her tow from Michigan City for Chicago, she began to fill and was abandoned in a gale. Her crew was able to transfer to one of her scows before she went down. Owned by Green Dredging Co., Chicago. Master: Capt. John Peterson.
Some issues of Merchant Vessels show her as G.J. DARR.
Sources : lmdc,mv,jb,nsp
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DOT
Other names : built as bark MARY MERRITT
Official no. : 157078
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood
Build info : 1865, L. Shickluna, St. Catharines
Specs : 292 t.
Date of loss : 1883, Aug 25
Place of loss : several miles off Grand Marais, MI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : She was lost from the tow of steamer M.M. DRAKE in a gale and, leaking heavily, she was abandoned by her crew. The DRAKE picked them up and went on her way, leaving the vessel to founder in deep water. Owned by Capt. A. C. Smith, Detroit and her master, Capt. W. Jones.
As MERRITT, she had gone ashore with heavy damage 6 mi E of this accident’s site, in 1881. Recovered, rebuilt amd reclaimed by Americans she became a U.S. vessel after considerable legal trouble.
Sources : clu,lssc,is,lss,hgl,nsp,wmhs
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L.R. DOTY
Other names : none
Official no. : 141272
Type at loss : propeller, bulk freight
Build info : 1893, F.W. Wheeler, W Bay City, MI
Specs : 291x41x20 2050g 1709n
Date of loss : 1898, Oct 24
Place of loss : 20 mi off Oak Creek, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 17 or 19 [all]
Carrying : 107,000 bu. corn
Detail : With schooner-barge OLIVE JEANETTE(qv) in tow, and bound Chicago for Midland, Ontario, she ran into a terrific gale. When she began to get in trouble, she cut the JEANETTE loose and sailed off into the storm. She was not seen again until her wreckage washed up on the beach near Kenosha a few days later. OLIVE JEANETTE made it back to Chicago under her own sail. Flotsam of the DOTY, including a lifeboat, continued to come up from below for a week afterwards. Owned by Charles L. Smith and others, Bay City, Mich. Master: Capt. Christopher Smith (d).
Wreck discovery and photos, Brendon Baillod Collection
Sources : gs,sol,is,sbs,vbs,h,lmdc,mpl,nsp,bb,wls
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REUBEN DOUD
Other names : none
Official no. : C100305
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1873, Gibson, Winneconne, WI [US# 110151]*
Specs : 137x26x12 324g 308n
Date of loss : 1906, Aug 24
Place of loss : on Ward’s Is. near the harbor entrance at Toronto
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Bound Fair Haven for Toronto, she was driven onto the island while attempting to enter the harbor in heavy weather at about 4 a.m. Local lifesavers were able to take her crew off. Owned by the Conger Coal Co. and her master, Capt. John Joyce.
Sold Canadian about 1893. Hailed from Windsor.
Was a major wreck at Pelee Isl. in 1900, and at Charlotte NY, ’03.
*Winneconne is 40 mi by water from Lake Michigan, and she was only brought to the lake with much difficulty.
Sources : win,ns1,nsp,osdo,mpl,rp,hcgl
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DOUGHBOY
Other names : built as ARTHUR D, renamed in 1920
Official no. : 106640
Type at loss : propeller tug, wood
Build info : 1889, Buffalo, NY
Specs : 49x14x7, 21g 10n
Date of loss : 1921, Aug 30
Place of loss : Tonawanda Creek
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She had been lying in ordinary for a year and was in the final stages of repairs to put her back in service when a nearby lightning strike set her ablaze. Her position at the dock was such that firemen could not reach her and she burned to the waterline, along with the tug TWO SISTERS(qv), lying nearby. Owned by Cowles Shipyard Co., Buffalo. She was formerly a Great Lakes Towing tug.
Sources : mv,hr,wmn,wl
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GEORGE DOUGLAS
Other names : also seen as GEORGE DOUGLASS
Official no. : C75644
Type at loss : propeller tug, wood
Build info : 1880, G. N. Garner, Thorold, Ont
Specs : 57x15x6, 42gc 18nc
Date of loss : 1893, Nov 18
Place of loss : Colpoy’s Bay, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : probably none
Detail : Returning from Lion’s Head to Owen Sound, she caught fire from unknown causes and was abandoned by her crew. She later drifted ashore on Griffith Island. Owned by Thomas Canan, Owen Sound. Document surrendered in 1912.
Sources : mmgl,csv,nsp
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STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1859, Ellinwood, Sackett’s Harbor, NY*
Specs : 360 t. om
Date of loss : 1862, Nov 3
Place of loss : W of Manitou Islands
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : towing mishap
Loss of life : none**
Carrying : ?
Detail : She was driven ashore about October 15 and stranded tightly. The big wrecking tug LEVIATHAN came to her aid, pulled her off, and put two big steam pumps aboard. On the tow to Milwaukee, however, one of the pumps failed and the vessel filled and sank in deep water. The pumps were taken off just before she went down. Owned by Willard Johnson & Turner, Oswego. Master: Capt. Vickery.
**one source says the cook was drowned.
*Fitted out at Oswego.
Sources : nsp,hgl,umr,wmn
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M. DOUSMAN
Other names : also seen as MICHAEL DOUSMAN
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1843, S. Farnham, Milwaukee
Specs : 90x20x8, 157 t.
Date of loss : 1853, Dec (7)
Place of loss : on Point Abino
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : hull failure
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 170 t.coal
Detail : She had just left Grand River, Ont. when she was found to be leaking profusely. Her captain put her ashore on the rocks to keep her from sinking in deep water. There she quickly became a total loss, and was stripped and abandoned the same week. Master: Capt. Leggitt. Owned by W. Buckley, Chicago.
Reported sunk in the Dunkirk, NY or Erie, Pa harbor Nov 13, 1852
Sources : is,hgl,rnc,hr,wl,bb
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NANCY DOUSMAN – See GALLINIPPER
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ROSE DOUSMAN
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1855, Leander Cox, Milwaukee
Specs : 88x23x8, 133 t.
Date of loss : 1867, Apr [1st week]
Place of loss : near New Buffalo
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 3
Carrying : ?
Detail : She stranded and became a total loss.
Owned by Roach & Connor, Milwaukee, in 1864
Sources : nsp,hgl,rsl,bb,hr
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DOVE
Other names : none
Official no. : 6512
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood
Build info : 1867, A. A. Turner, Trenton, Mich
Specs : 187x24x8, 440g 320n
Date of loss : 1897, Nov 24
Place of loss : at Toledo
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : ?
Detail : She burned to a total loss, probably at her dock. The hulk was dynamited in May, 1899. Probably owned by A. E. Klanser of Toledo, who purchased her for pennies on the dollar in 1894. At one time she had been a popular excursion steamer.
Sources : hcgl,hr,wmn,nsp
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DOVER
Other names : built as steamer FRANK E. KIRBY, renamed SILVER SPRAY in 1927 and DOVER the same year
Official no. : 120796
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, steel, passenger
Build info : 1890, Detroit Dry Dock, Wyandotte, MI hull# 101
Specs : 196×30*x11 533g 375n
Date of loss : 1932, Jun 23
Place of loss : at Ecorse, MI
Lake : Detroit R
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Tied up at layup dock when she caught fire along with several other vessels. She was a very popular and graceful vessel during her long career.
The wreck was removed in 1939.
Also burned at River Rouge or Ecorse, MI, Feb 20, 1929.
Heavily damaged in a collision with the freighter WILEY M. EGAN in June of 1902 near Amhurstburg, Ont.
*56ft over guards (extreme width)
Sources : eas,mv,atl,mol,is,sol,mpl,hcgl,nsp
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HENRY DOVILLE
Other names : also seen as H. DOVELL, DOVEIL
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1844, H. Doville, Big Sodus, NY
Specs : 67 t.
Date of loss : 1855, Oct 18
Place of loss : off Oak Orchard, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 4,000 bu wheat
Detail : She began to leak while bound from the Welland Canal to Oswego. After a long struggle to keep her afloat, her crew abandoned her and she went down in deep water. Owned by Wm Hunter & Co, Sodus, NY; homeport at Oswego.
Sources : nsp,rp,wl,hr
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FANNY DOWELL
Other names : ?
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : (tug or packet)
Build info : ?
Specs : 18 t.
Date of loss : 1880, Jul 8*
Place of loss : 2 mi from Pelee Isl.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : sank
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : no detail
Out of Sandusky.
*Date also given as 1890, but not in ’84 mvus
Sources : h,win not in mmgl, ’84mv
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TOM DOWLING
Other names : none
Official no. : 24988
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1873, Stevens & Presley, Cleveland
Specs : 67x13x5 37g 18n
Date of loss : 1908, Aug 17
Place of loss : at Ashland, WI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Burned to waterline and sank. Three local firemen who were aboard trying to fight the fire almost drowned when she suddenly turned turtle and sank. It was her third major accident in less than a year. Owner: Albert Coal.
May have been recovered.
Sources : gwgl,mv,lss,mpl,hcgl,wmn
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NELLIE P. DOWNEY
Other names : none
Official no. : C
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1873, R. Robinson at yard of Wm. Ross, Napanee, Ont
Specs : 84x20x7 120gc 98nc
Date of loss : 1884, Jun 12
Place of loss : 8 mi off Oswego, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 6,700 bu rye
Detail : Inbound for Oswego in heavy fog, she mistook the lights of the tug GLIDE with two barges in tow, for a tug coming out to tow her in. When she cut behind the tug to pick up the tow cable, she was run into by the barge OSWEGO. She came aside the barge and her people were able to clamber aboard before the DOWNEY went down five minutes later. The three men and two women aboard lost all of their belongings in the rush. Master: Capt. Robert Bartley; owned by Downey & Allen, Kingston. One newspaper says she was recovered, but she does not appear on later records.
Capacity 8,000 bu.
Sources : nsp,rp,wl,hr,glmd
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DAVID DOWS
Other names : none
Official no. : 157029
Type at loss : schooner or schooner-barge, wood, 5-mast
Build info : 1881, Bailey Bros., Toledo
Specs : 265x38x18, 1481g
Date of loss : 1889, Nov 25
Place of loss : off Whiting, Ind., 10 mi SSE of Chicago
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : In tow of steamer AURORA with barge ADAMS and bound for Chicago, broke her back on a series of big waves and went down in 42 feet. Sank with her 5 masts emergent and became a serious navigational problem for vessels approaching Chicago, until winter ice removed them. Owned by the Corrigan Fleet, Cleveland. Master: Capt. Peters. Hull partly removed in 1908, but remains are a frequent dive target.
Reportedly the largest and most capacious schooner in the world when built, equalling “tea clippers” in size, but her various owners found her impractical. She was thus used mostly as a towed barge. Probably the only 5-master ever built on the lakes, though GOLDEN AGE may have been laid down as a 5-er.
May have been cut down to a dedicated towbarge in 1883, though some sources says she was still full-masted when lost.
Sources : mv,eas,is(1-86),is,h,phgl,lmdc,nsp,wb,hgl,net,sb,mpl,es,hcgl
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JOHN H. DRAKE
Other names : also seen as J.H. DRAKE
Official no. : 12757
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1855, Wm. Jones, Black R., OH as a schooner
Specs : 131x26x11, 271 t. [350 t., old measure]
Date of loss : 1872, Sep 28
Place of loss : north of Chicago harbor
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : (none)
Carrying : lumber
Detail : She was driven is ashore in a gale that effected shipping on Lakes Michigan, Huron and Erie and cost over 60 lives. By Oct 1 she was reported hogged and rapidly breaking up.
Bound Alpena for Chicago with salt and lumber on Nov 16, 1869. Blinded by a blizzard, she came into Grand Traverse Bay accidentally and went ashore about 5 mi N of Traverse City. Caught fire in early December and abandoned with heavy damage, but recovered the next spring.
Major repairs in 1863
Sources : nsp,hgl,mv,rsl
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M.M. DRAKE
Other names : none
Official no. : 91485
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1882, Union Dry Dock, Buffalo as package freighter
Specs : 201x35x15 1102g 949n
Date of loss : 1901, Oct 2
Place of loss : off Vermilion Point, MI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm/collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : Lost the line to her sinking consort MICHIGAN(qv) in a 55 mph gale, then collided with her while trying to take off her crew. Disabled and wallowing, the DRAKE began to sink, but the passing freighters NORTHERN WAVE and CRESCENT CITY stood by and rescued the crews in a feat of daring. Both DRAKE aand MICHIGAN were members of the Corrigan fleet, Cleveland.
Went ashore near Cheboygan, MI, Straits, and given up for lost in October of 1888.
There was a tug of this name operating at the same time.
Wreckage located in 1978.
Sources : is(2-69,1-71),lssc,lss,ns1,nsp,gsg,mpl,hcgl
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DREAD
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info :
Specs :
Date of loss : 1823, Sep
Place of loss : on Long Point
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : emigrants and their luggage
Detail : Bound Buffalo for Detroit, she was caught in a gale and driven ashore on Long Point. Though her 30-plus passengers were saved, the vessel became a total loss – “dashed to pieces” by big waves.
Sources : wmn,wl,
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DREADNAUGHT
Other names : none also seen as DREADNOUGHT
Official no. : 6947
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1877, E. Saginaw
Specs : 42x12x3 11g 10n
Date of loss : 1886, Sep 11
Place of loss : near AuGres, MI, Saginaw Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : ?
Detail : Collided with the tug CHENEY and sank. Thought to be unsalvageable, but recovered the next spring. Abandoned in 1899.
One source claims this wreck was DREADNAUGHT US#6837 (mpl)
Sources : slh,lhdc,vbs,phr,hgl,mpl
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DREADNAUGHT
Other names : none also seen as DREADNOUGHT
Official no. : 35270
Type at loss : schooner, wood may have been scow-schooner
Build info : 1867, Chas. Luff, Detroit
Specs : 66x19x7 59g 56n
Date of loss : 1893, Nov 28
Place of loss : near Saugatuck, Mich*
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Bound Washington Isl. For Milwaukee she had been made unmanageable by masses of ice frozen to her upperworks. She drifted well out into the lake with her crew stranded aboard before she was discovered 30 miles off Racine by the steamer SYRACUSE and her two people rescued. The wreck drifted ashore near Saugatuck, on the Michigan side, a few days later. Estimated value of vessel and cargo only $725. Master and owner, Capt. Olsen, out of Milwaukee.
*location also given as Suel Choix Pt., in the Western Straits of Mackinac, and at Sturgeon Bay. Racine is supported by articles in the local press.
Probably the vessel shown, but the 412 gt schooner DREADNAUGHT, b. 1856, Rogers, Oswego, was reported lost near Racine in ’93
Sources : osdo,slh,mv,wb,hgl,wls,wmn,wl
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DREDGE #1
Other names : also called GOVERNMENT DREDGE NO. 1
Official no. : C (122174)
Type at loss : dredge scow or barge
Build info : ? (1903, Port Arthur, Ont.)
Specs : ? (65x24x8, 176 t.)
Date of loss : 1932, Jun
Place of loss : off Bayfield, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 12
Carrying : none
Detail : Bound Sarnia to Kincardine in tow of the tug MAX L, she broke her towline and sank in a storm after breaking in two. Her crewmen swam to the tug and were saved.
If this is parenthesized vessel, then it was recovered.
Sources : (mmgl),lhdc,hcgl not in mmgl
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DREDGE No. 4
Other names : ?
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : dredge barge
Build info : ?
Specs : ?
Date of loss : 1900, Sep 26
Place of loss : off Lorain, Ohio
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : In tow of the tugs PETE GORMAN and DRAGON, she sprung a leak forward during a squall and soon sank. Her 4-man was rescued by the tugs, but the vessel was a total loss. Master: Capt. A. Corbin. It’s possible this is the same vessel as the dredge “NO. 4” (qv), but there is no record of that one having been recovered.
Sources : nsp
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DREDGE #8
Other names : none
Official no. : C116384
Type at loss : dredge barge
Build info : 1888, Duluth
Specs : 96x36x10, 415gc 415nc
Date of loss : 1909, Dec 9
Place of loss : E Hatton Isl., Thunder Bay, Ont.
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 6
Carrying : none
Detail : Foundered and declared a total loss. Later recovered, registry closed in 1942.
Registered out of Port Arthur, Ont.
Sold Canadian in 1904
Sources : h,win,mmgl
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DREDGE #906
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : steel dredge barge, nonself-propelled
Build info : 1912, Manitowoc, Wis.
Specs : 110x40x12, tonnage unknown
Date of loss : 1956, May 23
Place of loss : 6 mi SE of Milwaukee off Cudahy, Wis
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 9 of 19
Carrying : gear
Detail : She was in tow of the tug E. JAMES FUSIK and the two were trying to beat a storm to Milwaukee when the dredge’s boom became unsecured and swung wildly in the 15-foot waves. 906 capsized quickly and sank without warning. The FUSIK attempted to save her crew, but was able to save only 10 and recover three bodies. Four other bodies were recovered by the Coast Guard boats and a plane which were called to the scene. Owned by FitzSimons and Connell Dredge & Dock Co., Chicago. She had been engaged in dredging the harbor at Oak Creek, Wis, about 10 miles S of Milwaukee, for a new power plant there. Master: Capt. Edward Selvick was not aboard. Acting Capt. Marty Walsh was rescued but injured.
Located 6.25 mi, 129deg from Milwaukee N Breakwater light
Sources : glp,lmdc,mpl,kst,nsp USCG report
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JOSEPHINE DRESDEN
Other names : none
Official no. : 12756
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast [Grand Haven {jackass} rig]
Build info : 1852, John Betts, Michigan City, IN
Specs : 95x21x6 84g 80n
Date of loss : 1907, Nov 27
Place of loss : at Crescent, MI, W side of N Manitou Isl.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : shingles*
Detail : Torn from her dock and blown ashore in gale, a total wreck. Upbound, she had been sheltering from the storm.
First vessel on Lakes to have an auxiliary gas engine. Sometimes described as “auxiliary schooner” or “gas schooner” and listed with the steamers in Merchant Vessels of the U. S.
*Also described as loaded with lumber or in ballast.
Almost cut in two in collision with propeller ECLIPSE in May of 1857.
Rebuilt in 1867 after a serious grounding at St. Joseph. MI
Sources : eas,h,lmdc,mv,mol,nb,nsp,mpl,rsl,wl,hcgl
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GEORGE C. DREW
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : (scow-)schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1848, F.N. & B.B. Jones, Avon, OH
Specs : 94x22x7, 131 t.
Date of loss : 1866, Aug 10
Place of loss : Big Charity Isl., Saginaw Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Hung up on reef near the island and wrecked while bound Saginaw for Chicago. Her outfit and cargo was saved, and an attempt was made to salvage her hull, but to no avail. Owned by Nichols of Chicago.
Sources : slh,hgl,wl,rsl,nsp,hr,wmn,mbw
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DRILL BOAT #3
Other names : ?
Official no. : C151110
Type at loss : oil drilling boat
Build info : ?
Specs : 93 t.
Date of loss : 1942, Sep 9
Place of loss : Abreast eastern end of Scarborough Bluffs
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : foundered.
Owned by C.S.B.D. & C. Co., Toronto.
Built or acquired from foreign sources about 1924.
Sources : h,win not in mmgl
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DRIVER
Other names : none – misidentified in newspapers as “Diver”
Official no. : 6201
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast, bulk freight
Build info : 1856, J.M. Jones, Milwaukee
Specs : 103x26x8 137g 130n
Date of loss : 1901, Aug 30
Place of loss : off S. Manitou Isl.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 5
Carrying : hardwood
Detail : She was seen from shore near Glen Haven, Michigan, to capsize in a squall. She drifted along the shore upside-down for a couple of days, a dangerous derelict, then finally came ashore near Point Betsie. Her crewmen abandoned her in the yawl early on, but their whereabouts were unknown until Sep 4, when they showed up in Chicago. Out of Benton Harbor and owned by Eric Anderson. Master: Capt. Victor Anderson.
Rescued crew of steamer H.C. AKELEY(qv) in 1883.
Waterlogged and considered a total loss on Lake Michigan with the loss of one life in October, 1865.
major repairs in 1877 and 1883
Sources : nsp,ns1,is,lmdc,nb,mpl,hcgl
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DROMEDARY
Other names : none
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : propeller, wood, package freight
Build info : 1868, Andrews & Son, Port Dalhousie, Ont.
Specs : 120x23x11 255g 174n
Date of loss : 1882, Nov 18
Place of loss : at Hamilton, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : had just finished unloading her cargo
Detail : Burned to a total loss while moored for the night at the wharf when her banked fires overheated. Her machinery was later removed and the hull was raised a year later, but there is no evidence that it was ever rebuilt. Owned by Barrows & Co., Hamilton, Ont.
Rebuilt, 1880
Sources : nsp,clu,csv,mmgl,hgl,rp,wl,es,ib
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DRUID – See NIAGARA
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JESSIE DRUMMOND
Other names : none
Official no. : C51455
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1864, A. Simpson, St. Catharines as a bark
Specs : 134x23x12 291gc
Date of loss : 1902, Dec 2
Place of loss : near entrance to harbor at Cobourg, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 7
Carrying : 600 t. coal
Detail : Struck bottom and settled while trying to make Cobourg harbor in a gale. Pounded to pieces.
Crew rescued by Cobourg Lifesaving Service. Registered out of Oakville, Ont. to Herbert Milne.
In 1865 she carried a load of steel rails from Hamburg, Ger., to Ont.
When built she was iron strapped and wire rigged. Converted to schooner in 1874.
Sources : mmgl,sol,lh,is,ns1,h,tfgl,win,mpl,rsl,hcgl
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DUBUQUE
Other names : none
Official no. : 6149
Type at loss : barge, wood
Build info : 1857, D. O’Conner, Buffalo as a propeller steamer
Specs : 145x23x12, 276 t.
Date of loss : 1877, Sep 6
Place of loss : Long Point
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : The tug BURNSIDE, when about three miles east of the Long Point light with the barges DUBUQUE, RIO GRANDE (qv), DANUBE and ELIZA, was forced by heavy weather to break up her tow. DUBUQUE and RIO GRAND went ashore on the point, while the other two made it to port on their own. At first though to be in no danger, DUBUQUE was stripped and abandoned by the 14th.
Reduced from propeller to barge after 1872.
Sources : nsp,hgl,mv,wl,hr
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DUDLEY
Other names : none
Official no. : 170472
Type at loss : wood dredge vessel
Build info : 1926, Miami, Fla (???)
Specs : 60x26x6, 95g 95n
Date of loss : 1934, Nov 3
Place of loss : off Au Sable pierhead light near Oscoda
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : foundered
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : no detail
Built in Florida and registered out of Miami in 1934, owned in Buffalo. Probably built for the U.S. government.
Sources : eas,slh,mv
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NELLIE A. DUFF
Other names : none
Official no. : 130334
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1885, Port Clinton, OH
Specs : 77x20x6 54g 51n
Date of loss : 1895, Oct 14
Place of loss : near Lorain, OH
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 3 of 4
Carrying : gravel
Detail : Her cargo shifted in heavy seas while she was trying to make port at Lorain in a gale. She sank two miles out when she turned aside to make way for another distressed vessel. She had been bound Pelee Island for Cleveland. By the last day of the year she had disappeared completely. Master: Capt. Peterson(d). Out of Detroit, owned at time of loss by her skipper.
NELLIE A DUFF, C.B.BENSON and KATE WINSLOW, schooners owned by the Duff family all were lost on Oct 14, but in different years.
Sources : nsp,is,h,mv,ledc,wb,hgl
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DUKE
Other names : also seen as DUKE OF DARLINGTON
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1845, South Bay, Ont.
Specs : 57 t.
Date of loss : 1854, Jul 5
Place of loss : off Highland Creek, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 5 or 6 of 6 [injured man may have died later]
Carrying : in ballast
Detail : She had just left Toronto when a terrific storm struck. She capsized and foundered, leaving only one of her crew to tell the tale. He was picked up from the capsized yawlboat by the westbound steamer MAGNET. DUKE was out of Darlington, Ont, owned by J. Simpson & Co., Whitby. An insurance inspection the same year said her hull was “getting soft.”
Sources : wmn,rnc,wl,nsp,hgl
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DUKE OF RICHMOND
Other names : also seen as just RICHMOND, and RICHMOND PACKET
Official no. : C
Type at loss : sloop, wood
Build info : 1820, R. Oates, York [Toronto]
Specs : 70 t.
Date of loss : 1826, Dec
Place of loss : mainland N of Nicholson Island, Ont
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : salt
Detail : She was bound Oswego for York when she was struck by a storm and driven ashore, a total loss. Her ornamental deck cannon was recovered and used at Wellington, Ont., to salute special occasions until 1866, when it exploded violently from an overcharge. Owner, builder & master: Richard Oates. In 1873 the skipper’s son retrieved a piece of timber from the wreck and had a chair made from it.
Pushed ashore by ice near Niagara in February, 1825; heavily damaged.
Sources : hgl,wmn,nsp,wl
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DULUTH
Other names : none
Official no. : 163495
Type at loss : dredge scow, wood, dipper dredge
Build info : 1872, Green Bay, WI
Specs : 142 t.
Date of loss : 1918, Oct 12
Place of loss : Duluth, MN
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Tied up at her dock on Grassy Point, she was destroyed when the great Cloquet forest fire swept the dock area. Owned by Northern Dock & Dredge Co., Duluth.
The fire destroyed all of NDD’s floating stock including this dredge, the tugs ELLA G. STONE, MENTOR and JOHN JEFFREY, JR as well as five or six scows.
Sources : mv,eas,is,mnhs,mjd
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GEORGE DUNBAR
Other names : none
Official no. : 6496
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight “steam barge”
Build info : 1867, Chaffee, Allegan, MI
Specs : 134x25x9 238g 191n
Date of loss : 1902, Jun 29
Place of loss : wreck lies 6 mi SE of Pelee I.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 7 of 10
Carrying : coal
Detail : Damaged by a sudden squall near Kelley’s Island and sank. Bound Cleveland for Alpena. 7 crew elected to stay aboard while the skipper, his wife and daughter made for shore in life boat. Only those 3 were saved. Others perished on a makeshift raft. Out of Michigan City, owned by W. E. Hudson.. Master: Capt. John Little, Port Huron. (Owner also given as Saginaw Bay Trans. Co., Mentor, Oh.) The wreck was leveled by dynamiting in October of the same year.
Sources : do2,nsp,slh,is,ns1,h,mv,ledc,mpl,wl,hcgl,ew,bbas
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DUNCAN CITY
Other names : built as JOHN HEISMAN, renamed JOHN RAE in 1856, renamed DUNCAN CITY in 1873
Official no. : 6792
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1852, Geo. Thurston, Kingston, Ont. as a bark
Specs : 114x25x9, 211g 200n
Date of loss : 1888, Oct 22 [spring ‘89 also given in error]
Place of loss : Summer Island off tip of Garden Island, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : She went ashore and wrecked; reported pounded to pieces a short time later. In 1890 she was reported as released, but there is no further record of her use. Owned by Capt. Parker, Chicago.
Damaged in collision with schr M.L.HIGGIE near Bailey’s Harbor June, 1884.
As JOHN RAE, she went ashore at South Bay, Lake Ontario, in fall, 1872. Salvaged by Americans and this vessel built on her hull by Miller of Oswego, launched anew in 1873.
Wrecked and sunk near the Ducks on Eastern Lake Ontario in 1866 – recovered the next year.
Sailed From Hamilton, Ont. via Buffalo to St. John’s, New Brunswick with corn in May, 1856, the first Lakes vessel to ship a cargo directly to that port.
Sources : nsp,mv,clu,net,mpl,wmn,rnc,bb,hr,oo
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JOHN DUNCAN
Other names : none
Official no. : 76960
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1891, A. J. Johnson, Ft. Howard (Green Bay), WI
Specs : 225x38x17 1268g 997n
Date of loss : 1903, Aug 27
Place of loss : just off docks at Harrisville, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : Developed a leak in a gale. Ran for shore but sank just short in 20 feet of water. Lifesaving Service rescued her crew. Master: Capt. George Minar, and owned by H. J. Pauley, Milwaukee. She was declared a total loss but recovered.
Rebuilt and renamed HOWARD W. in 1916.
Sold Canadian in 1913 [C# 133821].
Wrecked on the St. Lawrence in 1919, recovered but declared a constructive total loss and retired in 1920.
Sources : nsp,slh,ns2,mv,hcgl
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DUNDEE
Other names : none
Official no. : 157366
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 2-mast [built as 3-mast schooner]
Build info : 1893, Jas. Davidson, W. Bay City, MI hull #54
Specs : 211x35x16 1043g 991n
Date of loss : 1900, Sep 11
Place of loss : 10 mi W of Cleveland, 4 mi offshore*
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1 [cook]
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : She foundered in a gale while in tow of the steamer JOHN N. GLIDDEN after losing her rudder.. Her crew took to the rigging as the vessel foundered and were later rescued by the steamer CHARLEMAGNE TOWER. Owned by Minch Fleet, Capt. Wm. Gerlach, manager. Master: Capt. Martin Elnen. Salvage was later attempted, but unsuccessfully. The government contracted to flatten her by explosives in December, but after the contractor claimed to have finished the job, the government commissioned a survey to confirm that the work had been done. When she was found in 2006, she was nearly intact.
*location also given as 17 mi NW of Cleveland. Actual location given in 2006 as 14 mi from Cleve.
Sources : vbs,mv,eas,sol,ns1,h,ledc,mpl,ew,cs,nsp,es
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DUNDERBURG
Other names : none also seen in mv as DUNDERSBURG
Official no. : 6151
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1867, J. M. Jones, Detroit
Specs : 187x33x13, 597 t.
Date of loss : 1868, Aug 13
Place of loss : off Sand Beach, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : corn, 6 passengers
Detail : Collided at 11 pm with steamer EMPIRE STATE and went down a few miles from shore. The mate of the EMPIRE STATE was found to be at fault in the collision, which took the life of a female passenger who was standing on deck at the time and was apparently thrown overboard by the impact of the collision. Out of Detroit.
A fisherman reported seeing her below the surface in 27 fathoms of water in 1875.
Drawing as she lies on the bottom (Bob McGreevey):
Sources : mv,slh,lhdc,hgl,sip,nsp,hr
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DUNDURN
Other names : built as FLINT & PERE MARQUETTE #2 [later F. & P.M. #2], last name in 1906
Official no. : C112207
Type at loss : barge, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1882, Detroit Dry Dock, Wyandotte, MI hull #60 US#120500
Specs : 213x330x12, 1120gc
Date of loss : 1919, Jul 15
Place of loss : just outside harbor at Ashtabula, OH
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 2
Carrying : coal
Detail : Tow of the tug HOME RULE(qv), she foundered in gale.
Stranded in mid-Lake Michigan in late March, 1885. Part of her crew and passengers walked 30 miles to Ludington to get help.
Sold Canadian, lengthened 35 ft. and converted to barge in 1906.
Built as a propeller break-bulk and passenger carrier. She was NEVER a carferry.
Image as a steamer while stranded and hogged in 1885:
Sources : atl,ns2,ledc,csv,mmgl,mpl,hcgl,nsp
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E.W. DUNHAM
Other names : none also seen as E.F. DUNHAM
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1870, D.C. Gates, Houghton, Ont.
Specs : 76x17x6, 75 t.
Date of loss : 1871, Aug [late in the month, exact date unknown]
Place of loss : on a line Port Burwell-Cleveland
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 6 [all]
Carrying : coal
Detail : Bound Cleveland for Port Burwell, but never arrived. Probably foundered about mid-lake.
Out of Port Burwell. Master: no master was aboard, and the vessel was commanded by Mr. Wright, who was lost in the wreck.
A scow E.A. DUNHAM out of Port Burwell is listed in 1873 clu as “rebuilt”
Sources : nsp,mmgl,hgl
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WILLIAM H. DUNHAM
Other names : none
Official no. : 80393
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1873, Robinson, Eastmanville, MI
Specs : 116x24x8 185g 175n
Date of loss : 1902, Dec 31
Place of loss : near Duke’s Creek
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Driven ashore and wrecked beyond repair
Sources : ns1,mv
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DUNKIRK
Other names : also seen as PACKET OF DUNKIRK and DUNKIRK PACKETT
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1823, Venice, Ohio
Specs : 51x15x5, 34 t.
Date of loss : 1829, late Nov
Place of loss : near Cattaraugus Creek, NY
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : merchandise, salt, etc.
Detail : She drove ashore in a storm and was soon pounded entirely to pieces. Master: Capt. Patterson.
Sources : hgl,wmn,wl
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GEORGE L. DUNLAP
Other names : none
Official no. : 10347
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1864, W.H. Wolf, Ft. Howard, WI
Specs : 185x23x10 436gt 338n.
Date of loss : 1880, Nov 20
Place of loss : Saginaw Bay, 14 mi from Bay City
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : ice
Loss of life : none
Carrying : supplies, merchandise
Detail : Bound Bay City for north shore ports with a heavy load of winter and lumbercamp supplies, she was cut by ice above the hull’s ice plating and began to leak heavily. After nearly all of her cargo was thrown overboard, she straggled back to her dock and foundered to the decks. She was laid up for possible repair, but finally abandoned.
Sources : sol,lhl,slh,mpl,nsp,hcgl
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JOHN DUNN
Other names : none
Official no. : 75609
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1874, A. Miller, Oswego, NY
Specs : 138x26x11, 320 t.
Date of loss : 1875, Sep 9
Place of loss : Chicago harbor near “the fort”
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 7
Carrying : 600 coal
Detail : Struck the piers while coming into the harbor from Cleveland in a gale and wrecked near the foot of 18th Street. She was subject to almost constant salvage efforts until finally given up for lost Nov. 10. At one point she was almost to the surface when wreckers were pulled off her to go to the aid of the valuable iron propeller MERCHANT(qv) at Racine. Valued at $22,000. Owned by T. Dunn and M.J. Cummings – out of Oswego. Master: Capt. William Carter.
Also sunk on Lake Erie, in 1874.
Sources : is,osdo,nsp,
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STUART H. DUNN
Other names : built as schooner WILFRED R. TAYLOR, renamed 1888
Official no. : C72964
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 3-mast, built as schooner
Build info : 1877, G. Dixon, Marysburgh [Milford], Ont.
Specs : 164x26x13, 535gc 458nc
Date of loss : 1920, Jul 4
Place of loss : at Port Dalhousie, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : foundered
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Foundered in harbor after colliding with a pier. Recovered, but, due to age, was not returned to service. Stripped and resunk in the lake in 1925.
Registered out of Montreal.
Driven ashore in 1888 & rebuilt as DUNN. Reduced to a barge about 1910.
Stranded with heavy damage at N. Fox Island, L. Michigan, in 1880. Raised and towed to Buffalo, where she was allowed to sink. Raised in April, 1883, and rebuilt.
Built as “timber drougher,” with ports for large timbers at her bow & stern. She was reportedly the last schooner on the lakes to carry a square foretops’l
Sources : mmgl,is(1-64),ns3,h,tfgl,osdo,win,mpl,hcgl,nsp
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DUPUIS No. 10
Other names : built as BEAUBIEN No. 7, renamed 1931
Official no. : C166248
Type at loss : barge, steel, bulk freight
Build info : 1915, Nicholson, Ecorse, Mich (US#166284)
Specs : 143x32x6, 316 t.
Date of loss : 1997, Dec 24
Place of loss : 4 mi off Port Colborne
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : equipment failure
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Sank while enroute for Toronto for repairs when the generator and pumps that were keeping her clear of water ran out of gas. The vessel soon sank in 60′ of water.
Sold Canadian 1931
Owned by Leo Schotte, Toronto
Sources : ewe,net,wl,hr
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MAY DURR – See THREE BROTHERS
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A. P. DUTTON
Other names : none
Official no. : 376
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1856, E. W. Beckwith, Racine, WI
Specs : 65x15x6, 44 t.
Date of loss : 1868, Dec 8 or after
Place of loss : unknown or unreported
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 4
Carrying : schoolhouse furniture
Detail : DUTTON left Chicago Dec 8, bound for Benton Harbor, Michigan, but never made it. She was supposed to have foundered with all hands, including one passenger, enroute. Owned by Patrick Kinney, Benton Harbor, MI. Master: Capt. Joseph McLean(d).
Sources : bcha,nsp,rsl,mv,mdwl,hr
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J. DUVALL
Other names : none also seen as JOSEPH DUVALL, JOE DUVALL, JOHN J. DUVALL
Official no. : 75721
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1874, Rand & Burger, Manitowoc
Specs : 103x24x8 132g 126n
Date of loss : 1905, Dec 5
Place of loss : near Harsen’s Island [off Tashmoo Park]
Lake : St. Clair
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Collided with the whaleback JAMES B. COLGATE in a passing error and sank. Her crew escaped in her yawl. Hull dynamited the next year. Owned by C. H. Frame, Harbor Beach, Mich.
There is a report of her having sunk in Lake Superior in 1904.
Capsized in a squall with the loss of 7 lives off Two Rivers Pt., Lake Michigan Jul 16, 1880.
Sources : nsp,gwgl,ns1,mv,phr,usls,mpl,hcgl
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GEORGE H. DYER – See HENNEPIN
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TOM DYER – See DOLPHIN
Great Lakes Shipwreck Files 
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