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T. L. D. No. 1
Other names : none
Official no. : 165633
Type at loss : unrigged scow
Build info : 1913, Sault Ste Marie, Mich
Specs : 95x27x9, 195g 195n
Date of loss : 1928, Nov 4
Place of loss : at Detour, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none of 1
Carrying :
Detail : Burned to a total loss. Owned by T. L. Durocher, Detour
Sources : eas,hr,wl,wmn,mv
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HORACE TABER
Other names : built as 2-master AMOSKEAG, renamed in 1883
Official no. : C130324
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1867, S. Langell, St. Clair, MI [US#1123]
Specs : 138x27x10, 244gc
Date of loss : 1922, Nov 27
Place of loss : Simcoe Isl., SW of Kingston, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : all
Carrying : coal
Detail : a storm built up over the whole length of Lake Ontario drove her ashore and pounded her to pieces on Four Mile Pt.
Sold Canadian 1911, registered to Capt H. Daryaw of Kingston
Rebuilt, enlarged and converted to 3-master, 1883
Sources : polk,mv,hgl,ns3,osdo,is(2-90),mpl,do,nsp not in mmgl
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TABLE ROCK
Other names : none
Official no. : 59044 (24146)*
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1853, (H. C. Person), Cape Vincent, NY, as a brig
Specs : 116x27x8, 179g
Date of loss : 1872, Sep 29
Place of loss : on the outside of Tawas Point
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : all but 1
Carrying : lumber
Detail : She was lost from the tow of the tug ZOUAVE in a gale came ashore and wrecked. Part of her crew, including the skipper, the mate and his wife, were last seen drifting away on the cabin roof. Master: Capt. James McAuley(d).
*Two vessels of this name – one a schr, one a barge – show up in MV with exactly the same tonnage. Both were out of Detroit. The barge (59044) is marked “lost” in 1874 MV.
Sources : mv,nsp,slh,hgl,bb
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TACOMA
Other names : none
Official no. : 145268
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1881, Quayle, Cleveland
Specs : 261x39x22, 1879g 1609n
Date of loss : 1914, Aug 23
Place of loss : at Ludington, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none [no one aboard]
Carrying : ?
Detail : She caught fire and burned to a total loss at South Mill dock, where she had been lying idle.
Sources : mv,polk,ns2,mpl,hcgl
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TACOMA
Other names : none
Official no. : 145673
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1894, E.W. Heath, Benton Harbor, MI
Specs : 73x18x9, 76g 39n
Date of loss : 1929, Nov 4
Place of loss : Chicago harbor, straight out from 68th St.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 6
Carrying : none
Detail : Her seams opened in a storm and she sank on Clark Shoal. Owned by Fitz Simmons and Connell Dock & Dredge Co., Chicago.
Lies 2.66 mi, 343 deg from Calumet Harbor light in 30 feet of water.
Sources : mv,glp,lmdc,mpl,eas
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TAILWINDS
Other names :
Official no. :
Type at loss : charter fishing boat, gas
Build info :
Specs : 36 ft.
Date of loss : 1975
Place of loss : Port Wing, WI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : She was destroyed in a boatshed fire.
Sources : is,lss
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W. D. TALCOTT
Other names : also seen as W. G. TOLLCOTT
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1850, Cattaraugus Creek, NY
Specs : 70 t.
Date of loss : 1851, Nov 17
Place of loss : near Sturgeon Point, NY
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : She was inbound for Buffalo with a consignment of lumber for the Bidwell and Banta shipyard when she capsized in a storm. Her crew was picked up by the steamer HENDRICK HUDSON(qv). She was a total loss. Master: Capt. Ames.
Sources : hgl,wmn,wmhs
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TALLAHASSEE
Other names : also seen as TALLAHASSA
Official no. : 145249
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1881, L. Larsen, Manitowoc, Wis.
Specs : 75x21x6, 83g 79n
Date of loss : 1884, Oct 26
Place of loss : near Jacksonport, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life :
Carrying : none
Detail : Went ashore and became a total loss. Owned by Lars Larsen, Manitowoc.
Sources : es,wmn,mv,polk,bb
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TAMPA
Other names : none
Official no. : 145555
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1890, F Wheeler, W. Bay City hull#74
Specs : 292x41x20, 1972g 1633n
Date of loss : 1911, Jul 18
Place of loss : at Walkerville, Ont. at Walker Distillery
Lake : Detroit R.
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : sand
Detail : She was unloading sand at a dock when she was rammed by the freighter JOHN W. GATES and sank. Her enrollment was surrendered at Detroit Mar 25, 1912. She was raised in 1914 and towed to Marine City, where the McLouth Shipyard planned to turn her into a drydock. Plans never materialized, however, and she sat there until scrapped in 1923.
Driven ashore by a 100 mph gale on Lake Superior in 1896. Recovery and rebuilding cost $50,000.
Image of vessel awash from GLMD
Sources : mv,vbs,ns2,nsp,lss,eas
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TANNER
Other names : none
Official no. : 24236
Type at loss : bark, wood, 3-mast*
Build info : 1863, Ellsworth & Davidson, Milwaukee
Specs : 157x32x13, 435 t.
Date of loss : 1875, Sep 10
Place of loss : at Milwaukee
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : wheat
Detail : She missed the south pier and went ashore, where she was pounded to pieces by the 17th. The single casualty was her skipper. The rest of the crew – except for the cook, who swam ashore – were saved by the tugs J.J. HAGERMAN and J. B. MERRILL and the revenue cutter ANDREW JACKSON. She had been bound Milwaukee for Buffalo. Master: Capt. Howard(d).
*May have been converted to 3-mast schooner by the time of her loss.
Sources : nsp,mv,usls,mpl, es,bb,rsl,wl,sip,wls
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TARRY NOT – See also J.G. McGRATH
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TARRY NOT
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1857, Bailey Bros., Charlotte, NY
Specs : 122x24x10, 161 t.
Date of loss : 1860
Place of loss : near Bois Blanc Isl. (Bob-Lo)
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : “lost”
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : No detail
Later recovered and rebuilt as D. McINNES [C#33524]
Sources : is,slh,rsl not in clu[54-6]
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TARTAR
Other names : none also reported as TARTIN, TARTAN
Official no. : 24108
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1853, Bates, Milan, OH
Specs : 110x24x10, 188 t.
Date of loss : 1870, Dec 1
Place of loss : off Pt Pelee
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : She struck a reef and stranded. Her underwriters stripped and abandoned her the following spring.
Out of Buffalo in 1869
Sources : mv,hgl,ledc,win,wl,rsl,nsp
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TARTIN – See TARTAR
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TASHMOO
Other names : none
Official no. : 145843
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, steel, passenger [excursion]
Build info : 1900, Detroit Dry Dock, Wyandotte, MI
Specs : 303x38x14, 1344g 766n
Date of loss : 1936, Jun 18
Place of loss : Amherstburg, Ont.
Lake : Detroit R.
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : passengers
Detail : She was bound downriver with a full complement of passengers when she hit a floating object and began to sink near the entrance to Sugar Island Channel in the southern Detroit River. Her quick-thinking skipper ran her to a dock on the Canadian side, where her passengers disembarked without incident. The famous TASHMOO settled at the dock and later was declared a constructive total loss. Owned by White Star Steamship Co., Detroit.
She lost to the passenger steamer CITY OF ERIE in an exciting “Great Steamboat Race” in 1900.
Sources : mv,ns4,gsgl,mol,sol,is,win,eas
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TASMANIA
Other names : built as schooner JAMES COUCH renamed in 1890
Official no. : 75598
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 4-mast, bulk freight
Build info : 1871, Muir & Livingston, Port Huron, MI
Specs : 221x35x16, 979g 931n
Date of loss : 1905, Oct 20
Place of loss : 3.1 mi SW of Southeast Shoal Lt., Pelee Pass.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 8 [all]
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : Tow of the steamer BULGARIA(qv) in a gale, she dropped off a big wave and struck bottom. She began to sink, then foundered quickly when her towline was cut. Bound Escanaba for Cleveland. Member of Corrigan Flt. Master: Capt. William Radford(d).
She was one of the largest vessels on the lakes when built.
Converted to schooner-barge before 1894.
Sunk in a collision with the steamer J. H. WADE in the St. Mary’s River in August of 1890 and raised late in September.
Souvenir hunters who had removed her anchor were forced to return it in 1989.
Sources : mv,ns1,glp,gs,gsgl,h,ap,ledc,nsp,mpl,sip,eas,ew
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TAWAS
Other names : none
Official no. : 24505
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1864, M. Williams, Marysville [Vicksburg], MI
Specs : 98x18x9, 88g
Date of loss : 1874, May 14
Place of loss : off Rock Falls, near Sand Beach, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : explosion
Loss of life : 6 [5 killed from the tug, 1 from the schooner]
Carrying : none
Detail : Lying alongside or towing the schooner ZACH CHANDLER when her boiler exploded and she sank. Master: Capt. J. C. Robinson(d). CHANDLER was also damaged, and her second mate, standing more than 300 feet from the blast, was killed instantly by a flying timber.
Sources : phr,mv,nsp,lhl,slh,hgl,mpl,eas
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A.B. TAYLOR – See OTTAWA
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E.S. TAYLOR
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1857, Sam’l J. Root, Black R., OH
Specs : 89x23x6, 117 t. om
Date of loss : 1860, Oct 15
Place of loss : between the mouth of the Detroit R. and Bar Pt.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : prob. none
Carrying : coal
Detail : She collided at night with the downbound schooner COMET and was sunk. Her crew abandoned in her boat just before she went down in 18 feet of water. She broke up by the 10th of Nov., but her anchors and outfit were recovered. COMET was quite seriously damaged.
Sources : nsp,hgl,rnc
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EMILY TAYLOR
Other names : none
Official no. : 136386
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1893, Ahnapee, WI
Specs : 71x20x5, 55g 53n
Date of loss : 1901, Nov 10
Place of loss : Heizer Bay, 20 mi N of Menominee, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : wood
Detail : Bound Arthur Bay for Green Bay, she drove into the shallows where waves broke completely over her all night. The captain had his wife and two children aboard, plus 2 sailors – all were rescued by local fishermen. Master and owner Capt. Charles Stone, Gladstone, Mich.
Sources : mv,nsp,hgl,wgts,bb
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HATTIE TAYLOR
Other names : also seen as HETTY TAYLOR and HETTIE TAYLOR
Official no. : 95356
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1874, E.C. Penney, Milwaukee
Specs : 84x23x8, 85 t.
Date of loss : 1880, Aug 26
Place of loss : about 5 mi SE of Sheboygan, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : She capsized and sank in a squall while bound for Escanaba. Her crew of four abandoned her in her yawl.
There were numerous salvage attempts between the date of her loss and summer of the following year.
She parted her cables and went high on the beach under Eagle Harbor Bluffs, Lake Superior, in early December, 1876. She was recovered by the tug WELCOME the following March.
Out of Milwaukee in 1877
Sources : nsp,hgl,bb,mv,lss,ks
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HELEN TAYLOR
Other names : none
Official no. : 96270
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight “steambarge”
Build info : 1894, Grand Haven, MI
Specs : 56x30x4, 43g 33n
Date of loss : 1930, Jan 1
Place of loss : 8 miles off Michigan City, Ind.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Foundered, no detail
Foundered off St. Helena Island in a storm in 1923 and abandoned. An amateur salvager later raised and rebuilt her.
Burned near Hessel, MI in October 1919 – declared a total loss and documents surrendered.
According to some sources, she was nicknamed “Pumpkin Seed” due to her odd shaped hull.
Sources : mv,eas,slh,is,lmdc,mpl
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J. FRATER TAYLOR – See also ALGOSOO
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MARY TAYLOR – see ANN BELL CHAMBERS
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MATILDA TAYLOR
Other names : ?
Official no. : none (C?)
Type at loss : brig, wood, 2-mast
Build info : ?
Specs : ?
Date of loss : 1848
Place of loss : 2 mi E of Point Breeze, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : She was driven ashore by gale and wrecked. A barge that came to her assistance was also wrecked (name not known.)
Sources : is,
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ROBERT TAYLOR – See QUEEN OF THE LAKES
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WILFRED R. TAYLOR – See STUART H. DUNN
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WILLIAM F. P. TAYLOR
Other names : none also seen as W.F.P. TAYLOR
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood
Build info : 1835, John McGowan, Silver Creek, NY
Specs : 88x18x7, 95 t.
Date of loss : 1838, Sep*
Place of loss : near Michigan City, IN
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : She was stranded outside the pier and became a total loss after she broke in two. She may have had a fire aboard later. Operated by a group of Chicagoans who chartered her to replace the steamer DETROIT (qv), lost in 1837.
Burned at Cattaraugus Creek, Lake Erie, in 1836, with loss of 1 life.
*also given as 1842. Final enrollment document is annotated: “Lost near Michigan City in the month of September, 1838”
Sources : lhl,hgl,is,nsp,wl,tcmh,hcgl
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ELLA TEAL
Other names : also seen as ELLEN TEAL
Official no. : 7493
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : before 1869
Specs : 45x12x4, 19 gt
Date of loss : 1870, Apr 24
Place of loss : Chicago harbor
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : 18,000 bd ft lumber
Detail : Bound Muskegon for Chicago, she became waterlogged while a few miles out and was driven against the breakwater at Chicago, just north of the lighthouse. She was quickly pounded to pieces, with the loss of the life of her mate. Master: Capt. Samuel T. Wood. Owned by Wood & Sibley, Pentwater, Mich.
Sources : nsp,hgl,mv
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TECUMSEH
Other names : MAY have been built as FAIRPORT
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood
Build info : 1845, John McDermot, Algonac, MI
Specs : 139x23x10, 285 t.
Date of loss : 1850, Nov 14 or 16
Place of loss : near Buffalo
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Stranded and lost. Final enrollment document is annotated “S.B. Tecumseh wrecked at Buffalo, November 16, 1850.”
Sources : lhl,hgl,wl,eas,bc
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TECUMSEH
Other names : ?
Official no. : C (?)
Type at loss : barge, wood
Build info : (1853, Chatham, Ont.)
Specs : (82 t.)
Date of loss : 1881
Place of loss : near Port Huron, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : unreported
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Lost offshore. No detail
Sources : hgl,slh,rsl not in mvus,mmgl,clu
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TECUMSEH
Other names : none
Official no. : C
Type at loss : schooner, wood (also described as steambarge)
Build info : 1862, H. Marlton, Goderich, Ont.
Specs : 111x29x10, 245 gc 196 nc
Date of loss : 1882, Nov 27
Place of loss : E end of Cove Island
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : After missing her stays while trying to shelter from a gale, she dropped anchor, but stranded and wrecked anyway. Her crew made it to shore on Cove Island in a makeshift raft after her yawl had washed away, then took the closed lighthouse’s yawl and rowed 9 miles to the mainland. The wrecking tug ERIE BELLE was later dispatched to assist her by her insurance company, but was recalled shortly after. She finally went to pieces the following summer.Reg out of Goderich, owned by E.J. Peters of Windsor, who also sailed her
Major repairs in 1878
Sources : polk,mmgl,clu,h,nsp,rp,es
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TECUMSEH
Other names : none
Official no. : C103691
Type at loss : propeller tug, wood, fishing
Build info : 1895, Providence Bay, Ont
Specs : 37x9x3, 10gc, 6nc
Date of loss : 1901, May 2
Place of loss : 9 miles off Gore Bay, Georgian Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : engine/hull failure
Loss of life : 3 of 6
Carrying : ?
Detail : She was found by the Northern Navigation Co. steamer GERMANIC in distress with engine trouble. The steamer took her in tow, but after awhile the tug’s crew signaled wildly that she was sinking. The GERMANIC rounded to to pick up her crew, but the tug sank before all could be rescued. The skipper, his sister and a passenger drowned. Owned by W. J. Berry, Providence Bay, Ont. Master: Capt. John Wylie (d).
MAY have been recovered – she shows up on a later list.
Sources : nsp,wmn,jm,bb
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TECUMSEH
Other names : none
Official no. : C80774
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1873, Hyslop & Ronold, Chatham, Ont.
Specs : 200x30x13, 839g 530n
Date of loss : 1909, Jan 16
Place of loss : in harbor at Goderich, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She burned to a total loss at her winter berth. The fire started at 3 a.m. due to mismanagement of a kitchen stove by vessel repairer who were living aboard. Owner: B. McArthur, Toronto. Master: Capt. Wylie?
Ashore with heavy damage on Manitoulin Island in late Nov, 1884.
Sunk in Marquette, MI, harbor in 1898.
Major repair, 1874
Image of vessel under salvage in 1898 from GLMD
Sources : polk,csv,win,slh,ns1,nsp,hgl,lss,mmgl,mpl,csip
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H.M.S. TECUMSETH
Other names : also called TECUMSEH
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : armed schooner, wood
Build info : 1815, Chippawa, Ont.
Specs : 76 ft., 166 t.
Date of loss : 1817
Place of loss : in harbor at Penetanguishene, ONt.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : hull failure
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Her seams opened and she sank while lying in ordinary at Penetanguishene.
Hull remains raised in 1927 and 53. Now on display at Penetang.
Her sister ship H.M.S. NEWASH met a similar fate, but was not raised.
Sources : is(3-69),wl
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TEDDY
Other names : none
Official no. : 204394
Type at loss : gas screw, wood, passenger vessel
Build info : 1903, Manitowoc, Wis.
Specs : 31x9x3, 8g 6n
Date of loss : 1918, Apr 24
Place of loss : Chicago
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : sunk
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Foundered near 79th St., Chicago. Out of Chicago.
Last registration. 2/28/13
Sources : mv,hr
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TELEGRAM
Other names : none
Official no. : C85497
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1885, J. Storey, Collingwood, Ont.*
Specs : 108x21x9, 322gc 216nc
Date of loss : 1908, Nov 1**
Place of loss : Rattlesnake Harbor, Fitzwilliam I., Geo. Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Bound Owen Sound for Providence Harbor, Manitoulin Island, she ran ashore and sprang a leak. As she began to tip over, she caught fire and was destroyed in the harbor. Out of Collingwood, owned by Dominion Fish Co.
**Oct 1 also given, in error
*Build site also given as Waubaushene, Ont. Rebuilt, 1889
Ashore northeast of Collingwood in September of 1886. Two steamers pulled her stern off trying to extricate her.
Sources : csv,win,sol,slh,ns1,lhdc,mmgl,sir
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TELEGRAPH – See JACK THOMPSON
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TELEGRAPH
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : steamer (sidewheeler, wood, passenger & pkg frt)
Build info : (1836, A. Sprague, Dexter, NY)
Specs : (131x19x8, 196 t.)
Date of loss : 1850’s
Place of loss : off Beaver Isls.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : piracy?
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Not much detail. She was supposedly lost during this decade. Some blamed the loss on pirates from Beaver Island. If it is the vessel above, it was rebuilt to a schooner in 1852 after a fire. An 1853 nsp report shows her ashore near White Lake, MI in a gale Oct 2 and probable total loss.
Sources : h,lsp,lhl,hgl
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TELEGRAPH
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1848, John Conner, Ferry’s Point Mill, Mich
Specs : 104x24x8, 179 t. om
Date of loss : 1853, Sep 28
Place of loss : off White Lake, Mich
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : She went ashore in a storm north of Muskegon. She went to pieces by mid-October, a total loss of about $5200. Owned by Wm. M. Ferry, Grand Haven, Mich.
Sources : mmo,bb,hr,wmn,wl
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TELEGRAPH
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1849, J.W. Abbott, Truago [Trenton], MI
Specs : 130x18x8, 181 t.
Date of loss : 1858, Aug 2
Place of loss : 40 mi N of Cleveland
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : She collided with the schooner MARQUETTE and sank.
Sources : hgl,lhl,ledc,nsp,wl,eas
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WILLIAM TELL
Other names : none
Official no. : 26348
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1851, C. Rose, New Baltimore, MI
Specs : 33 gt (44 t om)
Date of loss : 1869, Aug 20
Place of loss : off St. Joseph, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : barrelled lime and misc merchandise
Detail : Bound Milwaukee for St. Joseph, she caught fire, probably from the spontaneous combustion of her cargo. The crew did not discover the blaze until it had burned through the deck, and the vessel was quickly destroyed. Her captain and crewmen escaped in the smallboat.
Owned by Capt. Robinson of Benton Harbor, homeported at St. Joseph. Master: Capt. Hugh Keenan.
Sources : nsp,mv,hgl,rsl,bcha,mdwl
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MARIAN TELLER
Other names : also seen as MARION TELLER
Official no. : 91130
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1879, F. Wheeler, W. Bay City, MI hull #5
Specs : 52x15x6, 33g 22n
Date of loss : 1900, Jun 30
Place of loss : 1 mi from Lake St. Clair Lightship
Lake : St Clair
Type of loss : hull failure
Loss of life : 3 of 5
Carrying : none
Detail : Towing the barge CANTON, she reportedly sprang a leak and sank after the rising water in her bilges put out her fires. Yawl was swamped in the scramble for safety. The two survivors, the captain & his son, were picked up by the passing steamer NORWALK. Owned by her skipper, Capt. John Cornwall of Port Huron. Raised Aug 12th, but it’s not known what happened to her after that. Salvagers said her hull was perfectly sound and she must have shipped seas from above.
Sources : vbs,nsp,es
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TEMPERANCE
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1848, Randall, St. Joseph, Mich
Specs : 109x22x7, 147 t. om
Date of loss : 1857, Apr 2
Place of loss : off Racine, Wis.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Reported as a total loss near Racine in a powerful gale. She broke away from the tug McQUEEN and beached north of Racine, where she broke up.
Last known resistration January, 1857, but she may have lasted until wrecked in 1867.
Sources : hgl,wmn,bb,wmhs,wls
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TEMPEST
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1854, R. Hayes, Fairport, Oh
Specs : 79x19x4, 56 t. om
Date of loss : 1867, Nov 24
Place of loss : South Point, Milwaukee
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : lumber
Detail : She was sheltering at Milwaukee while bound for Chicago when her anchor failed to hold and she drove ashore. Newspapers reported that soon her masts were canted in two different directions, meaning tat er back was broken. She went to pieces in place, a total loss. Out of Chicago
Sources : wls,wmhs,wmn,wl
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TEMPEST
Other names : none also seen as TEMPEST 2ND and TEMPEST No. 2
Official no. : 145105
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1876, D. Robertson, Grand Haven, MI
Specs : 138x27x11, 370g 260n
Date of loss : 1909, Jun 28
Place of loss : Parry Sound, Ont., Georgian Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : 6 of 12
Carrying : coal
Detail : She burned to a total loss while unloading at Galnais Dock. She was consumed very quickly at the lumber wharf. MVUS says no lives were lost. News reports say different.
Caught fire and burned – supposedly to a total loss – at Marine City, MI, in October, 1888.
Sources : rkr,ns1,mv,nsp,slh,sol,lhdc,win,mpl
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TEMPEST
Other names : also seen as TEMPEST No. 1
Official no. : 24940
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight “rabbit”
Build info : 1872, D. Lester, Marine City
Specs : 159x30x13, 412g 341n
Date of loss : 1918, Aug 27
Place of loss : 20 mi off Erie, PA
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : coal
Detail : With the schooner J.I. CASE in tow, she developed a leak in heavy weather and foundered soon after. Out of Chicago.
575 hp engine
Sources : mv,polk,hmc,ns2,mv,sol,mpl,eas,hcgl
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TEMPLETON
Other names : ?
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : (steamer)?
Build info : ?
Specs : ?
Date of loss : 1893
Place of loss : North side of S Manitou Isl. near MORAZAN
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : 350 bbl whiskey*
Detail : No detail
Though there are lots of reports on those barrels of whiskey, there seems to be no record of the ship.
not in ’84 mvus. Probably has “1st” name
*also had mixed merchandise and (supposedly) lots of cash.
Sources : nb,h,smi,lmdc
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TENNESSEE – See PERE MARQUETTE 8
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TENNIE & LAURA
Other names : none
Official no. : 145115
Type at loss : schooner or scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1876, G. Jorgenson, Manitowoc, WI
Specs : 73x19x5, 57g 54n
Date of loss : 1903, Aug 8
Place of loss : on route between Muskegon and Milwaukee
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1 of 2
Carrying : lumber
Detail : She capsized and foundered 10 mi off Milwaukee. The survivor was picked up by the steamer MARK COVELL. Master: Capt. John Sather.
Sources : mv,polk,h,nsp,mpl
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TERISA
Other names : none
Official no. : 145314
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1882, F. W. Wheeler, Port Sanilac, Mich
Specs : 39x12x3, 10g 10n
Date of loss : 1905?
Place of loss : unreported
Lake : unreported
Type of loss : unreported
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : No detail. Document surrendered at Port Huron 5/25/1905, annotated “total loss.”
Sources : phr,mv,polk
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ELLEN S. TERRY – See DON M. DICKINSON
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TEUTONIA – See A.B. KING
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S. THAL
Other names : none
Official no. : 115781
Type at loss : schooner, wood, lumber
Build info : 1867, B. Johnson, Oshkosh, WI*
Specs : 75x20x4, 55g 53n
Date of loss : 1898, Nov 10
Place of loss : off Glencoe, IL
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 5 [all]
Carrying : Christmas trees
Detail : Destroyed while downbound from Sturgeon Bay, Wis., with an early load of Christmas trees for Chicago. She came to anchor the evening of the 9th to ride out a gale, but in the morning nothing was visible but wreckage. Owned by Capt. August Scheunemann of Chicago [brother of skipper of “The Christmas Ship” – See ROUSE SIMMONS] and sailed by him. He died in the wreck.
*sometimes shown as 1881
Sources : mv,polk,sol,mh,h,hgl,mpl,nsp,ts
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THAMES
Other names : built as LADY COLBOURNE, renamed before her first trip
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1833, Jenkinson, Chatham, Ont.
Specs : 80×17 ft., 160 t.
Date of loss : 1838, Dec 4
Place of loss : at Windsor, Ont.
Lake : Detroit R
Type of loss : fire [arson]
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : She was burned at her dock by Canadian or Amarican “patriots” during a raid on Windsor involving more than 500 armed men from both sides. Owned by Duncan McGregor of Chatham
Sources : csv,hgl,le,is,eluc,nsp,mmgl
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THAMES NO. 1
Other names : none
Official no. : 272214
Type at loss : scow hopper-barge, crane-equipped
Build info : 1930, Amsbridge, PA
Specs : 175x26x10, 548 g 548 n
Date of loss : 1959, Mar 3
Place of loss : at Windsor, Ontario
Lake : Detroit R.
Type of loss : sank
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : ¾ load of fill (about 750 t.) and a large crane
Detail : In tow of a tug, she foundered in the river off Canadian Rock Salt Co., at Ojibway, part of Windsor, Ont. She was carrying a load of fill to use in reclaiming land around Ojibway. She went down in 25 feet of water. Her crane was recovered, but there is no record that the barge itself was raised. Owned by Detroit Marine Disposal, Detroit.
Sources : mv,nsp
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H.C. THATCHER
Other names : none also seen as H.C. THACHER
Official no. : 42560
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1879, Toledo
Specs : 74x19x5, 44g
Date of loss : 1884, Jul 25
Place of loss : in harbor at Toledo
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : 3
Carrying : light
Detail : She burned and sank in the harbor. She was declared total loss, but was later recovered.
Has the # of an unrigged barge, probably built as such. She was converted to a prop after this accident. Gone by 1894.
Sources : mv,h,polk,usls
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ALGIE O. THAYER
Other names : also seen as A. O. THAYER
Official no. : 105216
Type at loss : propeller tug, wood
Build info : 1872, Buffalo
Specs : 43x10x5, 10g
Date of loss : 1879, Nov 17
Place of loss : 10 mi off Oswego
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : all
Carrying : gear
Detail : Part of a small fleet belonging to Hisckler & Arnold of Buffalo and consisting of 3 dredges, 5 tugs and a number of scows, she foundered in a gale while returning from work at the Lachine canal, St. Lawrence R. See also tug PHILIP BECKER
In Canadian registry part of her career C#74238, maybe at time of loss
Sources : nsp,rp,bb
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J.O. THAYER
Other names : later MIKE CORRY
Official no. : 75730
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1874, Two Rivers, WI
Specs : 154x29x11, 380g 361n
Date of loss : 1881, Nov 18
Place of loss : near Sheboygan, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 8
Carrying : coal
Detail : She stranded on sandy bar with heavy damage and was abandoned as a total loss after many salvage attempts. However, she was recovered the following year and rebuilt as MIKE CORRY in 1883. CORRY may have been lost in Georgian Bay in 1916 [Jul 16] or 1919. Owner of THAYER: J. Bertschy, Sheboygan.
Image of her under salvage from GLMD
Sources : mv,h,ns,usls,mpl,bb,eas,nsp
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THE CRAFTSMAN
Other names : also seen as CRAFTSMAN
Official no. : 221068
Type at loss : steel derrick barge
Build info : 1921, American Shipbuilding, Cleveland
Specs : 90x28x8, 163g 111n
Date of loss : 1958, Jun 3
Place of loss : 2 mi off Avon Point, near Cleveland
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : foundered
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Tow of the tug TOLEDO, she foundered and was a total loss. Her crew was rescued by the Coast Guard. L. A. Wells Const. Co., Cleve., was the owner.
Location also given in error as 2 mi N of Oswego, NY
Sources : is(3-58),h,eas,hcgl,ew
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THEANO
Other names : none
Official no. : BR110350
Type at loss : propeller, steel, bulk & pkg freight “saltie”*
Build info : 1889, P. Smit, Slikkerveer, Neth. hull #16
Specs : 255x36x17, 952 t.
Date of loss : 1906, Nov 17
Place of loss : Trowbridge Isl., 4 mi E of Thunder Cape
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : steel rails
Detail : She struck Marvin Island , was holed and sank. Storm waves later pushed her off into deep water near Trowbridge I. The crew escaped in her boats. Master: Capt. George Pearson. Owner: Algoma Central Railway.
*center island “tramp” type steamer, “sister,” in design, of steamer MONKSHAVEN(qv)
Registered out of Newcastle, England
Sources : ns1,win,csv,is(4-67),gwgl,lss,nsp,mpl,rf
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THERESA
Other names : built as D.C. WEST, renamed in 1885*
Official no. : C90564**
Type at loss : propeller, wood, ferry
Build info : 1874, R. Davis, Clayton, NY [US#6839]
Specs : 86x18x5, 84 t.
Date of loss : 1887, Aug 3
Place of loss : at Toronto
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Burned to a total loss in the harbor.
Dimensions when built: 65×14 ft, 38t.
1st Canadian reg., 1876; rebuilt to 80×14, 60 t in 1877.
Major rebuild to final dimensions at Toronto in 1885 after a fire.
*may have been MAUD S. briefly in 1885.
**Previous #: C72575
Sources : csv,mmgl,hgl,mv
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THERESA T – See MYLES
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W.P. THEW
Other names : none
Official no. : 81024
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1884, H.D. Root, Lorain, OH
Specs : 133x24x8, 207g 169n
Date of loss : 1909, Jun 22
Place of loss : E of Thunder Bay Isl, near Alpena
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none of 11
Carrying : in ballast
Detail : She was creeping through fog when she was rammed by the big steel freighter WILLIAM LIVINGSTON. After the collision LIVINGSTON drifted away and lost track of THEW. Fortunately the steamer MARY C. ELPHICKE answered her distress whistle and picked up her lifeboat-borne crew. The THEW went down in 80 ft. of water. Owned by H. R. Harvey of Detroit. Master: Capt. Patterson.
The wreck is a frequent dive target.
Heavily damaged by fire off Chicago in 1892 and again in 1894.
Sources : stb,lol,slh,ns1,h,mv,lhdc,gsg,mpl
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ALMERON THOMAS
Other names : sometimes seen as THOMAS ALMERON
Official no. : 106848
Type at loss : schooner, wood (2-mast)
Build info : 1891, A. Thomas, Bay City
Specs : 50x17x6, 35g 33n
Date of loss : 1900, Nov 30
Place of loss : near Point Lookout, NW Saginaw Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : gravel
Detail : She sprang a leak in a gale and ran for the beach, where she struck bottom and capsized, breaking up in 20 feet of water. Master: Capt. Samuel Murdock.
Sources : vbs,slh,mv,phr,nsp
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EMMA E. THOMPSON
Other names : none
Official no. : 135168
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1875, D. Edwards, Saginaw, MI
Specs : 127x28x14, 276g 199n
Date of loss : 1914, May 24
Place of loss : behind Innes Isl., Georgian Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Bound French R. for Manistee, she was caught in a storm and sheltered at anchor behind the island. There she caught fire and burned to the waterline. The Canadian prop GERMANIC rescued her crew. Master: Capt. W. G. Phelps. Owner: A. Cobb. Enrollment surrendered at Detroit, June 1, 1914.
Rebuilt from a prop to schooner at Grand Haven, MI, in 1880, after sinking there, but given engine from old prop AKRON (US#394) in 1881. Also rebuilt in 1884.
At least two died when her boiler exploded as she was trying to release herself from the Carrollton Bar on the first trip, Jun, 1875. Capsized and sank in the harbor of Charlevoix, Mich in June of 1901 when she was mis-loaded with a heavy deck cargo of lumber.
Sources : vbs,mv,slh,ns2,mpl,do2,nsp
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JACK THOMPSON
Other names : built as schooner TELEGRAPH, renamed in 1883
Official no. : 24220
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1847, Lent, Conneaut, OH
Specs : 120x26x10, 210g 199n
Date of loss : 1894, May 18
Place of loss : waterfront at Chicago
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Bound Garden, MI for Chicago, she went out of control in terrific gale, rammed schooner RAINBOW and sank near shore. Local police, firemen and bystanders got a line to her and saved her crew. Out of Chicago. Master: Capt. Thos. Williams.
Rebuilt in 1865.
Sources : polk,mv,h,lmdc,nsp,is(2-92),hgl,mpl,wl
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DAVID G. THOMSON
Other names : none also seen as DAVID G. THOMPSON
Official no. : C85306
Type at loss : propeller, wood (tug)
Build info : 1883, R. Robertson, Kingston, Ont.
Specs : 103x17x10, 182g 75n
Date of loss : 1927, Mar 26
Place of loss : Tecumseh Reef, SE of Port Maitland, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : She struck a reef during an early season run and later went to pieces.
Out of Montreal
Sources : csv,h,win,mmgl
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THORNTON – See also GEN. THORNTON
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THORNTON
Other names : none
Official no. : 24105
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1853, Bidwell & Banta, Buffalo
Specs : 274gt.
Date of loss : 1870, Aug 26
Place of loss : 15 mi SE of False Detour passage
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ore
Detail : She sprang a leak in heavy weather and foundered near the foot of Cockburn Isl.. Her crew took to the yawl and watched as the schooner broke up due to the release of confined air in the hull and went down. It was claimed that she was very unseaworthy at time of loss
Out of Cleveland, owned by Palmer & Pennington. Master: Capt. Lamphere.
Damaged in a collison on L. Huron in 1860.
Major repairs in 1862
Sources : mv,slh,hgl,nsp
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THOUSAND ISLANDER
Other names : none
Official no. : C141756
Type at loss : propeller, steel, passenger
Build info : 1912, Toledo Shipbuilding, Toledo, OH US#209906 hull #126
Specs : 166x32x10, 355g 241n
Date of loss : 1928, Nov 21
Place of loss : midlake off Thunder Bay, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : (none)
Detail : Upbound in tow of propeller COLLINGWOOD, she broke her cable and went down quickly in a storm. Bound Port Huron for Collingwood for repairs.
Sold Canadian, 1915. Registered out of Montreal. Owned by Canada Steamship.
Sources : csv,ns3,win,mmgl,slh,h,lhdc,mpl,hcgl
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P.F. THRALL – See JOHN A. PAIGE
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THREE BELLS
Other names : none
Official no. : 24643
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1854, F.N. Jones, Buffalo
Specs : 123x26x10, 197g 187n
Date of loss : 1884, Dec 1
Place of loss : Good Harbor, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 5
Carrying : oak timbers
Detail : She sank in a storm. Some wreckage was recovered and is now at a restaurant in Northport, MI.
A barge THREE BELLS was also reported lost on L. Michigan in 1869.
NOT vessel of this name built at Racine same year
Sources : mv,polk,lmdc,sb,nb,hgl,rsl,mdwl,bb,wmn
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THREE BROTHERS
Other names : built as MAY DURR, renamed JOHN SPRY in 1892, this name in 1903
Official no. : 91998
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1888, Milwaukee Shipyard Co., Milwaukee hull# 28
Specs : 162x31x12, 583g 444n
Date of loss : 1911, Sep 27
Place of loss : S. Manitou Isl. near MORAZAN wreck
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Bound Boyne City for Chicago, she began to leak and sink in a storm and was run ashore to save her crew. There she was abandoned and broke her back soon after. S. Manitou Lifesaving Service took crew off. Owned by White Transportation of Buffalo.
422 hp engine.
Wreckage located in 1996 when a sandbar washed off her.
Sources : mv,ns2,gs,is,nb,nsp,mpl,eas
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THREE FRIENDS
Other names : none
Official no. : C
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1864, G. Hardison, Port Dover, Ont.
Specs : 82x20x8, 115 t.
Date of loss : 1875, Oct 29
Place of loss : on a line Charlotte, NY-Toronto
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 215 t. coal
Detail : Bound Oswego for Toronto, she was caught by a storm and sprung a leak. Despite the efforts of her crew she began to founder and the crew plus the captain and his wife escaped in the smallboat just as she went down. They spent more than thirty hours adrift until the boat finally came ashore west of Whitby, Ont., with the occupants badly frozen, but still alive. Out of Oswego, sailed by Capt. “Three-finger” Jack Malone and owned by his wife, Mary Malone.
Early in May of the same year she was struck by a gale when off Port Weller. She ran for the shelter of Presqu’ile, but was not able to wear in to the harbor. She dropped anchors, but the cable soon parted and she went into shallow water. Bound Oswego for Toronto.
Sources : nsp,mmgl,wmn,bb,rp
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THREE SEAS – See LOCHIEL
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THREE SISTERS
Other names : none
Official no. : 145884
Type at loss : gas auxiliary schooner, wood
Build info : 1901, Jas. Larsen, Fish Creek, WI
Specs : 69x20x7, 52g 52n
Date of loss : 1912, Nov 4
Place of loss : Green Bay
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 4 [all]
Carrying : hay
Detail : She was blown ashore near Red River and wrecked by a gale. One of the lost was her owner and builder, J. Larsen. Out of Marinette, Wis. Three bystanders were later awarded civilian lifesaving medals for their heroic attempts to save her crew.
Stranded with heavy damage in Grand Traverse Bay in 1905.
One of the last commercial lake schooners built. Gas auxiliary engine added about 1910.
Sources : mv,gs,sol,h,nsp,mpl,wgts
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LIZZIE THROOP
Other names : none
Official no. : 14678
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1849, J. Connor, Mill Point, Mich
Specs : 86x21x8, 97 gt. [123 t. om]
Date of loss : 1873, Oct 17
Place of loss : at South Haven
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : ?
Detail : Driven ashore and reported a total loss. Out of Chicago
Also had a serious accident on Lake Michigan in Nov, 1854.
Sources : nsp,hgl,wl,rsl
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THRUSH
Other names : none
Official no. : C97200
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1890, A. Cantin, Montreal (or Quebec City)
Specs : 181x34x12, 584gc 584nc
Date of loss : 1916, May 9*
Place of loss : Entrance to Fairhaven, NY harbor
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : coal
Detail : Stranded, filled and sank, a total loss. She had been bound Kingston for Fairhaven.
*also given as May 16
Sources : win,mmgl,ns2,dmt
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JOHN THURSBY
Other names : none
Official no. : 12772
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1857, R. L. Page, Cattaraugus, NY
Specs : 251g [360 t. om]
Date of loss : 1867, Oct (8)
Place of loss : near Antrim City, Grand Traverse Bay
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 14,500 bu. wheat
Detail : She sailed from Milwaukee for Cleveland on the 7th and was immediately caught in a storm, which drove her ashore near the mouth of Grand Traverse Bay. Her crew escaped harm, but the vessel was reported a total loss. Owned by Chas. Coats, Cleveland. Master: Capt. Penny.
May have been recovered, as she is still on “Merchant Vessels” lists of 1869 through at least 1875.
Sources : hgl,wmn,mv,wmhs,bb
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GEORGE THURSTON
Other names : none (one source calls her “David Thurston”)
Official no. : C77639
Type at loss : bark, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1857, Geo. Thurston, Kingston, Ont.
Specs : 135x26x12, 307gc 307nc
Date of loss : 1882, Oct 23
Place of loss : near Byng Inlet, Georgian Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : wheat
Detail : Returning from a trip to Algoma Mills, she stranded and was pounded to pieces on a reef southwest of Byng Inlet.
Also ashore near Pt. Edward, Lake Huron, in 1876.
Rebuilt in 1869 and at Quebec in 1880.
Sources : mmgl,hgl,mdwl,nsp
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JOHN TIBBETS
Other names : built on the hull of the Canadian schooner PERSEVERANCE, which was formerly the SCOTIA [built 1855, Port Robinson, Ont. by J. & J. Abbey]
Official no. : 13299
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1863, Clayton, NY
Specs : 93x23x10, 149g
Date of loss : 1888, Jul 11
Place of loss : Clear Creek, 7 mi W of Port Rowan, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : She foundered in the shallows and then broke up in storm waves. Most of her crew made it to shore in yawl but two were saved by a crew from the Port Rowan lifeboat station. She was reported completely gone to pieces by September. Owned by Robert Munsey, Cleveland.
Also sunk on L. Huron in 1883, and near Muskegon in 1873.
Reported in newspapers and win as a Canadian, but not in NAC
Major repairs in 1874 & 79. Rebuilt in 1867 on the Canadian side.
Sources : polk,mv,h,ledc,nsp,win,hgl,mpl,wl,bb,oo
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J.H. TIFFANY
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1856, Lafrinier & Stevenson, Cleveland
Specs : 136x25x11, 370 t.
Date of loss : 1859, Nov 29
Place of loss : about 5 miles SE of Gray’s Reef Light
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : 5
Carrying : railroad rails
Detail : This schooner tacked in front of the propeller MILWAUKEE and was rammed near the bow. Her crew tried to run the wrecked schooner to Skillagallee, but she sank first. The crew scrambled up the mast, but half were lost. MILWAUKEE (qv) also sank. The survivors of both vessels were picked up by the prop FREE STATE, which witnessed the accident. She had been bound Oswego for Chicago. Most of her cargo was later salvaged [1874].
Owned by Baldwin & Co. of Oswego.
Sources : hgl,ssm,slh,nsp,mpl,rnc
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TIGER
Other names : none
Official no. : 24104
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1860, G.H. Notter, Buffalo
Specs : 41x11x5, 26g 12n
Date of loss : 1869, Nov 20
Place of loss : off Sheboygan, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Struck a pier and foundered. Probably recovered.
Sources : lhl,mv,bb,wl,rsl,mdwl
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TIGER
Other names : none
Official no. : 24507
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1863, Whitney Bros., Green Bay
Specs : 63x11x7, 31g
Date of loss : 1870, Nov 21
Place of loss : at Bay City, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She burned to a total loss on the E side of the Saginaw River at Ballou’s dock. May have been recovered, still shows on a list in 1871, but newspaper articles of Dec, 1870 mention the engine being removed from the hull.
Owned by King & Parke, Saginaw.
Built as a 65 t. barge, converted to steam in 1865.
Sources : phr,mv,slh,lhl,nsp,hgl
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TIGER
Other names : none
Official no. : 166685
Type at loss : dredge scow, steel
Build info : 1918, Kingston, NY
Specs : 71g 71n
Date of loss : 1929, Jul 26
Place of loss : off Lakeside, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Burned and sank. Owned by Steven A Boston, Detroit.
*Also shown as built 1915, Ft. Wayne, Ind.: 80x26x5, 102g 102n.
Sources : eas,mv,h,lmdc,eas
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TILLEY – See SIR S.L. TILLEY
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W. C. TILLSON
Other names : none
Official no. : 80599
Type at loss : tug, wood, rafting
Build info : 1876, Chas. Huntley, Sheboygan, Wis.
Specs : 54x16x7, 49g 25n
Date of loss : 1889, Oct 30
Place of loss : near the mouth of Sturgeon Bay
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : towing a raft
Detail : While underway across Green Bay, near the eastern shore, she caught fire and burned to the water’s edge. After discovering the fire, her crew had only just enough time to abandon her. Owned by Leathem & Smith, Sturgeon Bay
Sources : nsp,bb,mv,wmhs
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DAN. TINDALL
Other names : none
Official no. : 6137
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1858, W. Totten, Fremont, Oh
Specs : 299 t.
Date of loss : 1871, Sep 18
Place of loss : N side of North Bay, Wis.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 270,000 bd ft lumber
Detail : She was bound Oconto, Wis. For Chicago when she went ashore in heavy weather and became a total loss. Owned by Roach & Finnegan, Chicago.
Bound Chicago for Collingwood, she went on Waugoschance Reef, Lake Michigan reef and was reported as broken up in May of the same year.
Rebuilt in 1870.
Sources : nsp,mv,wl,hgl,wgts
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TINTO
Other names : none
Official no. : Canadian
Type at loss : propeller, wood
Build info : 1856, Sorel, PQ
Specs : approx 135×25, 400 t..
Date of loss : 1856, Jul 17
Place of loss : between Snake Island and Nine Mile Point
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : 18 [including most of the passengers]
Carrying : ? (probably misc. freight)
Detail : Bound Montreal for lake Erie, she caught fire and burned to a total loss only two miles from the beach. All of the women and children on the boat and most of the crew lowered her lifeboat while the vessel was still running ahead, and all were drowned when the boat immediately capsized. The survivors went into the water and were picked up by a boat from shore and the schooner MARY ADELAIDE. The hulk drifted to Cedar Island, where it burned out. She was a $35,000 loss. A newspaper stated that she had no good lifeboat aboard, and it later turned out that her skipper had sold 2 of her 3 lifeboats just prior to thew fateful trip. Her machinery was later recovered and installed in the prop AVON(qv). Out of Sorel, Que. Master: Capt. Patrick Campbell(d).
Sources : csv(s2),nsp,mmgl,hgl,rp,rnc,ctw,tol,blu[1856]
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TIOGA
Other names : none
Official no. : 24167
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight lumber steamer
Build info : 1862, Quayle & Martin, Cleveland
Specs : 549 t.
Date of loss : 1877, Oct 5
Place of loss : W of Grubb Reef, off Pt. Pelee
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire/storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : general merchandise
Detail : Towing barges at the time, she caught fire and burned to a total loss, with high winds fanning the flames. The crew made it to her barges and were later picked up by the steamer BADGER STATE. The burned out hulk foundered the next day, in 30 feet of water. Owned by C. C. Blodgett of Detroit. Master: Capt. McFarlane.
Converted from passenger steamer to bulker in 1877.
At least four died in a boiler explosion aboard her off Cleveland in May of 1863.
Image as a passenger steamer from GLMD
Sources : do2,polk,hgl,ledc,lhl,nsp,eh,mpl,es,ew
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TIOGA
Other names : none
Official no. : 145405
Type at loss : propeller, iron, package and bulk freighter
Build info : 1885, Union Dry Dock, Buffalo
Specs : 286x39x26, 2320g 1684n
Date of loss : 1919, Nov 26
Place of loss : Sawtooth Reef, just off Eagle River, MI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : wheat
Detail : She was making for shelter in a gale when she struck the reef. Her crew made it to shore in her boats, but the vessel was pushed off into deep water. Out of Duluth.
Suffered a cargo explosion with up to 30 lives lost – mostly stevedores – at Chicago, July 11, 1890.
Image after 1890 explosion, same sourcce
Sources : mv,ns2,eas,gwgl,sol,mh,nsp,mpl,es3-2
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TIP TOP
Other names : ?
Official no. : 59171
Type at loss : scow, wood [former canal boat]
Build info : 1862, Phoenix, NY
Specs : 124 t.
Date of loss : 1882, Jul 31
Place of loss : in harbor at Oswego, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : hull failure
Loss of life : 1 of 4
Carrying : stone
Detail : Tow of the tug S. H. LYONS, her bottom dropped out and she sank in the harbor. She had been heavily laden with stone for a harbor improvement project.
Sources : hgl,is,h,nsp
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TITAN
Other names : none
Official no. : 24149
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1856, Goble & Crockett, Oswego, NY
Specs : 132x26x12, 361g 336n
Date of loss : 1869, Nov 5
Place of loss : near Pentwater, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 8 of 9
Carrying : 17,500 bu wheat
Detail : She was driven toward shore by terrific gale. Her anchors were dropped as she came close in, and they held for about an hour, but the ship finally dragged ashore, losing both her masts and breaking up as she struck. The one survivor was found crawling along the beach in a dazed state. Owned by R.G Rounsaveil of Chicago. Master: Capt. (Steven) Holford(d).
On her first trip from Chicago to Oswego she arrived after 8 days and 4 hours, the fastest passage up to the that time by a sail vessel. The next day the record was broken by 6 hours by the schooner SURPRISE.
Sources : mv,nsp,osdo,tel,is,rsl,mdwl
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TITANIA
Other names : none
Official no. : 145074
Type at loss : propeller, iron, excursion vessel
Build info : 1875, D. Bell, Buffalo
Specs : 98x14x6, 73g 47n
Date of loss : 1908, Aug 11
Place of loss : near Charlotte, NY [Rochester]
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none of 26
Carrying : none(?)
Detail : She tried to cutacross the bows of the Canadian sidewheeler KINGSTON, and rammed the larger vessel and sunk. She went down near the harbor entrance, where her crew and passengers were rescued from shore – some by the Lifesaving Service and the KINGSTON, and many others by local boats. The captain and some of the five crewmen jumped to the KINGSTON as she struck, leaving the passengers to their own devices. Owned by Fixx Bros. of Charlotte and used in the excursion business from Charlotte to Seabreeze, NY. Master: Capt. Patrick Thorpe. The hull was later raised and towed into the Genesee River, where it was abandoned in a swamp south of the harbor.
Converted from a yacht, tug and packet to this excursion vessel in 1877 by H. Jewett of Buffalo.
Sources : h,mv,nsp,is
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TOBOGGAN
Other names : ?
Official no. : (unregistered?)
Type at loss : scow, wood, self-unloading
Build info : 1886, Milwaukee Shipyard Co., Milwaukee
Specs : about 150×30
Date of loss : 1887, Jul 12
Place of loss : 15 mi off Milwaukee
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : loading error
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 2,000 bbl. salt & 350,000 bd. ft. lumber
Detail : She capsized and foundered while in tow of the steamer MARSHALL F. BUTTERS (qv). Her crew escaped in her yawl before she went down. She was reportedly overloaded. Master: Capt. Cooney. Out of Milwaukee.
Sources : bb,hgl,wmn,wls,wl
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DAVID TODD
Other names : also seen as DAVID TOD
Official no. : 6138
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1855, Peck & Masters, Cleveland
Specs : 129x30x10, 303 t. [373 t. om]
Date of loss : 1868, Oct 30
Place of loss : foot of Bois Blanc Isl.
Lake : Detroit R.
Type of loss : navigational error
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She was upbound when she got out of the channel and ran aground. On the 25th a local newspaper predicted that if she was not saved soon, she would go to pieces, and she was reported in a year-end list as a total loss. Owned by Mears & Bates, Chicago.
Sources : nsp,rsl,wl,mv
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H.N. TODMAN
Other names : also seen as N.H. TODMAN
Official no. : C80951
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1867, J. Tait, Wellington, Ont. (also given as Picton)
Specs : 92x20x10, 110gc 110nc
Date of loss : 1883, Nov 19 or 20
Place of loss : near Goderich, Ont
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : “stranded”
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : ?
Detail : Ashore and reported a total loss. No detail. Owned by McLeod & Co., Wellington, Ont.
She had a serious accident on Lake Huron in 1881, but was recovered.
Registry not closed until 1902 or later
Sources : csqw,mmgl,slh,hgl,clu,nsp
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TOKIO
Other names : none
Official no. : 145507
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 2-mast, bulk freight
Build info : 1889, J. Davidson, W. Bay City, hull# 23, as a 4-mast schooner
Specs : 222x38x16, 1385g 1316n
Date of loss : 1917, Oct 9
Place of loss : between St. Clair & Marine City, MI
Lake : St Clair R
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : She collided with barge HOMER and sank. She was later recovered, but found to be a constructive total loss and abandoned in 1919
Wreck located 150 ft from shore, 1800 ft below Edison coal dock, where it was moved in 1963.
Sources : vbs,mv,ns2,glp,ledc,mpl
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TOLEDO
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1836, John Carrick, Buffalo
Specs : 98x24x10, 215 t. om
Date of loss : 1838, Nov 5
Place of loss : .5 mile E of the mouth of the Grand River [Fairport]
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : dry goods worth 100- to $150,000 [part of them were saved]
Detail : Upbound, she was driven ashore by gale and broke in two. Owned by Charles Howland of Buffalo and sailed by Capt. Scoville. Maybe later resurrected (1844) and rebuilt as a brig, and maybe wrecked at Ahnapee, Wis., in 1848.
Sources : hgl,is(3-60),nsp,wl
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TOLEDO
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1854, B.B. Jones, Buffalo
Specs : 178x30x12, 585 t. [om]
Date of loss : 1856, Oct 22
Place of loss : off Port Washington, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 40 to 55 [later newspaper acct said about 50 bodies of the 60-70 aboard had been recovered.] 3 survivors
Carrying : general merch
Detail : Preparing to get underway in a storm [while lifting her hook], she sprang several bow strakes and filled quickly, with great loss of life to drowning. The wreck was towed in and allowed to sink, and was later pounded to pieces in a storm. The vessel and cargo were an insurance loss of $170,000.
Sources : hgl,eas,is(3-66),glss,sol,h,lmdc,lhl,nsp,bb,mpl,ctw,blu[56]
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TOLEDO – Entry for the steamer from previous editions now deleted. She went ashore on Lake Huron twice in 1869, but was recovered both times.
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TOLEDO
Other names : none
Official no. : 24234
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1843, A. Miller, Oswego, NY
Specs : 93x20x8, 139g
Date of loss : 1875, Aug 5
Place of loss : at Perry’s Pier, 13 mi N of Manistee
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : wood
Detail : She was caught by a storm while loading, was driven ashore, broken in two and wrecked. By the 17th she was reported as rapidly going to pieces.
Sources : is,mv,hgl,osdo,nsp
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TOLEDO
Other names : ?
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1869, Ricketts, Toledo
Specs : 5 t.
Date of loss : 1880
Place of loss : Bay City, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Burned to a total loss. May have been recovered.
Not in ’69 mvus
Sources : hgl,slh,bb
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TOLEDO
Other names : none
Official no. : 24112
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1862, Peck & Masters, Cleveland
Specs : 181x32x11, 579g 389n
Date of loss : 1898, Sep 29 (Sep 20, Oct 29 also given in error)
Place of loss : off upper entrance to Portage Ship Canal
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 475,000 board feet lumber
Detail : Downbound with barge SHAWNEE in tow, she sprang a leak and began to founder. Kept afloat by her cargo, she was towed into Portage harbor and sank near the entrance. She partially blocked the lower end of the canal and was later dynamited as a navigational hazard. Owned by John S. Gray, Houghton.
Built as a package freighter. After a long career an many accidents she was condemned for poor condition in 1890. Rebuilt to a bulker at Detroit in 1890-91.
Image as a package frighter from GLMD
Sources : mv,polk,hgl,gwgl,h,lhl,lss,mpl,df,nsp,glmd
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TOLEDO
Other names : (none)
Official no. : (204831)
Type at loss : dredge barge
Build info : (1907, J. Laird & Sons, Ashtabula, Oh)
Specs : (159x37x11, 960 t.)
Date of loss : 1924, Nov 19
Place of loss : 1 mi. off Rattlesnake Isl.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 7
Carrying : stone
Detail : Foundered in a gale while in tow of the tug BURLEY. She was bound S. Bass Isl. For Toledo, but was attempting to turn back to Put-in-Bay because of the weather. Owned by LeBeau Wrecking Co., Toledo. Master: Capt. Clarence LeBeau.
Wreck lies in 3 pieces 35 ft. of water, 2.8 mi N of Green Isl. light.
Sources : glp,ledc,gmw,ew,(glmd)
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TOM BOY
Other names : none
Official no. : 145103
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1863,
Specs : 50 ft, 19 t.
Date of loss : 1880, Aug 1
Place of loss : off Presque Isle, NW of Marquette
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : over 2,000 kegs blasting powder
Detail : She sprang a leak in heavy seas and foundered 2 miles offshore while trying to make Marquette. The crew just had time to cut away her yawl before she went down, and they were picked up by the steamer SELAH CHAMBERLAIN 3 hours later. Her skipper later said it had been his ninth shipwreck. Out of Houghton in 1877.
Sources : mars,lss,mv,nsp
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ANNIE TOMINE
Other names : none
Official no. : 1900*
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, lumber
Build info : 1867, Soren Anderson, Green Bay
Specs : 103x23x9, 127g
Date of loss : 1885, Oct 4
Place of loss : 5 mi W of entrance to Grand Haven, MI harbor
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 6
Carrying : Lumber & lath
Detail : Bound for Chicago, she sprang a leak and went on her beam ends in a storm. Her crew, who were “in a perishing state” were rescued by the Lifesaving Service and the tug ARCTIC. She later drifted ashore and broke up 7 miles S of the harbor entrance. Out of Chicago, homeported at Muskegon and owned by Mizner & Jones. Master: Capt.John Rowland Disbrow.
*Same vessel listed in 1869 mv as US#29360
Sources : mv,polk,h,nsp,hgl,usls,wmhs,bb,lt
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TONAWANDA
Other names : none
Official no. : 24110
Type at loss : propeller, wood, package freight
Build info : 1856, B.B. Jones, Buffalo
Specs : 202x32x13, 936g 822n [822 t. om]
Date of loss : 1870, Oct 18
Place of loss : about 10 miles off Buffalo
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : general merch, flour, corn
Detail : Disabled by a storm, she was then overwhelmed and destroyed. The crew abandoned in her two boats. There was some hope for her salvage and she was not given up as lost until late in 1871. Owned by Western Transportation Co., Buffalo. Master: Capt. Bryant.
Heavily damaged in a fire off Presque Isle, Lake Huron, in summer of 1857. Crew put it out by cutting holes through the deck with axes.
One died when she was wrecked by a boiler explosion on the Chicago River Sep 24, 1864.
Rebuilt in 1866.
Powered by two oscillating engines.
Sources : mv,hgl,eas,sol,lhl,nsp,mpl,rp,ewe
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TOPEKA
Other names : none
Official no. : 145510
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight, self-unloading
Build info : 1889, Milwaukee Shipyard Co., Milwaukee hull# 30
Specs : 228x36x19, 1376g 1111n
Date of loss : 1916, Aug 15
Place of loss : Off Windsor (Sandwich), Ont.
Lake : Detroit R
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : She collided with the small steamer CHRISTOPHER and sank. Her machinery was later recovered and the wreck levelled by dynamiting, Dec 26, 1916.
Converted to self-unloader in 1912
Apparently sunk in 40 feet of water in a storm near Hougton, Mich., Lake Superior in 1898 and abandoned as a total loss. Not recovered until after 1902.
Sources : mv,hgl,ns2,rkr,mpl,eas,nsp
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TOPSY
Other names : none also seen as TOPSEY
Official no. : 24578
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1867, F. Leighton, Port Huron
Specs : 101x25x8, 146g 139n
Date of loss : 1891, Jun 9
Place of loss : near Waugoschance Pt., western Straits
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Downbound with a hold and deckload of lumber, she stranded and wrecked, her crew barely escaping. She was a total loss of about $3000.
Sources : phr,mv,polk,hgl,h,wb,sb
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TORCH LAKE
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1860, Toledo
Specs : 20 t.
Date of loss : 1864, Nov
Place of loss : near Sturgeon Bay, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life :
Carrying : none
Detail : Foundered.
May have been recovered. A vessel of this name still in mv out of Houghton, MI, in 1869.
A tug TORCH LAKE, 37x11x4, was built by Jas. Harley at Cleveland in 1858, and may be this vessel. Another tug TORCH LAKE was built in 1873 at Buffalo.
Sources : lhl,nsp,mv,wmn
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TORNADO – See also GARROWEN
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TORNADO
Other names : none
Official no. : 24399
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1862, Kitts & Moore, Oswego
Specs : 102g 57n
Date of loss : 1870, Aug 6
Place of loss : 4 mi NW of Oswego, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : boiler explosion
Loss of life : 3 of 6
Carrying : none
Detail : Her boiler exploded without warning, and the tug foundered quickly in deep water. The new boiler had apparently been allowed to run almost dry, and exploded when cold water was let into it to replenish the supply. Owned by Smith & Post of Oswego. Master: Capt. Wm. H. Manwarring(d).
One of the most powerful tugs on L. Ontario.
Sources : nsp,mv,lhl,hgl,rp,eas
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TORNADO
Other names : none
Official no. : 145037
Type at loss : propeller tug, wood
Build info : 1872, Thos. Christinson, Red River, Wis
Specs : 56x12x7, 22 t.
Date of loss : 1886, Jul 3
Place of loss : at Red River, Wis
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She caught fire at her dock while laid up for the coming holiday, and burned to a total loss. Her engine was later removed and the hull burned for the fittings. Owned by Leatham & Smith.
Sources : wgts,hr,whs
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TORONTO
Other names : none also known as THE TORONTO YACHT
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : armed sail yacht, wood
Build info : 1799, J. Dennis, Humber, Ont.
Specs : ?
Date of loss : 1812, Summer
Place of loss : Gibraltar [Hanlan’s] Point, near Toronto
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She stranded on a rocky reef and broke her back. Master: Capt. Fish. The hulk was a local novelty for many years.
Sources : is,eluc
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J. A. TORRANCE – See JOHN A. McDONALD
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TORRENT
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1855, John E. Dixon, Newport, MI
Specs : 125x30x11, 412 t. om [137 ft overall]
Date of loss : 1863, Oct 30
Place of loss : 10 mi E of Port Stanley, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : none
Carrying : railroad iron
Detail : Bound Buffalo for Little Bay de Noc, Green Bay, she foundered in 60 feet of water. Owned by E. W. Bissell of Detroit
Sources : hgl,nsp,wl
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IDA M. TORRENT – See PINE LAKE
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JOHN TORRENT
Other names : none
Official no. : C122440
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1875, Arnold, Muskegon [US#75751]
Specs : 50x12x6, 18g 9n
Date of loss : 1913, May 2
Place of loss : St. Joseph Isl., north end of lake
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : This tug caught fire at Richard’s Landing and burned to the waterline. Owned by S. Shipman, Richard’s Landing.
In July, 1895, 3 men were killed when the tug was raked by the towline of the big schooner YUKON, in tow of the steamer SITKA.
Sold Canadian in 1910
Sources : polk,mv,hgl,win,mmgl,slh,h,bb
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NELLIE TORRENT
Other names : none
Official no. : 130206
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1881, Detroit Dry Dock, Wyandotte, MI hull# 52
Specs : 141x29x11, 303g 277n
Date of loss : 1899, Jun 22
Place of loss : abreast of Pte Au Frame, near Detour
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : She caught fire in her hold and burned to total wreck while downbound from Lake Superior. She was beached near Lime Island and abandoned.
Owned out of Bay City by G. W. Jackson.
She was used as a barge for her first season, then received an engine at Milwaukee in September, 1882.
Sources : mv,atl,polk,nsp,slh,hdm,phr,mpl,nsp
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TOURIST
Other names : none
Official no. : 145493
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1888, F. Maynard, Bayfield, WI
Specs : 65 ft., 23 t.
Date of loss : 1889, Sep 6
Place of loss : at Bayfield, WI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : She caught fire at her dock, then was cut loose and drifted out into the bay, where she burned to the waterline and sank.
Hgl says she burned at Ashland in 1890.
Sources : lss,hgl,wmhs
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TOURIST
Other names : none
Official no. : 145742
Type at loss : sternwheel steamer, wood, passenger, riverine
Build info : 1897, W. D. Preston, St. Joseph
Specs : 87x17x4, 66 gt
Date of loss : 1911, Aug 8
Place of loss : Calumet River at Riverdale, Ill
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Caught fire and burned to a total loss at her dock. Owned by South Shore Steamship, Chicago
This steamer caught fire in the engine room and was gutted at her dock at St. Joseph, Mich, Sep 6, 1898. Though reported burned to the water’s edge and a total loss, she was later rebuilt at St Joseph. Owned by Drake & Wallace
Sources : hgl,nsp,hcgl,lotl
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OSCAR TOWNSEND
Other names : none
Official no. : 19385
Type at loss : propeller, wood, steam barge
Build info : 1873, E. Fitzgerald, Port Huron, MI
Specs : 193x34x14, 1038g 835n
Date of loss : 1891, Oct 28
Place of loss : 8 mi off Lexington, Mich
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Bound for Escanaba, she caught fire off Port Sanilac, burned to a total loss and sank. The fire was caused by an exploding lamp in the lamp room. Her crew was rescued by the nearby tug MYSTIC. Owned by J. Root, Tecumseh, Mich
458 hp engine
Sources : mv,phr,slh,hgl,mpl,es,jb,nsp
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TRACY or TRACEY
Other names : also seen as GEN. TRACY
Official no. : none
Type at loss : armed snow, wood
Build info : 1802, River Rouge [Detroit], MI
Specs : 53 t.
Date of loss : 1809 [“after 1812” also given]
Place of loss : off Fort Erie
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : (storm?)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Former armed U.S. naval vessel went ashore and was wrecked off Fort Erie on her third trip as a private vessel. Owned by Porter, Barton & Co, Black Rock, NY.
She was one of the vessels that established the garrison at Fort Dearborn (later Chicago), in 1803.
Sources : hgl,lm,hdm,mpl,nsp
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J.F. TRACY
Other names : none also seen as J.P. TRACY
Official no. : 12774
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1855, F.N. Jones, Buffalo
Specs : 102x24x8, 139g 132n
Date of loss : 1886, Sep 4
Place of loss : W side of Beaver Island
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : She went aground and was wrecked just offshore. She was considered unseaworthy and un-insurable and was abandoned as a total loss. Out of Chicago
Thought lost in 1866 when it took her 11 days to get from Detroit to Conneaut in stormy weather.
Sources : mv,polk,nsp,lmdc,hgl,wl,mbw
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TRADE WIND
Other names : none
Official no. : C88637
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1853, H. Hacker, Cramaha, Ont. [Colborne]
Specs : 100x21x9, 181 cn (195gt?)
Date of loss : 1909, Apr 12
Place of loss : Kingston, Ont., harbor
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Burned to a total loss at the Kingston & Pembroke wharf just as she was preparing to leave for Oswego..
Rebuilt 1868?
Location of build also given as Port Hope, date of loss as Oct 13, 1911.
Sources : csqw,eas,ns1,mmgl,tfgl,osdo,win,clu,nsp,dmt,wmn
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TRADER
Other names : none
Official no. : 21458
Type at loss : propeller, wood
Build info : 1865, Philip Rice, Marine City
Specs : 115x23x10, 169g*
Date of loss : 1880, Oct 12
Place of loss : near Grand Haven, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Battered by a storm and sunk to her decks about 20 miles out, her crew abandoned and was saved by the schooner GUIDE in a daring rescue. TRADER was towed in with her decks awash and beached just outside the harbor by the steam barge S. C. HALL. A few days later, in the “ALPENA Storm,” her wreckage washed ashore and she was erroneously reported as another “all hands” victim of that storm.
She went ashore on Kelley’s Island and was not expected to survive in May of 1866, and three were killed when her boiler exploded on Lake Huron in Nov of the same year. Owner: S. A. Brown, Marine City. Master: Capt. Frank Brown.
* rebuilt and enlarged from 150 t. in 1874
She was reported to be the first purpose-built steambarge on the lakes.
Sources : mv,phr,nsp,slh,lhl,sol,h,hgl,gsg
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TRADER
Other names : none
Official no. : 162087
Type at loss : sand scow, wood
Build info : 1903, Buffalo
Specs : 291 t.
Date of loss : 1908, Jul 9
Place of loss : Strawberry Isl., Niagara R.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : stranded
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : She went aground and was wrecked by the force of the current. She lay in 15 feet of water, 300 feet west of the ship channel abreat of the foot of the island. For a time her derrick was emergent, but it was carried away the following October.
Sources : eas,mv,wmn
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TRADEWIND
Other names : also seen as TRADE WIND
Official no. : none
Type at loss : bark, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1853, Stoney Creek, NY
Specs : 366 t.
Date of loss : 1854, Nov 30
Place of loss : near Long Point “cut”
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : railroad iron, stoves, gov’t lifeboats
Detail : She was sunk by a collision with the brig SIR CHARLES NAPIER off Long Point when the two upbound vessels on opposite tacks collided in a blinding snow storm. TRADE WIND sank quickly. She carried two U.S. Government lifeboats as deck cargo. The crew had complained about the bulky boats the whole trip until the vessel sank and all boarded the boats and were saved. Owned by H. Walker & Co. of Buffalo. Master: Capt. Eastwick.
Sources : nsp,hgl,eas,rnc,wmhs
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TRAFFIC
Other names : none
Official no. : 24506
Type at loss : sidewheel tug & upriver packet, wood
Build info : 1853, O.V. Kelfferich, St. Clair, MI
Specs : 75x16x5, 50 t.
Date of loss : 1869, Oct 11
Place of loss : Saginaw River at Saginaw
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Destroyed by fire. Location also given as Milwaukee, in error.
Sunk near Sebewaing, Mich, Jun 8, 1868 and recovered.
Sources : phr,mv,slh,wl,mdwl,wls
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TRAMP
Other names : ?
Official no. : 226904
Type at loss : gas fish tug
Build info : 1926, Rogers City, MI
Specs : 56x16x4, 56 t.
Date of loss : 1970(ca)
Place of loss : Grand Traverse Bay near Northport, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : ?
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : “Lost”, no detail. The wreck is a frequent dive target in the Traverse Bay Preserve.
Sources : lmdc,hr
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TRANCHEMONTAGNE
Other names : none also seen as F.R. TRANCHEMONTAGUE
Official no. : C?
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1864, Recleur, Sorel, Que. (Lotbiniere)
Specs : 108x23x6, 130 t.
Date of loss : 1880, Oct 31
Place of loss : near harbor mouth at Oswego, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 6
Carrying : 7,200 bu. rye
Detail : She struck the breakwater head-on at about 3 a.m., stove in her bow and sank. The crew took to the rigging except one who was washed overboard and rode a provision box from her deck to shore. The Lifesaving Service rescued the rest from the breakwater, where they had escaped the wreck. The schooner broke up quickly. Owned out of Mill Point, Ont. by her master, Capt. Geo. Sherwood
Built principally of softwood
Rebuilt, 1875
Sources : hgl,csqw,is,h,mmgl,nsp,clu,osdo,rp
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TRANSFER
Other names : none
Official no. : 145486
Type at loss : propeller barge, wood, sandsucker
Build info : 1888, T. Rogers, E. Saginaw
Specs : 140x32x6, 178g 166n
Date of loss : 1896, May 28
Place of loss : 3 mi E of Lorain, OH
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : pig iron
Detail : She wrecked in a gale and heavy seas while trying to make the harbor, sinking in 30 feet of water. In tow of the tug CASCADE at the time, and her crew was rescued by the tug. She reportedly later washed to a point within 300 feet of shore, where she lay keel-up with her prop exposed. Owned by John Corrigan, Cleveland. Stripped of her gear and machinery in September, 1897.
Sources : mv,phr,eas,vbs,h,wb,hgl,nsp
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TRANSFER
Other names : none
Official no. : 59353
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1874, Kirby, Furlong & Co., Grand Haven, Mich [also given as John Callister], as a 3-mast schooner
Specs : 143x28x11, 361g 343n
Date of loss : 1896, Oct 29
Place of loss : Big Summer Island
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : Bound for Manistique, Mich., from Chicago, she went on the east side of the island with her tow steamer ALLEGHANY(qv). Though not seriously damaged at first, she was left in place and went to pieces in about a year and a half. Owned by Tonawanda Barge Line.
Sources : wgts,bb,mv,nsp
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TRANSIT
Other names : none
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1856, Toronto
Specs : 115x17x5, 109 t
Date of loss : 1880, May 7
Place of loss : at Belleville, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : ?
Detail : Burned to a total loss, reportedly by arson. Kingston papers reported that her value was only about $600 at the time of her loss. Owned by J. Leigh, Toronto, Ont.
Reportedly abandoned at the time of her launch, sank two years later, and not put in service until 1869.
Used as a ferry at Toronto-Hamilton for some time.
Sources : csv,mmgl,clu,dmt
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TRANSIT
Other names : none
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : propeller, wood, carferry, 10 car
Build info : 1872, Jenking Bros., Walkerville, Ont.
Specs : 168x39x15, 1058g 719n
Date of loss : 1889, Mar 4
Place of loss : Windsor, Ont.
Lake : Detroit R.
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She burned at her layup dock, where she had been tied up since 1884.
Owned by Grand Trunk RR and burned at their dock. They had been trying to sell her for some time.
Sources : csv,mmgl,clu,nsp,glc
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TRANSIT
Other names : none
Official no. : 24231
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1854, H. Rand, Manitowoc
Specs : 82x23x7, 92 t.
Date of loss : 1891, Sep 23
Place of loss : Kewaunee harbor
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : hardwood lumber
Detail : She was hauling into the harbor for the night when she struck the new north pier extension squarely. The extension had just been built, was not yet marked with lights, and could not be seen in the dark. The schooner drifted on the rocks and was soon declared a total wreck. She was later towed out in to the lake and abandoned, but drifted ashore and broke up. Owned by Peter & Elias Oleson.
Sources : wgts,hr,mv,wmhs,whs
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TRANSITER
Other names : none
Official no. : C158633
Type at loss : steel diesel screw fuel tanker
Build info : 1935, Horton Steel Works, Fort Erie, Ont.
Specs : 170x34x13, 904 gc
Date of loss : 1941, Aug 8
Place of loss : Rouge R. between Fort St. and Wabash St. bridges
Lake : Detroit R
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : 2 of 17
Carrying : 15,000 bbl high-test gasoline
Detail : She exploded in the Rouge R. a few minutes after leaving her dock, bound for Montreal. The captain ordered her abandoned and the crew and two women passengers aboard went over the side as the captain steered her for the banks. His wife was one of those lost when the ship went over her after she went into the water. The ship caused a spectacular nighttime blaze on the river as the fire tug JOHN KENDALL fought for control. Owned by Tankers Transit Terminals, Ltd., Montreal. Master: Capt. Rudolph Tremblay.
The ship was later reovered and rebuilt at Port Dalhousie. She was lengthened to 243 ft and renamed TRANSTREAM. Scrapped in 1981.
Sources : h,win,nsp,hr
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TRANSLAKE No. 3
Other names : none
Official no. : C unreg.
Type at loss : movable oil rig barge
Build info : 1958, Russell Bros. Marine, Owen Sound, Ont.
Specs : 43 t.
Date of loss : 1958, Sep 16
Place of loss : 3.5 miles from Surprise Shoal, SW Geo. Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : capsized and lost
Loss of life : 1 of 2
Carrying : gear
Detail : Had just been built and was being delivered to her new owner on Lake Erie when she capsized and sank. A crewman who had almost escaped to the tug/tender E.D.M. PURVIS went back for his wallet and was drowned when the rig suddenly went under. The PURVIS was sent to assess salvage possibilities in May, 1961 but the rig was never recovered.
Image and brief story from Russell Bros. Marine
Sources : win,slh,h,go,rm
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TRANSPORT
Other names : none
Official no. : 145211
Type at loss : barge, iron, pulpwood, crane-equipped
Build info : 1880, Detroit Dry Dock, Wyandotte hull# 34, as a carferry
Specs : 254x46x14, 1595g 1353n
Date of loss : 1942, Sep 22
Place of loss : near Eagle Harbor, MI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : pulpwood
Detail : Tow of the tug JOHN ROEN, she was driven on the beach by a gale and wrecked. She was later cut up in place for scrap. Owned by Roen S.S. Co., Milwaukee.
Built as 21-car sidewheel carferry, converted to barge in 1933.
Included on lists of U. S. World War II war losses.
Sources : glcf,mv,eas,atl,ns4,mpl,ww2
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TRAVELER – See also H.B. BURGER
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TRAVELER
Other names : ?
Official no. : none
Type at loss : scow-brig, wood, 2-mast
Build info : (probably built 1847, J.P. Atkinson, Vermillion, OH)
Specs : (61x17x3, 24 t. om)
Date of loss : 1858, May 11
Place of loss : on Pt. Pelee
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 3 of 8
Carrying : staves
Detail : She fought an easterly storm for several days, being driven westward 90 miles until she brought up near Pt. Pelee. Crowding on all of her sails to gain maneuverability, she capsized and began to drift in to the point. She finally struck with such force that she righted. Several vessels approached to see if she needed assistance, but none could come in close enough. The survivors struggled against the cold for five days until rescued by the propeller PORTSMOUTH. One of the lost was the wife of the mate. TRAVELER had been bound Monroe, MI for Buffalo and had made it as far as Ashtabula before being driven back. Owned by J. Prouty of Buffalo. Master: Capt. Gates. Possibly recovered.
Sources : nsp,wl
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TRAVELER
Other names : none also spelled TRAVELLER
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1852, J. Wolverton, Newport, MI
Specs : 199x29x11, 609 t.
Date of loss : 1865, Aug 17
Place of loss : at dock at Eagle Harbor, MI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : hay, gen merch
Detail : a fire originating in her forward hold spread rapidly. The crew evacuated the passengers and luggage quickly, while the vessel was cut adrift to save the dock and burned to the waterline. Owned by J. Hutchings. Master: Capt. Stewart.
Also burned at Chicago in July, 1854
rebuilt, 1863
Sources : nsp,gwgl,is,lhl,ks,hgl,wl,eas
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TRAVELER
Other names : none
Official no. : 24148
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1847, DeWolf, Milwaukee
Specs : 87x19x7, 109g 88n
Date of loss : 1868, Oct 23
Place of loss : 2 mi S of Calumet
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 4 or 8
Carrying : lumber
Detail : She drove ashore and quickly went to pieces, pounded by waves from outside and by her cargo from inside. Owned by M. Canney and D. Lawrence, Chicago
Rebuilt 1861
Sources : nsp,wmn,bb,mr
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TRAVELLER – see also DALHOUSIE ROVER
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TRAVELLER
Other names : (none)
Official no. : C61129
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1863, Detroit US#24584
Specs : 62x15x4, 41gc 41nc
Date of loss : 1876
Place of loss : Lake St. Clair
Lake : St. Clair
Type of loss : “wrecked”
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : No detail.
Sold Canadian in 1869. Out of Montreal.
Sources : mmgl,mv
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J.A. TRAVIS
Other names : none
Official no. : 13862
Type at loss : schooner, wood, lumber
Build info : 1867, Arnold, Pentwater, MI
Specs : 106x20x6, 101g 96n
Date of loss : 1893, Nov 17
Place of loss : off Cana Isl., mouth of Green Bay
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber & marble
Detail : She ran into a storm, struck bottom near the island and foundered. The crew lost their lifeboat and were saved by the Lifesaving Service after 20 hours aboard in frigid seas. Owned and sailed by Capt. Albert Bake, Milwaukee. She had been bound Ellison’s Bay to Milwaukee.
Also capsized on Lake Michigan in 1868
Rebuilt 1874, major repair 1884
Sources : mv,polk,h,lmdc,wb,hgl,wgts,nsp
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WILLIAM TREAT
Other names : none
Official no. : 26170
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1856, Wm. Treat, Euclid, OH as a brig
Specs : 146x35x11, 389g
Date of loss : 1883, Oct 3
Place of loss : Port Albert, Ont, N of Goderich
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Bound Bay City for Detroit in tow of tug J.P. CLARK with a group of other barges, she wallowed and became unmanageable in a storm. She was cut adrift by next barge forward, SEMINOLE, and abandoned off Sand Beach on the 27th. She drifted with her decks awash ’til part of her crew paddled 20 mi ashore in a makeshift raft. The rest of the crew and the boat came ashore on Canadian side the 3rd. Master: Capt. George McKay.
Sources : mv,phr,polk,slh,nsp,hgl,rsl,sip
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U.S.S. TREFOIL – See GEN. H. E. PAINE
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M.E. TREMBLE
Other names : none
Official no. : 90745
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast, grain
Build info : 1874, Gibson, Suamico, WI
Specs : 198x34x13, 673g 658n
Date of loss : 1890, Sep 7
Place of loss : northern end of St. Clair R
Lake : St Clair R
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : 1 of 6
Carrying : coal
Detail : Upbound in tow of the prop B.W. BLANCHARD, she was rammed by the downbound freighter W.L.WETMORE(qv) in a passing mishap and sank quickly. All but one of the crew made it away in her yawl and were picked up by the carferry HURON. Her remains, lying just west of the shipping channel, were later dynamited as a hazard. Owned by J. C. Fitzpatrick, Cleveland
Sources : mv,polk,slh,is,st,mpl,usls,nsp
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TRENTON
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1843, W. S. Lyons, Black River, Oh
Specs : 85x20x9, 133 t.
Date of loss : 1856, Oct
Place of loss : near mouth of Grand River [Grand Haven, Mich]
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : ?
Detail : She was driven ashore and wrecked in a storm, a total loss, near the end of the month. Out of Buffalo.
Sources : blu[1856],wl,wmn,wmhs
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TRENTON
Other names : none
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : propeller, wood*
Build info : 1854, A. Cantin, Montreal
Specs : 134x23x8, 240g 166n
Date of loss : 1858, Mar 4
Place of loss : at Picton, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She burned to total loss while tied to the mill wharf. The fire was probably caused by the carpenters who were renovating her.
*Shown in mmgl as sidewheeler
Owned by Bay of Quinte & St. Lawrence [McQuaig’s] Line
Sources : csqw,csv,mmgl,clu,hgl,nsp
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TRENTON
Other names : none
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1864, J. Simpson, Trenton, Ont.
Specs : 123x25x9, 217 t.
Date of loss : 1879, Nov 22
Place of loss : mouth of Presqu’ile Bay, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : foundered
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : She foundered in the mouth of the Presque Ile channel of the Bya of Quinte while riding at anchor, blocking it at least into the next fall. A report states that some of the crew were rescued from her rigging.
Sources : csqw,h,hgl,wl,rp not in mmgl
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BYRON TRERICE
Other names : none
Official no. : C83028
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1882, William Peck, Dresden, Ont. as a passenger steamer
Specs : 102x26x9, 268g 168n
Date of loss : 1893, Sep 2
Place of loss : at Leamington, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : 3
Carrying : probably none [at dock]
Detail : She caught fire from unknown causes and was quickly destroyed at a her wharf. Two of her crew were trapped by the flames and a third jumped overboard to escape and was drowned. A wrecking expedition to the boat in Nov, 1899 determined that the hull had been damaged beyond salvage by wave action.
Registered out of Wallaceburg, and owned by W. D. McCrae and sailed by Capt. D. F. McCrae.
Sources : csv,win,polk,mmgl,hcgl,wmn,wl,nsp
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TRIAL
Other names : also seen as R.TRIAL
Official no. : 24233
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1857, Rand, Manitowoc, WI as a sloop*
Specs : 36 t.
Date of loss : 1883, Nov 15
Place of loss : just SW of harbor ent. at Muskegon
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 2
Carrying : none
Detail : She was stranded and wrecked by a storm while trying to make the harbor. The Lifesaving Service forced their surfboat through a mass of heaving logs and lumber to take her crew off. She broke up in place. Hailed from Milwaukee and bound for Manistee. Owner: Samuel Hanson. Master: Capt. Peter Hanson.
She was reportedly clinker-built, one of the few on the lakes to be so constructed.
Heavily damage in 1869, major repairs in 1878.
*May have been built 1853, Cleveland
Sources : lmdc,usls,mv,rsl,wl,wmn
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TRIBUNE
Other names : (none)
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1847, Chicago
Specs : 104 ft, 276 t.
Date of loss : 1848, Apr 18
Place of loss : off Cathead Point, MI [Leelanau Pen.]
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 10 [all]
Carrying : none or wheat
Detail : She disappeared in lower Lake Michigan, a total loss of $17,000. Her fate was unknown until native fishermen discovered her masts standing upright off Cathead Pt. in Nov of ’49.
Sources : is,ssb,hgl,bb
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TRINIDAD
Other names : none
Official no. : 24621
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1867, Wm. Keefe, Grand Island, NY
Specs : 142x26x11, 333 t.
Date of loss : 1881, May 11
Place of loss : 12 mi off Algoma, Wis.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Bound Port Huron for Chicago, she foundered in a gale in deep water, a total loss. Her crew was able to abandon her in her yawl just moments before she took her final plunge. Out of Oconto, Wis., owned by Holt & Balcon.
She was reported to have foundered, disappeared while in company of the schooner J.H. HARTZELL, near Frankfort, MI, Oct 20, 1880.
Sources : nsp,osdo,bb,wgts
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CHAS. A. TRINTER
Other names : none
Official no. : 206047
Type at loss : gas screw, wood, fish tug
Build info : 1909, Vermilion, OH
Specs : 35x10x4, 8g 5n
Date of loss : 1916, Jan 6
Place of loss : off Erie, PA
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : gear
Detail : She had been overwintering in Erie, left port caught fire offshore during an early thaw, burned to the waterline and sank. Out of Sandusky. Owned by Southwest Fish Co. of Vermilion, which had reportedly lost another fish tug to fire a month earlier.
Sources : mv,hr,vv
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TRIPPE
Other names : built as commercial sloop CONTRACTOR
Official no. : none
Type at loss : naval sloop, wood, 1-mast, armed w/ one 24-pdr
Build info : 1802-3, Porter, Barton & Co.
Specs : 60 or 64 t.
Date of loss : 1813, Dec
Place of loss : Buffalo
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire [arson]
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : ?
Detail : She was burned by the British during the War of 1812. Commander: Lieut. Thomas Holdup.
She had been ashore near Buffalo in November.
She was sold to the U. S. Gov’t in 1812. Carried a 35-man crew and was part of Perry’s squadron at the Battle of Lake Erie, Put-in-Bay.
Sources : hgl,wmn
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TRIUMPH
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1816, Sacket’s Harbor, NY
Specs : 60x12x4, 25 t.
Date of loss : 1820, Nov 12
Place of loss : Genesee bar, off Rochester, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : stranded
Loss of life : none (all hands also reported)
Carrying : 153 bbl salt
Detail : Stranded and wrecked a total loss. Her crew was reportedly picked up by a boat from the steamer ONTARIO.
Sources : hgl,rp
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TRIUMPH
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1855, J Harbridge, Two Rivers, WI
Specs : 88x21x7, 129 t.
Date of loss : 1865, Sep 16
Place of loss : near Chicago
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : ?
Detail : She was a total loss in a gale. No detail. Master: Capt. Peterson. Owned by Smith & Sons, Chicago
Sources : nsp,rsl,hgl,wmn,bb
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C.C. TROWBRIDGE
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sidewheel scow-steamer, wood
Build info : 1839, McLaughlin*, Saugatuck, MI [Kalamazoo R. also shown]
Specs : 73x16x5, 42 t. om
Date of loss : 1842, Dec 5
Place of loss : near Milwaukee
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She stranded and was wrecked in a late season gale. She was probably in use as a harbor lighter at Milwaukee at the time. Owner: Brown, Trowbridge & Dousman. Master: Capt. Jos. Sherwood.
Local sources in Milwaukee say she was recovered, stripped of her machinery and lengthened the next year, and may have lasted for many more years.
Damaged in a collision Jun 11 of the same year as loss.
There were several later vessels of this name. One 30 tonner [b. 1838, Detroit] was wrecked a in collision off Bar Pt. Lake Erie, in 1857, and recovered in July, 1858, but didn’t return to service until May, 1860.
*William Wilkin also given as builder
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TROY
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1843, Conneaut, OH
Specs : 122 t.
Date of loss : 1843, Oct
Place of loss : E side of N Manitou Isl. (near Stormer dock?)
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : glass
Detail : She was driven ashore and wrecked. 1854 is also given as the year. Some sources say 23 lives were lost, though this is probably confusion with 1859 steamer TROY wreck. If she is the vessel shown above, she was recovered, as the 1843 TROY lasted until at least 1857.
Sources : hgl,csb,lmdc,nb
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TROY
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1849, Laffmuir & Moses, Cleveland
Specs : 163x21x10, 340 t. om
Date of loss : 1859, Oct 24
Place of loss : 10 mi N of Pte Aux Barques, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 23 of 26
Carrying : ?
Detail : Foundered in a gale. Owned by Byron D. Ball(d) of Grand Rapids, MI, also her master, who had purchased her a month earlier.
Damaged by a boiler explosion in Mar, 1850 at Buffalo, NY; at least six killed. Collided with the schooner ALMEDA and sank her in Sep of the same year. Damaged and one killed in another boiler explosion on Lake Michigan in September, 1854.
Sources : lhl,hgl,eas,slh,is,wl,nsp
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TROY
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1845, F.N. Jones, Maumee, OH
Specs : 182x28x11, 546 t. om
Date of loss : 1860, Mar 4
Place of loss : off Goderich, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : ice/flood
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She was still laid up for the winter when she was swept from her moorings by a spring freshet. She was carried two miles out in the lake and there she sank, a total loss of $5,000. Owned by Buffalo & Lake Huron RR.
Exploded and burned at Black Rock, NY, Mar 23, 1850, with loss of 22 lives [newspaper clippings say many fewer]. Recovered and rebuilt the next year.
Sources : lhl,hgl,slh,ttgl,sol,is,h,nsp,wl,bc,wmn
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TRUANT
Other names : none
Official no. : C92739
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1889, J. Duval, Toronto as a ferry
Specs : 73x14x4, 28gc 20nc
Date of loss : 1894, Apr 30
Place of loss : Burnt Isl., Killarney, Georgian Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : She was destroyed by a fire which caught under the ash pan.
Reg. out of Toronto.
Sources : win,hgl,mmgl,slh,h
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C.R. TRUAX
Other names : often seen as just TRUAX
Official no. : 125407
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1875, Trenton
Specs : 62x19x3, 34g 32n
Date of loss : 1891, Nov 15? see below
Place of loss : mouth of Saginaw Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : 2 [all]
Carrying : ?
Detail : She left Sand Beach for AuSable Nov 12, and was never seen again. Some of her cargo was later found in the Bay.
Out of Sandusky
Sources : nsp,polk,mv
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TRUE NORTH II
Other names : formerly CAPTAIN AHAB
Official no. : C369046
Type at loss : Diesel passenger/excursion vessel , welded steel “glass bottom boat”
Build info : 1948, Russell Bros, Owen Sound as a fish tug
Specs : 35x8x3, 6 gt
Date of loss : 2000, Jun 16
Place of loss : just SW of Flowerpot Isl.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 2 of 19
Carrying : 18 passengers and camping gear
Detail : She was returning from picking up a group of child and adult campers from Flowerpot Island in heavy weather [small craft warnings out] when she shipped seas over the bow that the decks could not shed. Her hull filled through holes in her decking and she sank by the stern, with the loss of two school children. The rest of those on board made it to shore on two “float-off” rafts.
Rebuilt from fish tug to excursion vessel in 1972
Image from Canadian Travel Safety Board
Sources : tsbc
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TUBAL CAIN
Other names : none
Official no. : 24162*
Type at loss : bark, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1866, J.M. Jones, Detroit
Specs : 294 t.
Date of loss : 1867, Nov 24
Place of loss : Two Rivers Point, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : 18,000 bu wheat
Detail : She was bound Milwaukee for Oswego when she was blown ashore by a violent gale which included heavy rain and dense fog. She broke up over the next few days. Owned by Byron Whitaker and Beals, Detroit
Still in 1869 mvus, but definitely lost in ’67.
An earlier TUBAL CAIN was built at Milwaukee in the 1850’s.
Sources : mv,hgl,gwgl,soundings,nsp,wmn
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J. L. TUCKER – See ANN HARKLEY
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TURNER & KELLER – See FALMOUTH
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ALVIN A. TURNER
Other names : often seen as A.A. TURNER
Official no. : 105227
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1863, A. Turner, Trenton, MI
Specs : 135x26x12, 310g 221n
Date of loss : 1905, Oct 18
Place of loss : Little Detroit Channel near Spanish Mills, On
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lath
Detail : She stranded in fog and was later wrecked by storms and currents. Declared a total loss on the 20th. Bound Spanish Mills for Toledo. Canadian authorities later demanded the wreck’s removal. Owned by P. McTigue of Cleveland. Master: Capt. Shean.
Sources : eas,mv,phr,ns1,slh,nsp
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ELIZA R. TURNER
Other names : none
Official no. : 8191
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1867, A. Turner, Trenton as a barge
Specs : 156x30x12, 409g
Date of loss : 1877, Oct 10*
Place of loss : 9 mi W of tip of Long Point
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 2 of 10
Carrying : 27,000 bu wheat
Detail : Bound Detroit for Buffalo, she went ashore and wrecked in gale. Some papers blamed the loss on the Detroit grain shovelers, who had held the vessel up by a work slowdown so that she passed Long Point at night. It was said her navigator could not see her position in such conditions and she went ashore. The skipper and the cook drowned. Out of Cleveland, owned by Cooley, Van Tussell and her master Capt. Gil Hearns(d).
*Also given as Oct 3, in error – left Detroit the 9th
Rebuilt to a schooner in 1868, major repairs in 1877
Sources : mv,eas,h,ledc,nsp,win,hgl,usls,es
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TURRET CHIEF
Other names : later VICKERSTOWN(1915) and JOLLY INEZ(1915)
Official no. : C106605
Type at loss : propeller, steel, bulk freight “turret steamer”
Build info : 1896, Doxford & Sons, Sunderland, Eng. hull#248
Specs : 253x45x27, 1881gc 1197nc
Date of loss : 1913, Nov 11
Place of loss : Keweenaw Peninsula, just W of Copper Harbor
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Upbound, she locked through the Soo before storm warnings were raised. She made it as far as the Keweenaw, but was driven aground with heavy damage. Thought to be a total loss but recovered the next year. This was the “Big Storm” of 1913. Master: Capt. Tom Paddington.
Stranded in fog on Saddlebag Island, Lake Huron, in Nov, 1927. Abandoned as a total loss, but later recovered my T. L. Durocher, Detour, Mich., and rebuilt to barge JOLLY INEZ.
See JOLLY INEZ for more
Sources : csv,eas,is(1-67),gwgl,gsgl,lss,win,mmgl,hcgl
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TURRET CROWN
Other names : none
Official no. : C104273
Type at loss : propeller, steel, pkg & bulk frt “turret ship”
Build info : 1895, Wm. Doxford & Sons, Sunderland, Eng., hull #233
Specs : 253x44x19, 1827 t.
Date of loss : 1924, Nov 2
Place of loss : Meldrum Point, N side of Manitoulin Isl
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : She drove ashore in a snowstorm and gale and stranded. Her hull was wrecked during storms that winter. She was cut up and removed for scrap the following year. Some reports claim that she was run ashore intentionally.
Sold British to Canadian in 1916.
Sources : csv,ns3,is(1-67),lssc,slh,win,mmgl,mpl
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TUSCARORA
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : brig, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1847, North East. Pa.
Specs : 254 t.
Date of loss : 1855, Oct 16
Place of loss : off Chicago
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 11
Carrying : hard coal
Detail : She had been bound Buffalo for Chicago when she came to anchor off Harrison St. and later dragged in. A volunteer crew from shore was unable to make it to the ship early on, but later a group consisting of 9 lake captains and 4 seamen took two new “Francis” metal lifeboats out and took her crew off. She later went down and was pounded to pieces by the 21st. Owned by Davis & Sutton, Buffalo. Master: Capt. Mullins or Malden.
Sources : nsp,hgl,wmn,wmhs
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TUSCARORA
Other names : none
Official no. : C80912
Type at loss : unrigged barge, wood
Build info : 1871, Calvin & Breck, Garden Isl, Ont. (or H. Roney)
Specs : 135x26x11, 306gc 306nc
Date of loss : 1885, Oct 4
Place of loss : off harbor entrance at Oswego, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 8
Carrying : coal
Detail : She struck bottom just off the harbor entrance lighthouse and broke up. She’d been in tow of the tug PROCTOR with HATTIE L. JOHNSON(qv) and 3 other barges. Her crew made for shore in their boat, but it was too rough to land, and they were taken off by the Oswego Lifesaving crew. Owned out of Prescott, Ont.
Usls report claimes she was an American vessel, but she does not appear in ‘84 mv and the vessel shown is listed in N.A.C. as the one lost at Oswego.
Sources : polk,mmgl,h,hgl,usls
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TUSCARORA
Other names : none?
Official no. : 203453
Type at loss : gas screw fish tug, wood
Build info : 1906, H Perkins, Saugatuck, Mich
Specs : 40x13x6, 22g 19n
Date of loss : 1933, Dec 26
Place of loss : 5 mi north of Benton Harbor, Mich
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 3
Carrying : gear
Detail : She left South Haven to lift her nets in a moderate blow, but it soon turned into a powerful storm and blizzard. The tug made for shore as quickly as she could and beached 5 miles north of Benton Harbor. The tug was a total loss, but her crew was able to swim to shore through the breakers. Owned by Chris Jemsen, Muskegon.
She started out as a passenger vessel, was converted to fish tug after 1922.
Image as a passenger vessel from GLMD
Sources : hr,wl,mv,glmd
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TUSCOLA
Other names : none
Official no. : 24225
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1851, F. N. Jones, Buffalo
Specs : 128x23x8, 179 t.
Date of loss : 1878, Jun 21
Place of loss : off Highland Park or Glencoe, Ill
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : cobblestones
Detail : Bound Traverse Bay for Chicago, she sprung a leak in a gale while between Milwaukee and Racine. By the time she reached a point just north of Chicago the water had gained so far on her pumps that the crew abandoned. They were rescued by the small schooner NASSAU and the Goodrich liner CHICAGO. Owned by Capt. Plumstead, Chicago and out of that port. Master: Capt. Johnson.
Rebuilt at Buffalo, 1859 and at Benton Harbor, Mich, in 1864.
Sources : nsp,mv,umr,wl,hgl,wmn
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FANNIE TUTHILL
Other names : none
Official no. : 120130
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1873, C. Wheeler, E. Saginaw, MI
Specs : 60x15x7, 28g 14n
Date of loss : 1905, Oct 1
Place of loss : St Clair Flats
Lake : St Clair
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : 1 of 14
Carrying : none
Detail : She was rammed by the 1000 ton steamer D.C. WHITNEY (qv) and completely destroyed [even engine was smashed]. Her crew and the Flats Canal workers who were aboard were rescued by steamers GEO. H. RUSSEL and MARIPOSA. Owner: John P. Nagle, Toledo. Master: Capt. Chas. Abar. She had been in use as a tender for the Flats Canal project. The wreck was later struck by the steamer BRANSFORD.
Pronounced (and sometimes spelled) “Tuttle.”
Sources : vbs,polk,phr,h,mv,nsp
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TUTTLE – See also TUTHILL
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H.B. TUTTLE
Other names : none
Official no. : 95092
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1871, LaFrinier & Quelos, Cleveland
Specs : 180x31x13, 845g 695n
Date of loss : 1906, Sep 15
Place of loss : off Marblehead, OH
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : She sprang a leak in a gale and was beached. The crew was rescued by the Lifesaving Service, who later returned to try to save the vessel. She was pulled off and towed to Sandusky soon after, but broke in two at the graving dock, sank and was abandoned. Owner: Capt. C. E. Benham, Cleveland.
She and the schr GEORGE H. ELY were built as a steamer/consort, but at different shipyards.
Sources : rkr,polk,mv,ns1,h,www,nsp
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HORACE A. TUTTLE
Other names : none
Official no. : 95908
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1887, G. Presley, Cleveland
Specs : 250x39x20, 1585g 1355n
Date of loss : 1898, Oct 26
Place of loss : near Michigan City, Ind.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : corn
Detail : Outbound from Michigan City when she ran into a gale and lost her rudder. Uncontrollable, she was quickly overwhelmed by the gale, broke in two and foundered in the harbor entrance. She was a serious obstruction to navigation and local shippers petitioned the government to remove her.
Engines & boilers later salvaged.
Image of her sunken and breaking up from GLMD
Sources : mv,mv,is,h,nsp,hgl,mpl,hcgl
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WILLIAM M. TWEED – See NEWBURGH
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TWILIGHT
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : scow-schr, wood
Build info : 1858, Charlotte, NY
Specs : 39 t.
Date of loss : 1859, Nov 1
Place of loss : 15 mi E of Charlotte, NY and 15 mi offshore
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : wood
Detail : Bound Sodus for Rochester, NY, she capsized in a storm and began to sink. Her captain swam after the ship’s boat, which had drifted off when she went over, and finally gained it. He returned and rescued the crew from the sinking vessel. The crew was finally picked up by the prop J. L. TUCKER. Owned by Capt. Foster and sailed by Capt. Ouderkirk of Charlotte
Sources : nsp,wl,hgl,wmhs
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TWILIGHT
Other names : none
Official no. : 24508
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1864, Algonac, MI as a steambarge
Specs : 96x22x6, 105 t.
Date of loss : 1871, Nov 15
Place of loss : at Rock Falls, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 6 of 8
Carrying : ore
Detail : She drove on reef, was holed and broke her rudder, leaving her helpless and sinking. The crew abandoned in her yawl, but it capsized, drowning all but 2. Document surrendered at Port Huron Jan 14, 1879, annotated “Wrecked on trip between Goderich and Port Huron in November, 1871.” Owned out of Bay City. Master: Capt. J. H. Gibbs(d).
Rebuilt from 185 t. [98x22x7] steamer to schooner in 1868
Sources : phr,nsp,lhl,jk,wmn
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TWILIGHT
Other names : none
Official no. : 24397
Type at loss : bark, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1862, I. Lafrinier, Cleveland
Specs : 337g
Date of loss : 1887, Nov 18
Place of loss : NE of Port Sanilac, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 7
Carrying : ?
Detail : She became a total loss in a NE gale. No detail.
Date also given as 1877.
She was sunk off Sand Beach, Mich, in the fall of 1872 and overwintered on the bottom. Recovered in June, 1873.
Sources : mv,slh,h,lhdc,wb,sb,rsl,nsp
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TWILIGHT
Other names : ?
Official no. : C (none)
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1873, W. Redmond, Picton
Specs : 106x26x9, 173 t.
Date of loss : 1891, Sep 5
Place of loss : Tyrconnel Dock
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : She was destroyed by fire, no detail.
Reg out of Toronto
Sources : win,(polk),mmgl,clu,h
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TWIN BROTHERS
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1848, G. Barber, Milwaukee
Specs : 91x21x8, 144 t.
Date of loss : 1860, Mar 11
Place of loss : Milwaukee
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : She was driven on the south pier of the Straight Cut and destroyed, after leaving Milwaukee for Sheboygan and being driven back after starting to leak.
A hard-luck ship – had at least 5 other serious accidents.
Sources : is,hgl,mpl,wmn,wls
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TWO BROTHERS
Other names : built as C. B. BLAIR, renamed in 1867
Official no. : 24398
Type at loss : barge, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1848, Jourdan, Michigan City, Ind as a brig
Specs : 103x24x9, 212 t.
Date of loss : 1872, Sep 5
Place of loss : R. Sydenham, Ont., near Wallaceburg
Lake : St. Clair
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Caught fire and burned to a total loss at a dock where she had been laid up as unseaworthy for several years. MAY have survived several more years.
Rigged as a schooner by 1863. Rigged as barge by 1870
Sources : nsp,wl,lloyd’s,glmd
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TWO BROTHERS
Other names : none
Official no. : 24223
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1862 Green Bay
Specs : 52x14x5, 35 g
Date of loss : 1884, Jun or Jul
Place of loss : at Milwaukee
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : ?
Detail : After going on the bar at Milwaukee, she sunk to her decks right before the harbor entrance. Of little value, she was raised in early July to clear the channel, dismantled, and abandoned on the beach.
Sources : hgl,wmn,wl,wmhs,hr,nsp,glmd
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TWO BROTHERS
Other names : none
Official no. : 206445
Type at loss : gas screw fish tug, wood
Build info : 1908, Manitowoc, Wisc
Specs : 32x10x4, 11g 10n
Date of loss : 1912, Nov 23
Place of loss : at Pentwater, Mich
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : sunk
Loss of life : 3 [all]
Carrying : gear and nets
Detail : Crashed in the harbor in a storm with the loss of all hands. The boat had been caught outside by a fast-growing storm and rushed back to harbor. She hit the south pier, split in two lenthwise and sank almost within reach of the lifesavers and spectators. Owned by August Christenson (d). Out of Pentwater.
Sources : mv,wl,hr,nsp
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TWO BROS.
Other names : none
Official no. : 208773
Type at loss : gas screw fish tug, wood
Build info : 1909, Northport, Mich
Specs : 26x9x3, 12g 11n
Date of loss : 1913, Jan 26
Place of loss : at Northport, Mich
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Caught fire and burned to a total loss. Out of Grand Haven, Mich
Sources : mv,hr,wl
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TWO CHARLIES
Other names : none
Official no. : 24145
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1852, James M. Jones, Milwaukee
Specs : 83x21x7, 87g
Date of loss : 1876, Oct 9
Place of loss : Grand Haven, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : ?
Detail : She sank just south of the south pier.
Major repairs in 1857. Rebuilt in the winter of 1859-60.
Sources : mv,is,h,hgl,soundings,rsl,bb,wmn
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TWO FANNIES
Other names : none
Official no. : 24144
Type at loss : bark, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1862, Spears, Peshtigo, WI
Specs : 152x33x12, 492g 468n
Date of loss : 1890, Aug 10
Place of loss : 5 miles off Bay Village, Oh.*
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : She was struck by a NW gale and foundered while bound for Cleveland from Escanaba in tow of the tug CRUSADER. After she sprung a leak the crew abandoned in her yawl and narrowly avoided being caught in the vessel’s suction as she went down. The crew was picked up by the propeller CITY OF DETROIT. Master: Capt. Alfred Miller.
*also given as off Dover, Ont. and 20 miles off Cleveland
Heavily damaged in a grounding in Grand Traverse Bay near Elk Rapids in ’79.
Collided with bark ADRIATIC & sunk in ’63.
’84 & ’95 mvus say she was built in ’72, but she appears in ’69 mvus, ‘64 insurance records. Polk says she was built by Spears in ’62 as shown.
Rebuilt, 1876; major repair, 1881
Image of her sinking from GLMD
Sources : polk,mv,eas,hgl,mol,sol,is,mv,ledc,wb,sb,mpl,jk,ew,nsp
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TWO FRIENDS
Other names : later PEWAUKEE
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : bark, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1873, McDermond, Port Burwell, Ont
Specs : 319 g 262 n
Date of loss : 1880, Oct 16
Place of loss : north of tip of Door Peninsula, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : salt
Detail : She was thrown on a reef and damaged by the same sudden gale that sank the steamer ALPENA. Her crew took to the rigging and were rescued by local fisherman in a tiny rowboat. Owner,: Suffel, Port Burwell. She was salvaged the following year and rebuilt to U.S. schooner (later steamer) PEWAUKEE(qv)
Sources : win,clu,is(3-75),nsp,hgl
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TWO KATIES
Other names : also seen as TWO KATES
Official no. : 24980
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1873, Kelly & Roisay, Racine, Wis
Specs : 88x18x6, 74 g.
Date of loss : 1878, Oct 18
Place of loss : off Whitefish Bay, Wis.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : collision in storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : hardwood lumber
Detail : Collided with the propeller WAVERLY and sank to her decks. The propeller took her in tow and dragged her 15 miles to Bailey’s Harbor with the scows crew standing atop her cargo. It was expected that she would be raised, but no record of that. A week later the schooner WARREN arrived to salvage her outfit and cargo, but had to tear her decks off to complete the job. Out of Racine. Master: Capt. Doad. Last known registration, Apr, 1877, but she was still in registry in 1879.
Sources : wgts,hr,mv,wmhs,wmn
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TWO SISTERS
Other names : none
Official no. : 145340
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1883, Whitmore Bros., Erin, MI
Specs : 70x18x4, 34g 32n
Date of loss : 1899?
Place of loss : at Forest Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : She stranded and was wrecked in a gale. Document surrendered at Port Huron Sep 30, 1899.
Struck by the steamer R.A. SEYMOUR, Sep 3, 1889, or she may have been sunk earlier and her wreckage struck.
Sources : phr,mv,polk,bb,ppm
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TWO SISTERS
Other names : also seen as TWIN SISTERS
Official no. : 212527
Type at loss : propeller tug, wood
Build info : 1914, St James, Mich as a fishing tug
Specs : 44x14x6 16g 8n
Date of loss : 1921, Aug 30
Place of loss : Tonawanda Creek
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She had been lying in ordinary for a year and was in the final stages of repairs to put her back in service when a nearby lightning strike set her ablaze. Her position at the dock was such that firemen could not reach her and she burned to the waterline, along with the tug DOUGHBOY(qv), lying alongside. Owned by Cowles Shipyard Co., Buffalo. She was formerly a fish tug owned by Ira Rose of Dunkirk, NY.
Sources : mv,hr,wmn,wl
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TWO WALLACES – Reports using this as a vessel name refer to the stranding of the steamer ROBERT WALLACE (qv) and her barge DAVID WALLACE on Nov. 18, 1886 near Marquette, MI, Lake Superior. Both vessels were later recovered. The incident shows in a couple of sources as TWO WALLACES.
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TYPO
Other names : none
Official no. : 24981
Type at loss : schooner, wood,
Build info : 1873, Wolfe & Davidson, Milwaukee (or Manitowoc)
Specs : 138x26x11, 336g 319n
Date of loss : 1899, Oct 14
Place of loss : off Presque Isle, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : 4 of 7
Carrying : 688 t. coal
Detail : She collided with the prop W. P.. KETCHUM and sank while bound for Racine. The little boat went down quickly in 35 fathoms of water, taking the yawl and part of her crew with it. Owned by H. Henderson, Cleveland or J. P. Nagle, Toledo. Master: Capt. John Griffin, who had been the only survivor of the loss of the schooner ST. PETER the previous fall.
Rebuilt in 1873, major repairs in 82 & 84. ‘84 repair was after a serious grounding on Amherst Island, Lake Ontaio, Sep 26, 1883.
Sources : mv,polk,slh,sol,lhdc,mpl,nsp
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