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S.O. & Co. #85 – See CLEVECO
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S.T. Co. #85 – See CLEVECO
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L.C. SABIN – See NORTH CAROLINA
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SACHEM
Other names : none
Official no. : 116267
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight “sandsucker”
Build info : 1889, Duncan Robertson, Grand Haven, MI
Specs : 187x34x15, 739g 543n
Date of loss : 1928, Oct 8
Place of loss : near Port Lambton, Ont.
Lake : St Clair R
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : An exploding oil stove started a fire that destroyed her while she was underway. She was beached on Roberts Landing, where she burned to a total loss. Owned by Lockheart Transportation & Towing Company, Detroit.
Equipped with a clamshell crane for sand operations in 1912.
Image from Ralph Roberts Collection
Sources : sol,ns3,mv,nsp,mpl,eas
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SACHEM
Other names : built as tug JOHN KELDERHOUSE, renamed SACHEM in 1911, renamed DEREK E. after 1990
Official no. : 204106
Type at loss : propeller tug, steel Diesel
Build info : 1907, B.T. Cowles, Buffalo, NY
Specs : 72x20x11, 100g 70g
Date of loss : 1950, Dec 18
Place of loss : off Dunkirk, NY
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : ice
Loss of life : 12 [all]
Carrying : none
Detail : According to crewmen working on the sand dredge NIAGARA, working nearby, the tug was breaking ice when she rode up on a sheet. Her stern was down to the water, and when the tug slid backwards off the ice she went under stern first with the loss of all hands. Owner: Dunbar & Sullivan Dredging, Buffalo. When recovered the following year, she was in almost perfect condition. Reconditioned and operating out of Cleveland in 1990. Now the tug DEREK E., owned by Egan Marine Corp. of Lemont, IL, and operating on the Chicago Sanitary & Ship Canal.
Converted from steam to Diesel propulsion in 1950.
Image of DEREK E from Tugboat Enthusiast Society
Sources : mv,gs,is,wm2,mpl,kvd,eas,ems,uscg
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SACRAMENTO
Other names : none
Official no. : 22277
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1850, Lockwood, Madison Dock, OH
Specs : 116 t. om
Date of loss : 1867, Oct (2)
Place of loss : Gull Island Reef, near Kelley’s Is;.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : all but one [3 or 4]
Carrying : coke
Detail : Bound Cleveland for Detroit, she was driven on the reef and wrecked. She was abandoned on the 10th.
She MAY have been recovered as she still appears in 1869 mv.
Major repair in 1859
Ashore with loss of life near Port Colborne, Ont., in the great storm of Nov, 1860.
Sources : hgl,nsp,rsl,bb,mv
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SACRAMENTO
Other names : none
Official no. : 116682
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1895, J. Davidson, W. Bay City hull #69
Specs : 308x43x21, 2380g 1911n
Date of loss : 1917, May 15
Place of loss : near Port Austin Reef lighthouse
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : She struck the reef and went down in relatively shallow water. Thought to be a total loss, but later recovered and returned to service. Abandoned at site of Davidson Shipyard in 1939 and her remains are still there.
rebuilt 1905, 1918
Sources : vbs,mv,gwgl,sbs,slh,h,ns4
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SADDLEBAG – former entry removed pending further information
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SAGAMORE
Other names : none
Official no. : 57932
Type at loss : barge, steel, whaleback, bulk freight
Build info : 1892, American Steel Barge Co. [A. McDougall], W. Superior, WI
Specs : 308 ft. 1601g 1557n
Date of loss : 1901, Jul 29
Place of loss : off Iroquois Pt., Whitefish Bay
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : 2
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : She was riding at anchor waiting out fog when she was rammed by the 300-ft steel steamer NORTHERN QUEEN. SAGAMORE was riding very low in the water and was practically invisible because of the normal low profile of whalebacks. She split amidships and sank very quickly. She had been the tow of the whaleback steamer PATHFINDER. Master: Capt. S. Joiner(d).
Sources : mv,ns1,lssc,is(2-69,1-71),lol,gwgl,sol,ns1,lss,nsp,mpl
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SAGAMORE
Other names : built as tug JAMES O’CONNOR, renamed 1919
Official no. : 218114
Type at loss : Diesel workboat, steel
Build info : 1906, Buffalo
Specs : 39x12x5, 14g 9n
Date of loss : 1936, Dec 8
Place of loss : 5 mi off Harbor Beach, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Foundered. No detail. Owned by Dunbar & Sullivan Dredging, Buffalo.
Sources : slh,h,mv,bb
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H.W. SAGE
Other names : also seen as HENRY W. SAGE
Official no. : 95414
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1875, T. Boston, Bangor, MI as a schooner
Specs : 203x36x13, 848g 803n
Date of loss : 1903, Oct 4
Place of loss : near Poverty Island
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : Tow of the prop SAMOA and bound Escanaba for Lake Erie, she was torn loose and foundered in a storm. She was a total loss, but her crew was able to abandon to the steamer before she went down. Owned by John Kelderhouse, the Maytham estate and her master: Capt John Laughlin.
Rammed and quickly sunk by the steel steamer CHICAGO (also reported as QUEEN OF THE WEST) in the St. Clair R. Jul 29, 1900. One or two lives were lost, crushed in her foc’sl. She was raised in September in an expensive salvage operation [due to the current] and converted from a schooner to a schooner-barge.
Also ashore in Hammond’s Bay, Straits, and declared a total loss, Nov, 1889. Recovered in summer, 1891. Also stranded near Cleveland in Sep, 1895, waterlogged off Sand Beach, MI, Apr, 1902.
Sources : ns1,hgl,vbs,sbs,polk,nsp,h,ns1,st,mpl,wgts,es
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RUSSELL SAGE – See ATLASCO
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SAGINAW – See also OCEAN
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SAGINAW
Other names : none
Official no. : 22372
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1862, D. Lester, Newport, MI
Specs : 138x26x11, 285 t. (378 t. om)
Date of loss : 1875, Nov 28
Place of loss : near Ashtabula, Ohio
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : sulphur
Detail : Bound for Cleveland, she went ashore in a storm and was reported a total loss.
Driven high up on a rocky bar near Black River, OH, in mid-Oct, 1873. The big Detroit tug CHAMPION was unsuccessful in getting a line to her to pull her off. She was stripped and abandoned by the tug MARGARET in May, 1874. Recovered and repaired later that year.
Out of Cleveland.
Sources : nsp,hgl,rsl,phr,wmn,wl
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SAGINAW
Other names : none
Official no. : 57283
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood
Build info : 1866, E. Saginaw, MI*
Specs : 138x26x13, 310g 296n
Date of loss : 1880, Aug 27
Place of loss : off Port Stanley, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm and fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Last in a tow of four barges, she broke away from the tug ALANSON SUMNER and went ashore in a gale. The schooner H.M. SCOVE(qv) in tow of the tug STRANGER, picked up her crew and one sailor’s dog, who had clung to the waterlogged wreck for more than 20 hours. A signal lantern which was hung in the wreck to mark it’s position later caught it afire and it burned to a total loss. Master: Capt Bunting. Owner: Eloen W. Hudson & H. L. Brown, Detroit.
*A newspaper report says this was the former steamer SAGINAW, US#22382, built at Cleveland in 1850. The fact that she was 57283 is borne out by registration documents.
Sources : vbs,nsp,phr
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SAGINAW
Other names : none
Official no. : C69524
Type at loss : propeller wrecking tug
Build info : 1873, Port Huron Dry Dock [A. Stewart], Port Huron as a small carferry
Specs : 142x26x10, 365 t.
Date of loss : 1892, May 6
Place of loss : Windsor, Ont.
Lake : Detroit R.
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Caught fire at her dock and burned to the waterline. She was expected to be a total loss as the repairs were deemed to be more than her insurance, but she was eventually recovered and returned to service.
Sold Canadian 1873 and laid up about 1884 because of her limited usefulness. Converted to her final configuration in 1886. She was an odd-looking round-nosed tug, a well-known wrecker in the Detroit River area until broken up about 1940.
Sources : glc,csv,vbs,mmgl,slh,mv,lhl,nsp
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SAGINAW
Other names : none
Official no. : 115118
Type at loss : steam barge, wood, bulk freight, lumber
Build info : 1866, Marine City, MI as a sidewheel steamer
Specs : 194x29x11, 509g 431n
Date of loss : 1905, Nov 24
Place of loss : 3 mi below Port Huron
Lake : St Clair R.
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : light
Detail : She reportedly burned to a total loss, but newspapes said two tugs and the local fire department prevented her from being totally destroyed. Not officially abandoned until 1914 thus may have been recovered after this fire. She had been bound for Cheboygan, Mich.
Converted from sidewheeler to a schooner-barge in 1891; converted to a propeller for the lumber trade in 1893.
Image from HCGL, showing her sharp passenger-ship prow
Sources : slh,mv,lhl,mpl,hcgl,wmn
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SAILOR BOY
Other names : none
Official no. : 23105
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1866, C.E. Owen, Algonac, MI
Specs : 75x21x7, 76 nt.
Date of loss : 1883, May 21
Place of loss : 2 mi S of Milwaukee Harbor
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 3
Carrying : wood
Detail : Bound Pierport, MI, for Milwaukee, she anchored outside the harbor waiting for gale to abate, but later broke her chains and drove aground near Bay View. Her crew made it in on a heaving line with help from bystanders on the beach. The vessel was stripped and abandoned the next day. Owned by Anderson of Milwaukee.
Sources : phr,polk,mv,h,hgl,usls,mpl,nsp,wls
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SAILOR BOY
Other names : none
Official no. : 116393
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger
Build info : 1891, Wheeler & Williams, W. Bay City hull#79
Specs : 91x24x7, 163g 112n
Date of loss : 1923, May 12 (also given as 1921, 1924)
Place of loss : Portage Ship Canal, near Hancock, MI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : She caught fire and burned at Stringer’s Sawmill dock 100 yds E of Wright’s Pt. The wreckage is off Osceola Point, Hancock.
Sources : vbs,gwgl,is,lss,sbs,mv,bb,eas
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ST. ALBANS
Other names : none
Official no. : 23514
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1868, Ira Lafrinier, Cleveland
Specs : 135x26x11, 435 t.
Date of loss : 1881, Jan 30
Place of loss : 8 mi NNE of Milwaukee
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : ice
Loss of life : none of 27*
Carrying : general merchandise, flour, cattle
Detail : She rammed a cake of ice, which filled the hole it had made in her hull. She rushed for shore, but as the ice melted, the vessel filled and sank. Bound Milwaukee for Ludington, she was a total loss of $35,000. She was a Northern Transportation Co. boat serving small Lake Michigan ports out of Grand Haven. Master: Capt. E. D. Casey.
*local reports from Ludington say one crewman was lost.
Sources : hgl,nsp,mv,lmdc,usls,mpl,bb,lt
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ST. ANDREW
Other names : built as steamer W.B. HALL, renamed, 1896
Official no. : C96094
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1885, L. Shickluna, St. Catharines Ont.
Specs : 193x31x13, 1113g 722n
Date of loss : 1900, Sep 21
Place of loss : S. side of Bachand I., 80 mi NE Port Arthur
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : stranded
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : She ran aground on a shoal, damaging her bottom. After the crew escaped, the vessel slid off into deeper water the next day. She had been bound Jackfish Pt. for Fort William to pick up a cargo of wheat for Kingston. Owned by Playfair & Co. of Midland, Ont. and by her skipper, Capt. Featherstonehaugh.
Wrecked in Georgian Bay in 1896 and rebuilt.
Originally 158×28 ft, lengthened, 1897
Sources : ns1,csv,is(1-71),gwgl,lss,nsp,win,mpl,do not in mmgl as ST.
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ST. ANDREWS
Other names : also seen as ST. ANDREW*
Official no. : 22416
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1857, Merry & Gay, Milan, OH as a 2-mast schooner
Specs : 143x31x13, 475 gt.
Date of loss : 1878, Jun 26
Place of loss : 11.4 mi, 124 deg. from Mackinac Pt., Straits
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 27,480 bu. corn
Detail : She collided with schooner PESHTIGO(qv), falling over on her and foundering. Both vessels sank. The collision occurred at night, while ST. ANDREW was bound Chicago for Buffalo. Both crews were picked up by the schooner S. V. R. WATSON. Owned by McMorran & Fitzgerald, Port Huron. Master: Capt. Peter Lynch.
Document not surrendered until 1887.
rebuilt, 1874-5 and enlarged – tonnage when built: 322 t.
*listed both ways in Merchant Vessels of the U.S.
Sources : ssm,hgl,slh,lhdc,is,es,nsp
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ST. ANDREWS
Other names : also seen as ST. ANDREW
Official no. : C75645
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1856, L. Shickluna, St. Catharines
Specs : 116x23x11, 214gc 202nc
Date of loss : 1882, Sep 11 (Sep 21 also given, in error)
Place of loss : 10 mi offshore, S of Big Creek, Ont., 10 mi S of New Cut light
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 14,000 bu wheat
Detail : She sprung a leak in a storm while bound Toledo for Kingston. Her skipper attempted to run her for shore, but she sank in 60 feet of water. Registered out of St. Catharines, owned by Shickluna
Rebuilt in 1869
Sources : win,hgl,mmgl,h,lhdc,eas,rp,wl,es,nsp
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ST. ANTHONY
Other names : ?
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : ?(1856, Erie, PA – sister of schr ST. PAUL)
Specs : ?
Date of loss : 1856, Oct (28)
Place of loss : off Goderich
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : wheat
Detail : She was driven ashore and wrecked, her bottom ripped out. As of late November thoughts were still entertained that she could be saved, but there is no evidence that she sailed again. Loss on hull and cargo: $36,000. The wrecking tug FASHION was reportedly destroyed in another storm while going to her assistance. Master: Capt. Hiram Blood. Owner: Gen. C. M. Read.
Sources : slh,hgl,(nsp),ctw,wmn,blu[1856] not in mmgl
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ST. CLAIR
Other names : none (see below)
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1843, Gooding, Detroit
Specs : 140x19x8, 210 t.
Date of loss : 1850, Aug 5
Place of loss : unreported
Lake : unreported
Type of loss : (burned)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Reported as lost on this date, no detail.
Rebuilt from the hull of the steamer SAGINAW/RHODE ISLAND, blt 1837 at Sandusky.
(Note: This reported loss date is 3 days BEFORE she was enrolled at Detroit by J. Watkin.)
Sources : www,lhl,hdm,mhgl,hr
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ST. CLAIR
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1820, Newport, MI
Specs : 30 t.
Date of loss : 1855, Oct (18)
Place of loss : off Pte Aux Barques, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : “sunk”
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : in ballast
Detail : no detail – reported by the steamer SAM WARD as sunk. Property loss: $2,000.
Sources : slh,hgl,nsp,wmn
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ST. CLAIR
Other names : none
Official no. : 23109
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight “steambarge” with some passenger accommodations
Build info : 1867, J. Bushnell, Algonac, MI
Specs : 127x26x10, 326 g.
Date of loss : 1876, Jul 9
Place of loss : off 14-mile Pt., near Ontonagon, MI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : 26 of 31 or 32
Carrying : passengers,cattle,merchandise
Detail : Bound Ontonogon for Houghton, she caught fire near her boiler and burned to the waterline. Most of the victims drowned in the icy lake after her one tiny lifeboat swamped several times. Vessel was a woodburner with a history of fires. Owned by Capt. Eber Ward of Detroit . Master: Capt. Robert Rhyneas..
Sources : phr,hgl,sol,is,lhl,lss,nsp,usls,es,df,eas,jb,bb
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ST. CLAIR
Other names : none
Official no. : 57106
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1859, A. Cantin, Montreal, P.Q. as a bark
Specs : 156x26x5, 296g., 272n
Date of loss : 1888, Oct 1
Place of loss : off Harbor Beach
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 5 of 7
Carrying : coal
Detail : Part of a 5-barge tow of tug CHAMPION, she broke loose and came to anchor off Harbor Beach. She finally dragged in and sank near the mouth of harbor. The crewmen died when the U.S. Lifesavers surf boat capsized in the breakers after a 23-mile pull to Port Sanilac. The hulk was later lightered, raised and towed out into the lake and resunk. Master: Capt. C. H. Jones(d). Owned by C. R. Westcott, Marine City.
Often reported as having been built on the Saginaw R., but only rebuilt there in 1874, probably sold US at that time.
Sources : polk,hgl,phr,sol,slh,h,lhdc,nsp,sb,rep,mpl,eas
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ST. IGNACE
Other names : none
Official no. : 57924
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1882, Sturgeon Bay, Wis
Specs : 238g 238n
Date of loss : 1894, Nov 9*
Place of loss : between Grand Haven and Milwaukee
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : bricks
Detail : Capsized and foundered in a gale. Out of Grand Haven, MI
*Date also given in error as Nov 9, 1879.
Sources : hgl,h,nsp,wbm,bb,usls,mv
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ST. IGNACE
Other names : none
Official no. : C134017
Type at loss : propeller, wood, wrecker and ice-breaker
Build info : 1888, Detroit Dry Dock, Detroit [US# 116191] hull# 85
Specs : 220x52x16, 1476 t.
Date of loss : 1916, Aug 30
Place of loss : in harbor at Port Arthur [Thunder Bay], Ont.
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She burned to total loss at Western Drydock & Shipbuilding’s Co. dock. In advance of the fire there was a rumor afoot that she had been sold to the unpopular Russian government, but it was denied by officials.
Built as a wooden carferry and reportedly used on Lake Michigan as such..
Sold Canadian, 1915.
Sources : csv,mv,mmgl,atl,is,mpl,wmn
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ST. JAMES
Other names : none
Official no. : 22417
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1856, Merry & Gay, Milan, Oh
Specs : 118x25x11, 227 gt
Date of loss : 1870, Oct. (24)
Place of loss : 20 mi N of Erie, Pa
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : unknown
Loss of life : 7
Carrying : 14,000 bu wheat
Detail : Left Toledo, bound for Oswego, NY, Oct. 23, and never arrived at Port Colborne and the Welland Canal. The cause of her loss has never been determined. When she was found in 165 ft of water, her rigging showed sails were still up at the time she went down, so she was probably NOT destroyed by a storm. No general storm was going on at the time. Out of Erie.
She was located in 1984 and identified early in 1999.
Sources : svi,mv,hgl,ec,ewe
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ST. JOSEPH – See FRANK B. STEVENS
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ST. JOSEPH
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : propeller, wood
Build info : 1846, J.W. Banta, Buffalo
Specs : 170x27x11, 460 t.
Date of loss : 1856, Nov 10
Place of loss : near Fairport, OH
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : merchandise
Detail : Stranded and a total loss of $46,000, vessel and cargo.
Owned by Western Transportation Co.
Sources : lhl,hgl,wl,eas,ctw,blu[56]
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ST. JOSEPH
Other names : ?
Official no. : C ?
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : ?
Specs : 70 t.
Date of loss : 1875, Nov 8
Place of loss : S end of Chantry isl.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Stranded and wrecked.
Registered out of Kincardine.
Sources : win,slh,h, not in clu,mmgl
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ST. JOSEPH
Other names : none
Official no. : 57210
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1852, Duba, Hamtramck, Mich
Specs : 91x22x7, 60 t.
Date of loss : 1877, mid-Oct
Place of loss : near Beach Island
Lake : St. Clair
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : ?
Detail : She collided with and was sunk by the schooner AMERICA. By the 23rd she was reported “Stripped and abandoned, her cargo taken out,” a total loss.
Rebuilt and enlarged after 1866 – originally 75 ft.
Sources : nsp,wmn,bb,mv
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ST. JOSEPH
Other names : none
Official no. : C77713
Type at loss : scow-barge, wood
Build info : 1868, Toledo US# 57210
Specs : 91x22x7, 85gc 85nc
Date of loss : 1883, Oct 31*
Place of loss : Lake St. Clair
Lake : St. Clair
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Foundered.
Sold Canadian in 1879, reg out of Wallaceburg or Dresden
*Date also given as 11/30/1884.
Another scow of this name, b. J. Reno, 1859 at Belle R., 50x15x4, 28t, was lost on L. St. Clair in 1880 or 81.
Sources : win,polk,mv,h,mmgl
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ST. LAWRENCE
Other names : ?
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : ?
Specs : 140 t.
Date of loss : 1838, Aug
Place of loss : near Oak Orchard, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : She capsized and sank in storm.
Sources : is not in mmgl
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ST. LAWRENCE
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : barge, wood
Build info : 1853, F. N Jones, Buffalo as a passenger steamer
Specs : 327x40x14, 1844 t. [as a steamer]
Date of loss : 1862, Oct 6
Place of loss : at Buffalo
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 1,000,000 bd ft lumber, staves
Detail : She was being towed into the harbor by the tug MAGNET(qv) when she sheered off and struck the breakwater. Then the stern of the crippled vessel was run into by the outbound bark FAME(qv) and she was spun around so that she sank directly across the channel. She blockaded the harbor for several days until she was finally dragged deeper into the harbor by the tug ANNA C. DOBBINS(qv). This was her first trip as a barge. She was out of Bay City.
She apparently laid sunken and idle in the Blackwell Canal, Buffalo, for a number of years before being converted to a barge in 1862.
Sources : hgl,wmn,bb,lhl
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ST. LAWRENCE
Other names : none
Official no. : 22584
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1842, G. Barber, Clayton, NY
Specs : 93x20x8, 111 t. [134 t. om]
Date of loss : 1878, Apr 30
Place of loss : well out in the lake off Milwaukee
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : 2 of 5
Carrying : timber
Detail : When abreast of Milwaukee she caught fire from the boiling over of a kettle of pitch which was being melted on the galley stove. The fire progressed so rapidly that the crew had no time to shorten sail before abandoning, and, with the ship underway, the lifeboat capsized as soon as hitting the water, drowning the captain and a passenger. The rest of the crew was rescued by the schooner GRANADA. When last seen the blazing vessel was 25-30 miles SE of Milwaukee. Owned by her skipper, Capt. M. Larkins(d), his wife and a partner and was out of Ahnapee, WI
Rebuilt in 1853
Sources : ge,mv,rsl,sip,nsp,wls
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ST. LAWRENCE
Other names : none
Official no. : 116331
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1890, W. Morley, Marine City, MI
Specs : 239x41x20, 1437g 1030n
Date of loss : 1898, Nov 25
Place of loss : 2 mi S. of Pt. Betsie light
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : 64,000 bu. corn
Detail : She drove ashore and wrecked in a storm and fog, unable to hear the light’s steam whistle due to the ferocity of the storm. The Lifesaving Service crew fired a line at the sound of the ship’s whistle in a blinding gale. Their accuracy was amazing as the line became entagled in the whistle cord, so that when the lifesavers pulled the line, it blew the unseen ship’s whistle. Ship’s crew then discovered the line and were rescued. Registered out of Port Huron and owned by Morley & Hill, Marine City. Master: Capt. A. H. Senghas (lost on str JOHN B. LYON in 1900). After unceasing efforts to save her, she was reported broken up in a storm Dec 9. However, a wrecking company from Muskegon was able to pull her off and tow her to that port in June of the following year. Her engine was rebuilt, but there is no evidence that the boat ever ran again.
Image of her grounded with tug FAVORITE attending – GLMD
Sources : phr,(hgl*),is(4-67),h,mv,hs,nsp,mpl *erroneous info
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ST. LAWRENCE
Other names : none
Official no. : 22348
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1863, Quayle & Martin, Cleveland
Specs : 137x26x12, 281g 267n
Date of loss : 1900, Nov 21
Place of loss : near Lorain, OH
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 600 t. coal
Detail : Bound Amherstburg from Cleveland with coal, she was driven ashore by a gale and wrecked while trying to make it into Lorain harbor for shelter. Sh quickly became a total loss.The captain, his wife and 3 children made it to shore in her yawl; the other 4 crew were rescued from her rigging by Lifesaving Service. Capt. John D. Baker of Detroit, the owner and master was censured in the press for bringing his family on such a rickety craft in Nov.
Rebuilt, 1876
Sources : hgl,mv,ns1,h,nsp,eas,ew
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ST. LOUIS
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1844, Sam’l Hubbell, Perrysburg, OH
Specs : 190x27x12, 618 t. om
Date of loss : 1852, Nov 7
Place of loss : off Kelley’s Isl.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : passengers, misc. freight, rr cars
Detail : Stranded and sank in gale on Kelley’s Island Shoal. Her crew and passengers were later rescued by the passenger steamer NORTHERN INDIANA. The hulk was later burned, after its engine had been removed. Boiler is still on the site. Owned by Eber & Sam’l Ward, Newport, Mich. Master: Capt. C. H. Ludlow.
Four lives were lost when she was washed by a huge wave off Dunkirk, NY, in a storm in October, 1844.
Wreck located in 1964.
Sources : hgl,sol,ledc,less,lc,lhl,mpl,wl,eas,ew,rnc,ski
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ST. LOUIS
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : brig, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1848, Buffalo, NY [also seen as Kalamazoo R., MI]
Specs : 114x25x9, 211 t. om
Date of loss : 1860, Aug 30
Place of loss : just W of Erie, PA
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : Upbound, she was caught in a squall and driven on the beach, a total loss. Owned by her skipper.
Sources : nsp,hgl
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ST. LOUIS
Other names : none
Official no. : C75636
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1877, L. Shickluna, St, Catharines, Ont. as a bark
Specs : 128x26x12, 360g/n
Date of loss : 1926, May 26
Place of loss : at Kingston, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : She burned at her dock, either by accident or perhaps in lieu of scrapping.
One of the last operating sail vessels on the lakes when lost. Registered out of Kingston.
Sources : ns3,polk,hgl,is(2-90),mmgl,osdo,mpl
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ST. MAGNUS
Other names : later MAGNOLIA(1898) and LUCKPORT(!)(1919)
Official no. : C77693
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1880, A. Robertson, Hamilton, Ont.
Specs : 180×28 853 t.
Date of loss : 1895, Jun 7
Place of loss : Cuyahoga, OH & Port Dalhousie, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : capsized/fire
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : wire, pig iron
Detail : She capsized and sank at her dock while loading. She was soon raised and towed to drydock at Hamilton. While there she caught fire and burned to a near-total loss (Sep 7, 1895). Master: Capt. Becker(d). Later rebuilt, renumbered (C103690)* and renamed MAGNOLIA. See LUCKPORT for more.
Wallace list: May have been built on hull of R.W. STANDLEY.
*by being renumbered, she technically became a new vessel.
Image from HCGL, as sunk at Cleveland
Sources : hgl,csv,ns4,nsp,mmgl,is,sol,win,mpl,eas
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ST. MARIES
Other names : also seen as STE. MARIES & STE. MARIE in error
Official no. : 115473
Type at loss : propeller,wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1875, L.P. Trempe, Sugar Isl., MI
Specs : 97x19x5, 132g 84n
Date of loss : 1892, Aug 30
Place of loss : near Sturgeon Pt., Mich.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : She caught fire offshore and burned to a total loss. She had been bound St. Clair, MI to Harrisville, MI. Document surrendered at Port Huron Sep 5, 1892, annotated “burned 8/30/92.”
Sank 4 mi SE of Sturgeon Pt., L. Huron in 1888 and recovered.
Out of Port Huron
Sources : polk,hgl,mv,slh,h,phr,mpl,usls
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ST. MARY
Other names : none
Official no. : 22556
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1857, G. Notter & C. VanSlyke, Buffalo
Specs : 64x15x7, 36g
Date of loss : 1885, Dec 1
Place of loss : off Glen Haven, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She burned to a total loss at the dock and sank. Owned by Banks & Sutherland of Port Sherman, Mich., out of Frankfort. Master: Capt. Sutherland.
Suffered another major fire at Grand Haven in 1863.
Rebuilt, 1869, 82
Sources : lhl,polk,hgl,mv,sb,nsp,nb,wl
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ST. MARYS
Other names : also seen as ST. MARY
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1848, Perrysburg, Oh
Specs : 253 t.
Date of loss : 1860, Sep 7
Place of loss : off Winetka, Il
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 7 [all]
Carrying : pig iron
Detail : She foundered the same night and in the vicinty of the LADY ELGIN, but was overlooked until a few weeks later when a body thought to be from the steamer was identified as a member of her crew. Her lifeboat washed ashore just north of Chicago on the 23rd. Wreck located in 1995, in 120 feet of water.
Sources : rnc,hgl,wl,bb,rnc,wgts
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ST. NICHOLAS
Other names : none
Official no. : C33486
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk & package freight
Build info : 1853, J. Andrews, Cape Vincent, NY
Specs : 129x24x11, 372gt 115nt
Date of loss : 1857, Nov 23
Place of loss : Sleeping Bear Bay
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : 10,000 bu wheat
Detail : Bound Chicago for Kingston, she became waterlogged in a storm and was driven onto the beach, where she broke up. Out of Hamilton, Ont. Master: Capt. May.
Officially abandoned in Feb, 1858.
Built for the Bancroft Line, running between Cape Vincent & Detroit. Sold Canadian in 1855
Sources : lhl,csv,hgl,mmgl,sb,nb,nsp,rnc
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ST. PAUL – See also PFOHL, VEGA
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ST. PAUL
Other names : renamed PFOHL in 1901
Official no. : 23755
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1868, Arnold, Marine City, MI as a passenger prop
Specs : 203x31x21, 760g 525n
Date of loss : 1900, Nov 26
Place of loss : 4 mi off Alpena
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal, towing schr J. I. CASE
Detail : She caught fire offshore. After the fire was brought under control, she was towed in and settled near the mouth of Thunder Bay R. Owned by the Corrigan fleet, Cleveland. Declared a total loss, but later recovered by F.W. Fletcher of Alpena, rebuilt and put back in service as PFOHL (qv). Later burned at Goderich, Ont. [1903]
Several lives lost in a fire on her in 1883 at Detroit.
Rebuilt 1882, major repairs in 1884.
Sources : polk,nsp,hgl,usls
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ST. PETER
Other names : none
Official no. : 23516
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1868, P. Perry, New Baltimore, MI
Specs : 90x24x9, 120 t.
Date of loss : 1874, May 5
Place of loss : 35 mi NE of Milwaukee
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : hull failure
Loss of life : none
Carrying : wheat or corn
Detail : She sprang a leak and by the time it was discovered, it was too late to save her. Her crew abandoned in her yawl and pulled 35 miles to Milwaukee. Owned and sailed by Capt. G. W. Flood, Chicago.
Bound Toledo for Cleveland in Nov, 1869, she hit bottom and began to leak so profusely that her skipper put her in the shallows near Green Island, where she capsized and sank in 25 feet of water. Thought to be a total loss, but later recovered.
Sources : nsp,hgl,mv,mdwl,wmn,whs
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ST. PETER
Other names : none
Official no. : 115232
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1873, Edwards, Toledo, OH
Specs : 136x26x12, 290g 275n
Date of loss : 1898, Oct 27
Place of loss : 5 mi NW of Sodus, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 8 of 9
Carrying : coal
Detail : After having lost her rudder in a gale and having drifting about 15 miles, she lost her fight and foundered in 104 feet of water. Lifesavers from Sodus Point made it to within a mile of her on the tug PROCTOR when she turned turtle and sank. Her skipper was the only survivor, while his wife was among the lost. Out of Toledo and bound there from Oswego. Master: Capt. John Griffin, was also part owner.
A good portion of her remains were recovered in 1971 and now form the basis of the marine collection in a museum in Pultneyville, NY.
Major repair in 1882
Sources : mv,polk,nsp,is(4-71),sol,osdo,win,hgl
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SALINA
Other names : built as British [Canadian] schooner CATHERINE or CATHARINE; soon sold American and renamed
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1809, Alexander McIntosh, Moy, Ont.*
Specs : ? [few commercial vessels of this era exceeded 75 tons]
Date of loss : 1813, late winter
Place of loss : 9-10 mi off Erie, Pa
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : war loss
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ships’ running gear and sails
Detail : The American cargo vessel had been captured at Mackinac by the British in 1812 [along with the schooner MARY and the sloops ERIE and FRIEND’s GOOD WILL] and her skipper, the famous Capt. Daniel Dobbins, imprisoned. When Detroit fell, Dobbins was released or escaped and soon was helping build a naval shipyard at Erie. In the winter of 1812-13 the British , who were attempting to rerig captured American warships at Amherstburg, sent the SALINA to Port Dover, C.W. for new masts, sails and rigging for the brig DETROIT [ex-ADAMS]. On the return trip the SALINA became locked in a field of ice floes near Ft. Malden, was abandoned by her crew, and wound up drifting with the ice to a point 9 or 10 miles off Erie. Capt. Dobbins seized the opportunity and led a party to loot her of her valuable cargo and burn the vessel which he had once commanded. Later the same winter the hulk may have been stripped of her ironwork (nails, etc.) for use in building other American warships.
*Moy was a small village just north of Windsor, Ont. The boat was purchased shortly after building by American Capts Dobbins and R. S. Reed of Erie, Pa.
Sources : jk,wl,jow,sv,hgl
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SALINA
Other names : none
Official no. : 23106
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger & freight
Build info : 1866, D. Lester, Marine City
Specs : 131x26x11, 212g 146n
Date of loss : 1896, Jan 1
Place of loss : 3 mi below Marine City, Mich.
Lake : St Clair R
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : merchandise
Detail : Bound for Marine City from Detroit, she caught fire and was beached near Roberts Landing. Despite the efforts of her crew, she burned to a total loss of $12,000. Her owners were about to lay her up and so had let her insurance lapse. Owned by J. C. Miller, her skipper Capt. Wm. Tomlin and her engineer Herbert Marion, all of Marine City. All 3 were aboard at the time of the fire.
She was reported to have been the second purpose-built steam-barge built on the lakes, after the steamer TRADER (qv).
Seriously damaged in collision with schooner LIZZIE A LAW on the Saginaw River in 1895.
Rebuilt, 1882,1895
Sources : phr,polk,mv,hgl,slh,lhl,nsp,jb,nsp
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SALT LAKE CITY – See CHESTER A. CONGDON
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SALTILLO
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1847, Sackett’s Harbor, NY as a brig
Specs : 240 t.
Date of loss : 1853, Nov 25
Place of loss : at Sarnia, Ont.
Lake : St Clair R
Type of loss : storm/collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : RR rails,coal
Detail : She was upbound for Chicago. While attempting to shelter in the mouth of the river, she was blown into the schooner HENRY HAGER and sank. Homeport at Chicago, owned by J. R. Hagunin of Port Huron
There is some question as to whether she actually contained her stated cargo of railroad iron. Serious salvage operations {using “diving armor” and diving bells} beginning in 1869 and continuing into 1876 were unable to find any rails.
Also sunk in a collision on L St. Clair on her 1st voyage [1847] and again on St. Clair R. earlier in 1853.
Sources : nsp,hgl,st,eas,wmhs
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SALVOR
Other names : built as tug GEORGE H. PARKER, renamed in 1898
Official no. : C74061*
Type at loss : propeller, wood, salvage tug
Build info : 1861, J. Stupinski, Detroit
Specs : 106x21x12, 126 cg
Date of loss : 1918, Jun 11, **
Place of loss : 7 mi off South Bay, Manitoulin Isl.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 14
Carrying : (none)
Detail : Bound Port Huron for French River, Ont. to meet the tug SARNIA CITY and pick up a log raft for Sarnia, Ont, she foundered in a storm. Her crewmen made their way to shore in a desolate area and built a large beach fire. They were found the next morning and received succor from the local inhabitants. Recently purchased by the famous Reid Wrecking and Towing Co., Sarnia, Ont. This was to be her first job in her current incarnation as a Reid tug. Reid’s may have owned her earlier, as well. Master: Capt. Barney Morgan.
**loss date given in official records and newspapers as June 11, but August 13 is given by one of her crewmen. Date also reported as Sep 11.
Sold Canadian 1877, resold U.S. 1892 (US# 10242) , resold Canadian 1903. Mills list says “on and off Canadian register three times.”
After being condemned in about 1887, she was purchased by Abraham Smith of Algonac and rebuilt and re-engined, but Smith was unable to find a buyer for her and she lay idle at Detroit for five years.
Rebuilt at Bay City in 1898 after burning at Harbor Springs, Mich., in October, 1897.
*May have been renumbered [C116395] in 1904
Poem from crewmember
Sources : csv,mv,polk,mmgl,slh,jtd,nsp,wl,hcgl
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SALVOR
Other names : built as TURRET CHIEF, VICKERSTOWN(1915), JOLLY INEZ(1918), last name in 1928.
Official no. : 170538
Type at loss : barge steel, bulk freight [former “turret steamer”]
Build info : 1896, Doxford & Sons, Sunderland, Eng. hull# 248 (C106605)
Specs : 253x45x27, 1881 t.
Date of loss : 1930, Sep 26
Place of loss : N of Muskegon, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 5 [all]
Carrying : stone
Detail : Tow of the tug FITZGERALD, she broke loose and foundered in a gale.
Served as an ocean-going transport in WW I.
Used as a stone-hauler and wrecker durin g her career.
Converted to barge by Durocher at Detour, MI after stranding on Saddlebag Isl., Lake Huron in 1928. Came into US registry when completed in 1930.
Image as TURRET CHIEF from GLMD
Sources : csv,ns4,gs,sol,is,h,lmdc,eas,glmd
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SALVUS – See LAMBTON
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SAMANA
Other names : built as DANE, renamed in 1873*; often seen as SAMARA
Official no. : 115202
Type at loss : schooner, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1857, Asa Wilcox, Three Mile Bay
Specs : 137x26x11, 287g 273n [143 feet overall]
Date of loss : 1892, Oct 29
Place of loss : Cleveland harbor
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 5
Carrying : coal
Detail : After breasting a storm for several hours, she ran back to Cleveland to shelter. She went out of control while coming in and struck a dock, then sank and went to pieces quickly at the foot of Dodge St. Her crew jumped onto the dock as she hit.
Named for the Bay of Samana, Island of Santo Domingo
Heavily damaged in a gale near Port Colborne in Nov, 1879.
*Thoroughly rebuilt by A. Miller & Co., Oswego, in 1873 after wrecking in 1871. The rebuild was so complete that she was registered as a new vessel, an unusual occurence. Earlier registration number as DANE: US#6326
Image of vessel ashore from GLMD
Sources : polk,mv,osdo,h,ledc,phr,wb,hgl,usls,rp,nsp,wmn,wmhs
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MAUD SAMMONS
Other names : none
Official no. : 90790
Type at loss : propeller, wood fish tug
Build info : 1874, Cheboygan, Mich
Specs : 37x9x8, 18g 9n
Date of loss : 1890, Dec 1
Place of loss : near St Helena Is., Straits of Mackinac
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Burned to a total loss. Not officially abandoned until 1906.
Sources : mv,hr,wmhs,
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SAMOA
Other names : built as steamer THOMAS W. PALMER, last name in 1889
Official no. : 145513
Type at loss : propeller, composite, bulk freight
Build info : 1880, Detroit Dry Dock, Wyandotte, MI hull# 90
Specs : 281x41x20, 2134g 1622n
Date of loss : 1909, Sep 21
Place of loss : Torch Lake, Portage ship canal
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : copper sand
Detail : While attempting to shelter from a thunderstorm in the lake, she was struck by lightning, caught fire and burned to the waterline.
Owned by Capt. H. Baker, Detroit
Sunk in the Brockville Narrows, St. Lawrence R. in July, 1896, after striking bottom.
Sister of MANCHESTER and JOHN OWEN(qv). MANCHESTER was not scrapped until 1959, last of the “composite” vessels.
Sources : mv,is,atl,ns1,gwgl,lss,nsp,hcgl
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SAMPSON – former entry (1889) removed; probably misreporting of the wrecking of the tug SAMPSON by ice in 1880 (subsequently recovered)
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SAMPSON
Other names :
Official no. : 164285
Type at loss : scow-barge, wood
Build info : 1901, Saginaw, Mich
Specs : 235 g 235 n
Date of loss : 1914, Jun 19
Place of loss : N of Pigeon R., Saginaw Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : stranded
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Total loss, no detail. Document surrendered at Port Huron Nov 17, 1914.
1915 mvus gives date of loss as Jan 19, 1914
Sources : phr,eas,mv,wmhs
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SAMSON
Other names : also seen as SAMPSON
Official no. : 22381
Type at loss : propeller tug, wood
Build info : 1843, R & J Hollister, Perrysburg, Oh as a passenger/package freight steamer
Specs : 134x25x8, 250 t. [om]
Date of loss : 1875, Nov 29
Place of loss : old river bed, Cleveland
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : none
Detail : Burned to a loss of $15,000. Declared a total loss, but raised the following year and lasted to at least 1889.
Stranded and supposed lost in a general gale of Nov 12, 1852 that caused damage to over 50 vessels. She went ashore right opposite Bidwell & Banta’s shipyard. She had just finished being repaired at Erie, Pa, the previous day.
Rebuilt, 1866, at Detroit
Sources : nsp,wl,mv,hgl,lhl,wl,eas,nsp,rnc
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SAMSON
Other names : none
Official no. : C
Type at loss : barge, wood
Build info : 1873, J. O’Leary, Wallaceburg
Specs : 81x21x4, 52 t.
Date of loss : 1879, Apr 25
Place of loss : near the head of Belle Isle
Lake : Detroit R.
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 100 cords wood
Detail : In tow of the small tug COMET, she caught fire from a spark from the tug’s stack while bound for Detroit. She was abandoned by the tug and burned to a total loss. Owned by McRae of Wallaceburg.
Perhaps LADY SAMSON – b.1873, J. Johnson, Wilkesport, Ont., 95x25x4. Disappears off NAC records in late 70’s.
Sources : slh,mmgl,nsp,wmn
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SAN JACINTO
Other names : none
Official no. : 22352
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1856, B.B. Jones, Buffalo
Specs : 130x28x11, 266 gt.
Date of loss : 1881, May 12*
Place of loss : 8 mi NW of Cove Island, Georgian Bay (also given as South Baymouth)
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fog
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 17,000 bu corn
Detail : Bound Milwaukee for Collingwood, she struck a rock and foundered in fog, going down in five fathoms of water. Owned by O. B. Mullen, Chicago
*date also given as Nov 12, Jun 20. May date is from contemporary newspaper account.
Heavy damage in a collision in 1862. Rebuilt in 1871, also after a wreck at Sheboygan.
Sources : do2,h,win,hgl,bb,nsp,wmn
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SAND MERCHANT
Other names : none
Official no. : C153443
Type at loss : propeller, steel, bulk freight “sandsucker”
Build info : 1927, Collingwood Shipbuilding, Collingwood, Ont. hull# 79
Specs : 252x44x20, 1981 t.
Date of loss : 1936, Oct 17
Place of loss : off Avon Pt., 13 miles E of Cleveland
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 19 of 25
Carrying : sand
Detail : She capsized and sank in a storm. An inquiry determined that her heavy sandsucking gear on deck contributed to her instability. Owned by National Sand & Metal, Toronto.
Sources : ns4,csv,win,mmgl,s,smgl,sol,is,h,ledc,ew
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SANDERS – See SAUNDERS
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WILLIAM SANDERSON
Other names : none
Official no. : 26562
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1856, Goble & Crockett, Oswego, NY
Specs : 136x25x7, 385g 307n
Date of loss : 1874, Nov 22 or 23
Place of loss : off Empire, MI, near Sleeping Bear
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 7-10 [all]
Carrying : 20,000 bu. wheat
Detail : She left Chicago the 20th, bound for Oswego. Along the way she encountered a storm and was broken up offshore. Inquiries were made for days as to her whereabouts when she didn’t show up at Detroit. Her wreckage washed up on the 26th with her yawlboat still in the davits, but no trace was ever found of her crew. Master: Capt. John C. Brown(d).
1874 was a year of disastrous luck for her. She was ashore and heavily damaged near White Rock, Mich, Lake Huron, in August, and her captain was knocked overboard by a boom and drowned in early October.
Also sunk on Lake Ont. in 1871.
Rebuilt in the winter of 1873-4, and in 1868
Sources : ssb,hgl,tel,osdo,nb,es,nsp,bb,rp
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SANDI-PAT
Other names : also seen as SANDY PAT
Official no. : C172141
Type at loss : propeller tug, (steel), fishing
Build info : 1944, Port Dover, Ont
Specs : 47x13x5, 11 t.
Date of loss : 1969, Dec 3
Place of loss : Off Pte Aux Pins (or Erie, PA)
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : “sank”
Loss of life : 2
Carrying : none
Detail : She foundered, a total loss while trying to mke the harbor at Erieau, Ontario. After she first became disabled, fellow tug DONNA F attempted to tow her in, but she sank enroute. She was hauled to the surface early the following January, but there was no trace of her two missing teenaged crewmen. Master: Capt. Charles Bell.
Sources : win,is(1-70),ledc,bb,gn
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SANDUSKY
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : bark or barge, wood, 3-mast [salvage vessel]
Build info : 1834, F. Church, Sandusky, OH as a sidewheeler
Specs : 148x26x10 370 t.*
Date of loss : 1844, Oct 2
Place of loss : E of Long Point, near Cattaraugus
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : gear
Detail : Lost in a gale while attempting to salvage the engine from the wrecked steamer ERIE. She was a loss of $4,000. Master: Capt. J. Day.
She caught fire at her dock on Buffalo Creek, Buffalo, and burned to the hull, Feb 23, 1843. Recovered and rebuilt as this bark.
Ashore near Sandusky in December, 1836.
* she was 377 t. as a steamer.
Sources : www,hgl,is(1-67),le,lhl,nsp,bb,jm,wmhs,wmn
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SANDUSKY
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : brig, wood, 2-mast*
Build info : 1848, D. Dibble, Sandusky
Specs : 110x26x9, 226 t.
Date of loss : 1856, Sep 18
Place of loss : 5mi, 280 deg. from Old Mackinac Pt., Straits
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 7 [all]
Carrying : grain
Detail : Bound Chicago for Buffalo, she sank with her masts emerging. Her crew cimbed up, but none of the several vessels who saw them were able to assist. She was a total loss of $18,000. The wreck was located in 1985.
Ashore on Long Point, Lake Erie, and sunk in October, 1848.
*also described as a bark
Sources : www,hgl,ssm,slh,glss,dm,eas,blu[1856]
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SANDUSKY
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : propeller, wood
Build info : 1853, Geo. S. Weeks, Buffalo
Specs : 139x25x11, 370 t.
Date of loss : 1857, Oct
Place of loss : near Conneaut, OH
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : flour & merchandise
Detail : Burned to a total loss. She had gone ashore there in November of the previous year, and had probably never been removed before she was burned. Owner: American Transportaion Co., Buffalo. Master: probably Capt. John T. Douglas.
Sources : sol,lhl,hgl,nsp,rnc,wmn,blu[1856]
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SANDY HOOK – See GERALDINE BATTLE
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SANDY PAT – See SANDI-PAT
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SANTIAGO
Other names : none
Official no. : 116893
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1899, J. Davidson, W. Bay City hull# 90
Specs : 324x46x22, 2600g 2525n
Date of loss : 1918, Sep 10
Place of loss : 14 mi off Pte Aux Barques
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 19
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : She was the tow of the steamer JOHN F. MORROW when she swamped and sank in a gale. MORROW took her crew off while passenger steamer CITY OF ALPENA II stood by with her seachlight illuminating the nightime scene. MORROW ran right up against the barge’s stern in heavy seas to rescue her crew. Owner: J. J. Boland, Cleveland
Sources : mod,mv,nsp,slh,sbs,vbs,ns2,lhdc,mpl,eas
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SAPPHO
Other names : none
Official no. : 115328
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger ferry
Build info : 1883, Detroit Dry Dock, Wyandotte hull# 63
Specs : 107×32*x11, 224g 154n
Date of loss : 1929, Feb 21
Place of loss : Ecorse, MI
Lake : Detroit R
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She burned at her winter layup dock after 46 years of cross-river trips. She was considered obsolescent due to the impending completion of the Ambassador Bridge, so she was neither repaired nor replaced. Owned by Detroit and Windsor Ferry Co.
The boat was built at the expressed wish of distiller Hiram Walker, who commuted every day from his home in Detroit to his large distillery complex at Walkerville, near Windsor, Ont.
*45 ft extreme width.
Sources : polk,mv,ns3,atl,sol,is,hdm,eas,jb,nsp
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SARAH
Other names : built as LAURA EMMA, renamed in 1882
Official no. : C71136
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1861, Panton, Port Burwell
Specs : 73x19x7, 65gc 65nc
Date of loss : 1906, Nov 28
Place of loss : E side of Burke Isl., Fishing Islands
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : ice
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ? [probably light]
Detail : She was caught in an ice floe on a late-season run and was soon abandoned by her crew, who struggled for hours to get her yawl across the ice. As the season progressed, she was crushed by the ice and sank. She had been on her way back to Howdenvale to lay up. Skippered and owned by Robert Reid, Howdenvale, Ont
Rebuilt, 1864 and again in 1871 by John Galt, Port Dover, Ont
Sources : do,mmgl,clu,wmn
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SARATOGA
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1837, Cleveland
Specs : 150 t.
Date of loss : 1851, Oct 23
Place of loss : just above Long Point
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : 3 of 7
Carrying : 8,000 bu. corn
Detail : In heavy weather, the schooner cut through a line of 3 steamers, the second of which, BUCKEYE STATE, rammed her on her starboard side aft. The schooner sank with three of her crew, while the others clung to her spars and rigging and were picked up by the BUCKEYE. Master: Capt. Spence.
hgl shows a vessel of this name ashore on L. Erie in 1838 and sunk by a collision in 1847 with 4 lives lost.
Sources : hgl,wmn,wmhs,bb
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SARATOGA
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1846, Sanford & Moses, Cleveland, OH
Specs : 199x29x12, 661 t.
Date of loss : 1854, Jul 29
Place of loss : near Port Burwell, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : She was lying at a dock when a storm blew in and thumped her seams open. She sank and became a constructive total loss. An article of the time said her engines and boilers would be easy to salvage, and her engine eventually went into the steamer SEBASTOPOL. Master: Capt. Glazier.
One report says this was the vessel lost near Chicago in 1855, but that was a schooner (see below).
Sources : hgl,lhl,le,nsp,wl,wmn
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SARATOGA
Other names :
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1844, Oswego
Specs : 150 t. om
Date of loss : 1855, May 2
Place of loss : at Chicago
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : lumber
Detail : She went ashore north of the piers in heavy weather and broke up rapidly. She was reported to be a fast sailer in her day, but was termed “old” at the time of her loss. Owned and sailed by Capt. F. Igo of Oswego, but he was not aboard at the time of the accident..
Foundered 20 mi from Oswego, Nov 13, 1853. Crew took to her yawl and made it to that city.
Sources : nsp,hgl,wl,rnc,wmn
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SARDINIA
Other names : also seen as SARDINIAN
Official no. : 22275
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1860, Gordon Campbell, Detroit
Specs : 137x26x12, 384 t. om
Date of loss : 1874, Nov (4)
Place of loss : on Cathead Point, tip of Leelanau Pen., Mich.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : salt
Detail : Stranded in fog and heavy weather, and broke up in a later storm while salvage was in progress.
(Out of Buffalo), owned by Capt. Lorenzo Dimick
Damaged in a stranding near Oswego, NY, in 1864.
Damaged and declared a loss near Fairport, OH, L. Erie, in June, 1866, with the loss of two lives.
Sources : mv,sb,hgl,wl,nsp,bb
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SARDINIA
Other names : none
Official no. : 22583
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1856, Laidlaw, Penetanguishene, Ont.
Specs : 105x25x9, 150g 142n
Date of loss : 1900, Jul 6
Place of loss : in Green Bay (Hedgehog Harbor?)
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : stranded
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : Wrecked on Gill’s Rock and deemed to be of such low value that she was not worth salvaging. Out of Milwaukee, owned by Max Pfile. One source states that she was sold for off-lakes use in 1900 and lost on the Atlantic in 1904.
Ashore in a gale in June, 1866, with the loss of four lives plus her cargo of lumber, near Fairport, Ohio.
Sold US before 1869, probably before 1866. This may be the vessel of this name wrecked on Lake Ontario in 1864 (see SARDINIA above). No Canadian official number found.
Major repairs in 1882
Sources : mv,clu,polk,mpl,nsp,is(2-83),whs
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J. W. SARGENT
Other names : seen in earlier registration documents as JOHN W. SARGENT
Official no. : 12773
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1855, Beckwith, Racine, Wis.
Specs : 97x22x8, 98g [147 t. om]
Date of loss : 1872, Nov 30
Place of loss : off Lake Erie Islands
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm/ice
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : She had grounded in September of the same year and was on her way from Cleveland to Detroit for repairs. She was in tow of the tug TORRENT with 5 like-laden barges when the whole tow was frozen in near Middle Sister Island. They were all abandoned for the winter, and in the spring the SARGENT and several others were nowhere to be found, apparently having been carried off by drifting ice. In November, 1874, the hulk was discovered underwater by a former owner, five miles below Long Point cut, nearly 150 miles from the point of her abandonment. Owned by Brownlee & Fox, Detroit Master: Capt. William Simms.
Major repairs in 1866
Sources : nsp,hgl,mv,wl
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SARNIA
Other names : none
Official no. : C96853
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1901, Sarnia
Specs : 67x21x11, 85gc 58nc
Date of loss : 1921, Nov 13
Place of loss : Port Arthur, Ont.
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She burned to a total loss. Owned by Canadian Towing & Wrecking, Port Arthur.
Inland Seas shows Nov 30, 1929 as loss date
Had 2 English-built engines
Image of SARNIA with W. B. MORELY in tow from GLMD
Sources : mmgl,is,lss,win
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SARNIADOC
Other names : none
Official no. : C149496
Type at loss : propeller, steel, bulk freight
Build info : 1929, Barclay, Curle & Co., Whiteinch, Scotland
Specs : 253x43x20, 1940 t.
Date of loss : 1929, Nov 30
Place of loss : Main Duck Isl.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : wheat & barley
Detail : She stranded with heavy damage in a NW gale. Her crew was rescued with difficulty by the freighter VALLEY CAMP. The brand-new ship was declared a total loss, but was actually recovered the following year.
Tapped for service during WWII and torpedoed in March of 1942, sinking with all hands between Trindad and St. Thomas, Virgin Isls.
Sources : ns4,csv,mmgl,h,win
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SARNIAN
Other names : built as steamer CHILI, last name in 1913
Official no. : C134011
Type at loss : propeller, steel, bulk freight
Build info : 1895, Cleveland US# 127078
Specs : 320x42x22, 2656gc 1710nc
Date of loss : 1943, Dec 10
Place of loss : 1/2 mi S of Pte Isabelle, Bete Grise Bay
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : barley
Detail : She was driven ashore by the giant waves of a NE gale. Her crew was rescued by the U.S.C.G., but the vessel was a total loss. Raised and removed to Chicago in 1944, where she was cut up for scrap.
Bound from Port Arthur.
Sources : mv,csv,ns4,mmgl,sol,gwgl,lss,is
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SARNOR
Other names : built as U.S. steamer BRITANNIC, last name, 1913
Official no. : C133824
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1888, J. Davidson, W. Bay City, MI Hull# 20 US# 3400
Specs : 228x36x21, 1319g 1152n
Date of loss : 1926, Mar 15
Place of loss : at Kingston, Ont. near LaSalle Causeway
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : She caught fire and burned to a total loss.
Sold Canadian, 1913. Out of Montreal.
Originally 219x36x17, 1121g 904n, rebuilt and enlarged at Sorel, PQ, in 1901. Also rebuilt at Marine City in 1896.
Sources : vbs,ns3,h,sbs,csv,mmgl,win
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SARONIC
Other names : built as steamer UNITED EMPIRE, renamed in 1905
Official no. : C80776
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1882, Parry & Dyble, Sarnia, Ont.
Specs : 253×3623, 1961gc 1296nc
Date of loss : 1926, Aug 20*
Place of loss : Cockburn Isl., North Channel
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : (none)
Carrying : ?
Detail : Big waves overturned her coal-fired galley stove, catching her ablaze. She was run ashore to save the vessel and crew, but still burned to the waterline. The hull was later recovered and rebuilt to the barge W.L. KENNEDY.
An engraving of her appeared on the face of the 1907-08 Canadian dollar bill.
Her crew called her “Betsy.”
*year also given as 1916
Sources : polk,csv,sol,is,slh,mmgl,win,eas,jha
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SASCO
Other names : sometimes seen as IOSCO
Official no. : 22355
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1857, Merry & Gay, Milan, OH
Specs : 140x26x11, 281 t.
Date of loss : 1879, Nov 17
Place of loss : near Fairport, OH
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 6
Carrying : light
Detail : She went broadside into the surf in a gale after missing the piers. Her crew at first refused help, but were later taken off by the Lifesaving Service with breeches’ buoy. Document surrendered at Port Huron 12/27/1880, annotated “lost in 1879.”
Sources : phr,hgl,mv,usls,nsp
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SASSACUS
Other names : none
Official no. : 22916
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1867, Lee and Navagh, Oswego, NY
Specs : 95x22x7, 109g 103n
Date of loss : 1893, Oct 8
Place of loss : 2 mi N of the E entrance of Sturgeon Bay
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : wood
Detail : She beached in a storm near Jacksonport, Wisc., Sep 30. She was pulled off the 8th, but capsized and sank while being towed in. Total loss. Owned out of Kewaunee, Wis. By Geo. W. Wing.
Ashore north of Manistee, Mich, in August of 1890.
In 1879 the harbormaster at Oswego was looking for ways to have her abandoned hulk removed from the harbor, but her owner was too poor to do it, and the city didn’t want to go the expense.
Rebuilt, 1883
An 1899 Oswego news article says she was a notorious Lake Ontario smuggling boat just after the Civil War.
Sources : polk,mv,hgl,osdo,h,wb,nsp,wgts
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SATELLITE
Other names : none
Official no. : 22404
Type at loss : propeller towing steamer (tug), wood
Build info : 1864, Quayle & Martin, Cleveland
Specs : 118x20x11, 233g 149n
Date of loss : 1879, Jun 21
Place of loss : 30 mi W of Whitefish Point, 15 mi N of Two Heart River mouth
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 5-barge tow laden with coal
Detail : In clear calm weather the big tug began to fill around her shaft and sink for no apparent reason. Theories included the possibility that she split her shaft or that she struck a deadhead (floating log) with her prop and was holed. Her men, assisted by sailors from her tow, were only able to keep her afloat for two hours. Capt. Markie ordered the legendary tug’s colors set and she went down with all flags flying. Master: Capt. Joshua B. Markie. Owner: Thomas Pitts.
She was housed in at Detroit during a rebuild after a collision with the schooner J. C. KING in 1874.
Owned by the estate of H. M. Strong and managed by John R. Gillet, Detroit, part owner.
Sources : lhl,hgl,lssc,lss,wl,eas,nsp,glmd
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SATISFACTION
Other names : none
Official no. : 115115
Type at loss : propeller tug, wood
Build info : 1871, Geo. Notter, Buffalo
Specs : 58x15x7, 36g 18n
Date of loss : 1899, Jun 25
Place of loss : 12 miles S of Manitowoc
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : none
Detail : She caught fire offshore while towing the schooner -bargeTRACY J. BRONSON and burned to a total loss. After fighting the fire, her crew took shelter on the barge. The pair had been bound Chicago for Buffalo. Owned by John Madden, Tonawanda, who had recently purchased both of the vessels. Master: Capt. Daniel Flynn.
Sources : jb,mv,bb,wmn,wmhs,nsp
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SATURN – See also ALGOSOO
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SATURN
Other names : none
Official no. : 57662
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood
Build info : 1872, New Jersalem, Oh
Specs : 233 t.
Date of loss : 1872, Nov 27
Place of loss : just W of Whitefish Pt.
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 7 (8)[all]
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : Bound Marquette for Wyandotte, Mich., she was in tow of the steamer JOHN A. DIX with sister JUPITER . She broke her towline in a gale and was driven aground in the shallows, where she rapidly went to pieces.
Owned by E. B. Ward, Detroit. Master: Capt. Dick Stringleman(d).
Sources : hgl,is(4-73),gwgl,lssc,lss,sol,nsp,wmhs
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SATURN
Other names : built as CITY OF OWEN SOUND (qv), last name in 1896
Official no. : C71181
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight “steambarge”
Build info : 1875, J. Simpson, Owen Sound, Ont. as a passenger steamer
Specs : 172x31x13, 883gc 570nc
Date of loss : 1901, Sep 17
Place of loss : 30 mi NW of Southampton, Ont., just E of Lyal Isl.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 12
Carrying : 800 t. coal
Detail : Bound Cleveland and Sarnia for Owen Sound, she foundered in westerly gale. Official record says: “steamer lost through breaking two arms of her air pump which were attached to cross head of the engine.” The crew abandoned her in yawl and made it to shore after a 7-hour struggle. Master: Capt. William Manson. Out of Kingston.
Originally 1093 t., cut down from passenger ship to freighter at Davis Dry Dock, Kingston, in ’93. Also rebuilt in ’96.
Image after repurposing but before renaming, from GLMD
Sources : nsp,csv,ns1,polk,slh,lh,is,h,lhdc,win,mmgl,do2,jmk,nsp
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WILLIAM F. SAUBER
Other names : none
Official no. : 81317
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1891, F. Wheeler, W. Bay City hull# 78
Specs : 291x41x20, 2053g 1708n
Date of loss : 1903, Oct 26
Place of loss : 30 mi NW of Whitefish Pt.
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 2 of 17
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : Her hull failed under heavy a load of ore and she sank in a gale. Bound Ashland, WI for Lake Erie. The big steamer YALE rescued most of her crew in appalling conditions. The skipper, whose arms were broken, was unable to help himself when a line was thrown to him, and drowned. He would not take the last seat in the lifeboat. Master: Capt. W. E. Morris(d). Owner: W. H. Becker, et. al.
Sources : vbs,mv,lss,gwgl,lssc,glss,ns1,sbs,nsp,mpl
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SAUCY JACK
Other names : none
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info :
Specs : “small”
Date of loss : 1851, Dec 15
Place of loss : 5 mi below the mouth of the Saugeen R., Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 3 [all]
Carrying : flour
Detail : Left Goderich for the Saugeen R. [Southampton, Ont.] early in December but stranded enroute. Got afloat again and resumed her trip on the 14th, but was found capsized and wrecked the morning of the 15th, with her masts down and her cargo strewn all along the beach. Master: Capt. Martindale or A. McDonald. (d)
Sources : jw,nsp
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SAUCY JIM
Other names : none
Official no. : C92305
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1887, A. Morill, Meaford, Ont.*
Specs : 84x17x8, 93gc 63nc
Date of loss : 1910, Nov 18
Place of loss : Christian Isl., NW of Midland, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : She burned to a total loss at her wharf. Registered out of Collingwood.
*also seen as Penetang.
Sources : csv,hgl,win,mmgl,slh,h,lhdc,do
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JOHN A. SAUNDERS
Other names : also seen as J.A. SANDERS, JOHN A. SANDERS*
Official no. : 13748
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1854, J.A. Saunders, Mt. Clemens, MI
Specs : 73x20x6, 66 t.
Date of loss : 1879, Nov 19
Place of loss : near Marblehead, Ohio
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : ?
Detail : Stranded in a gale and lost, according to a USLS report, but little detail. The report does not state whether she was recovered. Document surrendered 12/12,1881 at Port Huron, annotated “wrecked.”
Waterlogged in a storm and lost on the west shore of Lake Huron near Lexington, Mich., in Sep, 1878.
Her initial registry shows her as JOHN A. SANDERS, built by John A. Sanders. Later official documents give SAUNDERS.
Sources : phr,is,mv,usls,wl
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SAVANNAH
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1845, Hubbell, Milwaukee
Specs : 61x16x4, 36 t.
Date of loss : 1846, Nov
Place of loss : Michigan side
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : ?
Detail : Went ashore with several other vessels and fated to be a total loss. No further record of her.
Ashore at Racine in April, 1845, and restored at great expense. Ashore at Two Rivers, Wis., in April, 1846.
Another schooner SAVANNAH was reported sunk off Conneaut, Oh., in Sep, 1841. Probably recovered.
Sources : wls,wmn,wl
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SAVELAND
Other names : none
Official no. : 115227
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1873, Wolf & Davidson, Milwaukee
Specs : 194x33x13, 689g 655n
Date of loss : 1903, Oct 22
Place of loss : Grand Marais, MI, harbor
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : Coal,lumber or light
Detail : She was torn away from the steamer GETTYSBURG and thrown against some pilings by a norther. Punctured, she sank to her main deck, then pounded to pieces.
Sources : ns1,polk,mv,lol,gwgl,lssc,lss,is,nsp
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SAVAGE – See SAVIDGE
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GEO. P. SAVIDGE
Other names : none also seen as GEORGE P. SAVAGE
Official no. : 85674
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1881, Grand Haven, MI
Specs : 54x13x4, 20g 10n
Date of loss : 1893, Jun 1
Place of loss : St. Louis Bay, near Duluth
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Burned and sank, a total loss.
15 hp engine
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HUNTER SAVIDGE
Other names : none
Official no. : 95569
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1879, Duncan Robertson [or Pierson], Grand Haven, MI
Specs : 117x27x8, 152g 145n
Date of loss : 1899, Aug 20
Place of loss : NE of Pte Aux Barques, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 5
Carrying : in ballast
Detail : She was struck by freak squall or tornado and foundered quickly. The five survivors were picked up soon after by the steamer A. McVITTIE of the Ogdensburg Line. The dead included owner Muellerweiss’ wife and daughter and Capt. Sharpsteen’s wife and son. Sharpsteen patrolled the beaches looking for their bodies for many months. They were never found. Registered out of Alpena. Owner: John Muellerweiss, Alpena. Master, Capt. Fred Sharpsteen.
The wreck was located in 1987.
Image from Ralph Roberts Collection
Sources : is(3-65),slh,sagl,h,lhdc,phr,mpl,sip,nsp
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JAMES D. SAWYER
Other names : none often seen as J.D. SAWYER
Official no. : 75386
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1871, F. Jones, Tonawanda, NY
Specs : 183x32x13 ft, 637g 605n
Date of loss : 1893, Oct 16
Place of loss : Seul Choix Pte., western Straits
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : corn
Detail : She broke away from the steamer B.W. ARNOLD, was driven ashore and pounded to pieces. After a falling mast cut lifeboat in two, the crew made it to shore on makeshift raft. Owner: McMorran, Port Huron.
Also driven ashore near Lorain, OH, Oct 20, 1891. She was called a total loss and was charted as a hazardous wreck, but recovered after a year on the beach. Also stranded with heavy damage in 1888.
Major repairs in 1877
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W.H. SAWYER
Other names : none
Official no. : 81253
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1890, F. Wheeler, W. Bay City hull# 66
Specs : 201x37x13, 746g 581n
Date of loss : 1928, Aug 11
Place of loss : 1200 ft. off lighthouse at Harbor Beach, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1 of 16
Carrying : limestone, bldg materials
Detail : From Toledo with barges PESHTIGO and A.B. KING, she grounded in a gale and broke up. Of the surviving crew, 3 swam ashore while the other 12 were taken off by the Coast Guard. Owned by Blodgett Steamship Co. of Bay City. Master: Capt. August Galobisky.
The wreck was later removed, probably by the Corps of Engineers.
Sources : vbs,sbs,ns3,slh,sol,h,nsp,mpl
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SAXON
Other names : none
Official no. : 22915
Type at loss : brig (maybe 2-mast schooner), wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1848, Asa Wilcox, Three Mile Bay, NY as a brig
Specs : 131 ft., 271n
Date of loss : 1871, Nov 10
Place of loss : S side of Long Point
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : building stone
Detail : Stranded and pounded to pieces. Part of her cargo was recovered by the wrecker MONITOR in 1876.
Registered out of Oswego to Capt. Murphy.
Win shows her as 48 t.
Rebuilt in 1869. Major repairs in 1860,62,63
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SAYMO
Other names : built as tug J.D. HAMILL, renamed in 1927
Official no. : C112335
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1904, Meaford, Ont.
Specs : 80x16x9, 111 t.
Date of loss : 1935, Nov 11
Place of loss : near Club Island, off the S end of Manitoulin I
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Foundered or wrecked.
Registered out of Collingwood
Sources : csv,win,slh,h,mmgl,bb
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J.YOUNG SCAMMON
Other names : also seen as J.Y. SCANNON & J.Y. SCAMMON
Official no. : none
Type at loss : brig, wood, 2-mast [former schooner]
Build info : 1845, Chicago
Specs : 240 t.
Date of loss : 1854, Jun 8
Place of loss : S Manitou Isl.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Sheltering from a storm, she dragged her anchors, stranded and broke in three pieces. She was driven in so close to shore that the crew was able to use a broken spar to climb to the beach. Owner: Hanna & Co and C. H. Walker, Chicago.
Also reported as wrecked in Aug, 1840 with 2 lives lost and in 1848 on Lake Michigan, also with 2 lives lost.
Sources : hgl,is(1-61,4-67),gs,lmdc,smi,nb,nsp,wmhs
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SCANDINAVIAN
Other names : none
Official no. : 22351
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1862, A. Olson, New Buffalo, MI
Specs : 197 t. [247 t. om]
Date of loss : 1868, Oct 31
Place of loss : Clay Point, 10 mi E of Port Burwell
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 13,000 bu grain
Detail : She went ashore in a gale and became a total wreck. Her crew was saved. Out of Chicago, probably owned by Nelson & Ware
Sources : nsp,rsl,mv
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SCANLON – former entry removed – no evidence
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JESSIE SCARTH
Other names : none
Official no. : C72993
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1871, A. Robertson, Hamilton, Ont.
Specs : 139x22x12, 333t.
Date of loss : 1887, Oct 4
Place of loss : Portage Harbor, North Manitou Isl.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 26,600 bu. corn
Detail : Bound for Owen Sound, Ont., she was sheltering from a storm, when she sprang a leak and foundered while at anchor. Her crew made it to shore in her yawl in terrible conditions. Homeport: Toronto. Owner: Cardin.
Also foundered on Lake Michigan in 1881
Sources : polk,hgl,clu,h,nsp,wb,nb,sb,usls,jk,ib,bb,mr
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SCHILDE – See EUREKA
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FERDINAND SCHLESINGER
Other names : none
Official no. : 120841
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1891, Wolf & Davidson, Milwaukee
Specs : 306x43x21, 2608g 2081n
Date of loss : 1919, May 26
Place of loss : 15 mi SE of Passage Isl., off Isle Royale
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 22
Carrying : coal
Detail : She sprang a leak in a gale and sank after a struggle of many hours by her crew. They abandoned the sinking vessel for the freezing lake and were rescued by the Canadian passenger steamer ASSINIBOIA. SCHLESINGER was out of Duluth, owned by Chester Massey.
Ashore near False Presque Isle, MI in Nov, 1905.
Sources : mv,eas,ns2,irs,gwgl,lss,sol,h,nsp,win,mpl
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SCHOOLCRAFT
Other names : none
Official no. : C134270
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight motor vessel
Build info : 1884, Linn & Craig, Trenton, MI hull# 26 US# 115990
Specs : 185x34x15, 972gc
Date of loss : 1920, Dec 3
Place of loss : on Wolfe Island, near Kingston, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : She caught fire and was beached at the lower end of Wolfe Island to save her crew. She burned to a total loss and her hull was abandoned in place. Owned by Manley Chew Lumber Co., Midland, Ont.
Sold Canadian in 1916. Canadian records show her converted to motor vessel then, but 1920 Green’s Directory lists her engine and boilers.
Sources : csv,ns3,mv,mmgl,mpl,dmt
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R.E. SCHUCK – See C.C. HAND, HYDRUS
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JOHN SCHUETTE
Other names : in some MVUS she is listed as JOHN SCHETTE
Official no. : 75762
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1875, Hanson & Scove, Two Rivers, WI
Specs : 137x26x11, 270g 256n
Date of loss : 1909, Jul 2
Place of loss : off Ecorse, MI
Lake : Detroit R
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Bound Cleveland for Lake Superior, she collided with the steamer ALFRED MITCHELL and sank in the shipping lane. Later she was dragged ashore by winch and tackle and abandoned.
In 1878 she carried a cargo of naval stores from Wilmington, N.C. to Riga, Russia for the Russian government.
Sources : polk,mv,ns1,hgl,eas,is(1-61),sip
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ADAM SCHUMANN
Other names : also seen as ADAM SHUMAN
Official no. : 165473
Type at loss : canal barge, wood
Build info : 1910, Kingston, NY
Specs : 111x29x12, 337g 337n
Date of loss : 1926, Nov 5
Place of loss : off Erie, PA
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : In tow of steam tug BARRYTON, she broke in two and sank in big waves. Owned by Alex Ousterhoudt, NY, NY.
“Dumb” barge (no crew).
Sources : eas,mv,rkr,ledc
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SCHUYLKILL
Other names : also seen spelled SCHUYKILL
Official no. : 115145
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1873, Gibson, Buffalo
Specs : 152x31x12, 472g
Date of loss : 1889, Oct 5
Place of loss : off Portage Ship Canal
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : Tow of steambarge BESSEMER(qv) in NW gale, she grounded near the entrance to the canal while seeking shelter and broke up within a few hours. Owner: P. H. Flemming, Cleveland. She was a total loss of about $20,000, and was dynamited to clear the channel in September of the following year.
Sources : polk,hgl,mv,gwgs,ks,lss,nsp,wb,sb,df,eas,bb
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SCIOTO
Other names : also seen as SCIOTA
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1841, Tisdale, Cleveland
Specs : 85x20x8, 125 t.
Date of loss : 1851, Nov 20
Place of loss : off Ashtabula
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : 5,700 bu. wheat
Detail : She was downbound when she was run into and sunk by the Canadian brig QUEBEC, 12 miles from shore. She was a total loss of about $6,000. Master: Capt. Klagye. Owner: Capt. Jonathan Gilett, Cleveland.
Sources : hgl,wmn,nsp,wmhs
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SCIOTA
Other names : none also seen as SCIOTO, SCOTIA
Official no. : none
Type at loss : propeller, wood
Build info : 1848, Eli Bates, Huron, OH
Specs : 155x24x11, 389 t. om
Date of loss : 1864, Sep 2
Place of loss : just east of Dunkirk, NY
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : 9of 23
Carrying : 12,000 bu wheat
Detail : Bound down from Toledo for Buffalo, she collided with the propeller ARCTIC and sank, a total loss. She filled quickly and plunged bow foremost. The ARCTIC, which had reportedly cut into the SCIOTA’s bow in a passing error, picked up the survivors, along with another nearby vessel. Owned by Capt. J. W. Gardner of Buffalo. Master: Capt. Chas. D. Ruscoe.
Major repairs in 1861, 63
Sources : lhl,hgl,rp,wl,rsl,nsp,eas,wmn
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SCOBELL – Reports of her loss probably refer to an accident to the sandsucker GRIFFIN later J. SCOBELL
See ns5 for informatiom
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SCOCONY 23 – See KILLARNEY
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SCOCONY 85 – See CLEVECO
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SCOTIA – See also JOHN TIBBETS, VICTORIA
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SCOTIA
Other names : none
Official no. : 115271
Type at loss : propeller, iron, (passenger & package) freight
Build info : 1873, King Iron Co., Buffalo [Gibson & Craig also given as builder, but they supervised contruction at King’s yard]
Specs : 231x35x13, 1502g 1335n
Date of loss : 1884, Oct 24*
Place of loss : off the tip of the Keweenaw Pen.
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : Bound for Duluth, she drove ashore on Keweenaw Point, 8 mi below Copper Harbor, in a blizzard and gale and was torn to pieces by waves. The crew was rescued by the steamer NYACK. Master: Capt. Bogart. Her engines, boilers, metal deck gear and much of her hull plating were salvaged in the summer of 1886.
Twin-screw, sister of JAVA, RUSSIA, CUBA
*not 1888 as is also seen.
Sources : polk,mv,gwgl,ks,lss,nsp,hgl,mpl,df,es,bb
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SCOTIA – former entry deleted
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SCOTIADOC
Other names : built as steamer MARTIN MULLEN, last name in 1948
Official no. : C173186
Type at loss : propeller, steel, bulk freight
Build info : 1904, American Shipbuilding, Cleveland hull# 422
Specs : 416x50x28, 4635 t
Date of loss : 1953, Jun 21
Place of loss : 15 mi off Thunder Bay, Ont.
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : 1 of 29
Carrying : wheat
Detail : Bound Thunder Bay for Georgian Bay, she was rammed by the steamer BURLINGTON in heavy fog and sank in deep water. BURLINGTON rescued her crew.
Reg out of Fort William
Image as MARTIN MULLEN from HCGL
Sources : ns4,win,irs,gwgl,is,sol,wm2,mpl
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SCOTLAND – previous entry removed (1848); the steamer was recovered with little damage after being declared a total loss
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A. SCOTT
Other names : also seen as ANDREW SCOTT, A. S. SCOTT
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1853, Erie, PA
Specs : 222 t.
Date of loss : 1859, Apr 26
Place of loss : near Black River [Vermilion] OH
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : limestone blocks
Detail : Bound Erie, PA for Vermilion, OH, she was thrown ashore by a gale and quickly pounded to pieces. Her cargo was for a large Presbyterian Church being built at Vermilion. Her insurance had expired about 10 days earlier. Owned by Andrew Scott and W.M. Gallagher, Erie, PA.
Sources : nsp,hgl,bb,wmhs
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E. H. SCOTT
Other names : also seen as ESTHER H. SCOTT
Official no. : none
Type at loss : brig, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1843, J, Randall, St. Joseph, Mi
Specs : 94x20x9, 200 t.
Date of loss : 1852, Nov 11
Place of loss : Louse Isl, near Washington Harbor
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : lumber?
Detail : She was reported ashore and a total loss. Owned by Nelson Napier & Reuben Scott, Detroit
Sources : hgl,wmn,wgts,whs
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ISAAC M. SCOTT
Other names : none
Official no. : 206485
Type at loss : propeller, steel, bulk freight
Build info : 1909, American Shipbuilding, Lorain, OH hull# 369
Specs : 504x54x30, 6372g 4840n
Date of loss : 1913, Nov 9-10
Place of loss : 7 mi NE of Thunder Bay Isl.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 28 [all]
Carrying : coal
Detail : She foundered, [probably capsized] in the huge waves of the “Big Storm” of 1913. Master: Capt. A. McArthur(d). Owned by Virginia Steamship Co., M A Hannah, Mgr.
Wreck discovered in 1976.
Sources : is(3-71),lol,slh,gsgl,ttgl,sol,ns2,lhdc,mpl
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J. MARIA SCOTT – See WHITE STAR
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JAMES SCOTT
Other names : none
Official no. : C71273
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1870, Norquay & Shaw, Port Dover, Ont. as 3-mast schooner
Specs : 58x13x6, 30gc
Date of loss : 1882, Nov*
Place of loss : Long Point
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 4
Carrying : ?
Detail : She stranded and was broken up by a storm.
Registered out of Port Burwell
*also given as 1881, but ’82 is official. Registry closed Apr 9, 1883
Sources : hgl,win,mmgl,h,glmd
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MARY M. SCOTT
Other names : also seen as MARIEN, MAY, MARY G. and G.W. SCOTT
Official no. : 16424
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1857, DeWolfe, Conneaut, OH
Specs : 130x26x11, 243 t.
Date of loss : 1870, Nov 2
Place of loss : near Grand Island, Mich.
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : ?none reported
Carrying : ?
Detail : Ashore and broken up.
Confusion over her identity.
Out of Chicago in 1869
Sources : lss,mv,nsp,net,mpl,rsl
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MARY S. SCOTT
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1856, Wm Jones, Cleveland
Specs : 135x26x11, 358 t. om
Date of loss : 1866, Sep 20
Place of loss : just S of Racine harbor entrance
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : wheat
Detail : Drove ashore near Racine in a storm after breaking loose from the tug DAISY LEE which was trying to pull her free of the harbor. The big wrecker LEVIATHAN worked on her for some time, but was unable to release her. She had made at least one trip to Europe. Owned by Hansen, Milwaukee.
Major repairs in 1862
Sources : nsp,hgl,rsl,whs,wls
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T.G. SCOTT
Other names : often seen as J. G. SCOTT
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1854, Thomas G. Scott, Port Huron, MI
Specs : 73x21x7, 93 t. om
Date of loss : 1860, Oct [late]
Place of loss : Long Point
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : lumber
Detail : She went hard ashore on Long Point and was expected to break up. The tug E. P. Dorr stripped and abandoned her by Nov. 7th
Identity of a schooner found floating on her beam ends 10 mi off Pte Aux Barques Aug 20, 1854 (4 days after her launch) is not known for certain, but thought to be SCOTT. Her finder, the steamer HURON, towed her for a few miles before letting her go. Her lifeboat davits were cut, so her crew probably escaped. If she was SCOTT, she had just picked up a load of lumber at Saginaw.
Sources : nsp,wl,hgl,wmn
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THOMAS A. SCOTT
Other names : none
Official no. : 24785
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 4-mast
Build info : 1869, Hitchcock & Gibson, Buffalo as a propeller
Specs : 207x33x16, 1159 t.
Date of loss : 1880, Oct 29
Place of loss : 1 mi off Milwaukee
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : corn [44,000 bu]
Detail : Lying at anchor riding out a storm, she was struck by the big steamer AVON and sank quickly. She had been bound Chicago for Erie, PA. Three crew scrambled onto AVON, 7 others took to SCOTT’s yawl and were towed in by the Lifesaving Service. Master: Capt. Todd. Her decks were 23 feet under water after her last spar fell in Sep, 1881.
Foundered in a storm Nov 18, 1869. Raised the next summer. Rebuilt from a propeller to a schooner-barge over the winter of 1876-7.
Sources : hgl,sol,h,lmdc,nsp,usls,mpl,mdwl,nsp
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THOMAS R. SCOTT
Other names : none
Official no. : C116847
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight US# 145452
Build info : 1887, D. Robertson, Grand Haven, MI
Specs : 129x28x8, 268g 213n
Date of loss : 1914, Sep 2 (also given as Sep 16)
Place of loss : Cabot Head, Georgian Bay side of Bruce Peninsula
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Waterlogged and foundered in deep water.
Sold Canadian 1907, registered out of Owen Sound.
Located by Canadian Navy in 1994.
Sources : csv,win,mv,ns2,slh,h,lhdc,mpl,do2
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WINFIELD SCOTT – See GENERAL W. SCOTT
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SCOURGE
Other names : built as the Royal Navy schooner LORD NELSON
Official no. : Br none
Type at loss : armed schooner, wood, 9-gun
Build info : 1811, Isaac Stanard, Newark (Niagara-on-the Lake), Western Canada
Specs : 110 ft., 45 t.
Date of loss : 1813, Aug 8
Place of loss : off the mouth of the Niagara R
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 40 [ca.]
Carrying : none
Detail : She was lying at anchor with her fleetmate GENERAL HAMILTON(qv) when both were sunk by a storm. They were awaiting dawn, when they were to attack a British fleet.
Armament – 1 long 32 pounder and 8 short 12’s.
Captured from the British for smuggling just prior to the War of 1812, by the U.S. brig ONEIDA. Participated in attacks on York (Toronto) in 1813.
Title to the wreck was transferred from the U.S. Navy to Canada in 1979.
Subject of a live underwater exploration by Robert Ballard in summer of 1990.
Sources : nsp,hgl,is(4-77),tv,mpl
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H.M. SCOVE
Other names : none
Official no. : 95256
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1873, Hanson & Scove, Manitowoc, WI
Specs : 138x26x10, 306g 290n
Date of loss : 1891, Dec 5
Place of loss : just off Pilot Isl., Death’s Door
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Bound Pine Lake, Michigan, for Milwaukee, she foundered in shallow water in a storm, a total loss of about $6000. She broke up the following year, despite continued salvage efforts.
Sources : hgl,polk,mv,eas,is,h,wb,sb,wgts
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ASA SCOVILL – See ASA COVELL
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DAVID SCOVILLE
Other names : none
Official no. : C71220
Type at loss : propeller steam tug and ferry, wood
Build info : 1875, Marine City [US#6895]
Specs : 42x13x4, 37gc 25nc
Date of loss : 1880, Mar 3 (also given as Oct 20, 1879, in error)
Place of loss : Sarnia, Ont.
Lake : St Clair R
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She burned to a total loss at the Grand Trunk Railway wharf. The fire was suspected to be arson.
As a U.S. tug, her registered tonnage was 8.8 [!]. Sold Canadian in 1879, registered out of Sarnia
Collided with and sunk the tug ZOUAVE (qv) at Sombra, Ont., St. Clair R., in 1875
Sources : slh,h,win,mmgl,st,mv,wmn
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PHILO SCOVILLE
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : brig, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1853, Sheboygan, WI
Specs : 255 t.
Date of loss : 1853, Oct 16
Place of loss : Fishing Islands, near the Canadian side
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : flour, wheat, pigs of lead and barrelled fish
Detail : She encountered a gale in the eastern Straits and was dismasted, then drifted ashore near “scotch Bonnet”, where she was quickly dashed to splinters. Her crew floated to shore on her amputated mainmast. Bound Milwaukee for Buffalo and on her first trip. Owned by C.A. Bemis of Buffalo. Master: Capt. N. P. Nelson.
Sources : nsp,wmn
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PHILO SCOVILLE
Other names : built as PHILO SCOVILLE, named MIDLAND ROVER, 1879-87, renamed PHILO SCOVILLE in 1884
Official no. : 19620
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1863, G. Notter, Cleveland, OH [also given as Quayle & Martin*]
Specs : 140x30x11, 323 t.
Date of loss : 1889, Oct 6
Place of loss : Russel I. [Isle of Cones] near Tobermory, Ont
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : light
Detail : Bound Collingwood for “Little Lake Michigan” [Escanaba], she was driven into the shallows and wrecked by a storm. Her captain died in the rocks trying to get ashore. Canadian Lifesaving Service saved the rest. It was at first expected that the vessel would be recovered, but she was reportedly broken up by the 10th. Master: Capt. John O’Grady (d). Owned by Whitaker and Moffatt, Port Huron; out of Detroit.
Sold Canadian in 1879 and became MIDLAND ROVER (C71120), returned to U.S. registry in 1887, regaining the same official number asshe had previously.
She stranded and wrecked in a gale while entering Toronto Harbour Dec 4, 1882 through the western channel. Several crew abandoned her in a rescue boat and two were lost when it capsized. Registered out of Collingwood to D.C. Strachan. Master: Capt. Patrick Crogan or Crokin.
*Notter was a Buffalo builder, but built her at Cleveland at the Quayle & Martin yard.
Rebuilt 1880 and 83
Sources : phr,mmgl,polk,h.slh,lhdc,nsp,mpl,do,eas,clu,jm,mr
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SCOW #1
Other names : ?
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : (unrigged) scow
Build info : ?
Specs : ?
Date of loss : 1895, Sep 22
Place of loss : foot of Wisconsin St., Milwaukee
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Sunk close in , not recovered.
Sources : h
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SCOW #2
Other names : ?
Official no. : ? *
Type at loss : unrigged scow
Build info : ?
Specs : ?
Date of loss : 1896, Oct 19
Place of loss : near Harbor Entrance at Two Rivers, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : unreported
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : No detail. Sunk.
*probably none
Sources : h
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SCOW #2
Other names : ?
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : unrigged scow
Build info : ?
Specs : ?
Date of loss : 1900, Nov 20
Place of loss : near E entrance of Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : “sunk”
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : No detail.
Sources : h
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SCOW #73 – See JUNIOR
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SEA BIRD – see also SEABIRD
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SEA BIRD
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1848, R. Spaulding, Sandusky, OH
Specs : 54x14x6, 38 t.
Date of loss : 1850, Dec
Place of loss : off mouth of Black River, OH
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Sunk. No detail.
Sources : www,hgl,mpl,bb,wmhs,glmd
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SEA BIRD
Other names : none
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1867, Rob’t Davis, Battersea, Ont.
Specs : 92x22x8, 121 t.
Date of loss : 1869, Nov
Place of loss : Rock Falls, Mich
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Driven ashore and a total loss.
Out of Kingston.
Sources : hgl,mmgl,mdwl
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SEA BIRD
Other names : also seen as SEABIRD
Official no. : 22276
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1857, Bidwell & Banta, Buffalo
Specs : 284 t.
Date of loss : 1875, Oct 26
Place of loss : near Horn’s Pier, Wis.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 18,000 bu wheat
Detail : Bound Chicago for Buffalo, she dropped anchor off Horn’s Pier, Wis. in a full gale. Eventually she lost her grip and dragged ashore. At first she was thought to be easily salvageable, but the water in her hull swelled her cargo and burst her seams, causing her to become a total loss.. Her cargo, worth $12,000, was largely commandeered by locals. Owned by W. Ingraham, Buffalo.
Also reported sunk Apr 9, 1868, the same night as the passenger steamer of the same name (qv).
Sources : nsp,wgts,bb,mv
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SEA BIRD
Other names : none
Official no. : 115619
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1857, M. Woodworth, Conneaut, OH
Specs : 99x23x7, 139 t.
Date of loss : 1883, Jul 20
Place of loss : on line Milwaukee-Grand Haven
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 9 or 10 [all]
Carrying : wood slabs
Detail : Discovered floating on her side, abandoned, 30 miles E of Milwaukee by the steamer CITY OF MILWAUKEE. It was thought that she capsized in a squall while bound Muskegon for Chicago and her crew abandoned in the small boat and were lost. There were 7 or 8 crew plus the Captain’s daughter and her small daughter. Many searches were made for the boat by Mr. Conroy, the husband and father of the two, on the tug EMMA DWYER, but in vain. Out of Chicago, owned by C. Canstone. Master: Capt. J. D. Henderson(d).
Rebuilt in 1868.
Another schooner of this name was built ’79 by T. Jamison at Ft. Gratiot, MI, 46x11x3, 9 t. [US#115691]. Her document was surrendered at Port Huron on December 12, 1883, endorsed “wrecked.”
Sources : phr,h,hgl,usls,wl,nsp,wr
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SEA GEM
Other names : none
Official no. : 22582
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1863, W. W. Bates, Manitowoc
Specs : 91x23x8, 103 gt
Date of loss : 1901, Sep 9
Place of loss : off Manitowoc
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 5
Carrying : wood slabs
Detail : Bound Charlevoix, Mich., for Milwaukee, she missed the piers at Manitowoc in fog and heavy seas while seeking shelter there and went ashore. Owned and sailed by Capt. A. A. Hanshaw, Charlevoix.
Sources : nsp,wmhs,bb
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SEA GULL
Other names : none
Official no. : 22557
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1845, J. Kline, Milan, OH
Specs : 82x19x7, 83 gt. [114 t. OM]
Date of loss : 1869, Oct 1
Place of loss : south of Grand Haven, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : She was driven ashore and wrecked. Though the hulk was pulled off the beach a few days later, it was soon declared a constructive total loss and was stripped and abandoned. Owned by Capt. Harry Smith out of Grand Haven.
Major repair in 1863
Sources : nsp,hgl,mv,mdwl,ec
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SEA GULL
Other names : none
Official no. : 23837
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, tug
Build info : 1868, P. Easton, Portsmouth, MI as a passenger steamer
Specs : 103x18x4, 74g 47n
Date of loss : 1889, May 30
Place of loss : off Linwood, MI, Saginaw Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : towing rafts
Detail : She filled and sank in a gale one half mile from shore, in 5 feet of water. Her crew abandoned in her boat. Recovered after being declared a total loss. Owned by Ben Boutell of Bay City. Reported lying rotting near the mouth of the Saginaw River in 1897 and set to be dismantled.
Originally 58x18x2, 28 t., rebuilt & lengthened in 1878
Not built at Portsmouth, NH, as shown in mvus
Sources : phr,mv,nsp,vbs,slh,sbs,hgl
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SEA GULL
Other names : none
Official no. : 22098
Type at loss : propeller steam wrecking tug, wood
Build info : 1863, Mystic, Conn as a brig
Specs : 147x34x16, 521g 242n
Date of loss : 1893, May 1
Place of loss : near Bois Blanc Isl., Straits
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Bound Detour for Chicago with the damaged prop OHIO in tow, she caught fire offshore near Spectacle Reef and burned to a total loss. Her crew made it to OHIO in her yawl. She was later towed to a point near Bois Blanc Isl. and resunk. SEA GULL was reportedly the largest and most powerful tug on the lakes when lost and was owned by the famous wrecker Jim Reid of Bay City, who purchased the remains from his insurance company after the wreck. Her two engines were later recovered – one going into the big wrecker MANISTIQUE and the other into the tug PARKER.
Wreckage located in 1970’s.
Came to Lakes from the E Coast in 1888, sunk by a collision enroute. The twin-prop vessel was re-engined in the spring of 1891.
Sources : ssm,lhl,mv,nsp,slh,hgl,mpl,wmn,eas,es
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SEA HORSE
Other names : ?
Official no. : C
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : ?
Specs : 42 t.
Date of loss : 1871, Oct 17
Place of loss : Fitzwilliam Isl., mouth of Georgian Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Stranded and a total loss on the west end of the island.
Sources : slh,h,win not in mmgl
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SEA LION
Other names : none
Official no. : 116051
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1884, O. Olson, Nicolet, WI
Specs : 71x19x6, 65g 62n
Date of loss : 1894, Sep 23
Place of loss : about 10 mi S of Manistee
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Driven ashore and wrecked.
Sources : h,mv,wmhs,bb
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SEA QUEEN
Other names : none
Official no. : C96875
Type at loss : propeller steam fish tug, wood
Build info : 1892, Marlton, Goderich, Ont.
Specs : 52x12x5, 26g 18n
Date of loss : 1932
Place of loss : Meldrum Bay, North Channel
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Burned to a total loss.
Sources : hgl,mmgl,slh,bb
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SEA STAR
Other names : none
Official no. : 22356
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1855, Chas. Stevens, Irving, NY
Specs : 91x23x8, 95g 90n
Date of loss : 1886, Nov 4
Place of loss : 9 mi S of the E entrance to Sturgeon Bay canal
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : wood
Detail : She slipped her moorings while loading wood at Ahnapee, was driven out into the lake and sunk. Her people were rescued by the Sturgeon Bay Lifesaving Service crew. Master: Capt. C. L. Fellows.
Sources : polk,hgl,mv,nsp,h,mpl,bb,wgts
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SEABIRD
Other names : none
Official no. : 22368 (?)
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1859, R.C. Conwell, Newport, MI
Specs : 191x28x13, 638 t.
Date of loss : 1868, Apr 9
Place of loss : off Waukegan, IL
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : 102 [ca.], three survivors
Carrying : misc. freight
Detail : She caught fire when a porter emptied a scuttle full of stove embers to windward. Sparks set the decks ablaze and the ship was consumed quickly. 100 passengers & crew burned, drowned, or perished from exposure in the icy lake. Two passengers were picked up by schooner CORDELIA, one other swam and drifted to shore after 12 hours in the frigid water. Owned by the Goodrich Line. Master: Capt. John Morris(d).
Also wrecked at Whitefish Bay, WI, Lake Michigan in Dec, 1863, and not removed until the following summer.
Engraving of SEABIRD afire from MHGL
Sources : hgl,gs,glss,sol,rsh,lmdc,lhl,nsp,mpl,rsh,wl,eas
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SEABIRD
Other names : none
Official no. : 57137
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1862, Hinman, Algonac, Mich
Specs : 79x21x7, 139 t.
Date of loss : 1873, Apr
Place of loss : E end Kelley’s Island
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : coal
Detail : Ashore in a storm, she was expected to be recovered. The tug H. N. MARTIN and schooner FERRET went to Kelley’s Isl to take her off at the end of April, but another storm which arose while they were there tore reportedly the scow to pieces. Only a fraction of her cargo was saved.
Sources : nsp,mv,wl,pdw,wmn,bb,wmhs
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SEABREEZE
Other names : none
Official no. : 204279
Type at loss : propeller passenger vessel, steel steamer
Build info : 1907, Buffalo
Specs : 96x23x6, 87g 59n
Date of loss : 1946, Dec 3
Place of loss : S dock, Sugar Isl. near S tip of Grosse Isle
Lake : Detroit R
Type of loss : sunk by accident or vandalism
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She was purchased the same year to provide transportation for a controversial Sugar Island amusement park for blacks. On the date shown she was found capsized and sunk at her dock. The developers were not able to fund her salvage and she reverted to her previous owners, who carried her on their books until 1955. Not officially declared a loss until 1957. Out of Buffalo; owned by C. V. Fix in early 1946 until sold to park developers.
Sources : h,ledc,eas,mv,bb,hsm
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SEAFARER – See GARGANTUA
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SEAGULL
Other names : none
Official no. : 23526
Type at loss : propeller, wood
Build info : 1864, J. Simpson, Oakville, Ont. as a two-mast schooner, later brigantine
Specs : 115x26x10, 230 g 201 n
Date of loss : 1890, Jul 5
Place of loss : at Tawas City
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : ice
Detail : She burned to a total loss. The shipboard fire touched off a larger one which destroyed the dock and many of the town’s mills and lumberyards as the flaming boat drifted from dock to dock, setting each in turn ablaze. She finally drifted ashore nearby and burned out.
Plied New York-Africa route for several years in the 60’s. The first vessel to run the Canada-South Africa [Toronto-Durban] route. Returned to the lakes in 1866 and sold American in 1869. May have been briefly Canadian again about 1875.
Rebuilt to a prop after a stranding in 1888 near Sand Beach, MI.
Sources : phr,slh,h,nsp,mmgl,hgl,mpl,wmn
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SEAMAN – See also CITY OF MEAFORD
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SEAMAN
Other names : none
Official no. : 23406
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1848, Johnson & Tisdale, Cleveland*
Specs : 120x26x9, 182g 173n
Date of loss : 1908, Nov 15**
Place of loss : Pilot Island, near Death’s Door passage
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 6
Carrying : slabs and 3,000 bu. potatoes
Detail : Driven ashore and wrecked by storm, she was probably too old to salvage. [She was the oldest working sail vessel afloat at the time of her loss.] Owned by M. O. Parker, Milwaukee.
Rebuilt in 1868.
*also shown in mv as Nicolet, WI, maybe rebuilt there.
**also shown as Nov 25
Sources : mv,polk,hgl,is,h,nsp,wl,eas,wgts
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A. SEAMAN
Other names : built as tug JANE ARMSTRONG, renamed 1894
Official no. : C71244
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1873, Haught & Dunslaight, Buffalo for Canadian buyer
Specs : 70x14x7, 76gc 52nc
Date of loss : 1905, Sep 5
Place of loss : near Cape Croker, Georgian Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : none
Detail : Burned to total a loss. Sold Canadian, 1874. Out of Toronto, owned by Crawford Tug Co.
There is some confusion about he boat and her loss as there were reportedly two tugs of this name(?). Accident also given as a storm near Michipicoten Isl., Superior. 1906 also given as year.
Rebuilt, 1894
Sources : hgl,win,mmgl,gwgl,is
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SEARCH LIGHT
Other names : none
Official no. : 116912
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood, fishing
Build info : 1899, G. Miskin, Saginaw
Specs : 40x11x4, 9g 6n
Date of loss : 1907, Apr 23
Place of loss : near Harbor Beach, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 6 [all]
Carrying : none
Detail : She put out at noon to pick up her nets, but foundered in a gale. She had been purchased a just a few days earlier from Bay City parties. Master: Capt. Walter Brown. Owners: Capt. Brown and Harvey Braun, 1st mate..A life-jacket was found the next day and a body and some wreckage was reported washed ashore during the Great Storm of 1913.
A “message in a bottle” picked up a few days later was probably a hoax.
Sources : vbs,nsp,letters,slh,ttgl,h,mv,rep
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SEARCHER
Other names : built as L. P. HILL, renamed about 1982
Official no. : 249636
Type at loss : propeller fish tug, steel, Diesel
Build info : 1946, Burger Boat Co., Manitowoc, Wis
Specs : 56x15x6, 54g 36n
Date of loss : 1985, Dec 27
Place of loss : 17 mi E of Chicago
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 3 of 6
Carrying : fish and fishing gear
Detail : While returning to Chicago in heavy wind and high seas, she began taking water through her scuppers while underway. She waterlogged and foundered in 138 ft. of water. Three crewmen were rescued by Coast Guard helicopter, but three others drowned. Out of Chicago, owned by Lawrence Schweig. Master: Capt. Ray Slupick, Jr. [his father perished in the sinking].
Sources : hh,bb,nsp
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F. P. SEARS
Other names : none
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : canal boat, wood
Build info : 1870, W.Crosthwaite, E. Saginaw, MI
Specs : ca. 100 ft.
Date of loss : 1870, Nov 16
Place of loss : near Port Rowan, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : On her first trip and bound Saginaw for Buffalo, she was lost from the tow of the steamer EMPIRE (qv), went ashore, and pounded to pieces. EMPIRE was also lost.
Sources : nsp
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L. SEATON
Other names : none
Official no. : 15948
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1872, Reed, Henderson, NY
Specs : 121x26x11, 233g 221n
Date of loss : 1892, Nov 12
Place of loss : near Pte Aux Barques, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : RR ties
Detail : She broke her anchor chains while sheltering and was driven ashore and pounded to pieces. USLS saved part of her outfit. Owner: Capt Laughtin.
Ashore and wrecked near Port Colborne in 1887 and near Port Elgin, Ont., in 1888.
Major repair in 1881
Sources : polk,hgl,mv,slh,h,lhdc,wb,nsp,usls
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SEATTLE
Other names : none
Official no. : 116524
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1892, H. Still, Oscoda
Specs : 161x37x7, 429g 331n
Date of loss : 1903, Nov 12
Place of loss : near Green Isl., Georgian Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 11
Carrying : lumber
Detail : She sprang a leak in gale and her fires were flooded out. Without steam she stranded and soon broke up. She had been bound Parry Sound for Detroit. The crew made it to Green Isl. in her lifeboat and were later picked up by the Red Rock lightkeeper. Master: Capt. Charles Barnes.
Also ashore with heavy damage near Rondeau, Nov, 1894.
When she was launched the newspapers were amazed by the fact that she received only a low “B1” insurance rating from Inland Lloyds.
Sources : vbs,mv,ns1,nsp,phr,mpl,do
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GEORGE L. SEAVER
Other names : none also seen as G. SEAVER
Official no. : 10810
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1868, Ingraham & Smith, South Haven, MI
Specs : 162 t.
Date of loss : 1880, Nov 14
Place of loss : off South Haven MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : She collided with schooner WINNIE WING and sank, a total loss.
Sources : nsp,mv,wl
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J. S. SEAVERNS
Other names : built as sidewheel tug JOHN P. WARD, renamed in 1880
Official no. : C
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger and package freight
Build info : 1857, J. L. Wolverton, Detroit, MI as a sidewheel tug US#12791
Specs : 101 ft., 173 t.
Date of loss : 1884, May 12
Place of loss : near Michipicoten Isl.
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : stranded
Loss of life : none
Carrying : misc. cargo incl pork, potatoes and machinery
Detail : Bound Chicago for Port Arthur, Ont., she ran aground and stranded while backing away from the harbor landing, then foundered in 10 fathoms of water after being pulled off the reef by a tug. Total loss.
Owned out of Port Arthur by Arthur Ross & Co., sold Canadian in 1884.
She burned at Saginaw in July, 1865, and was converted to a schooner after being raised – $40,000 damage.
She was abandoned as lost in a storm off Little Pt. Sable, Lake Michigan, in September, 1878, but was later found, still afloat.
Extensively rebuilt by Brittain at Saugatuck, MI in 1880 and converted to a steam passenger/freight vessel. US#76152
Wreck located in Michipicoten harbor in July of 2016
Sources : polk,is,lss,rsl,nsp,jb,nsp,df,kmn
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SEBASTOPOL
Other names : none seen in the press most often as SEVASTOPOL*
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood
Build info : 1855, Luther Moses, Cleveland
Specs : 230x26x14, 863 t. [her sidewheels were 50 feet in diameter]
Date of loss : 1855, Sep 18
Place of loss : near Milwaukee
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 4,6 or 7
Carrying : misc. cargo including copper, tin, lead and iron ingots, safes, etc., plus passengers and 50 horses
Detail : Her captain misread shore lights while she was coming into Milwaukee in a gale. She stranded 500 feet from shore, came broadside to huge waves and pounded to pieces. Most of her crew and about 60 passengers were saved from shore by small boat in a hazardous rescue. The accident happened during her first season. Owner: Moses & Watts, Cleveland. Master: Capt. Wm. Watts.
Discovered by divers in 1976.
*The “Seige of Sevastopol” during the Crimean War was going on at the time of her build and loss and was much in the news.
Sources : lhl,hgl,net,nsp,mpl,eas
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SEBASTOPOL
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : scow-brig, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1855, Toledo
Specs : 100x24x7, 109 t.
Date of loss : 1865, week of Nov 7
Place of loss : Little Sable Point, Mich
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Went ashore in a storm and “dashed in pieces.”
Sources : nsp,bb,wl,mv
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SECRET
Other names : none
Official no. : C100404
Type at loss : propeller, wood
Build info : 1897, Hamilton, Ont
Specs : 55x8x4, 9 t.
Date of loss : 1911, Oct 13*
Place of loss : Star Shoal, Georgian bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Burned to a total loss.
*Date also given as 1871(!)
registered out of Hamilton
Sources : win,mmgl,slh,h,bb
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HANNAH SELINA
Other names : also seen as HANNAH SELIMA
Official no. : none
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1853, Port Clinton, OH
Specs : 67x19x7, 70 t. om
Date of loss : 1860, mid-June
Place of loss : about 8 mi N of Chicago
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 8 [all]
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Bound White Lake, Mich., for Chicago, this small schooner was apparently wrecked by a tornado, her upperworks being almost entirely destroyed, while her hull was nearly undamaged. She was found capsized with all of her crew dead or missing. She was righted and towed into Chicago by the tug WALTER McQUEEN, but there is no evidence that she was ever used again. Master and owner: Capt. Daniel French(d).
Sources : nsp,wl,wmn
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SELT
Other names : also seen as CELT
Official no. : 22578
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, lumber
Build info : 1864, Stokes (or Amos L. Locklin), Sheboygan, WI
Specs : 102x25x7, 133g 127n
Date of loss : 1888, Oct 20
Place of loss : at Leland, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : (none)
Carrying : RR ties
Detail : She began to pound against pier while loading, so was beached in an attempt to save her. She was battered to pieces anyway.
Rebuilt, 1875
Driven ashore with heavy damage in Whitefish Bay, Lake Michigan, in the spring of 1872.
Sources : polk,ssb,mv,mpl,nsp
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SENATOR
Other names : none
Official no. : 116725
Type at loss : propeller, steel, automobile carrier
Build info : 1896, Detroit Dry Dock, Wyandotte, MI
Specs : 410x46x28, 4,048gt 3178nt
Date of loss : 1929, Oct 31
Place of loss : off Port Washington, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : 10 of 29*
Carrying : 240 Nash autos
Detail : In heavy fog she was t-boned by the ore carrier MARQUETTE, rolled over and sank quickly. MARQUETTE crewman said she only became visible ahead when she was about 100 feet away, too close to take avoiding action. Though in a sinking condition herself, MARQUETTE was able to rescue three SENATOR crewmen. Fifteen others were picked up by the fish tug DELOS H. SMITH of Port Washington, Wis., while the passing freighter THOMAS WALTER found three more. SENATOR had been bound for Milwaukee. Master: Capt. Charles Anderson. Owner: Chandler Bros, Detroit
The vessel was located and identified in the summer of 2005.
Also sank in St. Mary’s R., in 1909
*also reported as 7,8 and 9
Converted from bulker to auto carrier by Reid, 1929.
Image as an auto carrier from GLMD
Sources : ns3,mv,gs,gwgl,lmdc,mpl,eas,nsp
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SENATOR BLOOD
Other names : none
Official no. : 22918
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1863, G. Goble, Oswego, NY
Specs : 127x26x10, 231g 219n
Date of loss : 1896, Nov 13
Place of loss : Goose Isl. Shoal, Straits
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 575 t. coal
Detail : Bound Cleveland for Detour, she went aground and became a total wreck in a gale. Here crew was rescued by the steamer ALVA after spending a night in the rigging. Owned by T.H. Cahoon of Cleveland. Master: Capt. May.
Wrecked near Lorain, OH and recovered in 1893
Had been abandoned for age in 1891, but returned to service.
Sources : hgl,tel,mv,osdo,eas,wmn,nsp
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SENATOR DERBYSHIRE
Other names : built as BERMUDA, renamed in 1910
Official no. : C112351
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1897, Jas. Davidson, W. Bay City hull #83
Specs : 220x41x16 1242gc
Date of loss : 1924, Oct 11
Place of loss : off Pt. Petre near the lighthouse
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : She caught fire and burned offshore. Her crew was rescued by the passing freighter MAPLE BAY. Upbound.
Sold Canadian in 1910, US# 3729.
Sources : ns3,csv,vbs,win,mmgl
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SENECA
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : propeller tug, wood
Build info : 1847, V. Bidwell, Buffalo [hull built as a barge in 1842 at Geneva, NY, rebuilt as this tug in ‘47]
Specs : 92x14x6, 73 t. om
Date of loss : 1855, Oct 16
Place of loss : Chicago River at Chicago
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : explosion
Loss of life : 2
Carrying : none – vessel in tow
Detail : She was towing the brig LANSING past the foot of Randolph Street when she exploded her boiler and sank. Her skipper and engineer were killed instantly, and several others were injured. Master: Capt. Donaldson. OwnerSpaids & Vaughn. The vessel was later recovered..
Also burned at Chicago with heavy damage in Sept. 1851.
Had been employed as a Chicago River tug for most of her career as a steamer.
Owned by Wardell Guthrie of Chicago
Sources : nsp,lhl,hgl,wl
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SENECA
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : brig, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1846, Oswego
Specs : 230 t.
Date of loss : 1856, Sep 18
Place of loss : at St. Joseph, Mich or at the mouth of the Kalamazoo R. [Saugatuck]
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none reported
Carrying : timber
Detail : She went ashore and split wide open, a total wreck and insurance loss of $7,200 – equivalent to more than $150,000 today. Owned by Price & Fisher of Chicago.
Damaged in a collision with the schooner DENMARK near at Chicago, earlier in the same year.
Sources : nsp,wmn,hgl,wmhs,bb, blu[1856]
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SENECA CHIEF
Other names : none
Official no. : 22580
Type at loss : schooner, wood [listed as a schooner, but with a “scow bottom”]
Build info : 1847, F.N. Jones, Buffalo
Specs : 100x24x7, 133 t.
Date of loss : 1871, Oct 8
Place of loss : at Manistee, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : (none)
Carrying : ?
Detail : She burned to total loss by the great Peshtigo forest fire while tied to her dock at Manistee. The fire, which happened the same day as the Chicago Fire, is thought to have jumped Lake Michigan at about this point. MAY have been recovered and lost in 1874.
Stranded near Black River, Lake Erie, in the spring of 1859.
Sources : nsp,mv,hgl,rsl,bb
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SEREPTA – See MARY EVERETT
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SERVIA
Other names : none
Official no. : 116221
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1888, F. Wheeler, W. Bay City hull# 41
Specs : 242x40x18, 1425g 1182n
Date of loss : 1898, Apr 27
Place of loss : off Whitefish Point
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : corn
Detail : She caught fire from a painting accident by a watchman while towing the disabled steamer ARGONAUT and the schooner FRANK EWEN(qv). A heavy gale blew up while the blaze was being fought, fanning the fire and making it hard for the crew to work on deck. She was abandoned, capsized and sank shortly after. SERVIA’s crew, EWEN & ARGONAUT were all rescued by the Canadian passenger steamer ALBERTA, whose men also tried to help put out the fire. The three were bound Duluth for Kingston, Ont. Master: Capt. Ahlstrom. Part of Hawgood fleet of Cleveland
Sources : vbs,hgl,gwgl,lssc,is,mv,sbs,lss,mpl,nsp
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SERVITOR – See B.B. McCOLL
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SEVASTOPOL – See SEBASTOPOL
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SEVENTH OHIO
Other names : none
Official no. : 23054
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1864, H. Kelly, Milan, Ohio
Specs : 99x24x8, 130 t.
Date of loss : 1877, Nov 4
Place of loss : at Chicago
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm/collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : She collided with the schooner GLAD TIDINGS in a storm in the Chicago harbor. Both vessels were seriously damaged, but a tug was able to get ahold of the TIDINGS and bring her in. The OHIO, however, drifted onto the breakwater off 18th street and pounded to pieces. Owned by Capt. Nick Martin, as was the GLAD TIDINGS. Master: Capt. William Shaw, whose brother was skipper of the TIDINGS.
Sources : hgl,wmn,bb,nsp
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SEVENTY-SIX
Other names : often seen as 76
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1851, Racine, WI
Specs : 76x20x6, 76 t. [om]
Date of loss : 1857, Jul 23
Place of loss : near St. Joseph, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Sprung a leak when 40 miles out of Chicago and abandoned by her crew, who were promptly picked up by the passing vessel HILLSDALE. The abandoned wreck later washed up near St. Joseph. No record if she was recovered or a total loss, but the cost of the casualty was only $800. Master: Capt. Reynolds.
Ashore near Sheboygan in Nov. 1848.
Beached near Grand River, Mich, in 1853 and ashore near New Buffalo, Mich with a loss of one life in March, 1854. Ashore again on the Michigan side in October of the latter year.
There may have been an earlier schooner of this name.
Sources : nsp,bb,hgl,wmn,blu[57]
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SEVERN
Other names : none
Official no. : C
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood
Build info : 1872, Andrews, Welland, Ont. as a steamer
Specs : 151x28x13, 536 t.
Date of loss : 1895, Oct 4
Place of loss : reef off Cove Isl. Georgian Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 850 t. coal
Detail : Tow of the steamer AFRICA(qv),she was released in a gale. She tried to set sail but was driven on a reef under bare poles and pounded to pieces. The crew was saved by local fishermen after spending all night in the rigging. Owner: Mrs. A. R. Christie, Toronto. Master: Capt: Silverside.
Converted from steamer to schooner-barge before 1882
Sources : nsp,polk,clu,is(4-63),slh,mpl
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SEVONA
Other names : built as prop EMILY P. WEED, renamed 1897
Official no. : 136129
Type at loss : propeller, steel, bulk freight
Build info : 1890, F. Wheeler, W. Bay City hull# 69
Specs : 372x41x21
Date of loss : 1905, Sep 2
Place of loss : Sand Island Shoals, Apostles Isls.
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 7
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : Bound Duluth for Cleveland, she was driven aground and split in two. The after crew made it to shore, but those for’ard were lost when their hatchcover raft capsized near the beach. Parts of her later salvvaged. A survey of the wreck done in the early 90’s shows that her two ends are still connected. Master: Capt. E. S. McDonald(d). Owner: James McBrier, Erie, Pa.
Known as a speedy craft [flyer], when first built
Lengthened 72′ at Buffalo, 1905. Originally 300x41x21 2362g 1899n
Image from Ralph Roberts Collection
Sources : vbs,ns1,letter,modoc,gwgl,is,ttgl,nsp,mv,lss,mpl,eas
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WILLIAM SEYMOUR
Other names : none
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : propeller, wood, freighter
Build info : 1870, H. Marlton, Goderich, Ont.
Specs : 87x18x8, 45 t.
Date of loss : 1877, Oct 9
Place of loss : Lonely Isl., E of S. Baymouth, Georgian Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : She foundered or stranded, no detail.
Sources : csv,hgl,win,slh,clu,mmgl
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ABSALOM SHADE – See PEARL
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SHAKESPEARE
Other names : none (also seen in enrollment documents as SHAKESPEAR)
Official no. : none
Type at loss : brig, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1848, Quayle & Cody, Cleveland
Specs : 118x25x10, 264 t. om
Date of loss : 1858, Jun 16
Place of loss : on Pilot Island
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : lumber
Detail : She went ashore, probably in a gale, and broke up by June 26, when the brig PILGRIM arrived to strip her. Owner: Eldreds, Milwaukee. May have been recovered and later named EMPIRE STATE.
Sources : nsp,hgl,wl,bb,whs
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SHAMROCK
Other names : none
Official no. : C77699
Type at loss : propeller steam tug or launch, wood
Build info : 1884, J. Larkin, Hamilton, Ont.
Specs : 48x10x4, 43g 29n
Date of loss : 1885, Oct 1
Place of loss : Becket’s Wharf, Burlington Bay near Hamilton
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : none
Detail : She burned to a total loss along with the new barge ENTERPRISE(qv).
Sources : mmgl,win.ib
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SHAMROCK
Other names : built as schooner-barge JOHN W. HANNAFORD, renamed ’04
Official no. : 46229
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1875, Bower & Cash, St. Clair, MI
Specs : 146x30x12, 403 t.
Date of loss : 1905, Jun 26
Place of loss : Thunder Bay R.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : none of 12
Carrying : 178,000 ft white pine lumber, 150,000 lath
Detail : She had sprung a leak just south of Thunder Bay and had sunk to her decks near Black River Reef. Her crew was taken off by a local vessel and her skipper went into Alpena to obtain tugs to salvage her. Meanwhile the steamer CITY OF HOLLAND picked her up and towed her into the Thunder Bay Rriver. When the SHAMROCK’s skipper demanded her return, the captain of the HOLLAND would not give her up without receiving a salvage payment. As lawsuits ensued, the old boat deteriorated until she was too feeble to recover.She was a serious menace to navigation in the river, and was later removed at great cost by Capt Zess of Alpena. Owner: McMorran, Port Huron.
Ashore on Long Point in Sep, 1875 when brand-new, and expected to become a total loss.
“Reverse” conversion from barge to steamer in 1904, at Port Huron
Sources : polk,mv,hgl,slh,stb,ns1,nsp,eas,ade,wmn
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SHAMROCK
Other names : ?
Official no. : C100578
Type at loss : propeller, tug, wood, fishing
Build info : 1897, Collingwood
Specs : 38x11x5, 14 gt
Date of loss : 1905, Sep 5
Place of loss : off Pte Aux Pins, just NW of Soo
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : 3 of 6
Carrying : none
Detail : She cut across the bows of the steamer W.C. RICHARDSON while both were coming out of the Soo Canal. She was run down and sunk. RICHARDSON was later absolved of any blame in the crash. Owned by J. Roussian of Pt. Maimanse, whose brother was the drowned skipper. Master: Capt. Chas. Roussian(d).
Sources : hgl,gwgl,is,nsp,lss,bb,mmgl not in clu
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SHANDON
Other names : none
Official no. : C72713
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1874, M. Simpson, St. Catharines, Ont. as a bark
Specs : 140x24x12, 350gc 350nc
Date of loss : 1884, Oct 24*
Place of loss : Wingfield Basin, near Cabot Head, Geo. Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : coal
Detail : Bound Ashtabula for Owen Sound, she foundered after springing a leak, a total loss of over $11,000.
*N.A.C. gives 10/20 as date
Registered out of St. Catharines to P. Larkin
Sources : is,polk,hgl,win,slh,h,mmgl
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SHANNON
Other names : none
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1869, R. Davis, Battersea, Ont.
Specs : 400 t.
Date of loss : 1870,
Place of loss : Georgian Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Foundered, no detail.
The Canadian tow-barge SHANNO(sic) of Amhersburg, was reported foundered with all hands on Lake Huron, Nov 25, 1880, may be the source of this report. Owner: Capt. Thos. McGowan, Amherstburg.
Sources : hgl,slh,nsp,bb not in mmgl
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SHANNON
Other names : none
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood*
Build info : 1867, Yott, Kingston, Ont.
Specs : 78x19x6, 69 t.
Date of loss : 1874, Jun 20
Place of loss : 15-20 mi off Oswego, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : hull failure
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 100 t. hard coal
Detail : Sprang a leak and foundered while bound Gananoque for Oswego in fine weather. Master: Capt. Acton.
Also shown as built in 1873 at Picton
Hailed from Kingston
Sources : win,(csqw,csv),clu,is,h,mmgl,dmt,jk
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DAVID SHARP
Other names :
Official no. : C
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1867, W. Olds, Port Dover, Ont
Specs : 91x21x9, 116 t.
Date of loss : 1878, Sep 8
Place of loss : 20 mi above Grand River, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 7
Carrying : RR ties
Detail : Bound for Buffalo from Kingsville, Ont., she waterlogged and capsized in a gale. Her crew and the captain’s wife and small child clung to the bottom of the wreck for 11 hours until rescued by the schooner DUNDEE.
Out of Port Dover
Sources : es,hgl,wmn,clu,mmgl
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D. C. SHAW
Other names : none
Official no. : 208706
Type at loss : propeller tug, wood
Build info : 1911, Gilmore Bros., Toledo
Specs : 77x19x9, 64g 43n
Date of loss : 1926, Jun 8
Place of loss : at Toledo
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Seven vessels of G. H. Breymann & Bros. Dredging Co., which were tied up in the Toledo boneyard near the Pennsylvania R R bridge, apparently caught fire from the embers of a passing locomotive. Before the shipkeeper and local firefighters were able to do much about it, all of them, including the SHAW were destroyed. Two other tugs, JOHN B BREYMANN and G. H. BREYMANN (qv, both) were officially declared lost, but 4 unnamed dredges were reported totaled as well.
Sources : mv,eas,mv,hr
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J.E. SHAW
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1854, J. Stebbins, Milan, OH
Specs : 118 ft., 293 t.
Date of loss : 1856, Sep 22
Place of loss : St. Helena Isl., Straits
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : wheat
Detail : Bound Milwaukee for Oswego in a gale, she slipped in behind St. Helena for shelter and was driven ashore, a total loss of $30,000.
Sources : slh,hgl,ssm,nsp,blu[1856]
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JOHN SHAW
Other names : none
Official no. : 76601
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1885, J. Davidson, W. Bay City, MI hull# 11
Specs : 206x37x14, 828g 882n
Date of loss : 1894, Nov 13
Place of loss : Directly off Greenbush, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 1,750 t. coal
Detail : Bound for Chicago, she sprang a leak and broke her towline from the steamer JOHN F. EDDY while crossing the mouth of Saginaw Bay in storm and fog. The crew took to her boats and were picked up by the steamer H.E. RUNNELS. SHAW foundered a short while later. Master: Capt. Andrew Gustafson; owned by Sulphite Fiber Transportation Co. Skippers of SHAW and EDDY were at variance as to where she sank, EDDY’s was right; wrecking tug JOHNSTON found her off Greenbush in Jul, 1896. One skipper reported her spars visible in the troughs of the waves in a storm 4 or 5 miles ESE of Harrisville.
Sources : phr,vbs,nsp,slh,mv,sbs,mv,wbm,hgl,mpl
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O. SHAW
Other names : none
Official no. : 19332
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1870, Shaw, South Haven, MI
Specs : 67x17x5, 41g 39n
Date of loss : 1904, Aug 9
Place of loss : 2 mi. off Calumet, IL
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 45 t. cordwood
Detail : Bound Muskegon for South Chicago, she sprang a leak halfway across the lake and sank just short of her port despite heroic effort at the pumps.. The crew of 5 abandoned in her yawl just before she went down and landed safely. Owner: A. D. Campbell Co., Chicago. Master: Capt. Joseph Campbell.
Capsized and abandoned off Grand Haven, Mich in the early spring of 1882.
Rebuilt, 1880
Sources : polk,mv,h,nsp
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SHAWMUT
Other names : none
Official no. : 57911
Type at loss : unrigged barge, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1889, Buffalo, NY
Specs : 251g 231n
Date of loss : 1909, Nov 1
Place of loss : Buffalo
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none of 2
Carrying : ?
Detail : She collided with the steamer AMERICA while under tow and sank.
Sources : mv,eas
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SHAWNEE
Other names : none
Official no. : 115140
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, bulk freight, 2-mast
Build info : 1873, Linn & Craig, Gibraltar, MI as a 3-mast schooner
Specs : 178x33x13, 572g 543n
Date of loss : 1911, May 16
Place of loss : near Cleveland
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 6
Carrying : coal
Detail : Broke from tow of the steamer M. T. GREENE and went on a rocky bar in a storm. She broke up from wave action soon after. The loss was partially blamed on low water conditions in the lakes. The GREENE herself stranded on a usually clearable shoal on Lake Huron a few days later.
Sources : polk,mv,phr,ns2,h,eas
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CHARLES J. SHEFFIELD
Other names : also seen as C.J. SHEFFIELD
Official no. : 126414
Type at loss : propeller, steel, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1886, Globe Iron Works, Cleveland
Specs : 259x37x23 1700g 1319n
Date of loss : 1889, Jun 19
Place of loss : 60 mi W of Whitefish Point**
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none of 17
Carrying : light (kerosene?)
Detail : She was rammed broadsides – just forward of her stack – in heavy fog by the steel freighter NORTH STAR, which kept her bow in the hole until SHEFFIELD’s crew clambered aboard. When she backed away, SHEFFIELD sank in 8 minutes, a total loss of $160,000. She went down in 900 feet of water. Both vessels were later found to be at fault. Home port: Cleveland and owned by H. H. Brown. Master: Capt. Allen in 1887.
1st collision between two steel ships.
When built, she was a highly innovative bulk freighter, with a modern hatch plan and iron decks.
** also given as Whitefish Bay.
Sources : hgl,eas,nsp,mv,is(2-69),gwgl,h,lss,lssc,wb,sb,mpl,es,es
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BLANCHE SHELBY
Other names : also seen as BLANCH SHELBY
Official no. : C71225
Type at loss : propeller tug, wood
Build info : 1874, Joseph Day, Buffalo
Specs : 42x9x4, 21gc 12nc
Date of loss : 1885, Oct 15
Place of loss : Fishing Islands
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She struck a rock near Burke Island and sank very quickly. Her crew, however, managed to escape in her yawl.
Out of Goderich, Ont. Master: Capt. Ed Currie. Owners: Charlton & Bible – Mr. Charlton was momentarily at the helm when she struck.
Official record shows Oct, 1887 as the date of her loss, but document not surrendered until 1896.
Sold Canadian in 1877
Sources : do,csv,wmn,mmgl
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SARAH E. SHELDON
Other names : none
Official no. : 115083
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1872, Quelos & Peck, Black River, OH
Specs : 184x32x14, 693g 517n
Date of loss : 1905, Oct 20
Place of loss : near Lake Breeze, OH
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 2 of 14
Carrying : coal
Detail : Bound Cleveland for Sarnia, Ont., she struck a reef and broke up 600 feet offshore in a huge gale. Survivors were rescued by the Lifesaving Service, aided by the tugs KUNKLE BROS. and FRANK W. The vessel was 33 years old. Master: Capt. Jas. W.Garant.
Major repair in 1883
Sources : mv,polk,ns1,h,ledc,nsp,eas,ew,ewl
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THOMAS P. SHELDON
Other names : none also seen as T.P. SHELDON
Official no. : 59147
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood
Build info : 1867, C. Wheeler, E. Saginaw, MI
Specs : 125x25x7, 186 t.
Date of loss : 1870
Place of loss : unreported
Lake : unreported
Type of loss : unreported
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Her documents were surrendered at Port Huron in Dec., 1878, endorsed “wrecked in 1870.” [A new schooner of the same name was built in 1871(qv).]
Sources : phr,nsp,vbs
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THOMAS P. SHELDON
Other names : none
Official no. : 24871
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1871, W, Crosthwaite, Saginaw as 3-mast schooner
Specs : 194x33x13, 669g 636n
Date of loss : 1901, Aug 10
Place of loss : 2 mi NE of AuSable Pt., near Oscoda, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : collision/storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : She collided with her tow steamer WAVERLY(qv) and was holed. Hugging the shore very closely because of the gale winds, WAVERLY went aground and SHELDON, under full sail, rammed her from behind, doing heavy damage to the steamer. She was being towed away from the scene by the AuSable tug CHARLIE when she foundered in shallow water. She broke up in a storm Aug 25. Both boats belonged to the fleet of J. C. Gilchrist. Master: Capt. Tiffany.
Collided with the steamer RUSSIA in the St. Mary’s River, and sunk in May of 1886.
Major repairs in 1874, 75, 80 & 87
Sources : vbs,mv,slh,sbs,lhdc,nsp,es
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SHENANGO #1
Other names : none
Official no. : 116688
Type at loss : propeller, wood, carferry, 26 car
Build info : 1895, Craig Shipbuilding, Toledo hull# 68
Specs : 283x53x19, 1941g
Date of loss : 1904, Mar 11
Place of loss : off Conneaut, OH
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : ice/fire
Loss of life : 2
Carrying : RR rolling stock
Detail : She became frozen in the ice early in January during a routine run in a particularly icy year. She sat with her fires banked until she ignited and burned to total loss at about the time that the ice finally began to break up. Though she was near the Conneaut breakwater, the tall windrows in her hull prevented fire equipment from reaching the fire. Her engineer died trying to reach a sailor trapped below. Owner: Marquette & Bessemer Dock & Navigation Co.
Sources : mv,sol,glc,ns1,h,nsp,es
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SHENANGO #2 – See HARRIET B.
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B. S. SHEPARD
Other names : also seen as B. S. SHEPPARD and SHEPHERD
Official no. : none
Type at loss : bark, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1854, Peck & Masters, Cleveland
Specs : 172x28x11, 510 t. om
Date of loss : 1863, Oct 20
Place of loss : on Pt. Pelee
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm and fog
Loss of life : none
Carrying : oats
Detail : She drove ashore in a fog and high seas. At first she was not injured, but while salavagers aboard the wrecking tug WINSLOW from Detroit fought a storm for her, she rolled over on her beam ends, broke an arch, and finally went to pieces about two weeks later. Owned by F.L. Sheldon, Bufffalo
Sources : nsp,rsl,wl,hgl
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L.B. SHEPARD
Other names : also seen as L. B. SHEPHARD
Official no. : 14676
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1855, Laveyea, Buffalo
Specs : 115x26x11, 215g 204n
Date of loss : 1898, Oct 13
Place of loss : near Two Rivers, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Bound Menominee, Mich, for Chicago, her stern broke off and she capsized and sank in a NE gale after a struggle of several hours. She later came ashore. Master: Capt. Charles Anderson. Out of Sturgeon Bay, Wis., owned by the captain and his brother.
Aground near Milwaukee in 1869.
Ashore and wrecked near Two Rivers, WI, in 1881.
Sources : mv,hgl,polk,usls,bb,jb,wmn,nsp
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SHEPHERD II
Other names : ?
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : propeller tug, steel
Build info : ?
Specs : ?
Date of loss : 1980
Place of loss : Lyal Isl., near Stokes bay, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Wrecked on a reef.
Sources : slh not in mmgl
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SAKIE SHEPHERD – See METROPOLE
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SHERIDAN
Other names : (none?)
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood
Build info : (1846, Sackett’s Harbor, NY)?
Specs : (105x23x10, 217 t. om)?
Date of loss : 1866, Nov 21
Place of loss : 6 mi above Lexington, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Downbound from Saginaw, she and her towmate EXPERIMENT broke loose from a tug and went ashore 6 miles N of Lexington, where they were wrecked. By the next day, both had broken up. Part of their cargoes was saved. Owner: J. K. Kearns, Algonac, Mich.
Sources : hgl,slh,(wl),wmn
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BELLE SHERIDAN
Other names : none
Official no. : 2379
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1852, A. Miller, Oswego, NY
Specs : 123x23x10, 265g
Date of loss : 1880, Nov 7
Place of loss : Weller’s Bay, near Consecon, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 6 of 7
Carrying : coal
Detail : She foundered and broke up in shallow water in a terrific storm, after dragging her anchor for miles. The lost included the skipper and 3 of his 4 sons. The 4th son , 16-years old, was able to swim ashore. Bound Charlotte, NY for Toronto. Master & owner: James McSherry, Jr.
Waterlogged at a Toronto dock in 1877, raised & rebuilt in 1878 by Capt. McSherry, who was lost with her on her final run.
Rebuilt in 1864-5.
Washed out of Oswego harbor by a spring freshet in Feb, 1857, and reported a total loss.
Sources : nsp,is,osdo,tfgl,h,do,wl,rp,blu[57]
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PHIL SHERIDAN
Other names : none
Official no. : 20301
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1868, Clark’s Drydock, Detroit [Springwells]
Specs : 782g 711n
Date of loss : 1875, Nov 30
Place of loss : 30-35 mi W of Buffalo
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none of 24
Carrying : 707 bbl salt
Detail : Bound Buffalo for Detroit, she caught fire in her boiler room and was quickly consumed. Part of her crew abandoned in the yawl, the rest were picked up by the steamer A. TURNER. As she burned low, her engine, boiler and stack apparently fell through her bottom and she sank. Her marine insurance had expired for the season two hours before theblaze was discovered. Master: Capt. Mitchell.
Ashore and in bad shape [reported broken in two] near Munising, Mich, earlier in the same month.
Sources : nsp,lhl,hgl,es,eas
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JIM SHERIFFS
Other names : later PETERS(’07), CHARLES HORN(’15) and JAMES DEMPSEY(1920). See DEMPSEY for final disposition.
Official no. : 76392
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1883, Milwaukee
Specs : 183x32x13, 841g 768n
Date of loss : 1895, Nov 25
Place of loss : On Summer Island, mouth of Green Bay
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : ?
Detail : She was driven ashore and declared a total loss, with her consort, MATTIE C. BELL(qv). Her foreshoe was right out of the water. Owned by Caleb K. Gowen of Cleveland. She was recovered in May of 1896, and rebuilt.
Sources : h,mv,nsp
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GEORGE SHERMAN
Other names : none
Official no. : 10218
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1862, Quayle & Martin, Cleveland as a bark
Specs : 138x26x13, 323g 307n
Date of loss : 1887, Oct 22
Place of loss : near Shot Point, MI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : She was driven ashore by a gale near the schooner ALVA BRADLEY (qv), and wrecked. Her crew made it to shore and hitched a ride into Marquette on an ore train, where they reported the BRADLEY and SHERMAN wrecks. Owned by Benham, out of Cleveland.
Also went ashore near Grand Isl, L. Superior, Oct 12, 1883.
Also ashore E of Cleveland in June, 1866. Owned by Sherman & Co., Cleveland, at that time.
Major repairs, 1878, 1880, 1884 Conv. to schooner, 1880.
Sources : lss,gwgl,ms,is,wb,bb,jk,mr
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GRACE SHERMAN – see GRACE SHERWOOD
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JOHN SHERMAN
Other names : also seen as JOHN SHUMAN
Official no. : 75408
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, lumber
Build info : 1865, Peck & Kirby, Cleveland, OH as a sidewheel revenue cutter
Specs : 181x29x12, 322g 306n
Date of loss : 1891, May 8
Place of loss : below Port Huron
Lake : St. Clair R
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Document surrendered at Port Huron, 12/6/1893, annotated “wrecked.” Reportedly lying along the St. Clair R. as a wreck in 1897.
Out of Bay City
Built as a revenue cutter, sold at auction in 1872. Rebuilt from sidewheeler to schooner-barge in 1878. Her engine went into the new steamer ALASKA(qv).
Image as revenue cutter from GLMD
Sources : phr,mv,polk,mpl,es,nsp,hcgl
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P.C. SHERMAN
Other names : none
Official no. : 19614
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1862, Peck & Masters, Cleveland as a bark
Specs : 406 nt (566 t.)
Date of loss : 1888, Mar 14 (year also given as 1887)
Place of loss : off Long Point
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 7
Carrying : ?
Detail : Foundered. She was reportedly later recovered, but no details.
Also went down near Long Point on Nov 15, 1871. Her crew of 9 was thought lost, but drifted the width of the lake in a yawlboat and came to shore a few days later, with the loss of only one life. She was recovered in the fall of 1872.
Wrecked in the Straits in 1866 and 67.
Not in Polk or ’84 MV
Sources : (hgl),mv(’69),h,wb,win,nsp,sb,rsl,eas
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W. T. SHERMAN
Other names : none
Official no. : 80134
Type at loss : schooner or sloop, wood
Build info : 1869, Ellenwood, Sackett’s Harbor
Specs : 38 t.
Date of loss : 1877, Oct 19
Place of loss : off Four-Mile Point
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : barley
Detail : Bound Cape Vincent, NY, for Osego with barley, she sprung a leak after running on some submerged net stkes near Point Peninsula. She went down in deep water, but her crew was able to make it to shore in her boat. Owned by Capt. Godfrey (her skipper) and Albert Stewart, Sackett’s Harbor.
Sources : nsp,wmhs,wl,polk,mv
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WATTS SHERMAN – See EBENEZER
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ANNIE SHERWOOD
Other names : sometimes shown as ANNE SHERWOOD
Official no. : 310
Type at loss : schooner, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1866, Bailey Bros, Fairport, OH as a bark
Specs : 184x34x14, 622g 591n
Date of loss : 1893, Oct 14
Place of loss : near Deer Park, MI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 2
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Bound for Chicago in tow of steamer WHITE & FRIANT, she broke away and began to founder south of Caribou Isl. The crew abandoned in her yawl and were picked up by steamer SITKA. The wreck washed ashore near Deer Park. Lost men died of exposure in a freezing gale. Out of Chicago, owned by Bigelow Bros. Master: Capt. Louis Guthrie(d).
Had a serious accident on L. Erie (Colchester Reef) 10/14/72
Converted to a schooner before 1871. Rebuilt, 1879, major repair, 1884
Image as a barkentine from GLMD
Sources : lssc,polk,mv,nsp,lss,gwgl,h,wb,win,hgl,mpl,mr
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GRACE SHERWOOD
Other names : often seen as GRACE SHERMAN
Official no. : 10793
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1866, J. Hill, Sodus, NY
Specs : 73 t.
Date of loss : 1875, Oct 8
Place of loss : 1 mi E of Port Burwell docks
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : wheat
Detail : Bound Detroit for Buffalo, she stranded in a gale and was destroyed. Owned by Capt. Egbert Doville of Cleveland
Sources : win,hgl,h,mv,wl,nsp
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H.B. SHERWOOD
Other names : none
Official no. : C71064
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1874, W. Jamieson, Mill Pt. Ont.
Specs : 58x15x6, 36g 21n
Date of loss : 1884, Sep 18
Place of loss : W. of Belleville, Ont., Bay of Quinte
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : none
Detail : Burned to a total loss of about $5,000.
Out of Napanee
Sources : win,mmgl,clu,dmt,mr
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NELLIE SHERWOOD
Other names : none one source says she was formerly the schooner MARKET DRAYTON [US#17747]
Official no. : C61170
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1863, Robertson, Algonac, MI (?)
Specs : 78x22x8, 95gc 95nc
Date of loss : 1882, Sep 14
Place of loss : 2 mi off Cabot Head, Georgian Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 5 [all]
Carrying : flat cars and stone for the Canadian Pacific RR
Detail : While bound Owen Sound for Algoma Mills, she foundered in a gale with all hands the same night as the ASIA(qv) was lost. The wreck later washed ashore on Bear’s Rump. Master: Capt. Thomas “Tom” Blanchard(d). Owner: John Pearson, Owen Sound.
Sold Canadian in 1873. Shows as being out of either Picton, Trenton or Montreal
Sources : polk,hgl,win,mmgl,nsp,slh,lhdc,clu,eas,rp,mv,es
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SHICKLUNA – former entry combined with L. SHICKLUNA
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L. SHICKLUNA
Other names : also seen as LOUIS SHICKLUNA
Official no. : C100752
Type at loss : propeller, wood
Build info : 1870, L. Shickluna, St. Catharines, Ont.
Specs : 135x26x12, 445 t.
Date of loss : 1897, Apr 28
Place of loss : 5 mi E of Long Pt.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : She collided with the downbound steamer TECUMSEH and sank rapidly. She had been bound for Cleveland. Her crew was rescued by TECUMSEH.
Struck a shoal and stranded near Algoma Mills, Ont., North Channel May 20, 1883. Rescued by the big Canadian wrecking tug PRINCE ALFRED.
Burned and sunk at Port Colborne, Ont, Oct, 1870. Raised in Dec.
Rebuilt, 1870, 1892. Reduced in size both times.
Sources : win,csv,is,hgl,eas,nsp,rnc,jb,clu,es
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ADELLA SHORES
Other names : none
Official no. : 107100
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1894, Wolverine Shipbldg, Gibraltar, MI
Specs : 195x35x11, 734g 507n
Date of loss : 1909, May 1
Place of loss : somewhere off Whitefish Point
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 14 or 18 [all]
Carrying : salt
Detail : Bound Ludington for Duluth she “sailed away” in storm. No identifiable wreckage was ever found. She had recently been purchased by E.M. Carleton of Cleveland. Master: Capt. Samuel (or Selvert) Holmes(d).
Sources : ns1,mv,eas,lssc,lss,is,gs,gwgl,sol,wm2,h,ledc,mpl
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JAMES H. SHRIGLEY
Other names : none
Official no. : C134512
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1881, Milwaukee Shipyard, Milwaukee US# 76214
Specs : 172x31x12, 460g 365n
Date of loss : 1920, Aug 18
Place of loss : off Braddock Pt., near Charlotte, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Foundered or beached 1/2 mile off Braddock Point light in gale. Her crew was rescued by U.S. Coast Guard.
She survived a trip on lower Lake Huron during the Big Storm of 1913, coming through the gale when a number of large, new steel ships were destroyed in the same area.
Sold Canadian, 1915
Sources : mv,ns3,polk,csv,mmgl,sol,mpl
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JOHN SHUMAN – see JOHN SHERMAN
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WILLIAM SHUPE
Other names : none
Official no. : 26672
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1862, Shupe, Milan, OH
Specs : 129x25x10, 240g 229n
Date of loss : 1894, May 19
Place of loss : Just northwest of Port Huron
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 4*
Carrying : lumber
Detail : She was driven ashore by a huge spring gale and broke up. A large crowd on shore was unable to assist those aboard, but the Sand Beach Lifesaving Service crew was able to get them off with help of the tug THOMPSON. Owned by Capt. Nelson Little of Port Huron, who had just purchased her the previous month. Out of Port Huron
*None of crew were lost, but 4 volunteer lifesavers drowned.
Sources : phr,is(2-92),polk,mv,nsp,slh,sol,h,wbm,rep
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ADAM SHUMAN – See ADAM SCHUMAN
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JOHN SHUMAN – See JOHN SHERMAN
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SIBERIA
Other names : none
Official no. : C71177
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1874, H. Roney, Garden Isl., Ont.
Specs : 136x25x12, 360gc 341nc
Date of loss : 1883, Oct 30
Place of loss : near Port Rowan, Ont
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 9
Carrying : squared timber
Detail : Bound Toledo for Kingston, she began to leak in heavy seas. After many hours at the pumps, her crew turned her for shore where she sank to her decks. The crew spent all night in her rigging before being rescued by Canadian Lifesaving Service in the morning. SIBERIA later broke up.
Owned by D.D. Calvin of Garden Isl.
Sources : nsp,mmgl,polk,eas
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SIBERIA
Other names : none
Official no. : 115848
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1882, J. Davidson, W. Bay City hull# 6
Specs : 272x30x18, 1618g 1222n
Date of loss : 1905, Oct 20
Place of loss : Bluff Bar, off Long Point
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : barley
Detail : She began to leak in a storm and was turned toward Long Pt. wher she was put on the bar in an effort to save her and her crew. The crew was rescued by the steamer J.H. WADE, but the vessel broke up in place. Owned by Gilchrist Transportation of Cleveland. Master: Capt. Benham.
Sunk by ice in Lake St. Clair in Dec., 1903.
Sources : phr,mv,polk,vbs,nsp,slh,gs,ttgl,h,ledc,win,mpl,eas,ewe
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HIRAM W. SIBLEY
Other names : none
Official no. : 96064
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1890, C. Wheeler, E. Saginaw, MI
Specs : 221x37x22, 1419g 1123n
Date of loss : 1898, Nov 27
Place of loss : North Fox Isl.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 70,000 bu. corn
Detail : Bound Chicago for Detroit, she grounded on NW corner of S. Manitou. Her crew refloated her the following night and she got underway, but began to sink. She was put ashore on the rocky SW side of N. Fox in an attempt to save her, but broke in half and was destroyed by a storm Dec 7. Owned by Ben Boutell, Bay City, Mich. Her master, Capt. Nelson Gonyeau, later denied the story of her movement, even though he reported it in the first place. Enrollment surrendered March 31, 1899.
Sunk in a collision on the St. Clair River in mid-October of the same year.
Sources : vbs,phr,mpl,jb,nsp
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MARK H. SIBLEY
Other names : none
Official no. : 16449
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1847, W. Jones, Buffalo
Specs : 115x24x10, 252 t.
Date of loss : 1869, Jul 7
Place of loss : near Avon Pt., 18 miles W of Cleveland
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : She lost her way in heavy seas and poor visibility and went on the rocks, pounding to pieces a short time later. She had been engaged in the Cleveland to Buffalo petroleum trade. Out of Detroit, owned by Gunning, Itsell & Henry. Master: Capt. R. C. Gunning.
Also went ashore Jun 7, 1855 near the Grand R., Ont. Pulled off a week later by the U.S gunboat MICHIGAN.
Abandoned to her underwriters after wrecking in November, 1867.
Sources : nsp,hgl,mv,wl,rsl,mdwl
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DAN SICKLES
Other names : none
Official no. : 35180
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1864, J. M. Jones, Detroit
Specs : 78x19x5, 66 t.
Date of loss : 1878, May 4
Place of loss : 2 mi N of Sturgeon Bay canal east entrance
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : cordwood
Detail : Bound Washington Island for Milwaukee, she capsized in a squall and washed ashore.
Out of Milwaukee, owned by Grange, King and Degner.
Rebuilt at Elba Isl., Mich., 1866
Sources : nsp,mv,mpl,wgts,bb
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SIGNAL
Other names : none
Official no. : C103577
Type at loss : propeller, (wood), passenger & package freight, sometime tug
Build info : 1896, Collingwood Shipbuilding, Collingwood, Ont.
Specs : 82x16x8, 94 t.
Date of loss : 1905, Oct 2
Place of loss : Midland, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Burned at her dock, a total loss. Owned by Signal Towing & Rafting Co., Wiarton 1901
Sources : csv,slh
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HENRY S. SILL
Other names : none
Official no. : 95832
Type at loss : propeller, wood, tug
Build info : 1875, Carroll Bros., Buffalo
Specs : 63x16x8, 35g 17n
Date of loss : 1913, May 6
Place of loss : Marine City, Mich
Lake : St Clair R
Type of loss : burned
Loss of life : none [no one aboard]
Carrying : ?
Detail : No detail. Homeport: Chicago
Rebuilt 1875
Sources : mv,hr
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SILVER CLOUD
Other names : none
Official no. : 115025
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1869, Johnson, Sheboygan, WI
Specs : 79x22x6, 97g 92n
Date of loss : 1891, Jul 7
Place of loss : off Port Washington, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 3 [captain, his wife and child]
Carrying : cedar post and lumber
Detail : Bound Bailey’s harbor for Milwaukee, she capsized and foundered in a gale afew miles off Port Washington. She began to fill during the night, and when the water became too much for her pumps, the captain went below to awaken his wife and child while the crew took to the rigging. At that point she went down. Owned by Theodore Plathner, et. al, of Milwaukee. Master: Capt. Johnson(d).
Possibly recovered. She was still on registry in 1894, though she was of low value and her loss my not have been reported officially..
Sources : polk,sagl,h,mv,wb,hgl,sb,eas,nsp
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SILVER LAKE
Other names : none
Official no. : 116263
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1889, Little Point Sauble, MI
Specs : 95x20x8, 111g 106n
Date of loss : 1900, May 28
Place of loss : 10 miles off Manitowoc, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : cordwood
Detail : She was rammed and sunk at night by the carferry PERE MARQUETTE in fog. She hung by her rigging from the bow of the ferry until 3 of her crew scrambled aboard. The cook had perished in crash. She was cut away to sink, but drifted around the lake until a large portion of her drifted ashore near Racine, WI, Sep 16. Owned by Nels Johnson of Racine
Wreck located in May, 1977
Sources : glc,h,lmdc,nsp,mpl
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SILVER SPRAY – See also DOVER
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SILVER SPRAY
Other names : none built as IDA, but renamed shortly after launch
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1864, Donaldson & Andrews, Port Dalhousie, Ont.
Specs : 134×17, 401gc 252nc
Date of loss : 1878, Mar 29
Place of loss : Owen Sound, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She burned to a total loss at her dock while overhauling and fitting out for the coming season. She was a total loss of $28,000.
Sunk by collision with prop COMET on L. St. Clair in 1869.
Sources : csv,polk,win,clu,slh,is,h,mmgl,hgl,st,rsl,mdwl,nsp
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SILVER SPRAY
Other names : Built as excursion steamer SPORT, renamed PHOEBE in 1900, renamed SILVER SPRAY about 1906, see also below
Official no. : 116261
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood, fishing
Build info : 1889, Buffalo as a passenger excursion steamer
Specs : 84x17x5, 40g 28n
Date of loss : 1911, Mar 15
Place of loss : Off the harbor entrance at Cleveland
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 7 or 9[all]
Carrying : none
Detail : She was caught outside the harbor in a storm and foundered with all hands. The local lifesaving crew and several local tugs saw hwer in distress but were unable to render any assistance. Owned by Booth Fishing Co. Master: Capt. Jas. Purdy, Erie, Pa. She was raised that summer and rebuilt – reportedly renamed CHARLOTTE (but little evidence). Abandoned in the 1940’s.
Heavily damaged in drydock fire in 1903 at Buffalo. Just previously she had had numerous encounters [some involving gunfire] with Canadian authorities over fishing rights.
Sources : mv,sol,ledc,nsp,mv,wmn,bb,es
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SILVER SPRAY
Other names : built as BLOOMER GIRL, renamed in 1903
Official no. : 3679
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1894, J.W. Collins, Ludington, MI
Specs : 109x22x8, 95g 64n
Date of loss : 1914, Jul 15
Place of loss : Morgan Shoal, Chicago Harbor
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 200 excursionists
Detail : She ran on the shoal while trying to land her passengers -mostly University of Chicago students – at Jackson Park, and stuck fast. Though USLS crews and several other boats tried to pull her off, she capsized and was later broken up by the action of waves. Owner: Florence Miller, et. al., Chicago. Great Lakes Pilot records her as still on Morgan Shoal, though. Some sources erroneously say that she was recovered.
Sources : ns3,mv,glp,lmdc,mpl,wla,eas
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SIMCOE
Other names : built as steamer MARY R. ROBERTSON, renamed in 1880
Official no. : C78023
Type at loss : propeller, wood, freighter
Build info : 1872, Hyslop & Ronold, Chatham, Ont. as passenger steamer
Specs : 140x26x11, 635gc 432nc
Date of loss : 1880, Nov 24
Place of loss : “Simcoe” Pt., Providence Bay, Manitoulin
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 13 of 21
Carrying : corn, gen’l freight
Detail : Bound Chicago for Collingwood, she sprang a leak while crossing Lake Huron and foundered stern first after a struggle of many hours. Most of her crew drowned while trying to release her lifeboat. Wreckage had been coming ashore for a full week before it was known what happened to her. Owned by Great Northern Transit Co., out of Collingwood. Master: Capt. Richard Hill(d).
Rebuilt at Detroit after an 1872 fire near Skillagallee and again in 1880 after 1878 fire at Byng Inlet
Sources : csv,mmgl,nsp,slh,sol,h,lhdc,csv,win,hgl,es
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SIMLA
Other names : none
Official no. : C112144
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1901, Calvin Co., Garden Isl, Ont.
Specs : 226x35x15, 1028g 731n
Date of loss : 1926, Nov 19
Place of loss : Portsmouth, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : She was destroyed by fire at her layup dock. Owned by Canada Steamship Lines. She was stripped late in 1926, then towed out and scuttled, Sep 6, 1927.
Major repairs in 1917
Sources : ns1,win,csv,ns3,mmgl,mpl
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ROUSE SIMMONS
Other names : none
Official no. : 110087
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1868, Allen, McClelland & Co., Milwaukee
Specs : 123x28x8, 205g 195n
Date of loss : 1912, Nov 26
Place of loss : off Kewaunee, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 17 [all]
Carrying : Christmas trees
Detail : The famous “Christmas Tree Ship” was on her last trip of the season when she sailed out from Manistique, overloaded, into the teeth of a blizzard-gale. She had her regular crew plus about 10 lumberjacks aboard. She was overwhelmed and sunk off Kewaunee. She had been spotted, ice covered and in distress, farther to the north, and several boats, including one from the U. S. C.G., had tried to find her. Master and owner: Capt. Herman Scheunnemann(d).
Wreck located 1971 in 180′ near Rawley Pt.
Image from Ralph Roberts Collection
Sources : nsp,ns2,polk,is(1&2-70,2-72),gsgl,sol,mh,wm2,h,mv,mpl,eas,ts
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THOMAS SIMMS
Other names : also seen as TOM SIMS
Official no. : 24393
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1861, Miller Bros. & Clark Co., Chicago*
Specs : 122x26x11, 213 t.
Date of loss : 1882, Nov 23
Place of loss : at Pierport, Mich, N of Manistee
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : hardwood lumber
Detail : She was loading for Chicago when she was struck by a fierce storm, driven ashore and wrecked. Part of her outfit was recovered. Listed in 1884 Merchant Vessels as “lost or otherwise out of service.”
Out of Chicago
*Some sources say built at Oswego,in error.
Sources : mv,wl,nsp,wmhs,polk,hgl
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WILLIAM H. SIMONS
Other names : none
Official no. : 167781
Type at loss : barge, wood (construction barge?)
Build info : 1919, Kingston, NY
Specs : 114x30x13, 471g 471n
Date of loss : 1933, Sep 16
Place of loss : SW of Thunder bay Isl., near Alpena, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Destroyed by an offshore fire. Owned by New York Scow Corp., New York City.
Sources : stb,slh,eas,mv
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LUCIA A. SIMPSON
Other names : none
Official no. : 140097
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1875, Rand & Burger, Manitowoc, WI
Specs : 127x28x9, 227g 216n
Date of loss : 1935, Dec 5
Place of loss : at Sturgeon Bay, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She caught fire and was destroyed at her layup dock, where she had been tied for a couple of years. One of the last full-rigged schooners on the lakes, she had just completed her 60th season! Owned by Town Harbor Yacht Club, Chicago, which was having her refitted as a clubhouse. (See also WAUKEGAN, PETOSKEY)
Major repair in 1883
Sources : ns3,polk,mv,sol,mpl,eas
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W.H. SIMPSON – See MONARCH
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TOM SIMS – See THOMAS SIMMS
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SINGAPORE
Other names : none
Official no. : C77629
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1878, W. Power, Kingston, Ont.
Specs : 106x25x10, 196gc 186nc
Date of loss : 1904, Sep 15
Place of loss : S of Kincardine, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : She was blown ashore and wrecked while at riding out a storm at anchor. Later pounded to pieces. Canadian Lifesavers rescued the captain, his family and his crew. Bound Tobermory for Kincardine. Owned by her skipper, Capt. J. C. Sutherland, Goderich
Also sank near Marblehead, OH, in 1898. In the 2nd week of December, 1900 she grounded tightly near the Lake St. Clair channel and there was a great rush to release her before the ice began to come down the channel and slash her to pieces.
In her early career she was known as the fastest schooner on the lakes.
Image of her breaking up from GLMD
Sources : polk,win,mmgl,slh,ns1,h,ledc,mpl,do,wmn
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SIR TREVOR DAWSON – See WILLIAM C. MORELAND
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SIR EDMUND W. HEAD
Other names : none
Official no. : C ?
Type at loss : bark, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1856, L. Shickluna, St. Catharines Ont.
Specs : 338nc
Date of loss : 1870, Oct 30
Place of loss : 18 mi E of Erie, PA
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 4 of 6
Carrying : coal
Detail : Bound Cleveland for St. Catharines, she sprang a leak and became unmanageable. One man washed overboard as she was driven into the shallows. Three others drowned when her yawl capsized. Hailed from St. Catharines. Master: Capt. Theo. Read.
Major repair in 1864
Sources : nsp,hgl,osdo,rsl,rnc not in mmgl
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SIR LUKE
Other names : none
Official no. : 116530
Type at loss : sidewheel tug, wood, logging
Build info : 1892, Van’s Harbor, Mich
Specs : 79x20x5, 44g 35n
Date of loss : 1901, early Jul
Place of loss : near Van’s Harbor, Mich
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : logs in tow
Detail : This small river tug was no match for a summer storm on the big lake. She was caught in heavy weather a few miles from Garden, Michigan, stranded and wrecked. Her crew made it to shore safely in her smallboat, but the tug was a total loss.
Sources : wgts,bb,mv
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SIR CHARLES METCALF
Other names : also seen as CHARLES METCALF
Official no. : C
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1853, H. Metcalf, Milford, Ont.
Specs : 126 t.
Date of loss : 1861, Oct 11
Place of loss : near Main Duck Isl
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 194 t. coal
Detail : She foundered in a storm near Main Duck, but her crew was able to escape. Out of Northport, Prince Edward Co., Ont. Master: Capt. McNelly.
Sources : hgl,wmn,bb
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SIR WILLIAM SIEMANS – See FRANK E. VIGOR
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SIR S.L. TILLEY
Other names : later ADVANCE (see below), also seen as SIR L. TILLEY
Official no. : C88632
Type at loss : propeller, composite, bulk and package freighter
Build info : 1884, Shickluna, St. Catharines, Ont.
Specs : 168x35x15, 1178g 769n
Date of loss : 1899, Aug 26
Place of loss : 7 miles from Fairport, OH
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : passengers and baggage
Detail : She caught fire offshore and was visible from shore off Fairport. Tugs and a lifesaving crew from that port went out to assist, but the boat was destroyed. Her passengers and crew escaped to her consort, the T. R. MERRITT and were taken off by the local lifesavers, except for two who stayed aboard TILLEY to lash her wheel so that she would run in a circle. She stopped after about an hour and burned to the waterline. The charred hull was later towed in and used as the basis of the smaller steamer ADVANCE (qv), which went into service in Sep, 1900. Her boiler and engine had been salvaged for scrap in August.
Out of St. Catharines
Sources : win,ns1,csvh,ledc,mmgl,clu,pdw,nsp
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SIR C.T. VAN STRAUBENZIE
Other names : also seen as C.T. VanSTAUBENZIE and variations
Official no. : C75632
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1875, L. Shickluna, St. Catharines, Ont as a bark
Specs : 128x26x12, 317g/n
Date of loss : 1909, Sep 27
Place of loss : 8 mi off Long Point
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : 3 of 5
Carrying : in ballast
Detail : She collided with the passenger steamer CITY OF ERIE at night and sank quickly. She had been bound Port Colborn for Cleveland to pick up a load of sand. She crossed in front of the steamer around 3 am and was run down before the big vessel could stop. Master: Capt. John Corson (d). Owned by the Erie Coal Co. out of Toronto.
Built as a Lake Ontario “Timber drougher.”
Stranded and declared total loss on Lake Superior Nov 15, 1883. Recovered the next year.
Sources : polk,mmgl,tfgl,ns1,h,win,mpl,ewe,wmn,nsp
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SIR WILLIAM WALLACE
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1836, Henderson, NY
Specs : 84x17x7, 84 g.
Date of loss : 1861, Mar 16
Place of loss : near Amsterdam, Wis.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : wood
Detail : She stranded in an icy storm and reportedly became a total loss. One of her crew was badly frozen.
Sources : wmhs,wl,wmn
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SIR WILFRID – See P.W.D. 117
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SISKAWIT
Other names : also seen as SISKOWIT
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, fur trader
Build info : 1840, LaPointe(?)
Specs : 50 t.
Date of loss : 1849, Dec 25
Place of loss : near mouth of Chocolay R., SE of Marquette
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : Driven onto a bar just offshore and wrecked. Those aboard had “kidnapped” her and her cargo at L’Anse a few days earlier
Also wrecked on Isle Royale, Oct 3, 1840. Salvaged by Capt. C. Stannard.
Sources : gwgl,irs,lss,is
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SISKIWIT
Other names : none seen in one issue of mv as SISKINIT
Official no. : 115479
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1877, Gibson, Buffalo
Specs : 58x15x8, 37 t.
Date of loss : 1879, Dec 22
Place of loss : near Grand Marais, MN
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1 of 10
Carrying : ?
Detail : She stranded on a reef offshore Dec 12. One person died when she sank while being towed in by the tug AMETHYST, which was almost lost as well. Her crew and a number of passengers spent several freezing days in the northwoods. SISKIWIT was later [May, 1880] recovered, reportedly still later sold Canadian and lasted into the 20th century..
Sources : is,lss,mv,nsp
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SITKA
Other names : none
Official no. : 116174
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1887, F. Wheeler, W. Bay City hull# 32
Specs : 272x41x19, 1740g 1228n
Date of loss : 1904, Oct 9 (4, 5 also given)
Place of loss : Au Sable Pt.,a few miles W of Grand Marais, MI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : Driven aground by gale, she was pounded to pieces by waves. Her crew made it to shore in her yawl. Member of the Gilchrist Fleet, Cleveland. Master: Capt. F. E. Johnson.
Sources : vbs,mv,ms,gwgl,lss,is,ns1,nsp,mpl
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EDWARD E. SKEELE
Other names : built as schooner PAULINE, renamed JOHN MEE in 1867, last name in 1914
Official no. : 76264
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1856, G. Barber, Manitowoc
Specs : 122x26x9, 199g 189n
Date of loss : 1921, Sep 25
Place of loss : Julia Bay of Manitoulin Isl.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : She was driven on a reef near Barrie Island and heavily pounded. Later slipped off into deep water. Homeport: Marquette.
She had one of the longest working lives of any wooden vessel – 65 years!
Rebuilt, 1881.
Wreck located in 1986.
It is reported that she had a different official number as PAULINE [19674].
Sources : polk,mv,ns3,eas,is,lhdc,mpl
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R.J. SKIDMORE
Other names : none
Official no. : 21140
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1856, H. Baker, Trenton, MI
Specs : 94x22x8, 107g 102n
Date of loss : 1885, Sep 21
Place of loss : off Gill’s Dock, N of Leland, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : lumber
Detail : She pulled away from the dock in an attempt to save herself from smashing against it in the storm. She came to anchor a few hundred yards out, but was driven ashore when her chains parted or her anchors slipped. She pounded to pieces near the beach. Owned by H.J. Pauley of Chicago [This was reportedly the 3rd loss for him near Gill’s Pier in 1885].
Damaged in a collision with the schooner ARGO near Racine, WI, in Sep, 1873
Sources : mv,sb,nsp,hgl,bb,wl,rsl
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J.B. SKINNER
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1841, Conneaut, Oh
Specs : 97x21x8, 142 t. om
Date of loss : 1855, Dec
Place of loss : north of Ludington near Big Sable Pt.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Reportedly lying close in, taking lumber off the beach, when she was blown ashore. She was stripped by her crew and was expected to go to pieces. Reportedly a total loss of $15,000.
Had gone ashore near Port Burwell, Ont, in September of the same year – expected to go to pieces.
Originally 73x20x8, 100 t. om, rebuilt and enlarged at Milan, Oh, in 1846
Sources : nsp,wl,wmn,bb,mmo
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THOMAS B. SKINNER
Other names : also seen as THOMAS S. SKINNER, T. S. SKINNER
Official no. : 24781
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1869, Dunford, Port Huron
Specs : 115x27x9, 195 gt
Date of loss : 1882, Nov 23
Place of loss : near Grand Haven, MI harbor entrance
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 8
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Bound Muskegon for Chicago, she stranded and wrecked on the south side of the south pier when blown off course while trying to enter in a gale.
Out of Muskegon.
Sources : phr,h,hgl,usls,wl,nsp
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SKULD – See FRANCISCO MORAZAN
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SKYLARK
Other names : none
Official no. : 22398
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1867, Summerfield, New Baltimore, Mich
Specs : 69 t.
Date of loss : 1871, Sep 1
Place of loss : near Port Stanley, Ont
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 2
Carrying : coal
Detail : Driven on a bar and sunk by a gale. She was declared a total loss, but was recovered the following spring and lasted until 1891, when she may have been lost in another wreck. Master: Capt. Warwick.
Out of New Baltimore.
Sources : nsp,rsl,mv,wl,bb,wmn
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SKYLARK
Other names : none
Official no. : 23492
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1863, Campbell & Owen, Detroit
Specs : 138x26x12, 313g 297n
Date of loss : 1895, Sep 23
Place of loss : at Naubinway, Mich
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : (lumber)
Detail : She went ashore in a heavy gale and was wrecked. She was stripped and abandoned soon after.
Sources : hgl,wmn,bb,mv
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DANIEL SLAWSON
Other names : also seen as DANIEL SLAUSON
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1857, A. Gilson, Racine
Specs : 115x27x10, 273 t.
Date of loss : 1863, Oct 18
Place of loss : Pilot Island, near Death’s Door
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : wheat
Detail : Bound Racine for Buffalo, she was wrecked in a storm near Death’s Door. Her captain and crew survived, though first reported as lost. Out of Racine, owned by Slawson & Taylor
Worth $17,500 in 1861.
Sources : nsp,wmn,umr,bb,wmhs,wgts,whs
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SLIGO
Other names : built as PRINCE OF WALES, last name in 1874
Official no. : C72111
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood*, bulk freight
Build info : 1860, L. Shickluna, St. Catharines, Ont. as bark
Specs : 143x26x14, 335gc 284nc
Date of loss : 1918, Sep 5
Place of loss : W end of Toronto Isl, off Toronto
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : stone
Detail : She struck bottom and sank in thunderstorm after being lost from her tug, the NEW YORK. Registered out of Toronto.
*partially iron-framed
Also heavily damaged in a wreck on L Huron in 1880.
Converted from a bark to a schooner and rebuilt in 1874. Converted from a 3-mast schooner to schooner-barge in 1893. Also rebuilt in 1880.
Sources : ns2,polk,is,hgl,mmgl,h,win,mpl,do
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GEORGE B. SLOAN
Other names : also seen as GEORGE B. SLOANE
Official no. : 85288
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1873, A. Miller, Oswego, NY
Specs : 138x26x11, 314g [142 ft overall]
Date of loss : 1885, Oct 30
Place of loss : harbor entrance at Oswego, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : light*
Detail : She was caught by a NE storm while trying to make the harbor after dark in a 60-mph gale under reefed sails. She was driven on the breakwater and ground to pieces quickly on the side of a stone pier. Bound Ogdensburg for Oswego. The cook was drowned when she went back for her satchel, but the rest of the crew was able to make it to the pier unaided. Out of Oswego, owned by Capt. Thos. Martin. Master: Capt. McDowell.
*also described as wheat.
major repair, 1881
Sources : is,polk,mv,osdo,nsp,h,hgl,usls,rp,es
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JOSEPH T. SLOAT – See J.J. CARROLL II
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DAVID SMART
Other names : also seen as DAVIS SMART, DANIEL SMART*
Official no. : none
Type at loss : brig, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1846, Holland or Hopkins, Port Huron, Mich
Specs : 97x25x10, 203 t. om
Date of loss : 1857, Apr 2
Place of loss : at Chicago
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 14 [8 crew, 6 would-be lifesavers]
Carrying : wood
Detail : This schooner went ashore on the south side of the pier at Chicago and broke up. All of her crew were lost, as were 6 of 7 men from the schooner REPUBLIC who attempted to come to their rescue in a small boat. The SMART was owned by J. H. Einer of Chicago. Master: Capt. William Phillips(d).
*named for Port Huron businessman David Smart
Sources : hgl,wmn,wmhs,bb
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SMITH – See also GOV. SMITH
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SMITH
Other names : built as ALBERT J. WRIGHT, renamed 1919
Official no. : C138371
Type at loss : propeller tug, wood, oil screw
Build info : 1881, Union Dry Dock Co., Buffalo [US# 105993]
Specs : 120x22x10, 218g 155n
Date of loss : 1930, Oct 24
Place of loss : 6 mi off SE tip of Long Pt.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Foundered in a gale while in tow of the big tug Manistique and bound for Sarnia, Ont., for renovation. Her 4-man crew was rescued by the towing vessel. Registered out of Montreal to SinMac Co.
Sold Canadian, 1919.
Sources : csv,win,mmgl,h,ledc,h,eas,ewe
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SMITH & POST
Other names : none
Official no. : 23527
Type at loss : schooner, wood, lightship
Build info : 1866, J Potter, Oakville, Ont.
Specs : 117x26x10, 212g 201n
Date of loss : 1901, Aug 7
Place of loss : Southeast Shoal
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She had been chartered by the Lake Carriers’ Association as temporary lightship on the dangerous shoal. She caught fire while on station, and was destroyed rapidly when the blaze reached her highly flammable illuminating oils. She burned to the waterline and sank, but her crew was rescued by the steamer CODURUS. The wreck was later dynamited to flatten it. Owned by Charles Doville and registered out of Cleveland. She was soon replaced as lightship by the steamer KEWAUNEE [US#161165].
Sold American about 1872.
Rebuilt, 1882
Sources : mv,hgl,polk,nsp,ns1,ledc,mpl
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ABRAM SMITH
Other names : none
Official no. : 106923
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1892, J.H. Ihnken, Algonac, MI
Specs : 147x30x11, 373g 354n
Date of loss : 1906, Oct 8
Place of loss : Great Duck Island, W of Manitoulin
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Tow of steamer LANGELL BOYS(qv), she was driven ashore and pounded to pieces while sheltering from a storm. LANGELL BOYS rescued her crew. Master: Capt. Charles Lyons.
Newspapers erroneously reported that she wrecked near Alpena
Sources : mw,phr,mv,eas,modoc,ns1,mpl
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ANNA SMITH
Other names : none
Official no. : 105276
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight “steambarge”
Build info : 1873, J. Navagh at Abram Smith shipyard, Algonac, MI
Specs : 179x33x14, 636g 519n
Date of loss : 1889, Nov 27
Place of loss : 7 mi. below Cheboygan, MI, lighthouse
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : coal
Detail : She was driven ashore by gale and broken up by wave action. She had been bound for Milwaukee towing the schooner RED WING, where she was to go into winter quarters. One crewman drowned in a solo attempt to make it ashore on a hatch cover – the rest were rescued by the tug CLAYT. The wreck burned to the water’s edge Nov 30. Location also given as near Charlevoix.
Owned by Parker Bros.and others of Detroit, total loss of $47,000. Master: Capt. LeMay.
major repair in 1877, 1879
Image of vessel ablaze from GLMD
Sources : phr,mv,nsp,slh,h,lhdc,wb,hgl,sb,ssm,mpl
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BESSIE SMITH
Other names : none
Official no. : 2852
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood
Build info : 1873, Bailey Bros, Toledo
Specs : 201x37x17, 723 t.
Date of loss : 1873, Nov (7)
Place of loss : Beaver Island
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : 1,500 t. iron ore
Detail : Soon after leaving Escanaba, her tow steamer J. KELLEY became disabled, and the SMITH raised her sails and towed the steamer back in. She then struck off on her own, but was overtaken by a storm. Picked up by the steamer ANNIE YOUNG, she soon broke loose and was driven ashore. Wreckers put the largest available pumps aboard to try to pump her out, but to no avail. Owner: Shepherd, Henry & Co. As of the end of the season she was still on the beach.
Usual consort of the steamer J. KELLEY.
Sources : nsp,hgl,wmn,bb,wmhs
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CHARLIE O. SMITH – See BETTY L
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EDWARD SMITH – See ZILLAH
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ELLA M. SMITH – former entry deleted – vessel was recovered from 1895 wreck, lasted until 1907
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FLORENCE M. SMITH
Other names : none
Official no. : 120796
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1884, Charlevoix, MI
Specs : 73x19x7, 61g 58n
Date of loss : 1897, Jul 11
Place of loss : at South Haven, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : Collided at night with a pier in the harbor and sank, a total wreck. Master: Capt. Fred Link. Out of Charlevoix.
Sources : mv,lmdc,hgl,nsp
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FRANCES SMITH – See BALTIC
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H.P. SMITH
Other names : none
Official no. : 11860
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1864, Hitchcock, Buffalo
Specs : 63x14x9, 37g
Date of loss : 1872, May 27*
Place of loss : Saginaw River near Portsmouth, Mich
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none, barge in tow
Detail : She burned and sank.
Owned by D. Shoemaker, Wenona, MI
*May 14 also given
Sources : nsp,phr,mv,eas,slh,lhl,hgl,rsl,modoc
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HENRY B. SMITH
Other names : none
Official no. : 203143
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1906, American Shipbuilding, Lorain, OH hull# 343
Specs : 525x55x31, 6631g 5229n
Date of loss : 1913, Nov 10
Place of loss : north of Marquette, MI, exact loc. unknown
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 25 [all]
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : She went missing in the “Big Storm” of 1913, probably simply overwhelmed by some of the largest waves of the century. Master: Capt. James Owen(d).
Sources : eas,mv,mpl, many others
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HI SMITH
Other names : none
Official no. : 95296
Type at loss : propeller tug, wood
Build info : 1862, Carroll Bros., Buffalo
Specs : 54x14x6, 21 t.
Date of loss : 1878, Oct. 27
Place of loss : on Tecumseh Reef
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : a schooner and a barge in tow
Detail : She was outbound from Buffalo when she struck the reef. The scow-schooner AMELIA, first in line behind her, coasted in and rammed her in the stern. The next day a powerful storm began and the SMITH was soon reported as gone to pieces. Owned by Maytham & Hammond, Buffalo, and worth about $8,000.
Sources : jb,mv,nsp,bb
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HURLBUT W. SMITH
Other names : none
Official no. : 96669
Type at loss : propeller, steel, bulk freight*
Build info : 1903, American Ship Building, Lorain, OH hull# 322
Specs : 414x50x28, 4662g 3415n
Date of loss : 1958, Aug*
Place of loss : near Little Current, Ont., NE Georgian Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : stranded
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : She went on a shoal while backing out of the harbor, and, while not heavily damaged, was declared a constructive total loss because her owner, McCarthy Steamship Co., was phasing smaller boats out the fleet at the time. She sailed under her own power to Superior, Wisconsin later that fall, where she was scrapped. Master: Capt. Edward N. Rendrick.
*date also given as October
Sources : ns5,mv,a&f,is,h,rdk
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IRA O. SMITH
Other names : none
Official no. : 100200
Type at loss : propeller tug, wood
Build info : 1877, Muskegon Boom Co., Muskegon, Mich
Specs : 63x14x7, 39gt
Date of loss : 1898, Sep 22
Place of loss : Off Evanston, Ill.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She caught fire while at sea off Evanston and her crew was unable to extinguish the blaze. They abandoned her in the yawl boat and the tug burned to a total loss.
Just a month earlier, on Aug 21, fire broke out in a pile of kindling placed near the boiler of this tug while she was off Lincoln Park, N of Chicago harbor. When it was discovered, the captain immediately ordered the pumps started and the tug, under a full head of steam, raced for Chicago harbor. She made it to the river, but five of the seven men aboard suffered serious burns putting out the fire. Soon after docking the fire broke out again, but was extinguished by the fire boat YOSEMITE. Newspapers said the damage was not serious, but later records says she was a total loss. Master: Capt. James Crawford. Out of Chicago – owned by Independent Tug line. Last known registration, 7/98
Sources : hgl,bb,wmhs,nsp
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J.A. SMITH
Other names : none
Official no. : 45966
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1871, T. Arnold, Algonac
Specs : 138x26x9, 255g 242n
Date of loss : 1887, Sep 8
Place of loss : off Station Pt., Straits of Mackinac
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : cedar posts, RR ties
Detail : She was left at anchor by the steamer MATTAWAN, which went to Charlevoix for coal, along with the schooner ANGLO-SAXON. Both were sunk in the storm which followed. Her skipper was killed by an unsecured steam pump during a salvage attempt and the hull burned to the waterline some years later. Bound Cockburn Isl. for Chicago. Out of Detroit, owned by A. A. T. Co.
Sources : ssm,phr,mv,nsp,slh,hgl,es3-1,mr
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JESSE SMITH
Other names : none also seen as JESSIE SMITH
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1832, French Creek, NY – maybe rebuilt at Detroit, 1843
Specs : 80x19x117 t.
Date of loss : 1848, Nov
Place of loss : unreported
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : (none mentioned)
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Wrecked and a total loss of $4,000. No further detail.
Sources : hgl,wl,bb
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JOE SMITH
Other names : built as THE MOOSE
Official no. : C138862
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger & package freight [US#203947]
Build info : 1907, Superior, WI
Specs : 82x20x11, 145t [US: 98g 52n]
Date of loss : 1926, May 22
Place of loss : Amethyst Harbor, Ont.
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Burned to a total loss while at anchor. Her owner was nearby checking the beach for gravel hauling possibilities. The wreck is still on the site. Reg. out of Port Arthur, Ont.
Sold Canadian in 1923.
As “THE MOOSE” she had a large mounted moose head on the front of her pilothouse.
Image as THE MOOSE from GLMD, note moose head
Sources : csv,mmgl,win,mpl,mv,rf
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JULIA SMITH
Other names : none built on the hull of the old steamer GEO. HAMILTON
Official no. : 12979
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1847, A.F. Locke, Saginaw, MI
Specs : 80x19x7, 94 t.
Date of loss : 1881, Nov 27
Place of loss : near Ahnapee, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : cordwood
Detail : Bound Jacksonport for Milwaukee, she was driven ashore and pounded to pieces by a gale. Owned by Fred and Ernest Paenz of Milwaukee.
Also grounded in a gale near Goderich, Ont., in November, 1864.
Rebuilt in 1870.
Sources : vbs,hgl,mv,wl,nsp,wgts
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LILLIE SMITH – See LINCOLN
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PETER SMITH
Other names : built as C.S.N. LITTLE ADA, this name in 1878, see below for name changes*
Official no. : 150133
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, iron
Build info : 1863, W. Simons & Co., Glasgow, Scot.
Specs : 116x18x10, 161g 109n
Date of loss : 1884, Apr 6
Place of loss : Off Vermilion Harbor, OH (or off Lorain, OH)
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : explosion
Loss of life : 3
Carrying : none barges in tow
Detail : Bound Cleveland for Toledo with two lighters in tow, she was sunk by a boiler explosion and declared a total loss, but later raised (perhaps years later). The dead included the skipper of a lake schooner, who was aboard for a pleasure trip. Master: Capt. John Hobson. Owners: L. P. & J. A. Smith, Cleveland.
Major repairs in 1878 and 81, completely rebuilt in 1883
*Seized by the U.S. Govt as a blockade runner July 9, 1864 and given to the Navy: transferred from U.S. Navy to U. S. Army Corps of Engineers in Aug, 1865 and renamed ADA. Used by CofE as a Lake Survey vessel. Sold to Peter Smith of Bay City in 1878 for $1,000. Sold to Canadian parties in 1909 and renamed LITTLE ADA again. Sold to East Coast parties in 1921 and returned to same US official number, renamed BUXTON. Renamed BETTY JANE HEARD in 1923. Renamed POLING BROS. NO. 2 in 1928. Foundered off Captain Island, Long Island Sound, without loss of life, Mar 12, 1940. Some Civil War-era newspaper articles call her IDA.
Converted from steamer togas screw by 1923, to Diesel by 1934.
Another tug of this name was built at Cleveland in 1855 [US#19683].
Sources : phr,polk,hgl,mv,h,usls,mv,es,hcgl,nsp,es
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SARAH SMITH
Other names : none
Official no. : 115920
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1883, F. Wheeler, W. Bay City hull# 17
Specs : 75x17x5, 46g 31n
Date of loss : 1908, Aug 18
Place of loss : off Minnesota Pt., near Duluth
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none of 6
Carrying : none
Detail : She caught fire from an overheated stove and burned to a total loss, then sank. She had been lying at anchor off the point at the time. One source says she was recovered.
Image from Ralph Roberts Collection
Sources : vbs,gwgl,sbs,h,mv,lss
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SIDNEY E. SMITH
Other names : built as WILLIAM P. PALMER, renamed MAX BROAD in 1929, last name in 1934.
Official no. : 81705
Type at loss : propeller, steel, bulk freight
Build info : 1900, American Ship Building, Cleveland hull# 400
Specs : 242x42x27, 2293g 1609n
Date of loss : 1936, Nov 17
Place of loss : near Fairport Harbor, OH
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Driven ashore by a gale, a constructive total loss. The cargo was recovered, but vessel was scrapped the following year. Owned by A. F. Morley, Detroit.
Image of vessel stranded from GLMD
Sources : ns4,mv,glmd
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SIDNEY E. SMITH, Jr.
Other names : built as W.K. BIXBY, renamed J.L. REISS in 1920, last name in 1972
Official no. : 202875
Type at loss : propeller, steel, bulk freight self-unloader
Build info : 1906, Detroit Shipbuilding, Wyandotte hull# 161
Specs : 480x52x30, 5712gt 4407nt
Date of loss : 1972, Jun 21 (June 5 also given)
Place of loss : at Port Huron, MI under old Bluewater Bridge
Lake : St Clair R
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : She collided with the steamer PARKER EVANS, broke in two and sank. The hulk was later removed, the cabins being scrapped and the hull being towed to Sarnia, where it is still in use as a dock facing.
Converted to self-unloader at Manitowoc, 1933
Sources : ns5,mv,is(3&4-72),sol,mpl,sm
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SOPHIA SMITH
Other names : none
Official no. : 22271
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood
Build info : 1855, Bidwell & Banta, Buffalo, as a schooner
Specs : 269 g
Date of loss : 1875, Sep 9
Place of loss : near Pte Aux Barques
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : She was the last barge in a six-barge tow of the prop MAYFLOWER which was struck by a north’r. Four* of the vessels, including SMITH, broke loose. She was driven high up onto the rocky shore by the storm, but her crew was able to escape safely, and camped overnight at the local picnic ground. The vessel was later abandoned. She was the only empty barge in the tow because she was in such poor condition that it was considered unsafe for her to carry any load.
*The other loose barges were E.S. Gould, T. P. Sheldon and Merrimac.
Ashore near Pt. Mouilee, Mich., in Nov, 1874. Recovered in the summer of 1875 after a long and difficult salvage effort.
Sources : hgl,mv,nsp,es,rsl
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THOMAS H. SMITH
Other names : none
Official no. : 145284
Type at loss : propeller steambarge, wood
Build info : 1881, Rand & Burger, Manitowoc, WI
Specs : 130x28x11, 281g 198n
Date of loss : 1893, Nov 11
Place of loss : 5 mi NE of Racine, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : collision/explosion
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : She collided in fog with the steamer ARTHUR ORR and began to sink. As cold water hit her boiler, it exploded and she was destroyed. She had been bound for Menominee from Chicago to load lumber. Master: Capt. Thomas Olson; owner Leathem & Smith. The ORR, which had been a passenger boat at the Chicago World’s Fair, was on her first trip after having been converted to a freighter.
Sources : polk,hgl,mv,lmdc,wb,mpl,nsp,wls
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WILLARD A. SMITH
Other names : none
Official no. : 80587
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1875, B. Campbell, Charlevoix, Mich
Specs : 65x17x6, 44g 42n
Date of loss : 1893, Oct 14
Place of loss : Horseshoe bay, Wis.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : wood
Detail : She tried to ride out a storm tied to Anderson’s Dock, Horseshoe Bay, but broke loose and went into the shallows. Her skipper, who had been left behind when she drifted away, was able, with the help of a colleague, to save her crew, but the schooner broke up, a total loss.
Originally 44x16x5 ft, 20 t., rebuilt before 1884.
Sources : wgts,bb,mv,nsp
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DAVID SMOKE
Other names : none
Official no. : 35051
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood
Build info : 1867, Peter J. Morgan, Manitowoc
Specs : 180x35x9, 454 t. (593 t OM)
Date of loss : 1869, Dec 4
Place of loss : at Buffalo
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : In tow of the steamer PITTSBURG, she broke loose in a storm on Nov 25, but, under her own sail, made it to the beach near Long Point, Ont. A few days later she was pulled off and brought to Buffalo, probably by the tug F.L. DANFORTH. On the date shown she was blown loose from her berth at the new pier and drove ashore, where she was expected to break up. Owned by Morgan & Co., Detroit. Reported on later casualty list as “got off,” but that probably refers to the Long Point stranding, as she has no further registration.
Sources : nsp,hgl,wmn,wl
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KITTY SMOKE
Other names : none also seen as KITTIE SMOKE
Official no. : 14254
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1868, Jasper Hanson, Manitowoc
Specs : 67x19x7, 75g 41n
Date of loss : 1889, Nov 28
Place of loss : mouth of Saginaw R.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Burned to a total loss – she was ashore at the time and her crew escaped easily.
Re-boilered in June, 1889.
Sources : phr,polk,mv,slh,lhl,nsp,wl,jb
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CALVIN SNELL
Other names : also seen as C. SNELL, CALVIN SUELL
Official no. : US none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1857, Joel Norton, Richmond, OH
Specs : 122x26x10, 278 t.
Date of loss : 1858, May 28
Place of loss : 25 mi from Presqu’ile, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : hull failure
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 70 t. stone (shown as ballast)
Detail : Bound Kingston, Ont., for Welland Canal, she sprung a leak and sank. Her crew escaped in her smallboat. Document surrendered in 1858 due to “loss of vessel.”
out of Fairport, owned by Solomon Snell, Painesville
Sources : nsp,wl,wmn
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SNOW DROP
Other names : none
Official no. : 22377
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1853, Lent, Conneaut, OH
Specs : 126x25x8, 190g 181n
Date of loss : 1892, Apr 30
Place of loss : North Point, near Milwaukee
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 7
Carrying : cedar posts
Detail : She was stranded on the rocky shore and destroyed in a gale. Her crew was saved in a difficult rescue by the Milwaukee U.S. Lifesavers, after and abortive attempt by the local tug COE. By May 5 the schooner had been abandoned as not worth saving. Owned by J. Tholer, Chicago. Master: Capt. John Skipworth.
Major repair in 1861, other repairs in 1866, 1868, 1887 and 1889
Sources : phr,polk,mv,slh,h,osdo,hgl,bb,rsl,nsp
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SNOWBIRD
Other names : built as MINNIE PROCTOR, renamed in 1875
Official no. : C72991
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1862, Proctor, Presqu’ile, Ont. (MAYBE just rebuilt in this year)
Specs : 77x18x7, 87g 82n
Date of loss : 1880, Nov 12
Place of loss : Oswego, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 5
Carrying : lumber
Detail : She was unable to enter the harbor due to a storm, so she signaled for tug assistance. The tug WHEELER picked her up, but her towline broke and she drove into the shallows. The Lifesaving Service crew took her crew off when she appeared to be breaking up. A $3,000 loss, she was abandoned to underwriters, who sold her off the beach for $500, and was later recovered.
Out of Toronto. Owned by her skipper, Capt. Beard, and Arthur Clarkson.
Ashore at Oakville, Ont. and declared a total loss in 1868.
Abandoned in Toronto harbor and fell apart about 1905
Sources : win,hgl,polk,mmgl,tfgl,nsp,osdo,clu,usls,dmt
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DICK SOMERS
Other names : none
Official no. : 6136
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1863, Wolf & Lawrence, Milwaukee
Specs : 138x26x13, 332 t.
Date of loss : 1877, a few days before Nov 25
Place of loss : S end of Poverty Island
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : iron ore [650 tons worth $3,300]
Detail : Bound Escanaba for Ashtabula, she was driven ashore and reported by her skipper as a total loss. Owned by Weinert & Capt. Meyers of Chicago. Master: Capt. N. P. Hines. Most of her gear and cargo was salvaged by the divers Church & Hill of Chicago by the summer of 1878.
Sources : nsp,mv,rsl,wl,wgts
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SOMERSET
Other names : none
Official no. : 57384
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1847, Crockett, Oswego, NY as a schooner
Specs : 88x18x8, 95 t.
Date of loss : 1872, May 11
Place of loss : off Monroe, Mich
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : While downbound from the Saginaw River in a five-barge tow of the tug ZOUAVE, she collided with her towmate WOLVERINE, broke up and sank. Document surrendered at Port Huron 1/14/1878, annotated “wrecked at Toledo, 1873.”
Owned by White & Garvett, Bay City.
Also ashore and wrecked near Erie, PA, in the fall of 1853.
Rig changed from schooner to barge in 1867.
Sources : phr,hgl,nsp,wl,rsl,nsp
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SON & HEIR
Other names : none
Official no. : C
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1857, M. Simpson, Oakville, Ont.
Specs : 200 t.
Date of loss : 1869, Nov
Place of loss : Winfield (Wingfield?) Point, Georgian Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : stranded
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Foundered, no detail. She is still listed on an 1871 insurance list – may have been recovered.
Sources : hgl,slh,clu,rsl,wl,mdwl
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ROSA SONSMITH
Other names : none
Official no. : 110517
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1882, T. Arnold, E. Saginaw, MI
Specs : 181x33x12, 766g 738n
Date of loss : 1900, Nov 5
Place of loss : near Ashtabula, OH
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 1,600 t. iron ore
Detail : Her tow steamer T. S. CHRISTIE(qv) could not handle her in a gale and passed her towline off. While being pulled into port, she broke her line to the harbor tug KUNKLE BROS.and was driven aground 300 ft from the pier. The crew was rescued by KUNKLE BROS., but the schooner broke up the next day. Owned by Lucius P. Mason of Saginaw and her skipper. Master: Capt. Chas. Sonsmith.
When new she was identical to the schooners NELLIE MASON and MATTIE C. BELL, all built to be consorts of the steamer C. H. GREEN.
Sources : ns1,phr,mv,vbs,nsp,mpl
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SOPHIA
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1818, Sacket’s Harbor
Specs : 49 t.
Date of loss : 1827 or 28, Aug 22
Place of loss : 6 mi E of Big Sodus Bay and 4 miles offshore
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm/hull failure
Loss of life : 2 of 3
Carrying : corn
Detail : She was bound Pultneyville for Oswego, NY in heavy weather when she suddenly became hard to handle. A great leak was discovered and before anything could be done about it she went down. All three crew came to the surface, but only the captain [the famous Capt. Horatio N. Throop, age 19 at the time] was able to swim the 4 miles to shore. Information on the wreck came from a letter he wrote in 1877.
She was probably the former steamer of this name, reported abandoned, but rebuilt to a schooner in 1822.
Sources : rp,osdo
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SOPHIA
Other names : none
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1844, R. Gaskin, Windsor, Ont.
Specs : 82x18x8, 104 t.
Date of loss : 1854, Oct 10
Place of loss : Club Isl., NE of mouth of Georgian Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : flour, potash, fish
Detail : She was driven ashore by a gale and wrecked. Owned by Stephens Bros., Owen Sound
Converted to steamer during her career, then back to schooner.
Sources : hgl,slh,is,nsp
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SOREL
Other names : none
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1849, D. & J. McCarthy, Sorel, PQ
Specs : 108x22x9, 196 t.
Date of loss : 1861, Nov 16
Place of loss : about 12 mi W of Oswego, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Inbound for Oswego from Whitby, Ont., she was unable to locate Oswego harbor – her skipper said the Oswego light was not lit. Master: Capt. Stanton. She later went ashore in heavy weather and became a total wreck.
Rebuilt in the winter of 1852-3
Sources : hgl,mmgl,rnc
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SOUTH AMERICA
Other names : none also seen as SOUTH AMERICAN
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1841, Burton Goodsall*, Vermilion, OH
Specs : 100 t.
Date of loss : 1843, Oct 17
Place of loss : Between Buffalo & Toledo
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 7 [all]
Carrying : 600 bbl. salt
Detail : Left Buffalo on the 14th and was never seen again. Disappeared, probably in a squall, without a trace. Master: Capt. Bradley(d). Sailors considered her to be a “ghost ship” and she was reported seen on many occasions after the accident.
*she was built by or for Alva Bradley and Ahira Cobb, Vermilion. They were probably still the owners at the time of her loss. Noy known what the relationship – if any – was between the owner and the captain, but they were not the same person.
Sources : hgl,is(2-69),wm2,nsp,bb
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SOUTH EASTERN
Other names : rebuilt as INTERNATIONAL. Also seen as SOUTHEASTERN
Official no. : C80690
Type at loss : propeller, wood, carferry
Build info : 1881, A. Cantin, Montreal
Specs : 182x30x10, 395gc 269nc
Date of loss : 1897, Jun
Place of loss : at Prescott, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She caught fire and her upperworks were burned off and hull heavily damaged. She was declared a total loss, but was later rebuilt to the carferry INTERNATIONAL.
Rebuilt to a barge in 1908.
Sources : csv,sol,mmgl,hgl
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SOUTH HAVEN
Other names : none
Official no. : 23495
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1866, Eastman, South Haven, MI (1867?)
Specs : 99x22x6, 120g 114n
Date of loss : 1886, Nov 18
Place of loss : 3 mi S of Port Sheldon, near Muskegon, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : She was driven on the beach and wrecked. Though her crew stayed aboard with the vessel tied to a tree for several days, she eventually became a total loss. Owned by a Mr. Munger of Chicago. Master: Capt. F. D. Harris.
Damaged in another accident in 1869.
Sources : hgl,mv,nsp,h,lmdc,mpl,bb
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SOUTH PARK – See METEOR
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SOUTH SHORE
Other names : built as ROBERT E. BURKE, renamed before 1910
Official no. : 111257
Type at loss : propeller, wood, pass. & pkg freight “coaster”
Build info : 1899, Manitowoc, WI
Specs : 84x21x6, 73g 49n
Date of loss : 1912, Nov 24
Place of loss : 7 mi W of Grand Marais, MI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : general frt, pass.
Detail : She split her seams in a heavy gale. She was run to shore but sank just short and broke up in place. The Lifesaving Service from Grand Marais saved her 9 crew and 4 passengers.
Compare with entry for ORA ENDRESS/SOUTH SHORE (below).
Sources : mv,ms,sol,nsp,lss,mpl,eas
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SOUTH SHORE
Other names : built as ORA ENDRESS, renamed 1928
Official no. : 209780
Type at loss : Diesel propeller, wood, packet
Build info : 1912, Manitowoc, Wis
Specs : 61x15x7, 65 g
Date of loss : 1932, Nov 19-20*
Place of loss : between Milwaukee and Garden Island, Mich
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 2 of 2
Carrying : sacks of potatoes, other cargo
Detail : Went missing, in a storm while bound Garden Island, Michigan for Milwaukee. No one knew what had happened to her until wreckage started washing ashore near Frankfort late in the month. It was speculated that she may have been overloaded. Master: Capt. Erwin Tonokin(d). Owned by W. J. Lawrie, Milwaukee.
Her sister NORTH SHORE was lost in a similar manner in 1936 (qv).
As ORA ENDRESS, she capsized in big waves in a storm on Lake Superior in November, 1914. Her crew was rescued by Whitefish Point lightkeeper. Thought to be a total loss, but later recovered.
Rebuilt, enlarged and converted from steam to Diesel power in 1928. Originally 58x15x6, 68g
* Nov 19-20 reported in the papers at the time. Dec 13 is official date.
Image as ORA ENDRESS from GLMD
Sources : lssc,nl,mv,mpl,bb
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SOUTH SIDE
Other names : none
Official no. : 115334 (57279 also given)
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1867, Ostling & Mienardus, Milwaukee
Specs : 101x25x6 , 140g 133n
Date of loss : 1893, Dec 4
Place of loss : Plum Island
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ? [five aboard and feared lost]
Carrying : Christmas Trees, ties
Detail : Seen to be adrift and helpless off Milwaukee in the first few days of December. Reported ashore on Plum Island the 4th and later a total wreck
Out of Milwaukee, owned by her skipper, Capt. Theo Plathner.
Rebuilt, 1878. Ashore in Rowley’s Bay, Wis, Nov, 1881.
Sources : bbas,mv,hgl,polk,bb,nsp,whs
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SOUTH WEST
Other names : none also seen as SOUTHWEST
Official no. : 22359
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1866, Pierson, Ogdensburg, NY
Specs : 137x26x11, 292g 277n
Date of loss : 1898, Sep 18
Place of loss : SE of Huron Isls.
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light – bound to Portage Lake for stone
Detail : She struck buttom in heavy waves, fog and smoke. Her crew abandoned in her yawl when she began to sink. The wreck has been known for a long time was only positivly identified as SOUTH WEST by divers in 1995. Master: Capt. James Gibson. Owner: M. A. Bradley, Cleveland.
Ashore on North Manitou, Lake Michigan, in November of 1869 and declared a total loss, but later recovered.
Rebuilt 1877 and 82
Sources : nsp,lss,mv,polk,hgl,df,nsp
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SOUTHAMPTON
Other names : none
Official no. : C80878
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1861, Roney, Garden Isl., Ont. as a bark
Specs : 135x24x12, 345gc 319nc
Date of loss : 1904, Oct 28
Place of loss : Sarnia Bay, just N of Sarnia
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Driven aground and wrecked. Her remains were later removed.
In 1879 she was purchased by American Jesse Farwell, but registration laws made it too complex to bring her into American registry.
She was built for the lumber trade between the upper and lower lakes, but the first time she tried to traverse the Welland Canal, she was found to be a little too wide, so her flanks were “hewed down to the proper dimensions so that she would fit.”
Sources : hgl,polk,ns1,mmgl,nsp
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SOUTHERNER
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger & pkg freight
Build info : 1847, A Keating, Monroe, MI
Specs : 176x28x12, 550 t.
Date of loss : 1853, Oct 28 (year also given in error as 1863)
Place of loss : just W of Ashtabula
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : hogs and flour
Detail : Bound for Buffalo in a gale, she turned back for Conneaut, but then tried to put in at Ashtabula. She struck a crib and broke her back near the harbor entrance, then drifted ashore and became a total loss. Owned by A. Curry of Cleveland. Master: Capt. Hayes.
Her rotting hulk was reportedly still visible from well out in the lake in 1871.
Sources : lhl,www,hgl,nsp,mpl,eas
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SOUTHWEST – See SOUTH WEST
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SOUTHWESTERN – See NORTHWESTERN
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SOUVENIR
Other names : none
Official no. : 22579
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1854, Filkins, Milwaukee, WI
Specs : 89x21x6, 87 t.
Date of loss : 1872, Nov 26
Place of loss : near Ludington, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 6
Carrying : shingles
Detail : She was driven into a bar by a storm and wrecked. She was declared total loss and reported in the papers as broken up, but later recovered and extensivly rebuilt.
Document surrendered at Port Huron Aug 28, 1894, annotated “wrecked.”
Rebuilt and lengthened at Pentwater, MI, in 1868.
Sources : hgl,polk,mv,h,phr,nsp,mmo
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SOVEREIGN
Other names : none
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1838, Niagara Harbour & Dock Co., Niagara, Ont.
Specs : 83x21x8, 118 t.
Date of loss : 1853, Sep (19)
Place of loss : unreported
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : all hands
Carrying : ?
Detail : Foundered in a gale.
Sources : nsp,mmgl
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SOVEREIGN
Other names : none
Official no. : C96841
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1873, L. Shickluna, St. Catharines, Ont.
Specs : 143x26x12, 684 t.
Date of loss : 1891, Oct 25*
Place of loss : 12 mi SE of Lamb Island Light
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none**
Carrying : grain
Detail : Bound Port Arthur, Ont., for Buffalo, she was overwhelmed and foundered in a storm after releasing her consorts. She went down in 300 to 400 feet of water. Owned by Capt. Patrick Kerwin, Sarnia, Ont., who was her skipper.
*Canadian official documents say she was lost Mar 24, 1892, all others (including contemporary newspapers) give this date.
**some sources say 6 lost, newspapers say her crew was picked up by one of her consorts, the schooner SLIGO.
Rebuilt, 1877; rebuilt, 1891
Sources : csv,polk,win,hgl,mmgl,clu,gwgl,is,lss,wb,sb,mpl,eas,pdw,es
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SOVEREIGN OF THE LAKES*
Other names : hull later used to build MONTMORENCY(qv)
Official no. : none
Type at loss : bark, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1853, J. Oades, Clayton, NY
Specs : 135x25x13, 366 t.
Date of loss : 1865
Place of loss : unreported
Lake : (Huron)
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Almost completely destroyed by fire.
Heavily damaged in grounding in Detroit R. in 1855.
*at the time of her launch and in some later articles of 1853 she is called SOVEREIGN OF THE SEAS. She may have had a name change or this may just be misreporting.
Sources : hgl,ns1,nsp,rsl,glmd
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SOVEREIGN OF THE SEAS
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1853, Racine
Specs : 104x26x9, ca. 160 t. om
Date of loss : 1853, Nov (16)
Place of loss : Skillagallee shoal
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : (none)
Carrying : pig iron, coal, merchandise
Detail : Bound Buffalo for Milwaukee and Racine, she went on the rocky shoal and was wrecked. Part of her cargo was reportedly recovered, and the vessel abandoned, where she broke up soon after. This was one of her first trips, she having been launched about Sep 23. Owned by Tift & Bull of Racine.
Sources : nsp,wmn,bb
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CHARLES SPADEMAN
Other names : none
Official no. : 125158
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood
Build info : 1873, J. Rice, Marine City, MI
Specs : 134x26x11, 307g 291n
Date of loss : 1909, Dec 10
Place of loss : 1.5 miles WSW of Put-in-Bay
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : ice
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Tow of steamer HURON CITY, she was holed by an ice floe and sank. Her crew was taken off by HURON CITY. Owned by M. Sicken, Marine City, MI
Sunk in a collision with the steamer R.E. BUNSEN on the St. Clair River in July, 1903.
She stuck in ice and her hull heavily stressed in Dec., 1904. Used only intermittently after that date.
Sources : phr,mv,nsp,letter,sol,ns1,mpl,ew
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GUY SPANGLER
Other names : ?
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : ?
Specs : ?
Date of loss : 1876(ca)
Place of loss : near Glen Arbor, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : grain
Detail : Downbound, she went ashore and was broken up in a gale.
Not in ’69 mvus, maybe erroneous reporting of KYLE SPANGLER
Sources : nb,smi,
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KYLE SPANGLER
Other names : also seen in error as CUYLER SPANGLER
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1856, Lafrinier & Stephenson, Black R., OH
Specs : 131x33x12 ft, 350 t.
Date of loss : 1860, Nov 7
Place of loss : 6 mi S of Middle Isl.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : corn
Detail : The upbound schooner collided with the downbound schooner RACINE and sank. The RACINE went down also, but was raised by the wrecking tug OSWEGO. Wreck discovered largely intact in 2003.
Ashore and thought to be a total loss on S. Manitou, Lake Michigan, in late November of 1857. Sprang a leak in heavy weather and put on the beach to save her. Pulled off the next May by Capt. Dill.
Hgl says she was lost on the Atlantic, in error.
Sources : slh,stb,hgl,nsp,wl
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SPANKER
Other names : none
Official no. : 57281
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1865, Gibraltar, MI
Specs : 67x19x6, 52 t.
Date of loss : 1869, Nov 22
Place of loss : near Centreville, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : She drove ashore in a gale and was pounded to pieces so rapidly that her crew barely escaped with their lives. Out of Milwaukee – owned by Jacke & Lawson.
Sources : nsp,hgl,mv,mdwl,bb
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SPARTA – See also DAVID W. MILLS
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SPARTA
Other names : built as FRANK W. HART renamed in 1929
Official no. : 121219
Type at loss : propeller, steel, bulk freight
Build info : 1902, American Ship Building, Lorain, OH hull #313
Specs : 380x50x28, 4307g 3370n
Date of loss : 1940, Nov 5
Place of loss : Mosquito Beach, 14 mi from Munising, MI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : She was driven ashore by a gale and broke her back. Partially scrapped in place, the remains of her hull was later towed to Sturgeon Bay, WI for use as a drydock.
Sources : mv,ns4,rkr,ms,gwgl,lss,is,mpl,eas
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SPARTAN
Other names : renamed BELLEVILLE in 1905
Official no. : C122070**
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, iron, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1864, E. Gilbert, Montreal*
Specs : 176x28x11, 1233gc 607nc
Date of loss : 1883, Jun (22)
Place of loss : Caribou Isl.
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : She was stranded and wrecked after running on the rocks in fog and sliding out her full length. By the 27th she had been declared a total loss, but she was recovered July 3 by the big wrecking tug WINSLOW.
Owned by Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Co.
*Reportedly prefabricated in Scotland, assembled in Montreal
**given first official number in 1905 at rebuild. Also rebuilt in 1896 (lengthened 24′) and 1920. Broken up, 1922.
Sources : (csv),gwgl,lss,mv,mmgl,nsp
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J.M. SPAULDING
Other names : none
Official no. : 75796
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1875, Manhattan, OH
Specs : 89x22x6, 72g 68n
Date of loss : 1905, Nov 28
Place of loss : 3 mi above Ft. Gratiot, S end of lake
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : She stranded and pounded to pieces. Her 4-man crew escaped in the vessel’s yawl. Owned and sailed by Capt. John Kirtendale.
Image from HCGL, showing her scow hull
Sources : mv,slh,nsp,phr
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M.B. SPAULDING
Other names : none
Official no. : 16327
Type at loss : barge, wood
Build info : 1849, Jones & Bagnall, Buffalo as a propeller
Specs : 140x26x13, 368 t.
Date of loss : 1879, Sep (5)*
Place of loss : near Port Burwell, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Upbound in tow of the tug MAYFLOWER with three other barges, she was assaulted by a gale. The tow was broken up and the SPAULDING foundered in 12 feet of water. Despite the efforts of the powerful Canadian wrecker PRINCE ALFRED, she became a total loss and went to pieces over the summer.
Sunk following a collision with the bark LOTTIE WOLF (qv) near Harrisville, MI, May 1869. $6000 damage.
Burned and sank near Forester, MI, L. Huron, in June, 1860. An $11,000 loss, she was recovered, sold for $500 and rebuilt from a propeller to a barge at Marine City in 1863.
Capsized and sank at Toledo in 1853 or 4 when her cargo of cattle stampeded.
Sunk off Erie, PA in Aug, 1850.
Rebuilt by Hitchcock at Buffalo in 1857 after burning to a supposed total loss at her dock at Buffalo.
*May 10 often given, in error
Sources : mv,phr,slh,lhl,nsp,hgl,mpl,es,rsl,mdwl,eas,blu[1856]
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THOMAS SPEAR
Other names : none
Official no. : 145216
Type at loss : propeller tug, wood
Build info : 1880, Thos. Spear, Sturgeon Bay, Wis
Specs : 77x15x9, 56 t.
Date of loss : 1880, Sep 24
Place of loss : off Carlton, Wis.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : two scows in tow, a few slabs on deck
Detail : Caught fire offshore, burned to the waterline and sank. Her crew escaped the blaze in her yawl. The hulk was later purchased and attempts were made to raise her and convert her to a barge, but they came to nothing. Out of Milwaukee, owned by Spear Bros., Sturgeon Bay. A new tug of the same name was built at Green Bay in 1882.
Sources : nsp,wmhs,wmn,bb,wgts,whs
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F.V. SPECHT
Other names : none
Official no. : C80579
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1857, Ferdinand Specht, Mt. Clemens, MI US#9211
Specs : 62x19x4, 55g 55n
Date of loss : 1888, Oct 24
Place of loss : 2 mi below Windsor
Lake : Detroit R
Type of loss : “sank”
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : No detail – probably a collision.
Sold Canadian, 1884. Out of Windsor.
Sources : mv,h,win,mmgl,wl
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SPECULAR
Other names : none
Official no. : 115876
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1882, G. Presley, Cleveland as a schooner
Specs : 264x35x20, 1742g 1439n
Date of loss : 1900, Aug 22
Place of loss : Pelee Passage, a few mi W of SE Shoal
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none of 18
Carrying : 2,300 t. iron ore
Detail : Downbound from Marquette, she was a “hit & run” victim by the steamer DENVER and sank in 30 feet of water in only 6 minutes. 15 of her crew abandoned in her yawl, while 5 others were plucked from rigging by the propeller MARITANA. Salvagers worked on her continuously until they gave her up Sep 28. Owned by Republic Iron Co. of Cleveland. Master: Capt. Ed. Mooney. Wreck lies 3.16 mi SE from Pelee Passage light. The master of the DENVER was heavily sensured in the press, but he claimed that he did not believe that his vessel had struck the SPECULAR hard enough to sink her. Though many captains onsidered her a serious menace to navigation, the Canadian government did not, and contracted for her to be blown up the following spring.
Rig changed from schooner to propeller in 1888.
Sources : mv,nsp,glp,gsgl,nsl,ledc,mpl,ew,hcgl
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SPEED
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1857, R. Granger, Detroit
Specs : 69x20x3, 41 g, 36 n.
Date of loss : 1864, Sep 21
Place of loss : off Harrisville, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : She had arrived off Harrisville to pick up a load of lumber and was riding out a storm at anchor when her two chains parted and she was driven on the beach. She broke up quickly, a total l oss. Owned by Augustus Day, Detroit. Valued at about $1,000.
Built as a “river scow.”
Sources : rsl,nsp
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SPEED
Other names : none
Official no. : 22357
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1848, Lockwood, Madison, OH
Specs : 97x21x8, 104 t.
Date of loss : 1883, Apr 18
Place of loss : 1/4 mile off Racine, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 5
Carrying : lumber & shingles
Detail : She was bound Pentwater for Racine in tow of the tug HENRY S. SILL when her towline broke and she drove ashore. She rolled over on her beam ends while the crew was being saved by the Lifesaving Service in a breeches’ buoy rescue, but all were still brought ashore. A large steam pump was on board her when she broke up a few days later. Out of Racine, owned by Joseph Walker Estate.
Sunk in a collision in Kenosha Harbor in April, 1872.
Sunk inside the harbor at Muskegon in 1855.
Rebuilt 1868, 1881
Sources : mv,h,polk,hgl,usls,bb,nsp,wmn,wls,mr
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SPEED
Other names : none
Official no. : 57233
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1866, Natre, Detroit
Specs : 59x17x5, 40g 38n
Date of loss : 1894, Nov 26
Place of loss : near the harbor entrance at Racine, Wis
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 3
Carrying : lumber and shingles
Detail : She stranded and sunk near the harbor mouth in a SE gale, her crew taking to the rigging after the small boat was torn loose. Her crew was soon rescued by the USLS.
Sources : mv,lmdc,hgl,bb,usls,nsp
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SPEEDWELL
Other names : none
Official no. : C72961
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1875, Geo. Dixon, Marysburgh, Ont
Specs : 111x24x10, 181gc
Date of loss : 1896, Jun 3
Place of loss : at Toronto
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : no one aboard
Carrying : ?
Detail : Caught fire at her moorings and smoldered throughout the night. In the morning she was towed away from the dock by the tug FRANK JACKMAN and burned herself out. Though there was said to be only $800 damage to a boat valued at $3,500, she was later declared a total loss.
Ashore in a storm at Braddock’s Bay, Lake Ontario in Nov, 1886.
Sources : wmn,nsp,jm,hgl,bb
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H.M.S. SPEEDY
Other names : none
Official no. : Br none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1776, Simcoe, Cataraqui [Kingston]
Specs : 80 ft. “small”
Date of loss : 1804, Oct 8
Place of loss : somewhere off Presqu’isle, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 20 to 39
Carrying : passengers
Detail : Foundered in a blizzard and gale while enroute to Newcastle, Ont. with the principals in a murder trial and a number of Canadian V.I.P.s, she went down with little trace. She was rumored to be overloaded and was known to be unseaworthy anyway. Master: Capt. Lt Thos. Paxton (d).
Rebuilt in 1792
Sources : csqw,is(1-76,1-86),tfgl,hgl,mpl
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GEORGE SPENCER
Other names : none
Official no. : 85819
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1884, T. Quayle & Sons, Cleveland
Specs : 213x37x19, 1361g 1083n
Date of loss : 1905, Nov 28
Place of loss : off Sugar Loaf Landing, Little Marais, MN
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : She was towing the barge AMBOY(qv) when struck by a gale. She cut the barge loose in an attempt to save both vessels, but both were driven ashore anyway. SPENCER was disabled quickly, but her crew made it to shore on a breeches’ buoy which had been rigged by local fishermen, directed by a SPENCER crewman who had come ashore hand over hand on a heaving line. She was later mostly removed, but remnants of the wreck are reportedly still on the site. Master: Capt. Conland or Couland. Owner: Tonawanda Iron & Steel Co. Buffalo.
Sources : mv,eas,ns1,nsp,lss,rf
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H. SPENCER
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1847, Sackett’s Harbor
Specs : 125 t.
Date of loss : 1867, Sep 25
Place of loss : off Grosse Point, Ill.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : shingle bolts
Detail : This schooner collided with the propeller EMPIRE STATE and was heavily damaged. Because of her cargo she did not sink, but still drifted ashore and became a total loss.
In Oct, 1855, she left Muskegon for Chicago in a storm, but only made it as far as a bar off Muskegon harbor, where she hit and was later declared a total loss.
- Spencer had major repairs in 1857 and 1861
Sources : nsp,(rsl),wmn
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W.J. SPICER – See W.W. STEWART
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F.E. SPINNER – See HELEN C.
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SPOKANE
Other names : none
Official no. : 116104
Type at loss : propeller, steel, bulk freight
Build info : 1886, Globe Iron Works, Cleveland
Specs : 312x38x21, 2356g 1975n
Date of loss : 1912, Sep 16
Place of loss : Gull Rock, nrear Manitou Isl., off I. Royale
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : She was driven onto the rock pinnacle by a gale and broke in two. Declared total loss, but later recovered and rebuilt, lasting until 1935.
Reportedly the first steel ship to operate on Lake Superior.
First steel-hulled bulker.
Sources : mv,is(3-69),lm,gwgl,ns4,nsp,eas
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SPORT
Other names : none
Official no. : 115152
Type at loss : propeller tug, iron*
Build info : 1873, F.E. Kirby, Wyandotte, MI
Specs : 57x14x9, 45g 23n
Date of loss : 1920, Dec 13
Place of loss : off Lexington, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Foundered. Out of Port Huron.
A state historic site plaque was placed on her in the early 1990’s, the only underwater one.
*also seen as steel hull, Merchant Vessels reports iron
Major repair, 1880
Sources : mv,tv,steyrs,slh,lhl,phr,polk,mpl
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H.C. SPRAGUE – See NELLIE LYON
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NOAH P. SPRAGUE
Other names : none also seen as N.P. SPRAGUE, M.P. SPRAGUE
Official no. : 130038
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1857, F.N. Jones, Buffalo*
Specs : 106x20x9, 186g 93n
Date of loss : 1884, Jul 23
Place of loss : off Pigeon Bay, near Rondeau
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : hull failure
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She was downbound from L’Anse, Michgam with a tow of ore-laden schooners, when she broke her shaft in Lake Huron. The entire tow, including the SPRAGUE, was taken over by the the tug WILCOX for the balance of the trip to Cleveland. In Pelee Passage SPRAGUE began to leak and within 15 minute she had sunk. Her crew was taken off by the WILCOX. Owned by Peter Smith of Cleveland. This was the company’s third tug loss of the year.
Nearly destroyed by an explosion at the mouth of the Detroit River Nov 27, 1857, with 9 lives lost.
Reported burned and a total loss in the summer of 1866.
*’84 mvus shows her built 1874, but accounts of the wreck identify her as the 1857 vessel.
Rebuilt, 1877.
Sources : mv,hgl,polk,clu,sol,h,lhl,nsp,mpl,es
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J. R. SPRANKLE
Other names : built as J. R. SPRANKLE, renamed H. T. DIXON briefly in 1927, then J. R. SPRANKLE again in 1927
Official no. : 77138
Type at loss : propeller tug, steel, oil screw
Build info : 1894, Globe Iron Works, Cleveland
Specs : 59x16x8, 44g 23n *
Date of loss : 1956, Nov 21
Place of loss : off Avon Point, 7 mi NW of Cleveland
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She foundered in a gale and was abandoned as a total loss. Owned by L. A Wells Const. Co. She lay on the bottom until recovered in Aug, 1962. She was then towed to Lorain, Oh, and allowed to sink. Recovered again in November and towed to Cleveland, where she was rebuilt.
*1946 dimensions
Sold Canadian in 1926, resold U.S. in 1927.
Out of documentation between 1982 and 1988
Sources : mv,h,hcgl,mv
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SPRAY
Other names : none
Official no. : 22385
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1861, L. S. Bedford, Port Huron, MI*
Specs : 48 t.
Date of loss : 1875, late May
Place of loss : 15 miles off South Haven MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 3 [all]
Carrying : light
Detail : Bound Racine for Holland, MI, she capsized in a squall. Her floating wreckage was later (May 30) come upon by the steamer HURON.
Out of Holland, MI.
*MAY have been the 2-mast scow-schooner built on the Huron, R, MI in 1853 by Enoch Seton: 79x22x7, 102 t. om.
Sources : hgl,h,nsp,wl,rsl
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ELLEN SPRY
Other names : none
Official no. : 8983
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1873, A.M. Spears, Little Sturgeon, WI
Specs : 170 ft., 546g 518n
Date of loss : 1886, Nov 6
Place of loss : reef near Skillagallee, Beaver Passage
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 1,100 t. coal
Detail : Driven on the reef, she struck bottom and went to pieces in a SW gale. The value of the vessel and her cargo was about $28,000. Owned by Keith.
Location also given as South Manitou Island. Some reportes say she sank in 500 feet of water.
Sources : mv,eas,slh,is,h,wb,nb,hgl,sb,mpl,es,mr
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JOHN SPRY – See also THREE BROTHERS
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JOHN SPRY
Other names : none
Official no. : 75599
Type at loss : sidewheel packet, wood
Build info : 1866, Sturgeon Bay, WI as a tug
Specs : 92x15x4, 55g
Date of loss : 1885, Nov 4
Place of loss : at Wrightstown, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Caught fire and was destroyed while docked at night three miles below Wrightstown.
Image from GLMD of vessel after damage from a tornado in 1877
Sources : mv,is,hgl,wgts
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ALICE STAFFORD – See MANISTEE
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M. FANNIE STAFFORD
Other names : also seen as FANNY STAFFORD, SPAFFORD
Official no. : none
Type at loss : propeller tug, wood
Build info : 1863, Buffalo
Specs : 42 t.
Date of loss : 1865, Jun 19
Place of loss : Chicago R., Chicago
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : explosion
Loss of life : 1 of 5
Carrying : schooner in tow
Detail : Towing a schooner down the Chicago R., she was suddenly destroyed by one of the most violent explosions ever seen in the city to that time. Master: Capt. James Ogden.
Sources : nsp,lhl,hgl
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M. STALKER
Other names : none sometimes seen as MALCOLM STALKER
Official no. : 17211
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1863, H. Kelley, Milan, OH
Specs : 135x25x11, 268g 254n
Date of loss : 1886, Nov 5
Place of loss : 2.3 mi NE of Old Mackinac Pt., Straits
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : She was rammed and sunk by the schooner-barge WAUBASHENE in tow of steamer ISAAC MAY while lying at anchor off Mackinaw City. MAY kept on going and STALKER’s crew had to abandon her in her boat as they tried to drift her to shore. Out of Vermilion, OH, owned by A.P. Mowrey and M. Stalker. Master: Capt. Pelton.
Rebuilt in 1875, 1885. Wreck located in 1967.
Sources : mv,ssm,nsp,slh,is,lhdc,hgl,mpl,es,ec
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H.G. STAMBACK
Other names : none also seen in error as H.G. STAMBACH
Official no. : none
Type at loss : brig, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1847, Conneaut, OH
Specs : 82x22x9, 145 t. om
Date of loss : 1857, Oct 25
Place of loss : North Manitou Isl. (also seen as South Manitou)
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ? (some)
Carrying : ?
Detail : She capsized and was blown on a reef on west side of the island – later slipped into deep water. Upbound at the time of her loss.
Capsized on Lake Erie in 1848 with loss of 3 lives and again off Fairport, OH, in 1849 with the loss of 3 more.
Sources : mv,hgl,lmdc,nb,nsp,wl,rnc,bcw,blu[57]
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N.M. STANDART
Other names : also seen in error as N.M. STANNARD
Official no. : 18090
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1854, William Treat, Euclid, OH as a brig
Specs : 138x30x12, 331g
Date of loss : 1880, Nov 18
Place of loss : 5 miles E of Fairport, OH, harbor
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 6
Carrying : lumber
Detail : She was in tow of the steamer ONTONAGON with the barges JOSEPH, THEODORE PERRY, and MARY STOCKTON. ONTONAGON dropped the barges so she could fuel at Fairport, intending them to anchor. Instead they tried to make port, and STANDART was overwhelmed and driven on an offshore bar. Her crew was rescued by the Lifesaving Service, who had also tried to save the vessel by winching her over the bar. She finally drifted ashore and broke up. Bound Saginaw for Cleveland.
Major repairs in 1863,64-5. Rebuilt in 1866.
Sunk by a collision near N. Manitou in 1859.
Capsized with the loss of two lives in the spring of 1859, near Fairport, OH.
Collided with the steamer BRUNSWICK with heavy damage in September of 1854.
Sources : mv,phr,nsp,h,ledc,hgl,usls,rsl
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R.W. STANDLY
Other names : none also seen as R. W. STANDLEY, and one source shows her as STANDBY
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : propeller, wood
Build info : 1872, Simpson & Chisholm, Chatham, Ont.
Specs : 136×24, 275 t.
Date of loss : 1875, Oct 8
Place of loss : Dominion Wharf, Hamilton, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : 1?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Destroyed at the dock by a fire. The propellers ZEALAND and BRISTOL and a pair of schooners also at the dock were saved only because it was a dead-still morning, without a breeze to spread the flames.
Reg. out of Chatham.
Hull may have been used to build ST. MAGNUS(qv)
Sources : win,csv,mmgl,ib
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STANLEY
Other names : ?
Official no. : C?
Type at loss : scow, wood (2-mast)
Build info : 1854, T. Baird, Bayfield, Ont.*
Specs : 52x16x7, 47 t.
Date of loss : 1859
Place of loss : Georgian Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Foundered.
(*most likely. Other Canadian STANLEY’s are all steamers. No disposition given in NAC for this vessel.)
Sources : slh,mmgl,hgl,bb
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STANLEY CLIPPER
Other names : rebuilt as NADRO CLIPPER, later ASI CLIPPER
Official no. : C156864
Type at loss : steel fish tug, Kahlenberg diesel
Build info : 1938, Port Colborn Iron Works, Port Colborne, Ont
Specs : 60x16x4, 30 gc
Date of loss : 1984, Apr 30
Place of loss : 11 mi SSE of Port Dover
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 3 of 3
Carrying : fishing gear, fish
Detail : She was caught in a full gale, reported locally as the most powerful storm to hit the area in 30 years. A distress call was sent at 2 pm and two fellow fish tugs rushed to her assistance, but she sank with all hands before help arrived. Owned by H. H. Misner Ltd. Of Port Dover.
She was raised the following month and was later rebuilt as NADRO CLIPPER. She was still operating out of St. Catharines as ASI CLIPPER in 2010, mainly as a dive tug.
Article on loss by Stan Morris [.pdf]
Sources : h,glmc,amh,hr
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H.M. STANLEY – See JESSE H. BRECK
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STANNARD – See also STANDART
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B.A. STANNARD
Other names : also seen as B.A. STANDART and B.A. STANARD [before she was launched, her name was supposed to be LA SALLE]
Official no. : none
Type at loss : bark, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1856, Lafrinier & Stephenson, Cleveland
Specs : 159x33x12, 603 t.
Date of loss : 1864
Place of loss : near Point Betsie, Mich
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : She collided with an unreported vessel and sank.
Capsized in a gale in 1859, near Rondeau, Ont. Major repairs in 1859,61& 62. Heavily damaged in a gale at Chicago in Nov., 1856.
Sources : hgl,sagl,nsp,wl,rsl,blu(56)
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GALE STAPLES
Other names : built as WILLIAM B. MORLEY, named CALEDONIA in 1892, last name in 1916
Official no. : C134516
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1888, Morley & Hill, Marine City US#81191
Specs : 277x42x25, 2197gc 1293nc
Date of loss : 1918, Oct 1
Place of loss : Au Sable Reef
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : She was upbound when caught in a NW gale and driven on a reef, where she broke up. The U.S.Lifesaving Service took her crew off.
Sold Canadian in 1916.
Sources : mv,ms,mol,gwgl,is,ns2,h,mmgl
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STAR – See also CORISANDE
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STAR
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood
Build info : 1837, Belvedere, MI
Specs : 108x18x7, 129 t. om
Date of loss : 1845, Feb
Place of loss : at Buffalo
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : She was destroyed by fire at her winter layup dock.
Sources : lhl,hgl,is,nsp,wl,eas
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STAR
Other names : ?
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : (1841, Oak Orchard, NY)
Specs : (30 t.)
Date of loss : 1852
Place of loss : Georgian Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 6
Carrying : ?
Detail : Foundered in a gale.
Sources : slh,hgl not in mmgl
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STAR
Other names : none
Official no. : C
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1873, Rathbun, Mill Pt., Ont
Specs : 284 t.
Date of loss : 1878, Oct 22
Place of loss : at Charlotte, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 12,000 bu wheat
Detail : She went ashore in a storm and was wrecked. Her crew was rescued from her rigging by the Charlotte lifesaving crew. The vessel had been worth about $7,500. Out of Mill Point, Ont.
Wrecked on the rocks while trying to pass the channel between the Ducks and Yorkshire Isl. in a blizzard, Dec, 1874. Her crew were taken off by an American vessel not named. In March of the following year a wrecking captain drove a team to her across the ice from Kingston to inspect her, and she is reported as being rebuilt that year.
Shows on one source as existing at a later date.
Sources : es,clu,wmn,nsp
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STAR
Other names : none
Official no. : 116109
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1866, Au Gres, MI
Specs : 44x13x3, 14gt 13 nt
Date of loss : 1895?
Place of loss : unreported
Lake : unreported
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Document surrendered at Port Huron Custom House Feb 24, 1896, endorsed “wrecked.”
Sources : phr,vbs,hgl
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STAR NO.2
Other names : none
Official no. : 23574
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1862, W. Lewis, E. Saginaw
Specs : 55x15x6, 36g 23n
Date of loss : 1879, Mar 13
Place of loss : Saginaw River at Saginaw
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : none
Detail : Burned to a total loss. Her remains are still visible near I-675 bridge on west bank.
This or another STAR was reported burned at Saginaw in December, 1868.
Sources : vbs,mv,phr,hgl,mdwl,rso
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STAR OF HOPE
Other names : none
Official no. : 22392
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1856, Quayle & Martin, Cleveland
Specs : 136x26x12, 276g
Date of loss : 1886, Apr 1
Place of loss : Pelee Isl.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Tow of the prop BURLINGTON with the barge VANATTA, she broke loose and stranded. Thought to be a total loss, she was later recovered and towed to Detroit, but later articles from the same month describe her as a loss. Document surrendered in 1893 – stating she was “wrecked” – but no other information. Owned by Pickle.
Major repair in 1863, 68; rebuilt at Algonac, 82
Sources : polk,phr,h,win,hgl,wl,es,nsp,mr
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STAR OF THE NORTH
Other names : none
Official no. : 22360
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1854, Spencer, Cleveland, OH [also given as Lafrinier & Stevenson]
Specs : 123x25x9, 214g 203n
Date of loss : 1903, Nov 16
Place of loss : near Manitou Islands
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : She was driven on a reef by a gale and broke up.
Sunk in Chicago harbor and given up for lost in September, 1866, extensively rebuilt after recovery.
Severely damaged and sunk in a gale near Tawas in 1886.
Sunk by ice while in tow of tug OSWEGO, Jun 2, 1888.
Major repair in 1863
Sources : polk,mv,nsp,ns1
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N. STAR
Other names : none sometimes seen incorrectly as NORTH STAR
Official no. : 130310
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1884, Pinconning
Specs : 34x10x3, 7g 6n
Date of loss : 1896?
Place of loss : unreported
Lake : unreported
Type of loss : unreported
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : No detail. Document surrendered at Port Huron 12/30/1896, annotated “wrecked.”
Sources : phr,vbs,mv
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STARLIGHT
Other names : ?
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : sail yacht, in use as camp supply vessel
Build info : ?
Specs : less than 50 ft.?
Date of loss : 1880, Sep 29
Place of loss : off AuTrain, MI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 5 [all]
Carrying : lumber camp supplies
Detail : Went missing in a gale. A later report stated the boat was last seen at Sucker Bay, with the crew all intoxicated. Master: Capt. Elmo Lemong. Chartered to the Detroit, Mackinaw & Marquette RR.
Sources : ms,is,lss,net,lt
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STARLIGHT
Other names : also seen as STAR-LIGHT
Official no. : 22390
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1857, Kirby & Tripp*, Saginaw as a bark
Specs : 134x30x11, 307g 292n
Date of loss : 1883, Nov 17
Place of loss : near Goderich, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 4 [wrecking crew?]
Carrying : two large steam pumps plus ?
Detail : She had gone on Cove Island while bound Midland, Ont. for St. Joseph Island. A fter a long and diffcult job in releasing her, she was bound down when she broke loose from the tug ANDREW J. SMITH in a tremendous gale and was lost. Master: Capt. Ed Mullins. Out of Chicago, owned by Hitchcock & Foster
Rebuilt, 1867 at Detroit, rebuilt to a brig, 1873, and to a schooner in 1879 after being dismasted in a Lake Erie storm.
*Martin Smith given on 1st enrollment document
Sources : polk,mv,slh,sbs,vbs,hgl,wl,es,nsp
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STARLIGHT
Other names : none
Official no. : C90779
Type at loss : propeller (tug), wood
Build info : 1888, Jenking, Wallaceburg, Ont.
Specs : 47x11x3, 16gc 11nc
Date of loss : 1892, Sep 9
Place of loss : Massey Station, Georgian Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : 4
Carrying : none
Detail : She was destroyed by fire while lying dockside.
Out of Windsor
Sources : h,win,mmgl
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STARLIGHT
Other names : none
Official no. : 213072
Type at loss : gas screw freight vessel
Build info : 1915, I. Larsen, Menominee, Mich
Specs : 49x15x5, 26g
Date of loss : 1915, Nov 13
Place of loss : Green Bay
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : potatoes, grain, apples and hay
Detail : Burned to a total loss in her first year of service. Owned by Larsen and Olsen of Marinette.
Sources : mv,bb,wgts
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STARLING
Other names : none
Official no. : C
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1873, J. Tait, Sophiasburg, Ont.
Specs : 108x25x10, 198cg
Date of loss : 1884, Nov 15
Place of loss : Ghegheto Isl. NW of Wiarton, Ont
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : stranded
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Went ashore near the stranded wrecker WINSLOW of the Grummond Line of Detroit. The tug soon freed herself and moved to pull the STARLING off, in violation of salvage laws. Soon Canadian officials showed up on the Canadian wrecker INTERNATIONAL to arrest the tug but Capt Martin Swain of the WINSLOW made a run for it, eventually stoking her boiler with a barrel of pitch to boost her speed. She made it to American waters without exploding, but left much valuable wrecking gear behind on the schooner. STARLING was reported ashore and total loss on Marine Record wrecklist in January, 1885, but was probably recovered. Canadian registry list record closed 12/31/1897 saying she was “lost, wrecked or broken up.” Out of Picton.
Sources : mr,mmgl,hr
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STARNES – See STEARNS
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STARUCCA
Other names : none
Official no. : 115381
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1875, Union Dry Dock, Buffalo
Specs : 218x35x14, 1313g 1155n
Date of loss : 1888, Nov 15
Place of loss : off Deer Park, MI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : general merch, including railroad wheels
Detail : She was driven on a bar by an icy gale. She was thought to be in no danger, so her crew stayed aboard until she started to break up. Deer Park Lifesaving Service crew came to the rescue in a tiny surfboat and took the whole crew off in 3 trips, the last just before she broke up and sank. Bound Buffalo for Duluth. By mid-February of ’89, much of her ice-clad cargo had come ashore along the Michigan beach. Owned by Union Steamboat Co., Buffalo.
Year of loss often given as 1887.
Sources : mv,polk,lssc,lss,nsp,gwgl,is,wb,hgl,mpl,eas,es3-2,bb,oo
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STATE OF MICHIGAN
Other names : built as steamer DePERE, renamed in 1893
Official no. : 6849
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1875, Rand & Burger, Manitowoc
Specs : 165x29x10, 736g 640n
Date of loss : 1901, Oct 18
Place of loss : several miles off mouth of White River, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : mechanical failure
Loss of life : none of 12
Carrying : light
Detail : Bound Muskegon to Manistee and several miles offshore, in good weather, she threw a piston rod through her hull and into the lake. Water rushed in through the hole, but her crew abandoned her to the tug McGRAFF before she sank. The tug took her in tow, but she went down soon after. Owned by the Barry Line. Master: Capt. Joseph Oliver.
Rebuilt, 1883
Sources : ns1,rsh,mv,nsp,gsg,mpl
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STATE OF NEW YORK – See FLORIDA
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STATE OF OHIO
Other names : ?
Official no. : none
Type at loss : canal boat, wood
Build info : ?
Specs : ?
Date of loss : 1863, Jul 17
Place of loss : 20 miles off Oswego, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : hull failure
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : “leeched ashes”
Detail : In tow of the tug TORNADO, with six other canal boats, she sprang a leak and went down in deep water. The little fleet had been bound Kingston, Ont., for Oswego.
Sources : nsp
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STATE OF OHIO
Other names : built as steamer CITY OF CLEVELAND, named CITY OF ALPENA in 1886, this name in 1893.
Official no. : 125808
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, iron, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1880, Detroit Dry Dock, Wyandotte, MI hull# 71
Specs : 225x32x13*, 1222g 917n
Date of loss : 1924, May 20
Place of loss : at Cleveland
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : 1 or 2
Carrying : ?
Detail : She burned to total loss at her dock. The iron hull was later recovered and converted to a bulk freight barge.
The barge was sunk Dec 17, 1929 in the harbor at Lorain, OH.
* width 71 ft over guards
Engraving of vessel as CITY OF CLEVELAND from MHGL
Sources : mv,atl,nsp,sol,ns3,ledc,less,mpl,eas
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GEORGE STAUBER
Other names : none
Official no. : 85781
Type at loss : propeller steam ferry, wood
Build info : 1883, Buffalo as a tug
Specs : 55x11x4, 43g 38n
Date of loss : 1901, Aug 21
Place of loss : “Rapids” off Ft. Gratiot
Lake : St Clair R
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : passengers
Detail : She collided with the whaleback steamer ALEXANDER McDOUGALL through a misunderstanding of signals and sank in 60 feet of water, a total loss, when she tried to cross under the bows of the big steamer. Though the McDOUGALL did not stop, the steambarge IDA was able to rescue the crew and passengers. Document surrendered at Port Huron Aug 29, 1901, annotated “total loss by collision in the Rapids, 8-21-01.” Owned by Capt. Dennis Kerrigan of Port Huron, who was also her engineer. Master: Capt. Woods
Two tugs of this name built at Buffalo, 1883 and 4.
Sources : phr,mv,polk,mpl,jb,nsp
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ROSA STEARNS
Other names : none also seen as ROSA STARNS
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1866, N. Woodward,* Port Rowan, Ont.
Specs : 82x20x7, 100 t.
Date of loss : 1871, Sep 6
Place of loss : at Cleveland
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 194 t. coal
Detail : Bound Cleveland for Port Stanley, she was driven against the lighthouse pier and wrecked by a gale. Her crew was able to jump to the pier before the vessel was pounded to matchwood. Out of Port Burwell, owned and sailed by Capt. John Collett.
*Also given as Mathou & Co.
Sources : nsp,mmgl,clu,wl,wmn
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STEEL PRODUCTS
Other names : built as VENUS, renamed in 1958
Official no. : 161876
Type at loss : propeller crane ship, steel
Build info : 1901, American Shipbuilding, Lorain, Oh. , hull no. 307
Specs : 366x48x28, 3719g 2766n
Date of loss : 1961, Oct. 26
Place of loss : near Pt. Abino, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She was in tow of the tug GEO. W. RODGERS, bound for scrapping, when she broke her towline in a storm. She went ashore and was holed, sinking in shallow water. Over the ensuing years she was scrapped in place though there are still significant remains at the site.
Owned by Marine Salvage, Ltd, Port Colborne, who had just purchased her from Steel Products SS.
Image as STEEL PRODUCTS from HCGL
Sources : a&f,ewe
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GEO. STEELE
Other names : also seen as GEORGE STEELE
Official no. : 10211
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1855, Asa Wilcox, Three Mile Bay, NY
Specs : 137x26x10, 271g 257n
Date of loss : 1898, Oct (14)
Place of loss : near Oscoda, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : ?
Detail : Driven on an inshore reef by gale and broke up in place on the 22nd. Out of Chicago.
Rebuilt 1878, major repair 1883
Sources : mv,polk,hgl,slh,lhdc,nsp
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H.B. STEELE
Other names : none
Official no. : 11302
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1858, Alex. Gauley or J. Redfield, St. Clair, MI
Specs : 89x22x7, 87 gt.
Date of loss : 1870, Oct 30
Place of loss : 3 mi N of Pt. Betsie
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : (none)
Carrying : ?
Detail : She was driven ashore and pounded to pieces. She was considered too old to bear the expense of saving her.
Out of Milwaukee
Heavily damaged on Lake Erie in early Nov., 1859. Ashore and expected to become a total loss at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, in Nov., 1867.
Major repairs in 1868.
Sources : mv,lmdc,hgl,nb,nsp,wl,rsl,wgts
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STEELVENDOR
Other names : none
Official no. : 223082
Type at loss : diesel propeller, steel, package/bulk freighter
Build info : 1923, Federal Shipbuilding, Kearney, NJ hull# 77
Specs : 250x43x20, 1695 t.
Date of loss : 1942, Sep 3
Place of loss : near Manitou Island
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : steel billets
Detail : She capsized and foundered in heavy seas. Her cargo was intended for war production.
Included on lists of U. S. World War II war losses.
Image of STEELVENDOR from MHGL
Sources : ns4,is(1-65),gwgl,lss,mpl,eas,ww2
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HENRY STEINBRENNER
Other names : none
Official no. : 96584
Type at loss : propeller, steel, bulk freight
Build info : 1901, Jenks Ship Building, Port Huron hull# 14
Specs : 427x50x28, 4345g 3178n
Date of loss : 1953, May 11
Place of loss : off Isle Royale
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 17 of 30 [crew loss list included in Runge document]
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : She foundered in a 75 mph gale when her hatch covers blew off. She filled and sank quickly. Part of her crew had abandoned before she went down. Master: Capt. Albert Stiglin. Owned by Kinsman Trans. Co. and managed by Henry Steinbrenner.
Sank in St. Mary’s R. following a collision with HARRY A. BERWIND in Dec 1909. Declared a total loss, but later recovered.
Official U.S. Coast Guard Report (.pdf file, courtesy Kimm Satbelfeldt)
Sources : ns4,mv,eas,lss,irs,is,s,gwgl,sol,mpl
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J. STEINHART
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1853, E. Euniack, Milwaukee
Specs : 72x18x5, 68 t.
Date of loss : 1855, Oct 28
Place of loss : 6 mi N of Milwaukee
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : several [mate and cook at least]
Carrying : cordwood
Detail : Bound Green Bay for Chicago, she capsized in a gale. Reported as a total loss.
Out of Milwaukee, owned by Guido Pfister and Capt. Ross
Sources : rnc,hgl,wl,jm,bb,wls
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J.W. STEINHOFF*
Other names : later QUEEN CITY(1896) and CANADA(1901)
Official no. : C71101
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger and package freight
Build info : 1874, Jenking, Wallaceburg, Ont.
Specs : 123x24x9, 313gc 209nc
Date of loss : 1879, Aug 13
Place of loss : foot of Griswold St., Detroit
Lake : Detroit R
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : 2
Carrying : cordwood
Detail : She caught fire in the middle of the night and was heavily damaged, along with the Hutchings dock and warehouse. One of the casualties was a young boy who was brought on deck by the engineer, placed on a salt barrel, and told to stay put while the rest of the crew was aroused. The engineer was cut off by the fire and was unable to return to the spot, and the boy was never seen again. Owned by Capt. John W. Steinhoff and mastered by his son Capt. Andrew Steinhoff, who was injured in the fire. Declared a total loss with $11,700 damage, the wreck was towed to Walkerville, Ont., then to Chatham, Ont., where she was rebuilt.
*often seen as just STEINHOFF
Also rebuilt, 1877 Scrapped in 1909.
Sources : polk,csv,mmgl,hdm,es,nsp
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STEPHENS – see also STEVENS
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WILLIAM H. STEPHENS
Other names : also seen as WILLIAM H. STEVENS
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1855, Peck & Martin, Cleveland
Specs : 117x22x9, 297 t
Date of loss : 1863, Nov 15
Place of loss : Scarecrow Island, S end of Thunder Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm (?)
Loss of life : (none)
Carrying : wheat
Detail : She struck a reef outlying the island and was wrecked, then slipped off the reef into deeper water. Though the wrecking tugs Leviathan and GEO. McCLELLAN were sent to assist her, she was considered hopeless and was stripped and abandoned by the 28th. Owned by Kirby, Carpenter & Co., Milwaukee
Sources : hgl,slh,stb,nsp,wmn,bb
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SAMUEL M. STEPHENSON – former entry deleted – vessel abandoned to rot
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STERLING
Other names : none
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1850 or earlier, Geo. Stinks, Port Burwell, Ont.
Specs : 54x7x7, 49 t.
Date of loss : 1856
Place of loss : near Toronto
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : She was reported ashore and wrecked. Out of Port Burwell.
Another schooner STERLING was reported lost at Goderich, Ont, in 1833.
Sources : hgl,mmgl
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STETSON
Other names : ?
Official no. : C ?
Type at loss : canal boat, wood
Build info : ?
Specs : ?
Date of loss : 1900, Sep (18)
Place of loss : unreported
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ? [probably light]
Detail : She foundered in a gale. In tow of steamer KINGSTON. She was being moved from the upper Lakes to Kingston for use as a lighter. Recently purchased by Capt. T. Folger of Kingston
Sources : nsp not in mmgl
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ANDREW STEVENS
Other names : also reported as O. STEVENS
Official no. : (C?)
Type at loss : bark, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1855, J. White, Hamilton, Ont.
Specs : 141x26x12, 417 t.
Date of loss : 1867, Nov 12
Place of loss : Georgian Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : (none)
Carrying : ?
Detail : Bound Detroit for Georgian Bay, she was driven on a reef in a storm. Later stormy weather forced several wrecking expeditions to turn back. (no disposition is shown on official records)
Chicago newspaper of May 26, 1857 reported the Canadian bark ANDREW STEVENS loading mixed cargo for Glasgow at Chicago.
Sources : hgl,slh,mmgl,nsp
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BELLE STEVENS
Other names : also seen as ELLA STEVENS, BELLE STEPHENS
Official no. : 3133
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1861, G. Hanson, St. Joseph, Mich
Specs : 89x22x7, 88g 84n
Date of loss : 1890, Nov 1
Place of loss : just outside harbor at Manistee, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : lumber & shingles
Detail : She went ashore in a gale and broke up.
A former U.S. government supply schooner, she was driven on Skillagalee Reef and wrecked by wave action in October, 1873. Towed to Bay City in a wrecked condition late in the fall of 1874, she was totally rebuilt in that winter. The rebuild was so complete that many sources show her as a new vessel in 1875.
Sources : mv,phr,vbs,h,bb,hgl,rsl
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FRANK B. STEVENS
Other names : built as passenger/package freight steamer ST. JOSEPH, renamed 1916
Official no. : C134517
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight [US23354]
Build info : 1867, Hitchcock & Gibson, Buffalo
Specs : 146x29x13, 304g, 171n
Date of loss : 1919, May
Place of loss : in harbor at Ashtabula, OH
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : hull failure
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : She sank in the harbor. After survey she was declared a constructive total loss because of her age and was abandoned in place. Owned by American Transit Co., Sarnia, Ont.
Sold Canadian in 1916.
Rebuilt to a bulker in 1880, rebuilt again 1887
Sources : mv,ns2,mpl,cv,mmgl
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J.H. STEVENS
Other names : none
Official no. : 12787
Type at loss : gas screw, bulk feight
Build info : 1859, D. Edwards, Milan, Oh as 2-mast schr [later 3-mast]
Specs : 100x21x7, 94g 88n
Date of loss : 1927, Jun 10
Place of loss : off Presque Isle, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none of 5
Carrying : ?
Detail : She was destroyed by an offshore fire.
Homeport in 1921: Milwaukee.
Equipped with semi-diesel engine in 1908. She could probably could sail or run under power.
Rebuilt at Detroit, 1866; at Sheboygan, 1873; and in 1891.
Sources : mv,polk,slh,mv,mpl,bb
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WILLIAM H. STEVENS
Other names : none
Official no. : 81120
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1886, F. Wheeler, W. Bay City hull# 27
Specs : 213x37x14, 1332g 1025n
Date of loss : 1902, Sep 8
Place of loss : Off Clear Creek, Ont., W of Long Point
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none of 21
Carrying : mixed cargo, including slippery flaxseed and copper ingots
Detail : Bound Duluth for Buffalo, she caught fire while underway. Her crew fought the fire for 10 hours in a storm before abandoning her. She burned to the waterline and sank. For some time she had floated with her stern on the bottom and her bow 6’ below the surface in 66 feet of water. Owned by Union Transit Co. of Buffalo. Master: Capt. John Tyrney. Copper worth $55,000 [about $1.2 million 2010 dollars] was recovered by wrecking master Harris W. Baker of Detroit.
Rebuilt, 1899
Sources : vbs,gsgl,ns1,mv,ledc,nsp,mpl,ewe,es
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ELLEN STEVENSON
Other names : none
Official no. : 135118
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1875, Martin Olsen, Sheboygan, WI
Specs : 62x17x6, 44gt 42nt
Date of loss : 1897, Oct 6
Place of loss : 40 miles off Holland, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : fruit (grapes or peaches)
Detail : She foundered in a NW gale. Her crew made it nearly to Holland in her lifeboat and were then assisted to shore by the Lifesaving Service. Master: Capt. Schippers. Owner: Capt. J. DeYoung, Grand Haven..
Driven ashore and declared total loss near Grand Haven, MI, Nov 19, 1891.
Sources : nsp,hgl,wb,mv,bb
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JOHN STEVENSON
Other names : also seen as JOHN STEPHENSON
Official no. : C
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1863, E Beaupre, Napanee, Ont.
Specs : 97x20x8, 170 t.
Date of loss : 1884, Feb 19
Place of loss : off Windsor, Ont
Lake : Detroit R
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She was run down and sunk by the Grand Trunk transfer carferry GREAT WESTERN and sunk. The railroad accepted responsibility and raised her, but she never sailed again and was abandoned in a boneyard at Detroit.
Owned by Odette & Wherry, Windsor.
Sources : es,rsl,wl,bb
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STEWART
Other names : ?
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : dredge barge
Build info : ?
Specs : 293 t.
Date of loss : 1931, Dec 23
Place of loss : At Welland, Ont., Welland Canal
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Destroyed by fire.
Sources : h
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A.E. STEWART – See GLENORCHY
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DAVID STEWART
Other names : none
Official no. : 6144
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1867, Peck, Cleveland
Specs : 171x31x13, 545g 518n
Date of loss : 1893, Oct 6
Place of loss : at Pigeon Bay, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 1,100 t. iron ore
Detail : Bound Escanaba for Cleveland, she encountered a powerful gale near the dummy and ran into Pigeon Bay for shelter. A change of wind found her and she began to break up in the bight of the bay, in huge waves. She foundered in 30 feet of water and became a total loss. Her crew clung to the frozen rigging for 14 hrs until saved by the fish tug LOUISE of Sandusky which was also sheltering. Owned by J. Squiers, Marine City, Mich. Master: Capt. Titus.
Dragged ashore in a gale, stranded and declared total loss near Fairport, OH, in Oct, 1891. Salvaged in ’92.
Ashore in Green Bay in 1868.
Major repairs 1879, 1883
Sources : mv,polk,eas,h,ledc,wb,nsp,phr,hgl,sb,mpl,do2,ew,es
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DUNCAN STEWART
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1853, John McDermott, Detroit
Specs : 62x16x3, 22 t. om
Date of loss : 1857, Aug 12
Place of loss : 10 mi off Cleveland
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : capsized
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lath
Detail : Bound Detroit for Cleveland, the scow capsized for unreported reasons. No storm was occurring at the time. Her crew clung to her sides for 4 hours until rescued by the schooner ADAIR. Out of Detroit. Master: Capt. A. D. Burdeno.
Declared a total loss, but re-enrolled in 1859.
Sources : nsp,hgl,wl,blu[57]
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ELLEN STEWART
Other names : also seen as ELLEN STUART
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1848, Dugall Duncan, Trenton, MI
Specs : 102x24x7, 161 t. om
Date of loss : 1854, Nov 6
Place of loss : mouth of Grand River, Michigan
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : iron, coal and water lime
Detail : Bound Grand Haven for Chicago, she was driven ashore by a gale, along with three other schooners. Broke in two and filled. Her crew remained aboard for more than 12 hours until rescued by small boat from the steamer OTTAWA. Owned by A.H. Covert of Chicago.
Also reported ashore and a total loss on Long Point in 1851, but she was recovered and reregistered in 1852
Sources : nsp,eas,wl,wmn
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ERIE STEWART
Other names : also seen as ERIN STEWART and ERIC STEWART
Official no. : C71131
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1874, G. Waterberry or Waterbury, Port Dover, Ont.
Specs : 118x23x11, 230 t.
Date of loss : 1907, Oct 7
Place of loss : Southampton, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : While seeking shelter from a storm, she was dashed against a pier in the harbor, broke up and sank. Her crew made it to the breakwater and were saved.
Sources : polk,win,mmgl,ns1,mpl,do
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FRANK STEWART
Other names : none
Official no. : C
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1856, Geo. Thurston, Kingston
Specs : 150 t.
Date of loss : 1863, Nov 19
Place of loss : east pier of the harbor at Oswego, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 131,000 bd ft lumber
Detail : Bound Hamilton for Oswego, she went out of control in a gale, drove ashore outside of the pier and was declared a total wreck. The ship’s cook was trapped in her cabin as she broke up, but was rescued by volunteers from shore. The schooner later broke up near the fort.
Owner and master: Capt. Anchor.
Sources : nsp,rp,hgl,clu,rnc,wmn,bb
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JOHN STEWART
Other names : none
Official no. : 13867
Type at loss : propeller, wood ferry
Build info : 1867, J. Foulks, E. Saginaw
Specs : 77x21x5, 52g 44n
Date of loss : 1874, Mar 12
Place of loss : near Port Huron
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She caught fire and burned to a total loss.
Stranded and burned near Sebewaing, MI, Nov 19, 1872.
Sources : vbs,lhl,mv,eas,nsp,bb
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MARY STEWART
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : propeller, wood
Build info : 1855, J.E. Dixon, Newport, MI
Specs : 171x27x10, 422 t. om
Date of loss : 1866, Nov 11
Place of loss : at Pentwater, MI*
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : She stranded while bound Chicago to Grand Haven and was later sunk just outside the shipping lane. The schooner A.P. WARD was sunk by striking her wreckage in 1869 after a storm moved it into the channel.
Heavily damaged in a sinking in Buffalo harbor, Apr 5, 1862.
*one source says near Grand Haven, but Pentwater is correct.
Sources : lhl,hgl,nsp,wl,eas,mmo
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R.G. STEWART
Other names : none
Official no. : 110341
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1878, Notter, Buffalo as a ferry
Specs : 100x23x8, 198g 170n
Date of loss : 1899, Jun 4
Place of loss : Michigan Isl. E side of the Apostles
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : 1 of 12
Carrying : passengers, cattle
Detail : She ran aground 1 mile east of the lighthouse and caught fire in her boiler room while bound Hancock for Duluth. Someone herded the cattle overboard and most survived. The one lost crewman died when he jumped from the upper deck to a lifeboat, capsizing it. Owner & master, Capt. C. O. Flynn, Duluth.
She was a former Niagara R. ferry
Rebuilt, 1883
Wreck located in 1983
Sources : polk,mv,is(2-58),gwgl,sol,lss,mpl,nsp
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W.W. STEWART
Other names : built as sidewheel ferry W.J. SPICER, renamed in 1881
Official no. : 62851
Type at loss : lighter barge
Build info : 1864, R. Stedman, Sarnia, Ont.
Specs : 160x27x12, 294g 280n
Date of loss : 1909, Oct 12
Place of loss : Buffalo harbor
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Had been sitting idle at her dock for 7 years when she caught fire, (probably by arson) and was destroyed.
Converted to schooner-barge, 1875, converted to lighter-barge in 1881. Sold American before 1883.
Sources : polk,csv,mv,ns1,mmgl
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THOMAS D. STIMSON
Other names : built as schooner VIRGINIUS, renamed in 1887
Official no. : 25992
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1881, Daly & Sons, Mt. Clemens, MI as a schooner
Specs : 161x31x12, 510g 468n
Date of loss : 1903, Jun 30
Place of loss : at Riverside, MI near Algonac
Lake : St Clair R
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : She caught fire from exploding engine room lamp while under way. Beached and burned to total loss. One newspaper report says her hull may have been recovered and converted to barge. Owned and sailed by Capt. A Slyfield of Port Huron, and chartered to Hines Lumber Co.
Converted to steam bulk freighter at Clarks’ Dry Dock in 1887
Image of vessel afire from GLMD
Sources : polk,mv,ns1,is,nsp,phr,mpl
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STOCKMAN
Other names : also seen in error as STOCKTON*
Official no. : none
Type at loss : propeller tug, wood [former fish tug]
Build info : 1852, Cleveland
Specs : 85x15x6, 82 t.
Date of loss : 1865, Aug 29
Place of loss : Bear Creek, MI (Can.?)
Lake : St Clair
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Burned to a total loss while at her dock for the night.
Owned by Firby, et. al., working the Port Huron – Detroit run.
*1st owner was J.G. Stockman, 1st skipper Wm. Stockman
Sources : lhl,hgl,st,wl,eas
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H.D. STOCKMAN
Other names : none
Official no. : 95848
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1885, AuSable, MI
Specs : 40x11x3, 11g 10n
Date of loss : 1894, May 21
Place of loss : Pt. Lookout, Saginaw Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : She was driven ashore by a terrific gale and wrecked. Out of Port Huron.
Sources : is(2-92),phr,nsp,slh,hgl
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MARY STOCKTON
Other names : none
Official no. : 50515
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1853, Bates & Son, Manitowoc, but also shown officially as ’55, Manistee
Specs : 132x30x9, 233 t. 347 t. om,
Date of loss : 1888, Nov or Dec
Place of loss : at Cleveland
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : all
Carrying : ?
Detail : Went on the rocks in a gale and became a total loss.
Reportedly “Met with disaster” in May of 1884. Out of E Saginaw, owned by McLean et. al.
Reported as gone missing and probably lost by the Buffalo papers on Oct 30, 1855. Owned by Cobb & Anderson of Buffalo at that time.
She was built with two centerboards in line.
Sources : nsp,rsl,jb,mv,wmn,sm
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STONE CITY
Other names : none
Official no. : 116689
Type at loss : propeller, wood
Build info : 1895, Lockport, Ill
Specs : 55x13x4, 42g 35n
Date of loss : 1899, Oct 12
Place of loss : near Cedar River, Mich
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fog
Loss of life : none
Carrying : salted fish
Detail : Bound for Big Cedar, she lost her way in the fog and ran aground. She broke up soon after, a total loss. Out of Milwaukee.
Sources : wgts,hr,wmn,wl,mv
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ELLA G. STONE
Other names : built as prop E.L. MASON, renamed in 1883
Official no. : 135527
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood,
Build info : 1881, A. Smith, Algonac, MI
Specs : 69x15x9, 42g 21n
Date of loss : 1918, Oct 12
Place of loss : Duluth harbor
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 NDDs floating stock including the dredge DULUTH, this boat and the tugs MENTOR and JOHN JEFFREY, JR as well as five or six scows.
Major repair in 1883
Sources : polk,mv,is,mpl,mjd
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GEORGE STONE
Other names : none
Official no. : 86261
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1893, F. Wheeler, W. Bay City, Mich hull# 98
Specs : 270x40x19, 1841g 1502n
Date of loss : 1909, Oct 12
Place of loss : Grubb Reef, Pelee Passage
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : 6 of 18
Carrying : coal
Detail : Bound Ashtabula for Racine, she stranded on Grubb Reef, then caught fire and was destroyed – she sank near the shipping channel. Out of Cleveland, owned by M. A. Bradley. Master: Capt. Paul Howell(d).
Sources : vbs,mv,eas,gsgl,lss,sol,is,ns1,h,ledc,win,mpl,jk,ew
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WM. STONE
Other names : also seen as WILLIAM STONE
Official no. : 81548
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1896, Bellford Crosier, Vermilion, OH
Specs : 108x27x11, 185g 166n
Date of loss : 1901, Oct 13
Place of loss : Cecil Bay, western Straits
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : She was lying at the lumber dock at Cecil Bay when a NW gale rose and blew two large piles of lumber from the dock to the ship. The unmanageable schooner broke loose and was driven ashore, where she pounded to pieces.
One of the last commercial lake schooners ever built
Sources : ssm,ns1,slh,nsp,mv
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STORK – See GARROWEN
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STORM
Other names : none
Official no. : 23384
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1854, R. Hayes, Fairport, OH (MI)
Specs : 79x19x4, 55 t. 69 t.
Date of loss : 1869, May 13
Place of loss : Chicago harbor
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : She was bound White Lake, Michigan for Chicago and was just entering the harbor of the latter when she sank southeast of the tip of the “long pier.” Her crew were saved by the tug MON—- (rest is illegible)
Probably also wrecked on Lake Michigan with the loss of one life in 1864.
Sources : nsp,hgl,rsl,wl,wmn
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STORM KING
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1856, F. N. Jones, Buffalo
Specs : 130x28x11, 375 t. om
Date of loss : 1861, Jun 1
Place of loss : W of the Beaver Islands
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 17,000 bu wheat
Detail : She collided in the dark with the propeller MICHIGAN and sank in about 5 minutes in 400 feet of water. Her crew succeeded in escaping and were picked up by the MICHIGAN. She had been bound for Buffalo, her home port.
Stranded in Mailwaukee harbor in Dec, 1856.
Sources : nsp,hgl,bb,wls
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STORM SPIRIT
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1856, J. P. Arnold, Port Huron
Specs : 213 t. om
Date of loss : 1864, Aug 10
Place of loss : Off Bark Shanty, tip of Michigan’s “Thumb”
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Upbound she collided with the downbound bark CITY OF MILWAUKEE at night and sank 10 miles offshore. The two had seen each other in advance, but had been unsuccessful in trying to sidestep each other. The crew of the stricken SPIRIT were taken aboard the wounded bark before the former went down. Owned by Scott & Rankin, Erie, PA.
Ashore in a storm near Long Pt., Lake Erie, and abandoned briefly in Aug, 1860.
Sources : hgl,slh,nsp,rsl not in mmgl
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AMASA STOWELL
Other names : also seen as A. STOWELL
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1861, Oswego, NY
Specs : 72 gt
Date of loss : 1862, Oct
Place of loss : near Sodus, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : wheat
Detail : Reported astranded and a total loss. Probably out of Oswego.
Sources : hgl,wmn,hr,wl
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STRANGER
Other names : none
Official no. : 22561
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1868 or earlier
Specs : 60 ft., 15 t.
Date of loss : 1875, Dec 12
Place of loss : off Grand Marais, MN and Keweenaw Pen.
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 4 [all]
Carrying : general merch
Detail : She was dismasted off Grand Marais by westerly gale. She had no anchor and was unable to get a line sent from a boat. The storm eventually blew her out of sight into the lake, where her crew presumably froze to death. Wreckage eventually came ashore on the Keweenaw. Out of Superior, WI. Master: Capt. Isaac Clark.
Sources : gwgl,is,lss,usls
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STRANGER
Other names : none
Official no. : 115316
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1872, C. Dutcher, Bay Port, MI
Specs : 49x13x4, 16g
Date of loss : 1880, Oct 21
Place of loss : near East Tawas, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Driven ashore and wrecked two miles from Tawas Point light. Out of E. Tawas. She was recovered the following year, but she was too damaged to be repaired and was completely dismantled and rebult as a new boat.
Also stranded and wrecked near Caseville, MI, in 1873.
Sources : phr,slh,sbs,nsp,vbs
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STRANGER
Other names : none
Official no. : 22403
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1863, Campbell & Owen, Detroit
Specs : 74x16x8, 76gt 44nt
Date of loss : 1885, Oct 28
Place of loss : at Trenton
Lake : Detroit R
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She lost her rudder off Gibraltar and was towed to Trenton for repairs. She caught fire while moored alongside the tug IDA TORRENT at Craig’s shipyard and was cut loose to save the latter. Later she caught in the piers of the Canadian Southern bridge and burned to the waterline. Owned by Jacques Laframboise of Amherstburg, Ont. The hulk was later sold at auction for $265 and the engine and boiler salvaged.
Sources : nsp,mv,lhl,eas,es,wmn
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STRATHMORE
Other names : built as pass. freighter GORDON CAMPBELL, renamed 1906
Official no. : C116813
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1871, Campbell & Owen, Detroit [US#85184] hull# 19
Specs : 206x33x12, 1158gc 729nc
Date of loss : 1906, Nov 14*
Place of loss : near Michipicoten Isl.
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : grain
Detail : Bound Ft. William for Kingston, she struck bottom near the island and sank. Master: Capt. Patrick Sullivan. Later burned and still later was pushed by a storm from the shallows to deeper water.
It was said she “had the habit of choosing her own course.”
Some editions of MVUS erroneously show her as a sidewheeler
*or Nov 8
Image as GORDON CAMPBELL from GLMD
Sources : csv,mv,ns1,polk,atl,lss,gwgl,is,h,nsp,mmgl,mpl,do,wl
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CHARLES A. STREET
Other names : none
Official no. : 126485
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight “lumber hooker”
Build info : 1888, D. Robertson, Grand Haven, MI
Specs : 165x31x12, 512g 451n
Date of loss : 1908, Jul 20
Place of loss : several mi. due east of Richmondville, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : She was destroyed in an offshore fire. The barge J. GODFREY hauled to windward and took her crew off at great hazard to herself.
Sources : slh,ns1,mv,lhdc,mpl
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THOMAS CLARK STREET
Other names : none
Official no. : 74372
Type at loss : bark, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1869, L. Shickluna, St. Catharines, Ont.
Specs : 138x26x12, 360g 337n
Date of loss : 1902, Dec 2
Place of loss : near Pte. Petre, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : “Wrecked”, no detail.
Ashore and wrecked near Racine, Wis in November, 1875.
Capsized on Lake Erie with the loss of at least five lives in May of 1876.
Also ashore and declared lost Nov 7, 1880, 3 mi E of Wellington, Ont., L. Ont.
Sources : win,mmgl,nsp,wls
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ELIZA H. STRONG
Other names : built as N.K. FAIRBANK [US#130033], renamed in 1899
Official no. : 136733
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight “lumber hooker”
Build info : 1874, W. Morley, Marine City, MI
Specs : 205x37x11, 980g 831n
Date of loss : 1904, Oct 25
Place of loss : .8 mi SE of Huron St. dock, Lexington, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber, barge
Detail : She caught fire 25 miles off shore and was abandoned by her crew in the yawl. STRONG was picked up by the steamer CITY OF HOLLAND and towed in to shallow water while still ablaze. There she burned to the waterline. Owner: Strong Transportation Co., Tonawanda.
Nearly destroyed in another fire near Detour, 1895.
Overwhelmed and abandoned in gale in 1901, but later found, still afloat.
Sources : polk,rkr,mv,ns1,glp,is(1-71)ms,gwgl,slh,sol,mpl
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HELEN STRONG
Other names : (none)
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1845, F.N. Jones, Monroe, MI
Specs : 142x20x8, 253 t.
Date of loss : 1846, Nov 19
Place of loss : just E of 20-mile creek, near Barcelona, NY
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 2 of 60+
Carrying : passengers, merchandise
Detail : Bound Buffalo for Erie, PA and Toledo, she broke her steering chains and wheel in a gale and later burst a steam pipe, rendering her unmanageable. She was driven ashore, broke in two places and stranded below a 60-foot perpendicular cliff. The survivors were hauled up the cliff in the northwest gale, one by one, as the steamer broke up below. Master: Capt. Edwards.
Also stranded with heavy damage in 1845. May have been a schooner at the time, rebuilt to a steamer.
Sources : lhl,hgl,eas,ledc,nsp,rp,wl
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SAMUEL STRONG
Other names : also seen as SAM STRONG
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1847, Thomas H. Cobb/L. D. Burnell, Black River, Oh
Specs : 113x23x9, 223 t.
Date of loss : 1855, late Oct
Place of loss : at Pere Marquette [Ludington], Mich
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : 9 or none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Reported ashore and a total loss. Very brief mention in several sources. Vessel and cargo reportedly worth $33,000.
Major repairs at Racine in 1853.
Sources : hgl,wmn,hr,wmhs,mmo,mbw
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WILLIAM STURGES
Other names : also seen: WM. STURGIS and GEO. STURGES
Official no. : 26220
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1853, Lafrinier & Stevenson, Cleveland as a bark
Specs : 137x25x11, 263 t.
Date of loss : 1881, Sep 29
Place of loss : just N of harbor entrance at Ludington, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 7
Carrying : in ballast
Detail : She stranded and sunk while trying to make the harbor entrance in a gale. Settled in smooth water, where it was hoped she would be safe. Wind shifted, however, and she was broken up by waves. Out of Chicago.
Major repairs in 1862
Sources : mv,hgl,h,usls,rsl,nsp
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JOHN A. STYNINGER
Other names : none
Official no. : 211667
Type at loss : propeller freighter, (steel?)
Build info : 1913, P. Trudo, Bay City, MI
Specs : 56x22x4, 117 t.
Date of loss : 1915, Nov 12
Place of loss : at Grace Harbor (now Grace), Hammond Bay, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Destroyed by fire at a dock.
Sources : mv,vbs,phr,bb
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SUCCESS
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : bark, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1862, Campbell & Owen, Detroit
Specs : 135x26x12, 387 t.
Date of loss : 1863, Sep 1
Place of loss : between Sheboygan, WI, and Two Rivers Point
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none [some say 10 lives were lost]
Carrying : 32,000 bu corn
Detail : Bound Chicago for (Buffalo), she capsized and foundered in a gale. Her crew was taken off by the schooner MAITLAND, which answered her distress signal. Out of Detroit, owned by H. N. Strong. Master: Capt. Donahoe.
Constructed with a unique web of heavy collision bracing in her bow.
Sources : nsp,hgl,wmhs
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SUCCESS
Other names : none
Official no. : 115376
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, lumber
Build info : 1875, J. Johnson, Manitowoc, Wis
Specs : 104x26x7, 151g 144n
Date of loss : 1896, Nov 26
Place of loss : at Whitefish Bay, Wis
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : After riding out another storm for two days outside the harbor, she put into the dock and loaded her lumber cargo. Another strm struck and she made her way back out to again ride it out. However, she developed a serious leak and her anchor line was cut to allow her to drift in instead of capsizing. She struck a mile out, but her crew was rescued by local fishermen. She broke up soon after.
Out of Manitowoc, owned and sailed by Anton Olson.
Sources : mv,bbas,hgl,polk,bb,wgts
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SUCCESS
Other names : none
Official no. : none(?)
Type at loss : barkentine, wood, 3-mast [all-teak construction]
Build info : 1840, Natmoo Shipyard, Tenasserim, Burma as a full-rigged ship*
Specs : 117x27x23, 622 t.
Date of loss : 1946, Jul 4
Place of loss : Port Clinton, OH
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : a museum ship, she was built for the silk and emigrant trade. She was converted to a prison ship in 1857 and stationed at Sydney, Australia. She was abandoned and scuttled at that place in 1885, then resurrected in 1891 and toured the world as a “convict ship” museum. She was rerigged as a barkentine and came to the U.S. in 1912, leaving Liverpool the same day as the TITANIC and making the crossing in a long 98 days. She retired in 1939 at Port Clinton, OH. Burned by vandals on this date.
*A flyer circulated with the ship when she was being displayed stated that she was built at Moulmein, Burma, in 1790. The information above is from Lloyd’s, which does not list the ship before 1840.
Sources : is(1-70),photo,mol,nsp,ttgl,sol,ledc,mpl,ew
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W.J. SUFFEL
Other names : none
Official no. : C71274
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1874, L. McDermand, Port Burwell, Ont.
Specs : 120x26x10, 238gc 238nc
Date of loss : 1910, Nov 26
Place of loss : Long Point
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : She grounded and went to pieces in a gale.
Ashore with heavy damage near Oswego, NY, Aug 6, 1887.
Sources : hgl,ns2,polk,mmgl.usls
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SUFFOLK
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1847, Bidwell & Banta, Buffalo
Specs : 251 t.
Date of loss : 1854, Dec 6
Place of loss : at Port Burwell, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : flour, barley & pork
Detail : Bound Milwaukee for Buffalo, she was driven ashore near Port Burwell and became a total loss. Owned by J. & L. E. White, Chicago. MAY later have been recovered by Canadian parties.
Was docked at Michigan City and taking on wheat when a gale blew her from her moorings and ashore, she was expected to become a total loss, Sep 29, 1848. Owned by W.O. Brown, Detroit.
Sources : nsp,hgl,wmn,bb
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JOSEPH C. SUIT
Other names : none
Official no. : 76529
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight “rabbit”
Build info : 1884, R. Brittain, Saugatuck, MI as a passenger steamer
Specs : 110x23x9, 318g 241n
Date of loss : 1912, Nov 9
Place of loss : at Detroit
Lake : Detroit R
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Tied to her dock, she was rammed and sunk by the brand-new, giant passenger steamer CITY OF DETROIT III. Crushed and sunk, she was a total loss.
Owned by Dell Madden of Harbor Beach, MI
Image of vessel on the bottom from GLMD
Sources : mv,ns2,eas,mpl
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SULTAN
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : brig, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1848, Chicago
Specs : 267 t.
Date of loss : 1864, Sep 24
Place of loss : off Euclid, OH
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 7 of 8
Carrying : lumber, staves, 200 tons of grindsones
Detail : Struck bottom as she left Cleveland water in heavy weather. She did not seem to be leaking, but a short time later, when about nine miles out, she began to leak heavily. She went over on her beam ends and sank, taking most of her crew, which had been unable to launch her boat. Owned by Thatcher, & Burt & Co., of Cleveland. Master: Capt. Nelson Webster(d).
Capsized off Chambers Island in June of 1853.
Ashore with heavy damage in the Straits in November of 1853, recovered in May of 1854.
Sources : nsp,hgl,slh
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SULTAN
Other names : none
Official no. : C
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : prob. 1854, Thomas & Ashman, Oakville, Ont*
Specs : 87x19x8, 112gc
Date of loss : 1873, Oct 22
Place of loss : off Port Hope, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Struck the pier at Port Hope in a storm and was pounded to pieces. Worth only $1,400 at the time. Owned by John Lydon, Port Hope. Master: Capt. Stalker.
*Shown in NAC as “lost” – but no date
Sources : mv,slh,hgl,mmgl,nsp,hcgl
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SULTANA
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sloop-barge, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1847, Zadoc Pangborn, Algonac, MI as a luxury sidewheel steamer
Specs : 217x31x13, 725 t.
Date of loss : 1863, Nov 12 [1858 given erroneously]
Place of loss : SE of Pte Aux Barques, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : navigational error
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Bound Saginaw for Buffalo in tow of tug REINDEER, she struck bottom and was stranded. Gales broke her up before she could be released.
Converted from sidewheeler to barge in 1860 or 62. Her cabins were used for “saloons for pleasure parties” at Belle Isle, Detroit R.
Sources : hgl,is(4-95),slh,nsp,mpl
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SUMATRA
Other names : none
Official no. : 115240
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1874, Quelos & Peck, Black R., OH
Specs : 204x34x14, 845g 803n
Date of loss : 1896, Sep 30*
Place of loss : off Milwaukee
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 4 of 7
Carrying : 5,700 RR rails
Detail : She was blown down and foundered while under tow of the steamer B.W. ARNOLD (qv). The balance of her was crew rescued by ARNOLD [which was lost 2 months later] and the Lifesaving Service. Most of her cargo was recovered the same fall.
*date also given as Sep 4
Rebuilt, 1882 after stranding with heavy damage on Lake Erie in late fall of 1879.
Sources : mv,(nsp),sol,h,lmdc,wb,phr,polk,hgl,mpl,nsp
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SUMMIT
Other names : none
Official no. : 22376
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1856, R. Calkins, Cleveland
Specs : 126x26x10, 226 t.
Date of loss : 1872, Sep 28
Place of loss : 3 mi off Fish Point [AuSable Pt]
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 2
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : She stranded and was wrecked. Heavy seas had broken up her lifeboat, so her crew had to swim for it as she went to pieces. The woman cook who had been lashed to the ship’s rigging and a seaman who made for shore were lost.
Owned by John Webber and her skipper W.m Webb, of Cleveland.
Sources : mv,slh,nsp,is,wes
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ALANSON SUMNER – former entry deleted – tug was scuttled in 1898 after engine was removed
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SUN
Other names : none
Official no. : 22281
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1854, Bidwell & Banta, Buffalo
Specs : 192x28x12, 707g (629n?) 680 t. om
Date of loss : 1874, Jul 12
Place of loss : abeam of Pte Aux Pins, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : 3-barge tow
Detail : She was struck by a storm and foundered. She was a total loss of $13,000. Her barges made it to Detroit under their own sail.
Major repairs in 1864
Sources : lhl,hgl,mv,ledc,nsp
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SUNBEAM
Other names : built as steamer VICTOR, renamed in 1862
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1861, Bates & Son, Manitowoc, WI
Specs : 169x24x10, 398 gt
Date of loss : 1863, Aug 28
Place of loss : off Keweenaw Pt
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 28 of 29
Carrying : passengers
Detail : Caught in a gale above Eagle Harbor while in company of the steamer MICHIGAN, she broke up and foundered offshore between Ontonagon and Portage Lake. Her crew took to her small lifeboats and were all lost except the wheelsman who had forsaken a boat for a piece of floating wreckage. He sustained himself for over 30 hours on the contents of a large bottle of port wine that had drifted near.
Built with an unusual and unsuccessful Wittaker side propeller propulsion system, which was removed after its first year of service in favor of a standard sidewheel powerplant. Owned by the Goodrich Line of Chicago. Master: Capt. Ratteray(d) or Capt. Dougall..
Sources : hgl,lhl,gwgl,lss,gs,sol,rsh,mpl,rsh,df,eas
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SUNNYSIDE
Other names : none also seen as SUNNISIDE, SUNNY SIDE
Official no. : 22555
Type at loss : propeller, wood
Build info : 1864, S. McDonald, Detroit
Specs : 138 t.
Date of loss : 1867, Nov 14
Place of loss : at Pine River, west arm of Grand Traverse Bay
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : (none)
Carrying : merchandise
Detail : She was tied to the pier of S. Pease & Co. when that structure began to break up in a storm. She went ashore in a slurry of timbers and was pounded to pieces. Officially abandoned in May of the following year. Owned by Hannah, Lay & Co out of Traverse City. Master: Capt. Robert Kerr .
Sources : lhl,rsl,nsp,mr
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SUNNYSIDE
Other names : none
Official no. : 22388
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1862, Campbell & Owen, Detroit as a bark
Specs : 563 gt.
Date of loss : 1883, Aug 20
Place of loss : Fox Islands
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 928 tons of iron ore
Detail : Lost from the steamer W. H. BARNUM after the tow of three vessels was scrambled by a squall and she collided with towmate S. L. FOSTER. After a struggle by her crew with the pumps for two hours, she sank 3 mi NW of N. Fox Island. According to some sources, her remains lie 2 miles offshore of the southwest side of N. Fox Island in 18 ft. of water, but this location jibes with neither the mate’s nor other contemporary descriptions of the wreck. Home port was Detroit, Michigan, but owned by R. Carr, Cleveland.
She had been built as a large bark at 746.85 gt.; later [1874] rebuilt as a schooner to a lower tonnage.
Major repairs in 1882
Drawing as barkentine from GLMD
Sources : (mv),(hgl),lmdc,rsl,nsp
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SUNRISE
Other names : none
Official no. : 22349
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1862, Peck & Masters, Cleveland as a bark
Specs : 160x31x12, 439g 417n
Date of loss : 1896, May 21
Place of loss : midlake 60 miles out of Chicago
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none of 8
Carrying : light
Detail : Bound Chicago for Cockburn Isl., she cut between the steamer W.H. GRATWICK and her tow, the whaleback barge NO. 133, which ran her down. 133 picked up her crew just as she sank. Master: Capt. Buchanan, who owned her with Henry Scheele, Milwaukee.
Also sank in the Straits, 1871, and went ashore near Detroit with the loss of 3 lives in 1872.
Stranded and wrecked near Chicago in ’87.
Rebuilt, 1882
Sources : mv,hgl,nsp,polk,slh,wb,mpl,wls
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SUNSHINE
Other names : none
Official no. : 23057
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1857, J. Deprees, Mt. Clemens, Mich
Specs : 97x24x6, 115 t.*
Date of loss : 1869, Sep 29
Place of loss : north point of North Bay, Wis.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Bound White Lake, Mich, for Chicago, she was struck by a SW gale and was beached at this spot to save her. Mostly destroyed by December. Owned by Capts. Hauser & Durbin, Chicago.
*Enlarged to these dimensions in 1862.
Sources : wgts,mv,bb,wls
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SUNSHINE
Other names : none
Official no. : 22272
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1854, Kirby & Hoyt, E. Saginaw, MI as a bark
Specs : 160x30x12, 390g 370n
Date of loss : 1906, Nov 28
Place of loss : at Detroit, foot of Fisher Ave.
Lake : Detroit R
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Burned to total loss at her moorings. Owned by F. W. Ryder of Detroit.
As a bark, she capsized with the loss of her captain, mate, cook, three sailors and three of the captain’s children in July of 1859 and lost most of her crew in another capsizing about 1871.
Heavily damaged in the explosion of the tug N.P. SPRAGUE(qv) in 1857.
Major repairs in 1857. Rebuilt to schooner-barge, 1871, rebuilt, 1883
Sources : ns1,mv,vbs,nsp
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SUPERIOR – See also RALPH BUDD, A.B. CONMEE, WALTER R. PRINGLE
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SUPERIOR (1825 loss) – entry eliminated, vessel recovered
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SUPERIOR
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : ship [bark?], wood
Build info : 1822, Noah Brown, Buffalo as a sidewheel steamer
Specs : 126x29x11, 346 t.
Date of loss : 1843, Oct.22
Place of loss : at Michigan City, Ind
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : wheat
Detail : While loading a cargo at dock in a gale, her lines parted and she drove ashore. She reportedly broke up soon after, a total loss. Master: Capt. John Munson, Jr. Owned by Geo Moore, Buffalo.
Equipped with the engine from the early steamer WALK-IN-THE-WATER(qv) and built to replace her. She was the first sizeable vessel built at Buffalo and when it came time to launch her, a great community effort was mounted to lower the bar at the mouth of Buffalo creek so she could get out to the lake. Her engine was damaged in a accident at Dunkirk, NY, in 1828 and removed. It may later have powered a sawmill at Saginaw, MI.
Some sources says she was converted to a schooner before her loss [i.e. in 1834], while others say she was still a steamer, and news clippings show her as a “ship.” The 3-mast ship of the name and very similar dimensions [128x29x11, 359 t.] and built at Detroit in 1837, operated out of Detroit and Buffalo until at least 1839.
Sources : hgl,lhl,is,egls,lmdc,sol,nsp,wl,edd,mhgl
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SUPERIOR
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1845, Perrysburg, OH
Specs : 191x28x11, 567 t. om [may have been rebuilt after1848, some sources show larger dimensions after that date]
Date of loss : 1856, Oct 30
Place of loss : Pictured Rocks, near Cascade, MI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 35 of 53*
Carrying : freight, 30 pass.
Detail : She was having no problem with a big storm until her rudder broke off, then she was thrown into the shallows under Pictured Rocks. Reportedly went to pieces within 15 minutes of striking. Master: Capt. Hiram J. Jones(d). Owner: A. T. Spencer, Chicago. The next summer, when salvors went there to examine her, all that was left that was salvagable was the engine and boiler. In 1883 a wrecking captain brought up the door of the vessel’s safe which contained under the bands a number of 1854 coins.
*Most common est. based on published list of casulaties’ names; others – up to 50 casualties- are given.
One of the last & largest vessels to be portaged around Soo.
Wreck is a frequent dive target.
Sources : hgl,lhl,gwgl,lss,ms,sol,is,net,nsp,eas,rnc,ctw,blu
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SUPERIOR
Other names : none
Official no. : 22387
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1861, Campbell & Owen, Detroit as a bark
Specs : 136x26x12, 306g 291n
Date of loss : 1895, Nov 19
Place of loss : Oak Pt., W of Pte Aux Barques
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : Stranded and became a total loss in a NE gale.
Converted from a bark to a schooner in 1872.
Sources : slh,mv,lhdc,wb,wl
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SUPERIOR
Other names : none
Official no. : 115158
Type at loss : propeller, wood
Build info : 1873, Linn & Craig, Gibraltar, MI
Specs : 188x33x20, 964g 838n
Date of loss : 1898, Aug 28
Place of loss : 1 mile W of Gull Isl. Light, Beavers
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : Bound Escanaba for Toledo, she opened her seams in heavy waves and began to roll terribly and take on water. She let her barge SANDUSKY go and made for the Beavers. She was run into the shallows on the N side of Gull, where she quickly broke up. The crew remained with her for quite awhile, but when the ship began to fall apart they abandoned and made a hard pull to St James in her yawl. Master: Capt. Hiram Eldridge. Owner: M. A. Bradley, Cleveland.
350 hp engine
Sources : mv,polk,hgl,nsp,lmdc,mpl,nsp
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SUPERIOR
Other names : built as sloop MENTOR, renamed in 1916
Official no. : 214461*
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight sandsucker
Build info : 1881, A. Johnson, Fort Howard, WI
Specs : 138x26x8, 327g 160n **
Date of loss : 1929, Jun 11
Place of loss : Detour Channel, St. Mary’s R.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : She struck a bar, caught fire and was destroyed. Homeport: Detroit; owned by Frank McCarron.
She had a complicated history. She was built as a sloop-barge of 230 gross tons, US#91378. Converted to a propeller in 1887 (118x26x9, 304g 257n). Listed as a steam lighter in 1910 mvus. Officially reported as abandoned in 1916, but actually her hull was enlarged and converted to a sandsucker at Marine City. She came out with a new official number [meaning she was rebuilt so extensively as to be considered a new vessel] and the dimensions shown above.
Image and description from Mike Spears
Sources : mv,polk,ns3,slh,lhdc,mpl,eas,mis
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SUPERIOR CITY
Other names : none
Official no. : 116820
Type at loss : propeller, steel, bulk freight
Build info : 1898, American Ship Building, Lorain, OH
Specs : 429x50x25, 4795g 3693n
Date of loss : 1920, Aug 20
Place of loss : Whitefish Bay
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : 29 of 33
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : Downbound, she collided with the 580 ft. steamer WILLIS L. KING in a confusion of passing signals. SUPERIOR crossed KING’s bow, was rammed amidships and sank very quickly. Cold water hitting boiler caused an explosion which killed most of her crew.
She was a Pittsburgher. 1900 hp engine
Wreck discovered by a diver in 1972, and a diver was killed exploring her in June, 2001.
Sources : mv,ns3,is(2-69),lssc,lss,lol,gwgl,smgl,sol,mpl,eas,nsp
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SUPPLY
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1830, Michilimackinac
Specs : 45 t.
Date of loss : 1832, Nov 5
Place of loss : Goose Island shoal
Lake : Detroit R.
Type of loss : stranded
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : 150 bbl salt
Detail : She reportedly went ashore, bilged and sunk. She was reported as a “Missionary schooner” and was owned by the Mission at Mackinac.
Sources : hgl,slh,wmn,wmhs
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SUPPLY
Other names : built as schr CURTIS MANN renamed in 1861
Official no. : 22389
Type at loss : brig or schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1855, G. Hardison, Buffalo
Specs : 134x30x11, 277 t.*
Date of loss : 1869, Nov 15
Place of loss : off N. Manitou Isl.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : 300,000 brick
Detail : Bound Detroit for Carp River, she broke in two astern and foundered in a gale, just offshore. The woman steward died of exposure. Crew spent 2 days in rigging until rescued by windbound crew of the schooner SOUTH WEST. Master: Capt. Ryan and owned by M. M. & J. Ryan, Detroit.
*396 t. also given, probably OM.
Sources : nsp,mv,hgl,nb,rsl,mdwl
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SUPPLY
Other names : none
Official no. : 23497
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1861, S. E. Field, Black River, OH
Specs : 81x21x5, 89 g 85n
Date of loss : 1890, Jul 3
Place of loss : Grand Traverse Bay
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : She foundered off Traverse City, MI – no detail. Owned and sailed by Capt. Dan Way.
Capsized off Port Washington, WI, Jul 13, 1869. Declared a total loss.
Also declared a total loss after sinking off Fox Point, N of Milwaukee, in October of 1886
Sources : bb,hgl,mv
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SURPRISE
Other names : none
Official no. : C96819
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1893, Gore Bay
Specs : 50×12, 19gc 11nc
Date of loss : 1905, Nov 4
Place of loss : Cask Bay of Georgian Bay (or Cook’s Bay)
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Burned to total loss.
Out of Soo, Ont.
Sources : hgl,win,mmgl,slh,h
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SURVEYOR
Other names : ?
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : motor launch, oil screw
Build info : ?
Specs : ?
Date of loss : 1964, Dec 4
Place of loss : off Ashtabula, OH
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : “sunk”
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : She foundered with the barge DIXIE, no detail. The wreck lies in 43 ft of water, 3.8 mi, 66 deg from Ashtabula E Breakwater light.
Sources : glp,ledc,eas
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SUSANNA
Other names : none
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1850, Port Dover, Ont
Specs : 62x16x6, 50 t.
Date of loss : 1853, Nov 28
Place of loss : Port Dover, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : flour & lumber
Detail : Bound for Buffalo, she put into Port Dover to shelter from a storm. The crew went ashore except captain and mate, and soon after she was discovered to be ablaze. Burned to total loss. Out of Port Ryerse and owned by Ryerse.
Another (same?) SUSANNAH was wrecked and reportedly went to pieces in the Niagara R. in November of 1855.
Sources : hgl,mmgl,nsp
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SUSIE Q
Other names : none
Official no. : 253894
Type at loss : propeller, Diesel, steel, fishing tug
Build info : 1947, Manitowoc, Wis
Specs : 39x13x3, 26 t.
Date of loss : 1985, Dec 30
Place of loss : off Big Bay
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 3
Carrying : fishing gear
Detail : After she lost power in a storm a distress signal was sent and her crew was rescued by Coast Guard helicopter. The tug foundered later and is thought to be within the boundaries of the Marquette Underwater Preserve.
Maybe US#251939, former tug ROBERT & RICHARD
Sources : hr
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SUSQUEHANNAH
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1846, F. D. Ketchum, Huron, OH
Specs : 270 t.
Date of loss : 1865, Aug 23
Place of loss : 6 mi off Conneaut, OH
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 815 t.coal, staves
Detail : She sprung a leak and began to fill, then went down in a storm while bound Buffalo and Erie for Chicago. Owner and master: Capt. Campbell, Buffalo. Her rigging, anchors and some gear were recovered by the wrecking tug MAGNET on the 7th.
Major repairs in 1860.
Sources : nsp,hgl,rsl,wmn,bb
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J.E. SUTHERLAND
Other names : also seen as J.E. SOUTHERLAND
Official no. : 12766
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1850, Jos. Randall, St. Joseph, MI
Specs : 77 t. (99 t. OM)
Date of loss : 1869, Nov
Place of loss : at Michigan City, Ind
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : (none)
Carrying : ?
Detail : Went ashore near the west pier of Michigan City, was dismasted and expected to become a total loss. Still on some later official lists, and hgl says she was just “damaged” in this accident.
Sources : nsp,hgl,mv,rsl,mdwl,wmn
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SUTLER GIRL
Other names : none
Official no. : 22378
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1863, J Gates, Avon, OH
Specs : 68 t.
Date of loss : 1875, around Nov 1
Place of loss : 20 mi SW of Port Stanley
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : [all]
Carrying : stone
Detail : According to newspaper accounts of Nov 12, she was “believed to have gone to the bottom with all on board about 20 miles SW off Port Stanley.” She was reportedly still missing Nov 15, and there is no further reference to the ship. She had been bound for a Canadian port. Out of Vermilion, Ohio. Master: Capt. Doyle(d), who owned her with several others.
Sources : es,wl,jb,nsp
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LIZZIE SUTTON
Other names : none
Official no. : 140199
Type at loss : propeller, wood, yacht in use as a ferry & tug
Build info : 1876, Buffalo
Specs : 50x10x5, 23g 12n
Date of loss : 1886, Oct 19
Place of loss : 3 mi W of Whitefish Pt., MI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none of 2
Carrying : ?
Detail : She burned to a total loss while at anchor. The crew escaped in a dinghy and were rescued by steamer ST. MARIE.
Out of Houghton, MI
Sources : lss,polk,mv,hgl,nsp,net,bb
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MINNIE F. SUTTON
Other names : none
Official no. : 90572
Type at loss : propeller tug and yacht, wood
Build info : 1870, Cooper, Buffalo
Specs : 55x9x4, 21 t.
Date of loss : 1877, Oct 16
Place of loss : near Spectacle Reef, Straits
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none, lighter scow in tow
Detail : Bound Cheboygan for Drummond, Isl., MI, she was caught in a NW squall and took shelter behind the reef. Pounding of the lighter tore out her timber head, then both the tug and scow were torn loose from the lighthouse pier. Two crewmen and 7 passengers abandoned to the pier while both tug and lighter drifted away and sank. They were rescued 4 days later by the tug BENNETT, which had been searching for them. The lighter was later recovered and her towrope was still tied to the SUTTON’s broken towpost. A boiler identified as hers was raised from near Spectacle Reef in 1880. Registered out of Port Huron, MI. and owned by F. M. Sammons. Master: Capt. Elmer Sammons.
Built as a yacht, used as a passenger vessel between Grand Haven and Fruitport, Mich, in 1873-4
Sources : phr,nsp,hgl,mv,ft
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MARTIN SWAIN
Other names : none
Official no. : 91308
Type at loss : propeller tug, wood, wrecker
Build info : 1881, J. M. Jones, Detroit
Specs : 124x26x10, 285g 211n
Date of loss : 1898, Dec 17
Place of loss : St. Mary’s R.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : none
Detail : This famous wrecking tug caught fire and burned to the waterline just above Detour, Michigan, while stationed there to assist vessels through the ice on the St. Mary’s. She then sank in 20 feet of water, a total loss. A contract was let to blow her up in the spring of 1902. Owner: Capt. James Davidson.
Sunk in a collision with the steamer JAY GOULD in the Detroit River in September, 1881.
Named for the flambouyant Detroit wrecking captain and sailed for the Grummond line there for many years.
Image of Grummond Tugs around 1890, from GLMD
Sources : hgl,hcgl,mv,nsp
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V. SWAIN
Other names : none
Official no. : 25888
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1874, W.J. Miller, Cleveland
Specs : 187x34x14, 955g 817n
Date of loss : 1907, Nov (7)
Place of loss : Howard’s pocket, near Superior, WI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She burned to total loss during a fire at the dock where she had been laid up since springing a leak and sinking in 1903. The salvaged after end of the steamer LAFAYETTE (qv) was docked beside her. Owned by James E, Sheehan, Detroit, who had bought her from her underwriters the previous year. Officially reported as abandoned in 1908.
Major repairs in 77,82,83
Sources : nsp,mv,mpl,hcgl
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SWALLOW
Other names :
Official no. :
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info :
Specs :
Date of loss : 1820, Nov 12
Place of loss : Braddock’s Point
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : in ballast
Detail : Went ashore and bilged, reported a total loss.
Skippered by Capt. Pond, out of Sackett’s Harbor.
(Hgl shows a schr of this name ashore at Braddock’s Pt., 1880 – probably a misreporting of this accident)
Sources : rp,wmn
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SWALLOW
Other names : none
Official no. : 23494
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1863, Campbell & Owen, Detroit
Specs : 135x26x11, 274g
Date of loss : 1889, Nov
Place of loss : Sleeping Bear Point
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : ?
Detail : Grounded in a storm and abandoned, a total wreck. Owned out of Rochester, NY.
Large repairs in 1878. Holed by ice and ashore near McGulpin Pt., Straits of Mackinac in 1880 – heavy damage. Sunk near Fairport, Oh, in 1888
Sources : glmd,hr,mhgl
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SWALLOW
Other names : none
Official no. : 115184
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight “lumber hooker”
Build info : 1873, A.A. Turner, Trenton, MI
Specs : 134x26x11, 257g 203n
Date of loss : 1901, Oct 18
Place of loss : near Long Point
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 11
Carrying : lumber, shingles and ties
Detail : She foundered in a 50-mph gale, though no one ashore knew for certain for two days what boat it was, nor even if a boat had actually gone down. Her crew launched the lifeboat and made it to the barge MANITOU, which she had been towing. The barge drifted helpless for 39 hours until picked up by steamer WALTER SCRANTON. SWALLOW had been bound Emerson, Michigan, for Buffalo. She was out of Detroit, owned by Lennane or Lemaine Bros. Master: Capt. William P. Quinlan.
Also stranded with heavy damage in 1877 and 1889.
Sustained heavy damage in a squall on Lake Michigan in June, 1886 and struggled into Chicago, where she sank.
Nudged ashore in a hit-and-run by the steel steamer SIR WILLIAM SIEMANS near Marine City, Mich. in October of 1900. Expected to be a total loss, but rebuilt the following winter.
A newspaper report at the time of her launch states she was given this name because a swallow built a nest among her timbers during her construction and remained until her launch.
Sources : mv,ns1,nsp,mpl,ewe
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SWAN – See also CATARAQUI
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SWAN
Other names : none
Official no. : 22384
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1862, Hingston Bros, Buffalo
Specs : 11g 8n
Date of loss : 1875, Nov 4
Place of loss : Saginaw River at East Saginaw
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : She caught fire from her boiler while lying at her dock for the night and burned to a total loss. No one was aboard at the time.
Owned by A. Brewer.
Sources : mv,lhl,slh,hgl,rsl,jb,nsp
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SWAN
Other names : none
Official no. : 117056
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1901, St. Joseph, Mich
Specs : 54x15x4, 23gt 23nt
Date of loss : 1904, Sep 5
Place of loss : Scott’s Point, near northern end of the lake
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 4
Carrying : fruit
Detail : She had sought shelter from a storm and her captain had gone ashore for assistance. As the storm increased, his wife, daughter and the boat’s one regular sailor fought to to keep her afloat until they were rescued by fishermen the next day. Out of Benton Harbor, owned and sailed by Capt. Geo. H. Guenther.
Sources : nsp,wmn,wl,wmhs,hr
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SWAN
Other names : none
Official no. : 57928
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger & freight
Build info : 1888, Monk?, Sandusky, OH
Specs : 79x20x7, 94g 64n
Date of loss : 1914, Nov 5
Place of loss : Saginaw R.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Destroyed by fire at a pier. Out of Port Huron, Mich.
Converted from barge to steamer between 1895 and 1910.
Sources : phr,mv,www,eas,glmd
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SWANSEA
Other names : none
Official no. : 116165
Type at loss : propeller wood, passenger & freight ferry
Build info : 1887, Detroit Boat Works, Detroit
Specs : 77x17x8, 19g 9n
Date of loss : 1926, Jul 28
Place of loss : Duluth-Superior Harbor
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : She was destroyed by fire in the harbor. Laid up there for rebuilding, but abandoned in 1931.
Sources : mv,is,mpl,bb
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SWEDEN
Other names : none
Official no. : C72582
Type at loss : scow-bark, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1870, H. Roney, Garden Isl., Ont.
Specs : 136x26x12, 354gc 326nc
Date of loss : 1877, Oct 8
Place of loss : near Port Stanley, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1, maybe more
Carrying : square oak timber
Detail : Bound Toledo for Garden Island, Ont, she was run ashore in a gale after springing a leak and later broke up. Most of the crew was rescued by at great risk by a small boat from the schooner St. Andrew. It was reported later that the wrecking captain that arrived to salvage the outfit of the ship found his son’s body among the lost. Out of Kingston, owned by Donnelly, Calvin & Breck, Garden Island. Master: Capt. William Conner.
Sources : win,is(1-76),h,ledc,mmgl,nsp
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JOHN SWEENEY
Other names : none also seen as J. S. SWEENEY
Official no. : none
Type at loss : bark, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1855, F. N. Jones, Buffalo
Specs : 418 t. om
Date of loss : 1866, Dec 1
Place of loss : off Muskegon
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Bound Muskegon for Chicago, she was driven on the bar at the mouth of the Muskegon River by a gale. She broke up soon after. Her insurance had run out for the season on Nov 30, one day before the accident. Owned by butcher Gottleib Schlecht of Chicago.
Major repairs in 1866.
Sources : nsp,hgl
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SWEEPSTAKES
Other names : none
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1867, J. Simpson, Wellington Sq. [now Burlington], Ont.
Specs : 120x23x10, 218 t.
Date of loss : 1896, Jun
Place of loss : “Big Tub”, Tobermory harbor, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : sunk due to age and poor condition
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : She drove ashore with heavy damage near Cove Island, Georgian Bay, in August of 1885. She was released and towed to Tobermory, where she sank later.
Date of loss also given as 1867, “after 1885”
Rebuilt in 1872-3.
Sources : slh,mmgl,do,mpl,do,eas
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SWEET HOME
Other names : none
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1853, S. Little or Wilson, Jordan [Oshawa], Ont. [clu says Simpson, Oakville]
Specs : 98x21x9, 151 t.
Date of loss : 1878, Nov 29
Place of loss : at Oswego, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : She drifted ashore in a moderate blow after being lost from the tow of the tug MOREY and striking a pier. All but the woman cook jumped on the pier when she struck, the cook later being rescued by the USLS after SWEET HOME went ashore. Out of Kingston, owned by Benjamin Barney.
Also ashore near Dunville, Ont., in 1867.
Major repairs in 1874. Rebuilt in 1870.
Sources : mmgl,hgl,rp,wl,wmn
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SWEETHEART
Other names : none
Official no. : 22397
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, bulk freight, 2-mast
Build info : 1867, [J. M. Jones] Detroit Dry Dock, Detroit as 3-mast schooner or bark hull# 2
Specs : 175x33x13, 539g 512n
Date of loss : 1913, Jul 6
Place of loss : just above Port Huron
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : She caught fire and burned to a total loss, then sank and obstructed the mouth of the St. Clair R until she broke up soon after.
Foundered near Port Huron and recovered in 1880.
Sources : mv,phr,atl,nsp,slh,ns2,wl
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SWIFT
Other names : none
Official no. : C
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1851, Moore, Port Credit, Ont.
Specs : 52x15x5, 40 t.
Date of loss : 1870, Oct 27
Place of loss : Wolf or Timber Isl.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none?
Carrying : “sundries”
Detail : Ran ashore and wrecked after parting her anchor chains – reported a total loss. Stripped and abandoned by the sloop NEW BROOM the next week.
Sources : rnc,wl ,wmn
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SWIFT
Other names : built as steamer WOTAN renamed in 1930
Official no. : 81432
Type at loss : propeller, Wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1893, A. Anderson, Marine City
Specs : 192x37x14, 886g 712n
Date of loss : 1935, Dec 5
Place of loss : at Sturgeon Bay, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She caught fire while being laid up for the winter and burned to a total loss at her dock at Sturgeon Bay Shipbuilding.. See WAUKEGAN.
Sources : ns4,mv,eas,wgts
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OLIVER L. SWIFT
Other names : none also seen as O.L. SWIFT
Official no. : 18889
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1859, W. Crosthwaite, Buffalo*
Specs : 57x14x7, 45g 25n
Date of loss : 1868, fall [also given as Mar 28, but she was still operating in May]
Place of loss : at Buffalo
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Sank, probably in the Niagara R. She was winched up from the bottom in August of 1869 by the tug PROTECTION and carried to Buffalo where her machinery was removed and the hull abandoned.
*1859 enrollment document, local newspaper and rsl gives 1859 as build year, other sources give 1845.
Sources : lhl,hgl,nsp,mv,wl
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SYLPH
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1818, Saybrook, OH
Specs : 32x10x4, 10 t. om
Date of loss : 1824, May 12
Place of loss : on North Bass Isl.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 5 [all]
Carrying : whiskey, wooden dishes, passengers
Detail : Bound Sandusky, OH, for Detroit, she was capsized, blown ashore and totally wrecked. Out of Sandusky. Master and owner: Capt. Horatio G. (Harry) Haskin(d).
Sources : hgl,sol,h,ledc,nsp,wl,eas
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SYLPH
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1841, Clayton, NY
Specs : 135 t.
Date of loss : 1855, Apr 1
Place of loss : at Oswego, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : Had set out from Oswego for Port Credit, Ont., but was turned back by a gale. Trying to return to the harbor, she struck the East Pier, sank in shallow water and was pounded to pieces. Owned by H. Clark, Fulton, NY
Sources : hgl,wmn,wmhs
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SYLVAN STREAM – See EMPIRE STATE
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SYPHAX – See PACIFIC
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SYRACUSE – See also LORD ELGIN
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SYRACUSE
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1853, J.A. Baker, Oswego, NY
Specs : 120x25x11, 335 t.
Date of loss : 1863, Nov 10
Place of loss : off 40-mile Point
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : (storm?)
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : She sprang a leak and foundered in 8 or 10 fathoms of water about 12 mi E of Cheboygan, MI. Her crew made it to Cheboygan by small boat. Out of Chicago.
She stranded on Pt. Pelee, Lake Erie on Dec 4, 1855, and was obliged to throw 200 tons of RR rails overboard before she could be released on the 12th. The cargo was a loss of $8,000.
Sources : slh,hgl,nsp,rp
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SYRACUSE
Other names : none
Official no. : 116756
Type at loss : propeller, wood, sand dredge
Build info : 1897, Mullinix, Toledo
Specs : 79x23x6, 85 t.
Date of loss : 1908, Aug 26
Place of loss : Maumee Bay [Toledo]
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 4
Carrying : ?
Detail : Stranded and wrecked, a total loss.
Sources : ledc,mv,eas,bb
Great Lakes Shipwreck Files 
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