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U C 97
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : submarine, steel, mine-laying
Build info : 1918, Blohm und Voss, Hamburg, Ger.
Specs : 184x19x12[draft], displacement [not tonnage]: 491 t. [surfaced], 571 t. [submerged]
Date of loss : 1921, Jun 7
Place of loss : 20 mi offshore from Highland Park, IL
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : gunfire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : German submarine was a WWI prize and display ship which toured the Lakes in a post-war bond drive [1919-20]. After her usefulness was ended, and in line with naval treaty, she was sunk in gunnery practice from the gunboat U.S.S. WILMETTE (former EASTLAND, qv).
She had been launched but was not commissioned into the Kreigsmarine before the end of hostilities and was turned over to the allies.
UC-97 was located in 1992 at a depth of about 250 feet, but the exact location of the wreck has not been revealed.
Official U.S. Navy history of the boat.
Link to an excellent webpage on her.
Sources : is,janes,lmdc,anfs,mpl,ke,net(see above)
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U.S. 104
Other names : none
Official no. : 167719
Type at loss : barge, ferro-concrete, bulk freight
Build info : 1919, Detroit
Specs : 150x21x10, 306 t.
Date of loss : 1921, Jul 15
Place of loss : at Buffalo
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none of 1
Carrying : 416 t. oats
Detail : One of a five-barge tow bound Buffalo for Troy, NY, she struck a rock off Bird Island [Black Rock Canal] and foundered. The wreck still lies where she went down.
Her experimental hull was actually manufactured of reinforced concrete.
Sources : eas,swn,hr,mv[1926],wmn,wl
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U.S. 240
Other names : none
Official no. : 167523
Type at loss : barge, steel, bulk freight
Build info : 1919, Foundation Const. Co., Erie, PA
Specs : 294g 263n
Date of loss : 1923, Sep 13
Place of loss : off Port Colborne, Ont., near Windmill Pt.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : 3
Carrying : sulphur
Detail : Foundered enroute from Cleveland to New York City.
Laid down for U.S. Shipping Board [WWI].
Out of Buffalo
Sources : eas,mv,rkr,ledc
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U.S.C.E. TUG No. 84 – See WILLIAM M. HATCH
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U.S.C.G. cable boat No. 56022
Other names : none
Official no. : USCG 56022
Type at loss : cable boat, steel
Build info : former U. S. military LCM (landing craft)
Specs : 56 ft., 50 t. displ
Date of loss : 1977, Dec 1
Place of loss : off Ontario-On-the-Lake, E of Nine Mile Point
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none mentioned
Detail : Bound Oswego, NY for Niagara, she was caught in a storm and took on water faster than her pumps could handle. A CG tug that came to the rescue from Charlotte found her listing heavily. Her crew was taken off and the vessel taken in tow, but she sank before reaching port. The Coast Guard states that she was salvaged the same month and condemned the following July, but wreck divers located the vessel upside-down on the bottom at the point where she foundered, in 2004.
Sources : jk,uscg,nsp
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UARDA
Other names : none
Official no. : 25243
Type at loss : propeller, iron, passenger & freight
Build info : 1881, D. Bell, Buffalo as a yacht
Specs : 93x12x8, 93g
Date of loss : 1912, Jun 4
Place of loss : Ripley, Mich [near Hancock]
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : fire [arson?]
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ? [probably empty – she was undergoing repairs]
Detail : This small steamer was discovered to be afire late one evening while tied to Seager’s wood dock at Ripley. Her skipper/owner believed the fire was purposly set. She burned to a shell. The hull was later removed to West Hancock, where she was sunk by ice early the following spring. She still lies there, in 20 feet of water, where she was discovered by divers in 1970. Out of Hancock, owned by Scott & Werner and sailed by Capt. Werner.
Sources : bb,mv,nsp
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UGANDA
Other names : none
Official no. : 25289
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1892, F. Wheeler, W. Bay City hull# 88
Specs : 291x41x20, 2053g 1709n
Date of loss : 1913, Apr 19
Place of loss : 4 mi E of White Shoals, Western Straits
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : ice
Loss of life : none
Carrying : corn
Detail : Bound Milwaukee for Buffalo, struck pack ice and cut her hull. Despite frantic effort by the crew to save her she finally sank. Crew of 22 saved by steamer DONALDSON.
Sources : ssm,eas,mv,vbs,slh,sbs,sol,ns2,h,lmdc,mpl
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UNA
Other names : none
Official no. : 25228
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1877, J. McCarthy, Grand Haven, Mich
Specs : 63x17x8, 44gt
Date of loss : 1909, Oct 15
Place of loss : Algoma, Wis
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : She stranded in the harbor – apparently blew away from her moorings as nobody was aboard – and became a total loss. Out of Marquette, Mich.
Sank in 1897 in St. Joseph, Michigan harbor after striking a dock. Her crew was rescued by the LSS with difficulty.
Ashore near Grand Haven in 1890 and her crew rescued by the Lifesaving Service.
Sources : mv,bb,wmhs,hgl,wmn,jm,sn
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UNADILLA
Other names : none
Official no. : 25021
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 2-mast, lumber
Build info : 1862, Lafrinier or Peck & Masters, Cleveland as a 3-mast schooner
Specs : 154x31x13, 396g 376n
Date of loss : 1913, Dec 2
Place of loss : at Cleveland
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Driven on breakwater and became a constructive total loss. Hulk was out of the water and was left in place until destroyed by fire Nov 15, 1915. 53 years old!
Ashore on Gull Isl, L. Michigan and declared a total loss, Sep 1893. Also reported broken by storm in the Straits, Nov 20, 1886.
Rebuilt 1879, major repair 1881,86,94
Sources : eas,mv,ns2,nsp,mpl,hcgl
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UNCLE SAM
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1833, Treat, Grosse Ile, MI as a sidewheeler
Specs : 107x23x7, 280 t.
Date of loss : 1847, Dec 18
Place of loss : E side of Kelley’s Isl. [then called Cunningham’s Island]
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : sank
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Stranded and sunk in a NE gale, she broke up and became a total loss. Master: Capt. C. J. Magill. Owned by J. Stafford, Buffalo.
Rebuilt sidewheeler to bark, 1844. Last registration document, Oct., 1847, shows her as a schooner.
Sources : hgl,lhl,ledc,wl,ski,wmn
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UNCLE SAM
Other names : none
Official no. : 25099
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1863, L. S. Bedford, Port Huron, Mich
Specs : 42 t.
Date of loss : 1881, May-Jun
Place of loss : Pelee Island
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : ?
Detail : Reported as having gone to pieces and a total loss on June 15, 1881. Out of Cleveland.
Sources : wmn,wmhs,hr
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UNCLE SAM
Other names : none
Official no. : 25131
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1863, A. Abernethy, Buffalo
Specs : 59x15x5, 24 gt
Date of loss : 1882, mid-March
Place of loss : Straits of Mackinac, just above Cheboygan
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : ice
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : none
Detail : Bound to new owners in Muskegon, she went ashore, was crushed by ice and sank; she was reported broken up by Apr. 11 of the same year. Newspapers in July, 1883, said that she had been towed into Cheboygan at that time for the removal of her machinery to a new hull. Document surrendered in 1884. Owned by Hudson & Christian, Muskegon, who expeacted to save her machinery.
Rebuilt at E. Saginaw, 1874
Rebuilt in 1880 after a fire at E. Saginaw
Sources : phr,hgl,lhl,ssm,slh,sbs,nsp,mv
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UNCLE TOM
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1842, E Easterbrook, St. Clair, MI
Specs : 81x20x7, 116 t.
Date of loss : 1849, Sep 17*
Place of loss : off Long Point
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life :
Carrying :
Detail : Stranded and wrecked. Total loss of $2,000, vessel and cargo. Probably owned by Henry Geisse, Detroit
*Also given as 1848
Last known registration Jun 1849.
Sources : eas,hgl,wl,bcw,wmn,hr,wmhs
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UNCLE TOM
Other names : none
Official no. : 25040
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1855, Merry & Gay, Milan, Oh
Specs : 231 t.
Date of loss : 1874, Nov
Place of loss : near Buffalo
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : none
Carrying : staves
Detail : Ran ashore at “Tifft’s Farm” and wrecked. Out of Toledo, owned by Cardinall, McCarthy & Gibson
Repaired in 1868
Sources : nsp,wl,mv,wmn
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UNDINE
Other names : none
Official no. : C71158
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1868, D. Lavallee, Hamilton, Ont
Specs : 108x23x12, 217gc 196nc
Date of loss : 1890, Nov 1
Place of loss : 20 mi W of Charlotte NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 400 t. coal
Detail : Bound Sodus, NY for Hamilton, she was caught by gale while hugging the south shore. She struck bottom and was holed in Braddock Bay. Water quickly overwhelmed her pumps and she sank, while her crew abandoned in her yawl. Owned out of Hamilton by her skipper, Capt. Ure.
She had iron knees and was wire-rigged.
Major repair in 1883
Sources : nsp,polk,hgl,mmgl,ib
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UNION
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer or ferry, wood
Build info : 1855, J. P. Arnold, Port Union (Port Huron?), MI
Specs : 92x18x8, 116 t. om
Date of loss : 1865, Dec 30
Place of loss : at Detroit
Lake : Detroit R
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Burned to total loss. Owned by H. B. Boyers and others, Detroit.
Sources : lhl,wl,nsp,eas
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UNION
Other names : none
Official no. : 25138
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1852, Ashtabula, Oh
Specs : 82x22x7, 73 t.
Date of loss : 1870, Oct 30
Place of loss : St. Joseph, Mich
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : She weathered a storm outside the harbor for two days, but struck on some pilings while trying to enter. After one of piles worked loose she careened over and sank, coming to rest near the end of the south pier. She soon broke up, and her remains were later scattered by the tug DAISY LEE. Owned by Boutell, Mitchell and Westover, Bay City, Mich.
Rebuilt in 1854 and again in 1857 at Holland, Mich, by H. Revell.
Sources : bcha,mv,jm,bb
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UNION
Other names : none
Official no. : 25083
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1863, Lockport, NY
Specs : 75x16x6, 36gt
Date of loss : 1870, Nov 14
Place of loss : Saginaw Bay off Pte Au Gres
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She was loitering in the bay, waiting for a tow ,when she caught fire and burned to a total loss. The crew, which had been at dinner at the time, launched her boat quickly and got away just before she sank.
Rebuilt in the winter of 1865-6. Owned by B. Boutelle & Co., Saginaw.
Heavily damaged in a boiler explosion at Muskegon in 1866, and had another boiler explosion on Lake Huron in September of the same year.
Sources : phr,hgl,eas,slh,lhl,nsp
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UNION
Other names : none
Official no. : 25048
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1861, S. Bates, Manitowoc, WI
Specs : 163x26x12, 553g 434n
Date of loss : 1873, Sep 25
Place of loss : Au Sable Point
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : Blown into shallows near the point by a westerly gale. Later pounded to pieces. Out of Green Bay. Owned by Mark English, Sheboygan, WI.
Engine recovered in 1874, and boiler recovered in 1875.
At the time of her loss there were 16 lakes vessels with this name, causing some confusion.
Most of her machinery, as well as her first skipper, came from the Goodrich steamer OGONTZ.
She had reportedly been cut down to a steambarge in 1872.
Sources : lhl,mv,nsp,gwgl,ms,lss,rsh,nsp,rsl
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UNION
Other names : none
Official no. : 25045
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1861, N. Saunders, Menominee, Mich.
Specs : 54x18x6, 18gt
Date of loss : 1874, Jun 15
Place of loss : South Milwaukee
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : ?
Detail : She went ashore in a gale and broke up on the beach. Owned by Nate Saunders, Escanaba.
Sources : wls,tbrc,hr,glmd,mv
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UNION
Other names : none
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : sidewheeler, wood, passenger & package freight ferry
Build info : 1857, Knight & Hunter, Windsor*
Specs : 163x33x10, 1190 t.
Date of loss : 1876, Jun 16**
Place of loss : at Port Huron, MI, just below Black R.
Lake : St Clair R
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Burned to a total loss while laid up. Reported as being calked the following spring but there is no further record of her operation.
*also given as 1856, Jenking, Walkerville
**also given as 1867, 1875 and 1877. She may have had another fire at Port Huron in the summer of 1875.
Sources : csv,mmgl,clu,slh,is,st,es
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UNION
Other names : none
Official no. : 60064
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1877, W. Bay City
Specs : 33x8x3, 5g
Date of loss : 1883?
Place of loss : unreported
Lake : unreported
Type of loss : unreported
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : No detail. Enrollment surrendered at Port Huron Dec 15, 1883, annotated “wrecked,” shown in 1884 Merchant Vessels as “lost or otherwise out of service.”
Sources : phr,vbs,glmd
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UNION
Other names : none
Official no. : C
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1873, J. Glover, Port Ryerse, Ont.
Specs : 71x18x7, 72 t.
Date of loss : 1886, Sep 18
Place of loss : near Rondeau, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Bound Tyrconnel for Detroit, she was dismasted and thrown ashore the 17th, then pounded to pieces the next day. Out of Port Dover, owned by Charles Aid, et.al. or by Capt. Voight.
Sources : polk,nsp,mmgl,win,clu,ledc
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UNION
Other names : built as WATERTOWN [replaced an earlier vessel of the same name, see below] Last name in 1888
Official no. : C92654
Type at loss : propeller, wood, ferry
Build info : 1866, F. Jenkins, Kingston, Ont.*
Specs : 132x24x7, 267gc 163nc
Date of loss : 1902
Place of loss : Niagara R. at Fort Erie
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : hull failure
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Sunk – maybe scuttled. Out of St. Catharines, owned by Fort Erie Ferry and Railway Co.
*Mills list says she was built in 1864, and rebuilt in ‘66, so may BE the vessel WATERTOWN, below.
Sources : mmgl,csv,ns1
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UNION JACK
Other names : none
Official no. : C?
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1867, Norman, Mill Pt., Ont.
Specs : 227 t.
Date of loss : 1875, Sep 10
Place of loss : 5 mi ESE from Bar Pt. lightship
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : corn
Detail : Bound Toledo for the Welland Canal and Belleville, Ont., in heavy weather, she sprang a leak and went down off Bar Point, despite a great effort on the part of her crew to save her. They escaped in her small boat just before she went down. The large schooner MICHIGAN narrowly avoided striking her emergent mast-tips on about Oct 7. Owned by Thompson & Co. Belleville, Ont. Master: Capt. Monk. Capt. Monk had a similar accident with the schooner THOMAS DOBBIE in the same spot in 1899.
Sources : nsp,wl,hgl,es
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UNION STAR
Other names : none
Official no. : 25030
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1862, W. Summerfield, New Baltimore, Mich
Specs : 77g
Date of loss : 1867, Aug 28
Place of loss : Gull Island reef, near Put-in-Bay
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : stranded/storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Bound Cleveland for Detroit, she went on the reef at night. A high wind the next day damaged her considerably, and by Sep 4 she was destroyed, despite the efforts of the wrecker MAGNET. Her outfit and much of her cargo were recovered before she went to pieces. Owned by Hawley & Pines, Detroit.
Sources : nsp,wmn,wmhs,wl,bb
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UNITED EMPIRE – See SARONIC
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UNITED KINGDOM
Other names : built as ALCIOPE*, renamed in 1832
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1828, Niagara, Ont.
Specs : (140×28)
Date of loss : 1835, summer
Place of loss : near Oswego, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : wrecked
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Reported wrecked. One of first vessels lost in this area. Later in the same year she resurrected and rebuilt to the schooner BIRMINGHAM and still later she was converted to a lakes brig.
Rebuilt, 1832
*nicknamed “All Soap”
Sources : csv,(lhl),mmgl,wmn,glmd
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UNITED STATES
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood
Build info : 1835, Huron, OH
Specs : 140x28x10, 366 t.
Date of loss : 1849, Mar 7
Place of loss : at Buffalo
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : She was destroyed by fire, supposed to be the work of an arsonist. She was a total loss and her remains were soon broken up. Owned by Munger & Willard, Buffalo.
Stranded and damaged east of Erie, PA. when she ran up on the rocks in a fog. in June, 1836.
Sources : lhl,hgl,nsp,wl,eas,wmn
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UNITED STATES
Other names : rebuilt to bulk freighter BATISCAN
Official no. : 206330
Type at loss : propeller, steel, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1909, Manitowoc Ship Building & Dry Dock, Manitowoc, WI
Specs : 193x41x16, 1374g 811n
Date of loss : 1927, Jun 6
Place of loss : Sarnia, Ont.
Lake : St Clair R
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Burned to a shell at her dock. Salvaged by Reid Towing and Wrecking and rebuilt as shown below.
Built as excursion steamer, then a large yacht, then this vessel.
Sold Canadian as a hulk and rebuilt as the odd-looking engine-forward bulk freighter BATISCAN [C#154467], which served until scrapped in 1944 or 5. BATISCAN came out in 1930.
Loss date also given as Dec 8, ’27 and Mar 5, ’28.
Sources : mv,ns4,csv,eas,slh,sol,h,win
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UNITED WORKMAN
Other names : ?
Official no. : 164181
Type at loss : unrigged canal boat, wood
Build info : 1891, Tonawanda, NY
Specs : 101g 96n
Date of loss : 1912, Nov 14
Place of loss : Near Rochester, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : burned
Loss of life : none [no one aboard]
Carrying : ?
Detail : No detail. May have been lake or Erie Canal system. Homeport: Plattsburg, NY
Sources : mv,hr
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- C. UPPER – See BEN HUR
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URANUS – See W.C. FRANZ
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UTICA
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1834, Oswego, NY
Specs : 72x20x8, 104 t. om
Date of loss : 1837, Oct 25
Place of loss : 10 mi NW of Presque Isle, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none [in addition to her crew, she was carrying five passengers]
Carrying : light
Detail : Bound Green Bay for Cleveland, she encountered a heavy snow squall after passing the Straits. She was thrown on her beam ends and driven ashore, where she went to pieces in a few hours. Her people camped on the beach under a piece of sail in frigid weather for forty-eight hours until rescued. Her skipper was a highly respected captain of over 30 years’ experience on salt & fresh water. Owned by C.M. Giddings of Cleveland. Master: Capt. Lyman Beckley
Capsized with supposed loss of five lives off Conneaut, Oct., 1833.
Sources : nsp,wl,wmn
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UTICA
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : bark, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1846, J. Averill, Milwaukee
Specs : 131x26x11, 334 t.
Date of loss : 1854, Nov 17
Place of loss : Erie basin of Buffalo harbor
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : barrelled beef
Detail : Struck a bar while entering the harbor in heavy seas but light wind. Driven into the shallows, bilged and broke in two. Pounded to pieces by the 25th. Owned by J. Leavenworth of Chicago. Master: Capt. Borden
Sources : nsp,hgl,wl,wmn
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UTICA
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger and tug [riverine]
Build info : 1849, Sacket’s Harbor, NY
Specs : (59 t.)
Date of loss : 1850, Apr [17]
Place of loss : near Port Ontario, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : navigational error
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Bound Sacket’s harbor for Rochester, NY, she was beset by “boisterous weather.” Her skipper mistook the lights at Port Ontario for those at Oswego and tried to put in, striking the pier and going ashore. The new vessel, which had just been purchased for use on the Genesee River and Rochester harbor, was never recovered. Owned by Snow et. al., Rochester.
Sources : rp,lhl,bc
Great Lakes Shipwreck Files 