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C. L. ABBELL

Other names : none also seen as C L ABELL
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1855, Geo. Hardison, Buffalo
Specs : 64 t.
Date of loss : 1861
Place of loss : Waugoschance Pt., Straits of Mackinac
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Struck bottom in shallows and wrecked.
Out of Grand Traverse [Traverse City], Mich
Sources: slh,hgl,nsp,umr


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ABBIE

Other names : none
Official no. : 106407
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1886, Ludington
Specs : 88x22x6 88g 83n
Date of loss : 1905, Nov 8
Place of loss : Portage Lake entry, near Manistee, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : bark
Detail : Driven ashore and wrecked. Crew of 4 saved by lightkeeper and Manistee Lifesaving Service. Went to pieces in a few hours. Bound Beaver Isl. for Milwaukee. Not lost near the Keweenaw, Lake Superior, as sometimes stated.
Sources: nsp,h,mv,ks,eas,lss


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GEORGE M. ABEL

Other names : built as brig JOHN YOUNG, renamed by 1864. also seen as GEORGE M. ABELL & ABLE
Official no. : 10219
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1852, J & J Abbey, Pt. Robinson, Ont. as a brig
Specs : 146t
Date of loss : 1871, Aug 29
Place of loss : near Port Burwell, Ont
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Went on a reef and broke up. Hailed from Cleveland.
May have been recovered. Reported as receiving repairs in 1871.
Sometimes reported as still a brig at this time.
Sources: nsp,sagl,h,win,hgl,rsl,wl


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ABEONA

Other names : ?
Official no. : C
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : (1863, Lambert, Saugeen, Ont.)
Specs : 100t (45 t.)
Date of loss : 1877, Oct 10
Place of loss : 1 mile west of Port Austin
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : lumber & shingles
Detail : Downbound when she stranded. Later reportedly broke up, but a scow of this name was still operating as late as 1881.
Sources: nsp,h,clu,es not in mmgl


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ABERCORN

Other names : none
Official no. : 105361
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight "rabbit"
Build info : 1873, Morley & Hill, Marine City, MI
Specs : 126x26x11 261g 191n
Date of loss : 1904, Sep 5
Place of loss : At Goderich, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : (none)
Carrying : coal
Detail : Burned at dock while unloading. She reportedly caught fire from the explosion of signal lamp. Her remains were abandoned in place, but one source states that the hulk was sold Canadian in 1905..
Owned by W. Willoughby of Cleveland.
Sources: nsp,phr,slh,ns1,h,mv,mpl


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ABERDEEN

Other names : ?
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : ?
Specs : ?
Date of loss : 1898, Nov
Place of loss : near Grand Haven, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Beached and broke up
One source says this was the Bay City built schooner (US#106975) which was afloat until 1932.
Sources: mv,lmdc,hgl


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ABERDEEN

Other names : none
Official no. : C94924
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight "rabbit"
Build info : 1894, J.Tait, Picton, Ont.
Specs : 100x22x9 142gc
Date of loss : 1918, Mar 11
Place of loss : At Picton, Ont., Bay of Quinte
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Burned in harbor, at the "Ways," Hepburn Shipyard. Part of the large Hepburn Fleet.
Year of loss also given as 1917.
Sources: mmgl,ns2,h,csv,hgl,hcgl


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ABERNETHY

Other names : ?
Official no. : C130386
Type at loss : probably wooden barge
Build info : ?
Specs : 260 t
Date of loss : 1914, Oct 24
Place of loss : Pelee Isl., Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Burned, probably in harbor
Sources: win,h


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ABIAH

Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner or brig, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1848, Irving, NY
Specs : 134x27x11, 353 t [om]
Date of loss : 1854, Sep 1
Place of loss : about 10 miles off Sheboygan, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : Bound Chicago for Oconto, WI, she capsized in a squall and sank, a total loss. Her crew and 2 passengers were rescued by the passing schooner L. LUDDINGTON (sic).
Sources: bb,nsp,hgl


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ABIGAIL

Other names : none
Official no. : (368)
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1849, T.L. Lyons, Black River, OH
Specs : 99x23x8, 178 t.
Date of loss : 1892
Place of loss : Main part of Georgian Bay or North Channel
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : "lost"
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : none. Not in 1884 or 92 MVUS, possibly lost before Jul 1.
Major repair in 1862
Sources: (hgl,mv),slh+,wl,rsl not in mmgl


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ABYSSINIA

Other names : none
Official no. : 107221
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1896, Jas. Davidson, W. Bay City
Specs : 285x44x19 2037g 1916n
Date of loss : 1917, Oct 18
Place of loss : Near Buffalo
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : She was lost from tow of the steamer MARUBA in a gale, went ashore and broke up. One of the largest wooden vessels ever built
Nearly lost in a storm near Eagle Harbor, Mich, Nov 3, 1900.
Sources: sbs,vbs,ns2,mv,eas,mpl ,hcgl


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ACACIA

Other names : none
Official no. : C126424
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood
Build info : 1873, W. O'Mara, Smith's Falls, Ont. as a schooner
Specs : 102x24x9, 188 t
Date of loss : 1903, May 2
Place of loss : Duck Islands
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : coal
Detail : ACACIA went aground in storm and was declared a total loss. She had been bound Oswego for Kingston. Owned and mastered by Wm. Crosby of Kingston. Later recovered, still afloat in 1916.
Foundered on July 12, 1908. Recovered again and rebuilt to a barge.
Rebuilt 1888.
Sources: nsp,h,ns3,mmgl,clu,win,mpl,gld,hcgl


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ACADIA

Other names : none
Official no. : C77697
Type at loss : propeller, wood [iron-framed],
Build info : 1867, Malcolmson Bros, Hamilton, Ont.
Specs : 176x25x10 806g 509n
Date of loss : 1896, Nov 5
Place of loss : Near mouth of Michipicoten R., Ont.
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : grain
Detail : Driven ashore and broken up by gale. Her crew made it to shore, and five of them spent more than week trying to make it to the Soo.
Originally 136x25x7.
Sources: nsp,gwgl,is,h,csv,net,mmgl,win,lss,hgl,hcgl


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ACME

Other names : none
Official no. : 297
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1856, G. Hardison, Buffalo
Specs : 190x33x13, 762 t.
Date of loss : 1867, Nov 5 (Mar 4 also given, in error)
Place of loss : 15 mi NNE of Dunkirk, NY
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 7307 bu corn, 2165 bbl flour, 238 bbl & 100 "tierces" beef, 200 tierces of lard and 334 untanned cowhides
Detail : Took on water and a gale and was abandoned in boats. 2 boats landed along about 20 miles of NY coast, while one was picked up by the revenue cutter COMMODORE PERRY..
Major repair in 1863
Sources: nsp,lhl,hgl,rsl,eas


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ACME

Other names : built as MUSIC, renamed in 1892
Official no. : 90671
Type at loss : propeller, wood, large tug & freighter
Build info : 1874, Cameron, New Jerusalem, OH
Specs : 124x24x12, 320g 234n
Date of loss : 1893, Oct 14
Place of loss : 25 mi from Black River, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : foundered
Loss of life : none
Carrying : raft
Detail : She was towing a large log raft in company with the tug RELIANCE, and was running for shelter at Thunder Bay when she foundered. RELIANCE took the crew off the sinking vessel in a very risky rescue. She lies in about 225 feet of water. Owned out of Bay City by Michigan Log Towing, she was once a Reid Wrecking tug.
Major repairs in 1881
Sources: nsp,slh,mv,phr,wb,hgl,mpl


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ACME

Other names : none
Official no. : 107039
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1893, Buffalo
Specs : 67x17x10 59g 29n
Date of loss : 1902, Apr 29
Place of loss : near Buffalo
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : Collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She was breaking ice when when she jammed in and was rammed from behind by the steamer WILKESBARRE. WILKESBARRE took her crew off before she sank. Not declared lost until August. Iron parts were later recovered for scrap.
Sources: nsp,is,eas,hcgl


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ACONTIAS

Other names : sometimes spelled "Acontious"
Official no. : 1394
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1866, Detroit*
Specs : 264g 251n
Date of loss : 1887, Oct 28 (Nov 2 also given)
Place of loss : at Presque Isle, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : (all, ca.6)
Carrying : ?
Detail : Went ashore on Presque Isle. Broke in half and went to pieces shortly after. Declared a total loss in November.
*This is official, but she was actually built in 1856 at Oswego by Jas. Baker [carpenter: J Navagh] and appears in newspapers from that year on. [Build information above is from mv]. Actually just rebuilt at Detroit in 1866.
This vessel [or perhaps another of the same name ] went on a rock and was wrecked at Clay Bank, Lake Erie, 33 miles SE of Detroit, in November, 1863. Out of Oswego.
Sources: nsp,slh,mv,osdo,hgl,mpl,nsp,rp


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ACORN

Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schoooner, wood
Build info : 1842, T.H. Cobb, Black R. [Charleston] OH
Specs : 84x20x8, 125 t.
Date of loss : 1842, Aug 31
Place of loss : On a line Vermilion-Port Colborne
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : passengers, freight
Detail : Bound Buffalo for Chicago on a particularly dark night, she collided with the schooner EMILY and sank in 60 ft of water. There were 45 immigrants on board, who lost about $4000 in gold with the wreck.
Recovered - see next entry.
Sources: is(4-65),slh,(hgl),nsp,wl


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ACORN

Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1842, T.H. Cobb, Black R. [Charleston], OH
Specs : 84x20x8, 125 t.
Date of loss : 1849, July 31
Place of loss : near West Sister Island
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : Collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : flour, oil cake, hoop peles (sic)
Detail : Collided with propeller TROY and sank. TROY struck ACORN directly amidships and the schooner foundered quickly. Her crew made it to the TROY.
Sources: ledc,hgl,wl not in mmgl

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ACORN -
See also ALASKA

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ACTIVE
- See CHARLIE GALE


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ACTIVE

Other names : ?
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner wood
Build info : ?
Specs : 25 t.
Date of loss : 1855, Oct 10
Place of loss : off Port Washington, Wisc.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 3
Carrying : shingles
Detail : Bound Manitowoc for Chicago, she capsized in a squall. Her tiny crew clung to her upturned hull until rescued in a risky maneuver by the schooner THORNTON on the 11^th. She was last seen floating bottom-up by the prop SCIOTA on the 13^th, 15 miles off Milwaukee. No record of her after this date.
Struck a bar and sunk off Manitowoc in June of the same year.
Owned by Ealinger of Manitowoc. Vessel and cargo worth about $2500.
Sources: nsp,wl,jm

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ADA -
See also PETER SMITH


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ADA

Other names : ?
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : ? (1857, E.L. Herrick, Fairport, OH)
Specs : ? (88x22x6, 110 t.)
Date of loss : 1859
Place of loss : near Collingwood, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : "sank"
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Went down within sight of Collingwood
Sources: slh,hgl,wl not in mmgl


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ADAIN

Other names : may be same as ADAIR, below. Also seen as ADDAIN
Official no. : 1408
Type at loss : schooner(-scow), wood
Build info : 1862(4), Trenton, MI
Specs : 76x20x7, 62 t.
Date of loss : 1890, Oct 18
Place of loss : near Grindstone City, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 3
Carrying : none
Detail : Bound Port Huron for Grindstone City, driven ashore by gale and total loss. Lifesaving Service saved her crew.
Sunk at Pt. Pelee in May, 1870
Rebuilt at Port Huron, 1868
Sources: phr,mv,usls,slh,h,hgl,wl


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ADAIR

Other names : may be same as ADAIN, above
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : ? (1847, Buffalo)
Specs : ? (82 t.)
Date of loss : 1886 or 1891
Place of loss : Upper Saginaw Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Went ashore and broke up either on Big Charity Isl.(1886) or Oak Point (1891), in NW gale. Total loss of about $12,000.
( A schooner W.A. ADAIR, 61 t. b. Black R., 1845; capsized L. Erie, 1847, still extant, 1857)
Sources: eas,wb,slh,h,sb not in mmgl

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ADAMS


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E. S. ADAMS

Other names : also seen as E. G. ADAMS
Official no. : C33502
Type at loss : bark, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1857, J & J Abbey, Port Robinson, Ont.
Specs : 135x26x12, 341 gc
Date of loss : 1863, Oct 20
Place of loss : 5 mi E of Pt. Pelee
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : 18,500 bu wheat
Detail : On a clear night, with both vessels properly lit and tacking, the downbound ADAMS collided with the upbound American bark CONSTITUTION, resulting in the loss of the ADAMS. No blame was attached to either vessel.
Document surrendered Mar 5, 1866, annotated "lost".
Owned by Norris & Neeland, St. Catharines (also shown as owned out of Montreal)
Sources: mmgl,nsp,hgl,umr


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FREDDIE ADAMS

Other names : none
Official no. : C122080
Type at loss : propeller tug, wood
Build info : 1906, G. Adams, Parry Sound, Ont.
Specs : 40x9x?, 16gc 11nc
Date of loss : 1909
Place of loss : Depot Harbour, E side of Parry Sound
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Burned to total loss. Registration closed Sep 13, 1920
Sources: mmgl


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GEORGE W. ADAMS

Other names : none
Official no. : 85393
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1875, Bailey Bros., Toledo as a 4-mast schooner
Specs : 231x40x20 1444g 1372n
Date of loss : 1895, Dec 11
Place of loss : near Colchester shoal
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : ice
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Her hull was crushed by ice while she was bound Cleveland for Chicago in tow of the steamer CALEDONIA and she foundered. A big salvage operation on her the next summer was a failure. Steamer CONEMAUGH was heavily damaged by striking her wreckage in Oct. 1901.
Stranded with damage on North Manitou in fall of 1885. See WILLIAM T. GRAVES.
Sources: h,mv,ledc,nsp,do2,wb,win,hgl,mpl

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TOM ADAMS -
See LANGHAM


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ADDIE

Other names : none
Official no. : 105168
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1872, J. Randall, Benton Harbor
Specs : 64x16x5 30g 29n
Date of loss : 1897, Oct 5
Place of loss : near Frankfort, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : household goods
Detail : No detail.
Shoved between rows of pilings at Lakeside, MI in 1877 and heavily damaged. Also wrecked and temporarily abandoned near Muskegon in 1887.
Rebuilt in 1882.
Sources: nsp,h,mv,hgl,usls


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ADDIE B

Other names : ?
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : schooner, wood, trader
Build info : ?
Specs : "small"
Date of loss : 1888, Nov 28 or 29
Place of loss : near Caseville, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : produce
Detail : Stranded on a bar, broke in two, and declared a total loss. Out of Au Sable, MI.
Sources: slh,nsp, jb not in mmgl, ‘84 mvus

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ADELAIDE -
See CHAMPLAIN


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ADELE

Other names :
Official no. : ?(107191)
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : (1889, Dulac, Mt. Clemens, MI)
Specs : (48x10x4, 9g 6n)
Date of loss : 1936
Place of loss : Drummond Island, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : no detail
Sources: (mv),slh not in mmgl


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ADELL

Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1860, Milwaukee
Specs : 48x12x5, 25 gt.
Date of loss : 1869, Nov 16
Place of loss : 1/2 mile below Bay View pier, WI [near Milwaukee]
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Cargo : ?
Detail : Driven ashore and pounded to pieces. Her skipper, who had his every penny sunk into the craft, was able to salvage her rigging and spars and left them on the beach overnight, only to find all was stolen the next day. Reported completely broken up by the 26th, but one source says she was recovered.
Rebuilt, 1862
Sources: nsp,mpl,bb,mdwl


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ADIRAMLED

Other names : built as CITY OF FREMONT, renamed in 1908
Official no. : C130922
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freighter
Build info : 1866, Quayle & Sons, Cleveland [US#4379]
Specs : 198x27x10 630g
Date of loss : 1912, Jun 18
Place of loss : 6 miles E of Stoney Isl., Dutch John Bay
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : hull failure
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : RR rails & coal
Detail : Her seams opened under the weight of a heavy cargo and she sank. She was probably overloaded.
Sold Canadian, 1912
Built as passenger/package freighter, rebuilt to bulk freighter at Chicago in 1906.
Rebuilt & lengthened in 1870.
Sources: mmgl,win,ns2,h,mv,mpl,hcgl


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ADIRONDACK

Other names : also seen as ADIRONDAC
Official no. : 1385
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1862, John Oades, Clayton, NY
Specs : 139x26x11, 300g 285n
Date of loss : 1893, Sep 14
Place of loss : South Manitou Isl.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : (lumber)
Detail : Reported stranded in a heavy fog and gale. Stripped and abandoned by the 20th.
Out of Chicago
Sources: wb,mv,hgl,nsp,rsl,wl


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BELLE ADKINS

Other names : also seen as BELLE ATKINS
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1856, D. Hause, Wilson, NY
Specs : 134x26x12, ca. 400 t.
Date of loss : 1857, Feb 8
Place of loss : E of Oswego, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : flood
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Washed off her winter moorings and out of the Oswego River by a "freshet" (i.e spring runoff flood) and sunk near Port Ontario. She was towed all the way back in by rowboat and a volunteer crew, but soon broke up in a storm of the 10th .
Sources: hgl,osdo,nsp,rp

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ADMIRAL


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ADMIRAL

Other names : none
Official no. : 106156
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1883, Chicago
Specs : 49g 24n
Date of loss : 1884, Dec 31
Place of loss : Chicago Harbor
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : Boiler explosion
Loss of life : 4 [all]
Carrying : none
Detail : In harbor, she exploded and sank. Hailed from Chicago
Sources: mv,h,hgl,usls,is


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ADMIRAL

Other names : built as W.H. MEYER, renamed in 1942
Official no. : 222239
Type at loss : propeller tug, steel
Build info : 1907, Manitowoc Ship Building Co., Manitowoc, WI
Specs : 90 ft 130g
Date of loss : 1942, Dec 2
Place of loss : Off Avon Pt., Cleveland
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 14
Carrying : none [barge]
Detail : Towing barge CLEVECO (qv), she encountered a heavy gale & began to founder. She radioed in, but C.G. was unable to locate her in the murk before she went down.
Wreck located by a commercial diver in 1969
Completely rebuilt in 1942.
Had the machinery from an earlier tug W.H. MEYER [US#81537]
Sources: eas,is(2-60,4-69),mol,gs,sol,lm,wm2,le,h,mpl,pc,hcgl

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ADMIRAL D.D. PORTER -
See HOWARD


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ADRIATIC

Other names : none
Official no. : 302
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1856, VanSlyke & Notter, Buffalo as a steamer
Specs : 178x31x13, 825 t.
Date of loss : 1872, Sep 29
Place of loss : near Long Point.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 7 [all]
Carrying : light
Detail : She was in tow of the tug MOORE with three other barges (see BALTIC). She became separated from the tow in a gale and foundered. Bound for Saginaw.
Some sources say she was lost in Thunder Bay, MI.
Sources: nsp,slh,(mv),hgl,mpl


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ADVANCE

Other names : none
Official no. : 29091
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1857, R. Hayes, Fairport
Specs : 49 t
Date of loss : 1871, Jul 12
Place of loss : near Put-in-Bay, S. Bass Isl.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : Collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Collided with steamer U.S. GRANT and sank. Bound for Detroit from Cleveland. Her crew escaped in her yawl.
Homeport: Fairport. Owned by Gallucia and Barnes.
Sources: ledc,hgl,nsp,wl


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ADVANCE

Other names : ?
Official no. : C
Type at loss : tug, wood
Build info : (1861, Chaffey, Bedford Mills, Ont., but this vessel reported in NAC as broken up in 1911)
Specs : 84 t
Date of loss : 1871, Oct 14*
Place of loss : Nicholson Isl., near Wellington, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm(?)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Stranded and lost. Out of Port Colborne
*a newspaper list of 1872 shows her lost in October of '72.
(Also perhaps C#51697, 2-mast schooner built 1856, Riggs, Dexter, NY, 73x19x6, 49g/n & reported wrecked on L. Ont. in 1873.)
Sources: clu,win,hgl ,nsp not in mmgl


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ADVANCE

Other names : none
Official no. : 365
Type at loss : schooner, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1853, J.M. Jones, Milwaukee
Specs : 119x26x10, 180g 171n
Date of loss : 1885, Sep 8
Place of loss : 10 mi N. of Port Washington, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 6 of 7
Carrying : wood
Detail : Waterlogged and capsized in a gale and blinding rain. All but one of crew drowned when her yawl capsized in the surf. Captain's son was included in the lost.
Hailed from Chicago
Major repair in 1861
Sources: nsp,h,lmdc,mv,hgl,usls,bb,rsl


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ADVANCE

Other names : none
Official no. : C90775
Type at loss : propeller tug/packet, wood
Build info : 1886, W. Bertman, Windsor, Ont.
Specs : 49x15x4, 72gc 49nc
Date of loss : 1903, Oct 25
Place of loss : Between Spanish River and the Soo
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : general merchandise
Detail : Caught fire and burned to a total loss. She was towed to the Soo while fully ablaze, where American tugs and the revenue steamer MORRILL put her out. Canadian official records show her as this tug, though newspaper reports say she was bound Montreal for Fort William, which would seem to indicated a larger vessel perhaps the former TILLEY, below.
Sources: nsp,mmgl,hcgl


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ADVANCE

Other names : built as SIR S.L. TILLEY, renamed 1899
Official no. : C88632
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1884, L. Shickluna, St. Catharines, Ont.
Specs : 175x35x15 1031gc 358nc
Date of loss : 1927, Dec
Place of loss : Manitoulin Isl.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : stranded (storm)
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Went on the rocks near the island. Of little value but she was salvaged anyway, later declared a constructive total loss.
SIR S.L. TILLEY was rebuilt to this vessel after a disastrous fire in 1899 (qv)
In 1889, in what has to be one of the worst examples of navigation in lakes shipping history, she had to pay damages after striking a U. S. lighthouse at the mouth of the Detroit River.
Lengthened from 168 ft in 1904.
Sources: slh,csv,(nsp),h,mmgl,es3-2,hcgl


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ADVENTURE

Other names : ?
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : ?
Specs : "small"
Date of loss : 1848, Oct
Place of loss : off Grand River, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : foundered
Loss of life : 3 [all]
Carrying : stone
Detail : No other detail
Sources: is,hgl not in mmgl


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ADVENTURE

Other names : none
Official no. : 105567
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1875, J.Oades, Detroit as a schooner
Specs : 108x28x8 142 g 95n
Date of loss : 1903, Oct 7
Place of loss : at Kelley's Isl.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lime
Detail : Caught fire while tied to the Kelley’s Isl. Lime and Transport Co. dock. The blaze spread so quickly that those on board barely escaped. Taken in tow by tug SMITH and pulled out into the lake to save the dock and adjacent schooner ANDERSON.
Built as a 104x24x8 schooner, converted to prop in 1897 (at J. Davidson Shipyard, W. Bay City.)
Owned by B.,S. & L. of St Clair.
Sources: nsp,ns1,mv,ledc,phr,adv,hcgl


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ADVENTURER

Other names : none
Official no. : 107174
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1895, Two Harbors, MN
Specs : 52x11x6, 16 gt.
Date of loss : 1906, Dec 16
Place of loss : near Ontonagon , MI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Broke her moorings and went adrift in gale. Driven on rocky shore and pounded to pieces. No one was aboard at the time.
Sources: nsp,lss,df,hcgl


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AETNA

Other names : ?
Official no. : 358
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1865, Bailey, Madison Dock, OH
Specs : 317 g
Date of loss : 1890
Place of loss : Manitou Passage
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : foundered
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : coal
Detail : Single report that she went down in calm weather while under full sail
Also severely damaged in another Lake Mich accident, Oct., 1878.
Few sources show this vessel
Rebuilt from a two to a three master at Chicago in the winter of 1875-6.
Sources: bb,mv,wl,nsp


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AFRICA

Other names : none
Official no. : C92285
Type at loss : propeller, wood, steambarge (former passenger)
Build info : 1873, W. Power & Co., Kingston, Ont.
Specs : 148x26x13, 482gc 328nc
Date of loss : 1895, Oct 9
Place of loss : 15 mi S of Cove Isl. light
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 13 [all]
Carrying : coal, misc frt
Detail : Making for Georgian Bay, she struck a reef, broke up & foundered. Towing schooner SEVERN, which she let go and then disappeared. Owned out of Owen Sound. Bound Ashtabula for Owen Sound.
Almost destroyed by fire at Kingston, Ont, in '88 - had a major rebuild (orig 136x24ft, 652g) and number assigned at that time. Also burned at Owen Sound in 1886, rebuilt afterwards.
Sources: nsp,is(1&3-45,4-63),mmgl,slh,lh,sol,h,lhdc,csv,win,hgl,hcgl


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AGATE

Other names : ?
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : ?
Specs : ?
Date of loss : 1856
Place of loss : at Presque Isle, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Went ashore and broke up. Single report.
Sources: slh not in mmgl

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AGAWA -
See also HOWARD M. HANNA, Jr.


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AGAWA

Other names : rebuilt to ROBERT P DURHAM(‘28) later HERON BAY(‘40)
Official no. : C111807
Type at loss : propeller, steel, bulk freight
Build info : 1902, Collingwood, Ont. as a barge
Specs : 379x46x26 3759g
Date of loss : 1927, Dec 7
Place of loss : Manitoulin Isl
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Stranded & declared a total loss by underwriters, but salvaged and returned to service by J. Reid.
Built as a barge, converted to steamer, '06. Rebuilt as a barge again in '63, scrapped in 1966.
Sources: mmgl,slh,sol,s,csv,gld,hcgl

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AGNES -
See ISLE ROYALE


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AGNES W

Other names : built as ROSWELL P. FLOWER
Official no. : 110724
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1887, Wolf & Davidson, Milwaukee
Specs : 264x38x18 1593g 1165n
Date of loss : 1918, Jul 12
Place of loss : Canada Point, Drummond Isl.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : grain
Detail : Stranded while attempting to enter the St. Mary's R. in a storm. Later pounded to pieces.
Also wrecked on a reef near Waugoschance Pt., western Straits of Mackinac, 1892.
Sources: eas,slh,ns2,mv,mpl,hcgl


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AHNAPEE

Other names : none
Official no. : 1549
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1867, Neal McLean, Ahnapee (Wolf R.) WI
Specs : 71x21x6, 118g
Date of loss : 1884, Jun 9
Place of loss : 2.5 mi N. of Sheboygan, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : stranded
Loss of life : none of 5
Carrying : RR ties and cordwood.
Detail : Bound Torch Lake, MI, for Milwaukee. Stranded in fog on North Point. A later strong wind blew her into the rocks, where she pounded to pieces. Part of her cargo was all that was saved.
Rebuilt amd lenghtened in 1876
Sources: h,is,usls,mpl,bb


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AHTEEK

Other names : built as tug ALBERT WRIGHT, renamed in 1904
Official no. : C77915
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1873, H. Hackey, Port Hope, Ont.
Specs : 57x13x8, 29g 21n
Date of loss : 1911, Nov 22
Place of loss : near Bamford Light, St. Joseph Channel
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Totally destroyed by fire at Richard's Landing.
Out of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.
Sources: win,mmgl


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AIMEE

Other names : also seen as AIMIE, AIME
Official no. : ?(inland?)
Type at loss : (propeller) tug, wood
Build info : ?
Specs : 10t
Date of loss : 1880, Nov 20
Place of loss : N of Presque Isle, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light station supplies and a pet deer on its way to President-elect Garfield in Ohio.
Detail : Stranded and destroyed by waves. She had earlier taken a load of lumber camp supplies to Thunder Bay Isl., but was unable to return because of ice and damage to her rudder from ice. Later broke her moorings, drifted away and was wrecked. The usls report is long and detailed.
Owned by Thunder Bay Boom Co.
Sources: h,nsp,usls,rep


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ISABELLA AINSLIE

Other names :
Official # : C
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : ?
Specs : ?
Date of loss : 1861, Dec 28
Place of loss : 7 mi N of Limestone Islands, Georgian Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Partially capsized and driven ashore on a rocky reef. Some hope was entertained that she would be released the following spring. Her skipper asked that the bay where the boat went ashore be renamed "St. Margaret's Bay" in honor of his cool-headed wife, who was aboard at the time.
Out of Leith, Ont. [near Owen Sound]
Sources : nsp,rnc,wmn

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AINSWORTH

Other names : none
Official no. : US none
Type at loss : schoooner, wood
Build info : 18??, Cape Vincent, NY
Specs : 110 t.
Date of loss : 1846, Nov 20
Place of loss : off Fort Ontario, Oswego, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : salt
Detail : She was blown from the West Pier where she was lying awaiting weather and was dismasted and thrown on her beam ends on the rocks near Ft. Ontario. Her crew were rescued by the next day by members of the Revenue Cutter Service in the yawl from their cutter.
Out of Cleveland.
Maybe H. AINSWORTH built 1842, Luther Moses, Cleveland. If so, she was recovered.
Sources: nsp,rp,hgl


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AJAX

Other names : none
Official no. : 1124
Type at loss : sidewheel tug, wood
Build info : 1865, Florence, MI
Specs : 107x28x5, 95 t
Date of loss : 1872, Aug 9
Place of loss : Saginaw Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Burned near Bay City on Saginaw Bay. Registered out of Bay City
Sources: slh,nsp,lhl,hgl


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H.C. AKELEY

Other names : also spelled "Ackley" and "Ackeley" in reports
Official no. : 95639
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1881, Kirby & Akeley, Grand Haven, MI
Specs : 240 ft., 1187g 794n
Date of loss : 1883, Nov 13
Place of loss : Off Holland, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 6
Carrying : corn
Detail : Bound Chicago for Buffalo, she took the disabled tug PROTECTOR (qv) in tow in a heavy gale, but let her go after her rudder broke off. She came to anchor but fell into the troughs of the waves and began to sink. The disabled schooner DRIVER happened by and saved 12 of her crew who had taken to her yawl just before she went down.
Sources: sol,h,sm,nsp,g8s,sound,hgl,usls,mpl,m&h,bcha,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------ 3936
ALABAMA

Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1836,
Specs :
Date of loss : 1843, Oct 17
Place of loss : at Fairport, OH
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none?
Carrying : wheat
Detail : Collided with the pier at the mouth of the Grand River and a total loss.
Sources: hgl,nsp


------------------------------------------------------ 3759
ALABAMA

Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1848, W. Gooding, Detroit, MI
Specs : 234x29x12, 799 t.
Date of loss : 1854, Aug 28
Place of loss : just outside the harbor at Buffalo, NY
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : hull failure
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : Sank from a leak which developed just after she left her dock at Buffalo, bound up the lake for repairs. She went down right in the channel. The tug HAMILTON MORTON took her crew off. Her hull was reported to be very rotten. In early September the Navy iron steamer MICHIGAN tried unsuccessfully to tow her out of the way, and late in the same month the schooner WATCHMAN [apparently lacking a good watchman] accidentally came upon the wreck and sailed right between her arches without damage. Dismantled where she lay until there was 30 feet of clear water over her in Sept & Oct of 1855, by I. Coffin of Buffalo.
Owned out of Sandusky by Burton, Hall & Russell.
Sources: lhl,nsp,wl,eas

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ALAMEDA
- See ALMEDA


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ALASKA

Other names : built as ACORN, renamed about 1882
Official no. : 356
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1863, A. Muir, Port Dalhousie, Ont. as a bark
Specs : 125x26x10, 316g 303n
Date of loss : 1884
Place of loss : Bois Blanc Isl. Straits of Mackinac
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Went aground and broke up.
Probably sold American in 1882
Out of Port Huron, owned by Arch Muir.
Sources: mv,polk,slh,phr,rsl not in mmgl


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ALASKA

Other names : none
Official no. : C117174
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1878, J.P. Clark, Springwells [Detroit], MI [US#105798]
Specs : 165x29x11 348 t
Date of loss : 1910, Dec 24
Place of loss : a few miles from Tobermorey, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Sheltering from a storm, she caught fire from an overheated boiler and burned to a total loss.
Sold Canadian 1906. Out of Windsor, owned by Williscroft & Pulling.
Built as a sidewheel passenger vessel of 510 t., converted to a barge in 1889 after a fire at Detroit, converted to a propeller bulk freighter in 1895. In the 1889 rebuild her sidewheel engine went into the steamer FRANK E. KIRBY [see DOVER]
Sources: win,h,mv,mmgl,win,hdm,ns2,slh,mpl,es3-2,hcgl


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ALBACORE

Other names : none
Official no. : C74380
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast, package & bulk frt
Build info : 1872, Muir Bros., Port Dalhousie, Ont.
Specs : 137x26x11, 327 t
Date of loss : 1900, Sep 12
Place of loss : just east of Oswego, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 7
Carrying : ?
Detail : A storm blew out her sails & drove her into the seawall at Ft. Bank, where she broke up. Tug J. NAVAGH tried to save her, and Lifesaving Service crew rescued her people. Some newspapers reported that she went ashore near Kingston.
Sister of ALBATROSS(qv)[C75633] - both were known as "timber droughers," built to haul large squared timbers.
Owned by Capt. Bradshaw of Toronto.
Sources: nsp,ns1,is,mmgl,tfgl,osdo,mpl,hcgl


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ALBANY

Other names : ?
Official no. : none
Type at loss : brig, wood
Build info : (1835, Oswego, NY)
Specs : (110 t.)
Date of loss : 1843, Oct 1
Place of loss : Straits of Mackinac, a few miles from Mackinaw City
Lake : Huron/Mich
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : merchandise, passengers
Detail : She went aground and was wrecked in a gale.
Sources: slh,nsp,hgl,rp not in mmgl


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ALBANY

Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger/package freight
Build info : 1846, C. Worth, Detroit
Specs : 202x29x12, 669 t
Date of loss : 1853, Nov 26
Place of loss : near Presque Isle, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : passengers,misc cargo
Detail : Making for the shelter of Presque Isle harbor, she was driven over a bar by a tremendous gale. Plans were made to haul her back across, but she was destroyed by another storm before they could be realized. 200 passengers & crew came ashore in her boats. Bound Soo to Detroit. Propeller NIAGARA also reported to have helped rescue her people. Her boiler and most of her machinery was recovered in Nov, 1854.
Sources: nsp,slh,is(2-60),lc,lhl,eas,hgl


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ALBANY

Other names : none
Official no. : 106306
Type at loss : propeller, steel, package freight
Build info : 1884, Detroit Dry Dock, Wyandotte hull# 69
Specs : 267x39x18 1918g 1678n
Date of loss : 1893, Nov 7
Place of loss : A few miles off Pte Aux Barques, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : Collision
Loss of life : 8
Carrying : grain(?)
Detail : Collided with iron package freighter PHILADELPHIA(qv) in a thick fog. There was some evidence that both vessels were going too fast for conditions, though each blamed the other. PHILADELPHIA took ALBANY in tow to try and save her, but she sank well offshore. Her crew transferred to PHILADELPHIA, which was soon abandoned to sink in her turn. The casualties of the ALBANY were lost when one of her lifeboats mysteriously failed to make it to shore in calm weather. It is speculated that the abandoned PHILADELPHIA, still underway, circled and ran their boat down in the fog.
Ashore with heavy damage near Cheboygan, MI 11/20/1887.
Sources: nsp,slh,lm,sol,h,mv,lhdc,atl,wb,hgl,mpl,m&h,hcgl


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ALBATROS IV

Other names : ?
Official no. : C190377
Type at loss : tug or yacht
Build info : ?
Specs : 16t
Date of loss : 1953, Aug 22
Place of loss : Toronto Harbour
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Brief report, no detail
Sources: win,h not in mmgl


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ALBATROSS

Other names : none
Official # : Can.
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1867, H. Cronkite, Oakville, Ont.
Specs : 92x21x9, 143 t.
Date of loss : 1880. Nov 7
Place of loss : near Wellington, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : shingles, lumber
Detail : Bound Port Hope, Ont., to Oswego, her rigging and rudder were damaged by weather and she went ashore. ALBATROSS' rigging was coated with an estimated 150 t. of ice. A few days later her deckload and part of her belowdecks cargo was removed by the CHIEFTAIN and the vessel was abandoned.
Owned by T. Hyden, Port Hope.
Sources : mmgl ,jm,nsp


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ALBATROSS

Other names : none
Official no. : C75633
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1871, A. Muir, Pt. Dalhousie as 2-mast schooner
Specs : 137x26x12, 317 t.
Date of loss : 1911, Aug 21
Place of loss : Georgian Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : Tow of tug C.C. MARTIN(qv), she took water and sank in storm. 2 men, 3 women and 2 children survived in an open yawl for 36 hours before coming ashore near Byng Inlet. The vessel hailed from Midland, Ont. The tug was also lost, and may have been dragged down when schooner sank. Bound Penetang for French R.
Major repair in 1878 after going ashore on Middle Island, L. Huron, the previous fall.. May have been enlarged later.
Sources: nsp,ns2,mmgl


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ALBEMARLE

Other names : none
Official no. : 1730
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1867, C. Bidwell, Buffalo
Specs : 154 ft, 413gt
Date of loss : 1867, Nov 6
Place of loss : Pt. Nipigon, Straits of Mackinac
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : Stranded and wrecked. Bound Escanaba for Cleveland. A tug that was sent to rescue her a few days after the accident found her in a hopeless condition, but wreckers continued to work on her until she was finally abandoned in August of the following year.
Owned by Winslow Bros., Buffalo.
Sources: ssm,slh,dm,hgl,nsp


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ALBERTA

Other names : none
Official no. : C85765
Type at loss : propeller steamer, steel, passenger/package freight
Build info : 1883, McConnell & Co., Whiteinch[Glasgow], Scotland
Specs : 264x38x23, 2282gc 1551nc
Date of loss : 1884, Jul 27
Place of loss : 3.5 mi from Whitefish Point
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : Collision
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : Passengers, misc frt
Detail : Collided with steambarge JOHN M. OSBORNE(qv) and sank in shallow water. Single casualty was lost in attempt to rescue crewmen from sinking OSBORNE. The collision occurred in fog. She was recovered soon after. This was ALBERTA’s 1st year and she was sister of the ill-fated ALGOMA(qv), lost HER 1st year of service.
Rebuilt, 1911. Broken up in 1947.
Sources: mmgl,gsgl,mol,hgl,mpl,hcgl


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ALBERTA

Other names : none
Official no. : C103648
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight "rabbit"
Build info : 1886, G. Hinckley, Cape Vincent, NY, as a schooner (US#106333)
Specs : 103x18x7 122gc 88nc
Date of loss : 1902, Oct 8
Place of loss : Trenton, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : burned
Loss of life : (none)
Carrying : ?
Detail : Burned to a total loss at the wharf.
Converted to a steamer and lengthened at Oswego in 1889
Sold Canadian in 1898
Sources: mmgl,win,is,ns1,csv


------------------------------------------------------ 3905
ALBERTA

Other names : none
Official no. : C88247
Type at loss : sidewheel tug, wood
Build info : 1888, W. Evans, Deseronto, Ont.
Specs : 65x30x4, 68gc 62nc
Date of loss : 1899, Jul 21
Place of loss : Bay of Quinte
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : "sunk"
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Sunk in 75 feet of water.
She was a twin-engined sidewheeler
Sources: mmgl


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ALBERTA

Other names : none
Official no. : C122177
Type at loss : propeller, wood (tug)
Build info : 1907, Rossport, Ont.
Specs : 30x10x4, 7g 5n
Date of loss : 1917, Nov 22
Place of loss : Thunder Bay, Ont.
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 4-5 tons herring
Detail : Foundered
Registered out of Port Arthur
Sources: mmgl,win,rf


------------------------------------------------------ 4052
ALBION

Other names :
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : before 1855
Specs : 215 t.
Date of loss : 1858, Oct 8
Place of loss : 12 mi N by E from Erie, PA. light, 12 mi out
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 8 [all]
Carrying : wheat
Detail : The eerie remains of this schooner were discovered by a party of fishermen Oct 14, with the topmasts just below the surface and sails still set, in 75 feet of water. Several detailed descriptions of the wreck were printed in the papers, but it was almost two weeks before she was identified. She apparently went down quickly in a gale on the date shown.
Out of Oswego.
Sources: nsp,hgl


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ALBION

Other names : built as BRISTOL renamed in 1876
Official no. : C73960
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight "steambarge"
Build info : 1862, Wm. Saunders, Brockville, Ont.
Specs : 134x26x11 297g
Date of loss : 1887, Oct 3
Place of loss : near Pte Aux Barques, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fog/storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : She went on the rocks NE of Grindstone City and stranded at night in a foggy westerly gale. Towing the schooner ARK. The USLS cfrom Pte Aux Barques rescued her crew and asaved some of her gear and cargo.She became a total wreck the next day, but ARK survived.
Out of St. Catharines, Ont.
Assigned herfirst official number when rebuilt [by Muir] at Port Dalhousie after a 10/1875 fire.
Sources: nsp,slh,h,lhdc,csv,eas,mmgl,wb,win,polk,hgl,sb,usls

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H.C. ALBRECHT -
See THOMAS HUME

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ALCIOPE -
See UNITED KINGDOM


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B.W. ALDRICH

Other names : later W. B. ALDRICH (1903)
Official no. : 2701
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood, salvage
Build info : 1868, Allen, McLellan & Co., Milwaukee
Specs : 65x15x7 49g 25n
Date of loss : 1899, Dec
Place of loss : unreported
Lake : St Clair R
Type of loss : "sunk"
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Reid salvage tug reported sunk (in a single report). Recovered and later sold Canadian
Also burned near Ludington in 1871, and had at least 3 sepaprate fires at Muskegon in 1870.
Sold Canadian in 1903. Registry closed 1915, annotated "abandoned"
Sources: s,hgl,mpl,wl,nsp,hcgl,csv


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WILLIAM ALDRICH

Other names : none
Official no. : 26362
Type at loss : schooner, wood, "grand haven rig" 2-mast [built as 3-master]
Build info : 1856, J. Harbridge, Two Rivers, WI
Specs : 123x26x8 192g 182n
Date of loss : 1916, Jun 9
Place of loss : near Pt. Epoufette, Mi
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Ashore and broke up near town of Davenport, MI (now gone)
Knocked down by a white squall in 1891, with the loss of one
Rebuilt 1872. Enlarged in 1875
Sources: slh,ns2,h,mv,mpl,eas,hcgl


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ALERT

Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : brig, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1842, F.N. Jones, Black R. [Charlestown], OH
Specs : 77x23x8, 126 t.
Date of loss : 1844
Place of loss : Waugoschance Point, Straits of Mackinac
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Went hard aground and wrecked
A new brig ALERT was built at the same place the uear after this one was lost.
Sources: slh,wl


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ALERT

Other names : none
Official no. : 105101
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, bulk frt, 2-mast
Build info : 1871, A. Turner, Trenton, MI
Specs : 143x28x11 360g 342n
Date of loss : 1904, Sep 16
Place of loss : near S. Manitou Isl
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : (none)
Carrying : stone
Detail : Tow of steamer DUNCAN CITY, she broke loose in a gale, swamped and sank. Her crew probably escaped in her boat.
Owned by Leatham & Smith of Sturgeon Bay
Built as 3-mast schooner. Rebuilt, '84 after '83 fire at Milwaukee.
Sources: nsp,ns1,slh


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ALETHA B

Other names : rebuilt as GLEN L
Official no. : C175992
Type at loss : fishing tug, steel
Build info : 1945, Owen Sound, Ont
Specs : 41x12x3, 11gc 9nc
Date of loss : 1974
Place of loss : ?
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 2
Carrying : none
Detail : Sunk by a storm. Later raised and rebuilt
Owned by A. D. Perry, Port Dover
Sources: is,hcgl not in mmgl


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ALEXANDER

Other names : built as GENERAL SHERMAN [US#10630]
Official no. : C61160
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1865, J. Monk, Sandusky, OH
Specs : 104x23x6 129 g
Date of loss : 1879, Oct 4
Place of loss : 4 mi from Belle River, Ont.
Lake : St. Clair
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : lumber [ship plank]
Detail : She burned to a total loss while bound Chatham, Ont. for Detroit.
Sold Canadian in 1873. Owned by Joseph Roberts.
Shows in mmgl as sternwheeler, most other sources as a propeller or steambarge. A description of her in a Detroit newspaper just after launch describes her arrangements as "she has side wheels on her quarter. . ." Probably a "pollywog."
Sources: www,mmgl,lhl,mv,win,h,ledc,csv,es,nsp


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ALEXANDRIA

Other names : built as CONSORT, renamed ALEXANDRA[1873], last name, 1883. Known locally as "Alex"
Official no. : C85768
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger/package freight
Build info : 1866, A. Cantin, Hull, Quebec
Specs : 174x31x8 863g
Date of loss : 1915, Aug 3
Place of loss : under Scarborough Bluffs, E of Toronto
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 22
Carrying : foodstuffs, furniture
Detail : Bound Port Hope for Toronto, she was beached on a bar in a storm and fog and broken up by action of waves. She had fought a losing battle with a violent gale for nearly the whole trip. Canadian Lifesavers and locals worked for hours in an ultimately successful operation to take the crew off. Thoroughly stripped by locals over the next decades. Remains of her boiler are still visible at the site.
Out of Picton, owned by Ontario & Quebec Navigation Co., div of CSL.
Built at 162x25 ft, 940g, rebuilt in 1883
Sources: tfgl,csv,win,clu,ns2,h,mmgl,do,cr,wssa,hcgl


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ALEXANDRIA
(shows as ALEXANDRA in csv)
Other names : none
Official no. : C112153
Type at loss : propeller, wood, freighter
Build info : 1902, Chatham, Ont. (CSV,win: Chatham, NB)
Specs : 97x25x 201gc 136nc
Date of loss : 1927, Dec 19
Place of loss : Little Current, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Burned in the harbor, off the Government Dock, where her remains still lie.
Sources: mmgl,win,csv,slh,do


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ALFRED W

Other names : ?
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1905,
Specs : 66 ft
Date of loss : 1906, Jun 27
Place of loss : near Pie Island
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : fog
Loss of life : none of 9
Carrying : none
Detail : Bound Port Arthur for Duluth. Struck a rock in heavy fog and foundered. Crew made it ashore in one of her boats, later picked up by KAMINISTIQUIA.
Belonged to Duluth & Superior Wrecking Co.
Check 1910 MV for another ALFRED W (lost 1917-lss)
Sources: nsp,lss,


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ALGERIA

Other names : none
Official no. : 107222
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, bulk freight, 3-mast
Build info : 1896, Jas. Davidson, W. Bay City, MI hull #75
Specs : 285x45x19 2,038g
Date of loss : 1906, May 3
Place of loss : near Cleveland harbor entrance
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 2 of 12
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : Sheltering outside harbor, but overwhelmed by the storm, torn to pieces by wave action & sunk. Local tugs refused to come to her aid due to a strike. 5 men were sent ashore in her yawl, 3 left on board [skipper, chief & cook]. Only the "1-eyed cook" survived, picked up swimming by steamer L.C. HANNA
Wreck was removed as hazard in November of the same year.
One of largest wooden vessels ever built.
Sources: nsp,ns1,h,mv,ledc,eas,vbs,hcgl

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ALGERIAN -
See also BAVARIAN, KINGSTON


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ALGERINE

Other names : also seen as ALGERIAN
Official no. : 1085
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1856, A. Miller, Oswego
Specs : 136x26x12, 300 g [436 t. o.m]
Date of loss : 1875
Place of loss : Along Minnesota shore (near Split Rock?)
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : sank
Loss of life : 7 (all?)
Carrying : ?
Detail : Exact location not reported. Reports on this loss are very confused - location may be St. Lawrence R.
One source says she was a steamer but was NOT the Canadian iron steamer ALGERIAN, which was named KINGSTON at this time. Hgl says she was a Canadian steamer, though.
No ALGERIAN in 1869 mvus, maybe ALGERINE b.'56, A. Miller, Oswego & reported lost in 1878 [osdo].
Sources: osdo,lss,gwgl,is,hgl,mv


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ALGOMA

Other names : none
Official no. : C85766
Type at loss : propeller, steel, passenger steamer
Build info : 1883, Aiken & Mansell, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland
Specs : 262x38x23, 1773gc 1153nc
Date of loss : 1885, Nov 7
Place of loss : Isle Royle [Greenstone Isl]
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 37(48?)
Carrying : passengers, merch
Detail : This luxury railway steamer was thought to be one of the sturdiest ships afloat, but she was blown aground, broken in two & destroyed by storm. Later she was pushed off the rocks and sunk. Bound Owen Sound for Port Arthur, Ont. Owned by Canadian Pacific Railway. Engine and gear were recovered in summer, 1886.
Located by divers in 1978.
Sources: nsp,irs,mol,gsgl,gwgl,is(1-45,1-60,4-65),win,mmgl,hgl,hcgl


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ALGOMA

Other names : ?
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : dredge barge, wood
Build info : ?
Specs : ?
Date of loss : 1918, Nov 18
Place of loss : Manitowoc, WI, harbor
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Foundered in storm
Sources: is


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ALGOMA

Other names : built as CITY OF TORONTO, later RACINE ('63), given this name in 1864
Official no. : C46235
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger/package frt
Build info : 1839, Niagara Harbour & Dock Co. [A. Cantin], Niagara, Ont. year also given as '41
Specs : 163x24x11 758gc 624nc
Date of loss : 1877, winter
Place of loss : Collingwood, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : Foundered
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : No detail on her loss. Declared a total wreck, but later recovered. Used until dismantled and abandoned for age in 1888 at Collingwood.
Went from a crack mail/passenger steamer to a towboat in 1852. Sold U.S. in 1863 after a fire at Niagara and completely rebuilt at Detroit. Operated Detroit/Lake Michigan for about a year, then resold Canadian, renamed & given her 1st official number in 1864. Rebuilt at Detroit again in 1866.
Built on the lines of the Halifax mail steamer ACADIA. Twin engined [one of the first on lakes], showing a pair of walking beams above her decks.
Rebuild in 1850 included replacing her wooden paddles with iron ones.
Sources: mmgl,clu,win,slh,h,csv,eh,mpl,rsl,nsp,ssnr,hcgl


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ALGONQUIN

Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1838, G.W. Jones, Black R. OH
Specs : 55x18x7, 55g
Date of loss : 1856
Place of loss : near Duluth
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Foundered in the harbor and abandoned.
Portaged around Soo in 1839, one of earliest decked vessels on Lake Superior.
Sources: lss,gwgl,h,hgl,mpl,wl


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ALGORA

Other names : ?
Official no. : C
Type at loss : scow, wood, sand
Build info : ?
Specs : ?
Date of loss : 1906, May 3
Place of loss : 6 mi E of SE Shoal
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : (hull failure?)
Loss of life : none of 3
Carrying : none
Detail : Was on a pleasure cruise when she waterlogged. Big steamer FAYETTE BROWN picked up her people before she sank. One owner was from Ashtabula, but the vessel reportedly hailed from Belle River, Ont.
Sources: nsp, not in mmgl


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ALGOSOO

Other names : built as SATURN, renamed J. FRATER TAYLOR ('13), last name 1936
Official no. : C130776
Type at loss : propeller, steel, bulk freight
Build info : 1901, American Shipbuilding Co., Lorain, OH hull #306 US# 117023
Specs : 346x48x28 3429gc
Date of loss : 1965, Nov 27
Place of loss : Near Whitefish Point
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : Struck bottom in gale as she was rounding the point and suffered heavy damage to her hull. Continued her voyage but scrapped due to age and condition at the end of it.
Sold Canadian, 1913
Sources: mmgl,is(4-67),csv,hcgl

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ALICE -
See HIBOU


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ALICE G

Other names : none
Official no. : C107169
Type at loss : propeller tug, wood (fish tug?)
Build info : 1902, Collingwood
Specs : 60x12, 36 t.
Date of loss : 1927, Nov
Place of loss : near Tobermory, Ont
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Blown ashore, by a gale and reported a total loss
Sources: mmgl,slh,do


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ALICE L

Other names : none
Official no. : 208703
Type at loss : gas tug, wood, fish tug
Build info : 1911, Crescent, MI [N. Manitou Isl.]
Specs : 26x8x4, 9g 8n
Date of loss : 1929, Dec 2
Place of loss : E of Grand Marais, MI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : none
Detail : "lost"
Sources: mv,rkr,lssc,gwgl


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ALICE MARY

Other names : none
Official no. : C72564
Type at loss : sloop-barge, wood, 1-mast
Build info : 1875, C. Harris, Dog Lake [Battersea], Ont.
Specs : 80x11x5, 70g 67n
Date of loss : 1882, Apr 24
Place of loss : Bay of Quinte
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : She stranded and became a total loss after springing a leak while bound Kingston for Amherst Isl. Loss of $4,000.
Built as a St. Lawrence River barge.
Sources: win,mmgl,clu,dmt


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ALIDA

Other names : none
Official no. : none (inland)
Type at loss : (propeller) packet/tug, wood
Build info : 1856, Kirby & Hoyt, Saginaw
Specs : 81x15x3, 58g 35n
Date of loss : 1867, Dec 20
Place of loss : Saginaw R.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : several
Carrying : ?
Detail : This little tug and packet, for many years the only steamer to regularly venture up the Saginaw R. beyond the mouth of the Flint, was lost when her boiler exploded, she caught fire and burned to a total loss.
Burned at Hess & Bros. dock, East Saginaw on May 23, 1860.
Sources: nsp,vbs,rsl


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ALLEGHANY

Other names : ?
Official # : none
Type at loss : brig, wood, 2-mast
Build info : ?
Specs : 255 t.
Date of loss : 1855, ca. Sep 12
Place of loss : off Clay Banks, N side of Lake Erie
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : 352 t. coal
Detail : Bound Erie, PA for Mackinaw with bunker coal for the Collingwood Line of steamers, she was rammed by the schooner YOUNG AMERICA off Clay Banks and sank quickly in six fathoms of water. YOUNG AMERICA was bound Chicago for Buffalo with corn. Owned by Gen. C.M. Reed of Erie, PA. Salvagers were still working on releasing her in October.
Sources : nsp,jm


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ALLEGHANY

Other names : none
Official no. : 379
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight "steam barge"
Build info : 1856, J.M. Jones, Milwaukee
Specs : 167x29x14 402g 267n [601 t. om]
Date of loss : 1896, Oct
Place of loss : Summer Isl.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Went aground in fog and storm with heavy damage. Refloated, but found to be unfit for further service and abandoned. Burned in lieu of scrapping in July of the following year.
Wrecked on Lake Michigan in the fall of 1856 and sat in the ice all winter. Repaired at Milwaukee in ‘57.
1st propeller built at Milwaukee and was built to replace the earlier prop of the same name (but spelled ALLEGHENY) that was wrecked in October, 1855(qv). Her engine came from this earlier vessel.
Rebuilt 1875. Re-engined in 1889, engine from F.R. BUELL.
Owned by Tonawanda Barge Line.
Sources: slh,mv,lhl,hgl,nsp,eh,rsl


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ALLEGHENY

Other names : also seen spelled ALLEGHANY
Official no. : none
Type at loss : propeller, wood
Build info : 1849, Luther Moses, Cleveland
Specs : 178x25x11, 468 t.
Date of loss : 1855, Oct 24
Place of loss : at Milwaukee
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : gen. merchandise, passengers
Detail : Came to anchor near the harbor entrance to shelter. Rolled out her stack and was then unable to get steam up and was helpless. Dragged in close to the beach and was pounded to pieces. She was only a short distance from the SEBASTOPOL(qv). Her engine and most of her cargo was removed by the end of the month. The engine was installed in a new vessel of the same name [US#379] built over the following winter to replace her.
Owned by American Transportation Co.
Sources: lhl,nsp,eh,eas


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ALLEGHENY

Other names : none
Official no. : 105295
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, lumber, 3-mast
Build info : 1873, W.W. Loomis, Erie, PA
Specs : 187x33x13 689g 599n
Date of loss : 1913, Jun 6
Place of loss : Vermilion Point, MI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1 of 6
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Broke away from tow steamer M.T. GREEN and stranded on a bar in a foggy gale. She was right in front of the lifesaving station, whose surfmen took five of her crew off. The vessel later broke up.
Sources: phr,eas,lssc,gwgl,ns2,mpl,hcgl


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ALLEGHENY

Other names : built as Navy tug ATA-179, now MALCOLM, renamed in 1979
Official no. : 518191
Type at loss : motor vessel, steel, training vessel
Build info : 1944, Levingston Shipbuilding, Orange, Tx as a sea-going Naval tug
Specs : 143 ft., 900 t
Date of loss : 1978, Jan 27
Place of loss : Traverse City, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : ice
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Training vessel of the Great Laked Maritime Academy capsized at her winter dock from weight of accumulated ice. Recovered but required an expensive rebuild and was sold.
Obtained by the Great Lakes Maritime Academy in Dec, 1968.
Sources: is(1-69),mpl,hcgl


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ADA E. ALLEN

Other names : none
Official no. : C74066
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight "steambarge"
Build info : 1872, W Allen, Walpole Isl (Wallaceburg), Ont. as a bark
Specs : 90x22x6 170gc 68nc
Date of loss : 1887, Sep 22
Place of loss : Heard's dock, near Amherstburg, Ont.
Lake : Detroit R
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : Caught fire while moored at Amherstburg and cut loose to avoid the spread of fire. Drifted to Bois Blanc Isl. and burned to a total loss. She had recently been laid up and her crew discharged due to her poor condition. Owned by J. Atkinson of Pelee Isl. Not lost in Nov, as sometimes stated.
Originally 107 t. Rebuilt from bark to steambarge in 1873, rebuilt to 135 t. in '78 & 170 in '81. Major repairs, '84.
Sources: nsp,csv,h,mmgl,win,hgl,es3-1,


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ALFRED ALLEN

Other names : built as J. J. MORLEY, renamed after rebuild in 1862
Official no. : 1360
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1853, H.N. Throop, Pultneyville, NY
Specs : 160 t.
Date of loss : 1869, Oct 27
Place of loss : Mohawk Reef, near Port Colborne, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : (none)
Carrying : 500 bbl salt
Detail : Bound for Toledo, she went on the reef in a blizzard. She washed free, drifted to a mainland beach and pounded to pieces by Nov 30. Still reported in some later sources.
Probably owned by Allen & Hollin, Pultneyville
Sources: nsp,hgl,mv,rsl,mdwl,wl


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DAN ALLEN

Other names : yes, but unknown
Official no. : 35474
Type at loss : barge, wood
Build info : 1872, Canada
Specs : 117x23x8, 181 t.
Date of loss : 1885, Apr 9
Place of loss : Black River [Port Huron]
Lake : St Clair R
Type of loss : ice
Loss of life : none
Carrying : probably none
Detail : Pushed by ice in the spring breakup, she collided with the steamer BURLINGTON and barge H. F. CHURCH and drove them into the Military Street brige at Port Huron.. She apparently sank also, as she was reported as being removed by dynamiting from the same spot in Augusrt, 1885. Owned by G. W. Allen of Port Huron.
Rebuilt to this barge at Erie, PA after wrecking in 1880. Given this name at that time. Maybe former Canadian steamer VANDERBILT.
Sources: phr,mv,jb,polk


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E.B. ALLEN

Other names : none
Official no. : 7818
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1864, H.C. Piersons, Ogdensburg, NY
Specs : 111 ft, 275 t
Date of loss : 1871, Sep 18
Place of loss : Off Thunder Bay Isl, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : grain
Detail : Collided with bark NEWSBOY and sank.
Homeport in 1869: Ogdensburg, NY
Sources: stb,slh,lhdc,nsp,hgl,rsl


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HARRY L. ALLEN

Other names : built as JOHN B. COWLE last name in 1969
Official no. : 207277
Type at loss : propeller steamer, steel, bulk freight
Build info : 1910, American Shipbuilding Co., Lorain, OH hull #379
Specs : 525x58x31 6945g 5451n
Date of loss : 1978, Jan 20
Place of loss : Duluth, MN
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Caught fire during winter layup and declared a constructive total loss. Burned at Capital 4 grain elevator dock, Duluth.
Sources: is,lss,mpl,hcgl


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W. B. ALLEN

Other names : also seen as WALTER B. ALLEN
Official no. : 26561
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1866, H.C. Pierson or Pearson, Ogdensburg, NY
Specs : 137 ft., 296 t.
Date of loss : 1880, Apr 16
Place of loss : Off Manitowoc, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : corn
Detail : Being towed to Manitowoc for repairs when struck by a gale and foundered after her tow steamer’s fires were drowned. Her temporary tow company crew was rescued.
Located in May, 1975
Sources: mv,is,lmdc,hgl,mpl,bb

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ALLIANCE


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ALLIANCE

Other names : none
Official no. : C
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1856, Oakville, Ont
Specs : 180 t.
Date of loss : 1863, Dec 2
Place of loss : Oswego, NY harbor
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 8
Carrying : feed, flour
Detail : While entering the harbor behind a tug with her sails furled, she was torn loose by a heavy gust of wind and driven ashore near the fort. There she became, according to the papers, "a perfect wreck." Her crew was rescued by line from shore. She had been bound fro Oswego from Port Credit, Ont.
Out of Toronto. Built for Capt. Sidney Hamilton
Sources: nsp(rp),hgl,clu,wmn
Location: clipping file

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ALLIANCE

Other names : none
Official no. : 300
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger
Build info : 1857, J.W. Banta, Buffalo
Specs : 87x17x7, 107g 85 t [om]
Date of loss : 1869, Nov 21
Place of loss : Niagara Falls
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : neglect or vandalism
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Laid up on Niagara R. at Lower Black Rock in spring of 1869. Later slipped her moorings and went over the falls.
Owned by H. Thornton of Buffalo.
Sources: lhl,nsp,wl,mdwl


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ALLIE

Other names : built as schooner RESCUE
Official no. : C51700
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1859, Norton & Leland, Cleveland US# 21190
Specs : 77x18x5, 60gc 60nc
Date of loss : 1875, Sep 30
Place of loss : near Belleville, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : "lost"
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : No detail. Document not surrendered 'til 1882.
Sold Canadian, 1869
Sources: mmgl,mv,h,wl


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JAMES L. ALLISON

Other names : none
Official no. : 77034
Type at loss : sidewheel self-propelled steam dredge
Build info : 1890, Saginaw, MI
Specs : 60x16x3, 54g 30n
Date of loss : 1892, Oct 25
Place of loss : unreported
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : "Wrecked."
Document surrendered at Port Huron Oct 27, 1893.
Sources: phr,hgl,vbs


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J.M. ALLMENDINGER

Other names : none
Official no. : 76411
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1883, G.H. Burgoyne, Benton Harbor
Specs : 105x24x9 183g 125n
Date of loss : 1895, Nov 26
Place of loss : Fox Point, N of Milwaukee
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Blinded by snow and went aground in blizzard-gale. Broken up by waves. Crew rescued.
Owned out of Milwaukee by E.B. Simpson & Son
Sources: nsp,h,mv,lmdc,wb,hgl,mpl,hcgl


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ALMA

Other names : ?
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : schooner, wood (2-m)
Build info : (1855, Sarnia or 1853, Roney & Calvin, Garden Isl.)
Specs : (94 t or 107x21x10, 211 t.)
Date of loss : 1866, Oct 22
Place of loss : midlake
Lake : Erie (maybe Lake Ontario)
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 6 [all]
Carrying : grain
Detail : Foundered, no detail.
Another ALMA was reportedly lost near Port Hope, Ont., in 1877. This was perhaps the schooner ALMA US#1086, 61 t., out of Oswego, NY.
Sources: (mmgl),wb,hgl,sol,globe,mv,nsp


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ALMA

Other names : none
Official no. : 106517
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1887, H.S. Downer, Milwaukee
Specs : 57x16x3, 26g 25n
Date of loss : 1892, May 18
Place of loss : near Bradford Beach, just north of Milwaukee
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 3
Carrying : gravel
Detail : Driven into shallows, capsized and later sank in 15-20 feet of water. Her crew clung to her upturned hull for several hours until rescued by the fishing schooner PRINCE.
Owned by A. Wronsted Roofing Co. of Milwaukee.
Sources: bb,hgl


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ALMEDA

Other names : also seen as ALAMEDA
Official no. : 313
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood
Build info : 1847, St. Joseph, MI as a schooner
Specs : 216 t.
Date of loss : 1880, May 22
Place of loss : Pelee Isl.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Anchored in a storm, stern was wrenched off and she sank.
Also sunk near Buffalo in 1864.
Heavily damaged in a storm in November, 1877, abandoned to underwriters with a broken back, but later recovered.
Damaged heavily in another storm, Sep, 1878.
Rebuilt and enlarged at Conneaut in 1867, and rebuilt again in 1873, 78; major repair in 1863
Sources: ledc,hgl,nsp,rsl

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THOMAS ALMERON -
See ALMERON THOMAS

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ALMIRA


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ALMIRA

Other names :
Official no. : ? (C?)
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1849, J. Curtis, Black R., OH
Specs : 85x20x6, 80 t. [om]
Date of loss : 1863, Jul 8
Place of loss : near "Devil's Nose," south shore of the lake
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : (all)
Carrying : barrelled fish
Detail : Dismasted and capsized in a violent squall. Cargo found on the 27th by schooner M.L. COLLINS. Vessel found, still afloat, by schooner PETREL on the 30th, and towed in. ALMIRA was bound Milford, Ont. for Oswego. She may have been rebuilt and lost - cut by ice and foundered with all five lives - Dec 2, 1871.
Sources: nsp,is,hgl,wl


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ALNWICK

Other names : none
Official no. : 565
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1851, L. Goler, Cape Vincent, NY
Specs : 90x20x8, 104 t. [122 t. om]
Date of loss : 1871, Oct 8
Place of loss : Chicago waterfront
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Burned to a total loss in the great Chicago fire.
Owned by John Read, Milwaukee.
Refastened in 1862
Sources: hgl,nsp,mv,wl,rsl,wl


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ALOHA

Other names : none Merchant Vessels sometimes spells it ALO-HA
Official no. : C134264
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, bulk frt, 2-mast
Build info : 1888, W. Dulac, Mt. Clemens, MI, as a schooner US#106542
Specs : 173x32x12 522g 501n
Date of loss : 1917, Oct 28
Place of loss : on Nine Mile Point, W of Kingston, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1 of 5
Carrying : coal
Detail : She sank in a gale while in tow of the steamer C.W. CHAMBERLAIN, while bound Erie, PA for Kingston. Her skipper was lost, but four crew were picked up in varied places by 3 different rescue boats, 2 by CHAMBERLAIN, one near shore by a local gas launch and one by lighthouse tender GRENVILLE. Location of the wreck was known and remains were purchased by Donnelly Salvage the next year, but salvage was not attempted.
Sold Canadian in 1914, owned by Milnes Bros. of Toronto
Sources: ns2,mv,mpl,csql(?),do,hcgl


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ALPENA

Other names : none
Official no. : 404
Type at loss : sidewheeler, wood, passenger & package frt
Build info : 1867, Arnold & Gallagher, Marine City, MI
Specs : 197x27x12, 643g
Date of loss : 1880, Oct 15
Place of loss : probably near Holland, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 100 (ca.) [all]
Carrying : passengers
Detail : Overtaken by a storm & went missing. Last seen off Racine, WI. First indication that she was lost was when masses of wreckage began washing ashore along the coast near Manistee. It took several days for the magnitude of the disaster to be realized. Her paddlebox nameboard washed ashore at "Alpena Beach" in 1909, after a storm.
Owned by the Goodrich Line
Thoroughly rebuilt in 1875-6
Sources: nsp,lm,glss,gs,sol,mol,rsh,eas,is(2-45),hgl,usls,mpl,rsh,hcgl


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ALPENA

Other names : none
Official no. : 105351
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight "steam barge"
Build info : 1874, Linn & Craig, Gibraltar, MI
Specs : 369g 285n
Date of loss : 1891, Oct 26
Place of loss : Lake St. Clair, about 3 mi below the Flats
Lake : St. Clair
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Burned to the waterline,a $24,000 loss. She was downbound from Marquette with the barges CITY OF THE STRAITS, H. C. POTTER, and ANTELOPE in tow. When a company arrived at the site a few days later to retrieve her lost cargo from the beach, they reported that local farmers were making a business of carting it off.
Owned by J. W. Westcott, Detroit.
Sources: mv,mpl,hgl,polk,es,jb


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ALPENA

Other names : ?
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : tug
Build info : ?
Specs : ?
Date of loss : 1943, Jun 20
Place of loss : Huron, OH
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : none
Detail : Run into by steamer EDMUND W. MUDGE and sank quickly in 35 feet of water. Recovered at great expense.
Owned by Great Lakes Towing. Probably same vessel as DUKE LUEDTKE (qv)
Sources: is(1-76)

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ALPS -
See INDIAN


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ALTA

Other names : none
Official no. : 106266
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, bulk freight 2-mast
Build info : 1884, F Wheeler, W. Bay City
Specs : 198x37x16 935g 909n
Date of loss : 1905, Oct 19
Place of loss : E. side of Grand Isl., near Munising, MI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Tow of tug F.A. MEYERS, she broke away and stranded in the rocky shallows, then was broken up by big waves. Her crew was rescued by local fishermen after clinging to the wreck for over a day.
Wrecker J. Reid bought her Nov 1, but was unable to save her.
Built as a 3-mast schooner.
Sources: nsp,ms,gwgl,gs,is,ns1,mv,eas,vbs,lss,mpl,hcgl


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ALTADOC

Other names : built as LAKE SHORE (US#141717) later INDUS('13), last name in 1926
Official no. : C116577
Type at loss : propeller steamer, steel, bulk freight
Build info : 1901, W. Bay City Shipbuilding, W. Bay Ciy, MI
Specs : 356x50x28 3815gc 2873nc
Date of loss : 1927, Dec 8
Place of loss : Keweenaw Pt. E of Copper Harbor, MI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Making for Ft. William, Ont., went aground in storm. Later broke in two & was finished off by fire in her coal bunker. Remains cut up for scrap during WWII. Her pilothouse was used as a gift shop and 2-room hotel nearby for many years until destroyed by fire Mar 22, 1987. Built for Gilchrist Fleet, sister of GILCHRIST (see PRINDOC)
Sold Canadian in 1926
Sources: eas,csv,vbs,win,lol,gwgl,gs,sol,is,ns3,mmgl,lss,mpl,bb,hcgl


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ALTAIR

Other names : ?
Official no. : US
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : (1855, Jones, Buffalo)?
Specs : (412 t.)?
Date of loss : 1864, Nov (8)
Place of loss : Big Charity Isl., Saginaw Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : grain
Detail : Bound Chicago for Buffalo, she went aground and was wrecked while trying to find shelter from a powerful gale. May have been recovered.
Owned in Chicago.
Sources: slh,hgl,nsp,(rsl)


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ALTON

Other names : none
Official no. : 203057
Type at loss : gas screw passenger launch, wood
Build info : 1905, J. Pouliot, Sandusky, OH
Specs : 42x9x4 7g 6n
Date of loss : 1921
Place of loss : Lakeside, OH
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Burned to a total loss. Registry shows her "abandoned" in 1923.
Sources: www,hcgl


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ALVA B

Other names : none
Official no. : 106738
Type at loss : steam tug, wood
Build info : 1890, Union Dry Dock Co., Buffalo
Specs : 74x18x11 84g 42n
Date of loss : 1917, Nov 1
Place of loss : of Avon Lake, OH
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Apparently mistook amusement park lights for the harbor markers, struck bottom in shallows and was destroyed by waves.
Her prop is on display at Avon Lake.
Sources: eas,ledc,hs,hcgl


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ALVA D

Other names : ?
Official no. : C126657
Type at loss : tug, wood
Build info : ?
Specs : 15 t.
Date of loss : 1914, Aug 25
Place of loss : bet Beaverstone & Collins Inlet, Georgian Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Destroyed by fire. Registered out of Midland, Ont.
Another vessel of this name may have been lost in 1911.
Built or acquired from foreign sources about 1914.
Sources: win,slh,h not in mmgl


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ALVINA

Other names : none
Official no. : 29713
Type at loss : scow-barge (schooner-rigged), wood
Build info : 1871, H. C. Schnoor, Fair Haven, MI
Specs : 89x20x7 95g 90n
Date of loss : 1901, Oct 12
Place of loss : Thunder Bay Isl.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 700 bbl lubricating oil
Detail : Bound Cleveland for Manistique in tow of steamer WESTON. She was overwhelmed and sank. Crew abandoned her in yawl and made it to shore unaided. Her cargo was salvaged by the 17th.
Built as a scow-schooner
Hailed from Mt. Clemens, owned by Capt. Dulac.
Sources: nsp,slh,is,mv,


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ALWILDA

Other names : also seen as ALWILDAR
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : before 1854 (Sandusky?)
Specs : 75 t.
Date of loss : 1857, Oct 18
Place of loss : Big Sable Point
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : Bound Chicago for Dean's Mills (near Two Rivers, Wisc), she sprang a leak during a blizzard and gale and was run onto the beach to save her crew. She immediately broke her baclk and later went to pieces. The crew sheltered in an abandoned cabin, along with crewmembers from the wrecked Canadian steamer REINDEER(qv).
Out of Buffalo
Burned with $2500 damage in October, 1854.
Sources: nsp,wl,hgl,jm


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ALZORA

Other names : none also seen as ABZORA
Official no. : C73916
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast (scow-schooner?)
Build info : 1864, W. Marlott, Kingsville, Ont.
Specs : 62x17x6, 33 gc
Date of loss : 1895, Oct.
Place of loss : 1.5 mi from lighthouse, S side Long Point
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Went ashore in heavy weather, total loss.
Originally 60x16x5. Rebuilt and enlarged, 1873 at Port Dover
Ashore and reported a total loss near Kingsville in October, 1869.
Sources: eas,mmgl,win,h,mdwl


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ALZORA

Other names : ?
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : tug (wood)
Build info : ?
Specs : ?
Date of loss : 1908, Jul 22
Place of loss : 2.5 miles off Bay Port, MI, Saginaw Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Burned and sank
Sources: nsp


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JAMES AMADEUS

Other names : none
Official no. : 75616
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1872, Lavayer, Cleveland
Specs : 65 ft., 44g 22n
Date of loss : 1893, Jun 28
Place of loss : unreported (probably near Cleveland)
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : hull failure
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Sprung a leak and foundered. Crew abandoned just before she went down.
Heavily damaged in a wreck near Cleveland in Aug of 1882.
Rebuilt in 1883
Sources: hgl,wb,mv,polk,usls


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AMARANTH

Other names : none
Official no. : 1026
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 2 mast, bulk freight
Build info : 1864, W. Shupe or Valentine Fries, Milan, OH.
Specs : 134x25x11 273g 259n
Date of loss : 1901, Sep 7
Place of loss : near Ft. Gratiot, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber?
Detail : Tow of steamer JOHN H PAULY, she was blown ashore and wrecked. PAULEY saved her crew in a daring action. She was later pounded to pieces despite a great salvage effort.
Sources: nsp,slh,lol,ns1,h,mol,mv,sip,hcgl


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AMAZON

Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : brig, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1837, Z. Pangborn, Port Huron, MI as a schooner
Specs : 93x23x9, 172 t. om
Date of loss : 1864, May 9
Place of loss : near Pt. Edward, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Bound Cleveland for Lake Superior, and due to return with a cargo of iron ore, she met her final storm just as she ran out of the St. Clair River. She went out of control and drove ashore on the Canadian side, where she broke up, a total loss. Owned by M. B. Scott, Cleveland.
She was considered the oldest working schooner on the lakes at the time of her loss.
Rebuilt from a schooner to a brig at Cleveland in 1845.
Sources: nsp,wl,hgl,rsl


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AMAZON

Other names : none
Official no. : 105252
Type at loss : propeller, wood, freighter
Build info : 1873, A.A. Turner, Trenton, MI
Specs : 235x40x21, , 1406g
Date of loss : 1879, Oct 29
Place of loss : Grand Haven Bar
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 68 aboard
Carrying : "provisions" - 900 tons freight plus 7000 bbl flour
Detail : She struck the notorious bar in a gale and broke up. Bound Milwaukee for Grand Haven. Usls has a good story of her loss. Hailed from Grand Haven, formerly of Detroit. Her engines were later recovered.
Owned by the Northwestern Transportation Co.
Wrecked and declared a total loss in a storm Nov 4, 1873 on North Manitou. Recovered the next summer by the wrecker LEVIATHAN. Stranded near Presque Isle, MI, Lake Huron, in 1875 and largely rebuilt after recovery.
Sources: (nsp),is,sol,h,lmdc,hgl,usls,mpl,mv,es,hcgl


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AMBOY

Other names : built as HELENA, last name in 1891
Official no. : 95276
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, bulk freight, 2-mast
Build info : 1874, Quayle & Murphy, Cleveland as a 3-mast schooner
Specs : 209x34x14894g 819n
Date of loss : 1905, Nov 29
Place of loss : near Thomasville, Ont.
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 6
Carrying : coal
Detail : Tow of steamer GEORGE SPENCER (qv), she struggled against the gale for a full day before finally going ashore. See GEORGE SPENCER for more.
Built as a schooner
Sources: nsp,gwgl,mol,ns1,mv,eas,lss


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AMELIA

Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1848, Chicago
Specs : 49x14x3, 20 g
Date of loss : 1856, May 15
Place of loss : on a line between Waukegan and Muskegon
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 3
Carrying : light
Detail : She was bound Waukegan for Muskegon to pick up a cargo of shingle bolts when she was thrown over on her beam ends by a sudden squall. Her crewmen tried in the night to hail one of the passing schooners, but six of them passed them by before the schooner Wm. STURGES heard their calls and picked them up off the overturned hull.
Rebuilt in 1855.
Sources: nsp,bb,mpl


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AMELIA -
This schooner was reported in several sources to have foundered off Fairport, OH, in Aug, 1861. Supposedly, all that was found of her was her floating rigging and a "message in a bottle," reporting her loss. The report, however, turned out to be a hoax, though the vessel did arrive in port a few days late.



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AMELIA

Other names : ?
Official no. : ?(C none)
Type at loss : schooner, wood (2-m)
Build info : ?(1836, J. Randall, Oakville, Ont.)
Specs : ?(91x19x7, 106 t.)
Date of loss : 1864, Nov (8)
Place of loss : off Goderich, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : foundered
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Foundered in shallow water in a storm and reported pounded to pieces bythe 28th. Recovered, rebuilt as barge, which was lost soon after.
Sources: (mmgl),slh,hgl,nsp

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AMELIA GRACE -
See GRACE AMELIA

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AMERICA -
See also GLENSTRIVEN


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AMERICA

Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1847, J.W. Surles, Port Huron, MI
Specs : 240x34x14, 1083 t.
Date of loss : 1854, Apr 5
Place of loss : near Pt. Pelee
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Bound Cleveland for Detroit. After the Captain had set her course and gone to bed, the second mate changed the course to the north. First and second mate then disagreed over the course and just as they awoke the captain she struck. Wrecked by wave action - in a few days there was hardly anything left worth saving. Last of her gear, etc. was removed by the scow FROLIC in late May.
On Jul 31, 1850, she suffered a boiler or steampipe explosion on Lake Erie which immediately killed 9; probably others who were badly scalded died later.
Sources: lhl,nsp,mpl,umich,wl,eas


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AMERICA

Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1853, G. Thayer, Ashtabula, OH
Specs : 118 t.
Date of loss : 1866, Aug 8
Place of loss : midlake off Waukegan
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : She capsized in a storm with part of her crew plus a woman passenger and her child trapped below. The crew of the passing schooner ELIZA LOGAN was able to assist by rescuing those on the upturned hull and cutting a hole through the bottom to remove those inside. The schooner was later towed in, but apparently was never used again, although MIGHT be the schooner out of Chicago that was reported lost Sep 17, 1868 in Lake Michigan.
Sources: rsl,nsp,hgl


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AMERICA

Other names : none
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood
Build info : 1842, J. Ewings, Niagara, Ont.
Specs : 141x19 407 t.
Date of loss : 1874
Place of loss : off Kingston, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : foundered
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : No detail
Owned by Calvin & Breck out of Kingston
Sources: mmgl,clu,csv,nsp


------------------------------------------------------ 4027
AMERICA

Other names : none
Official no. : 105244
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1873, Arch Muir, Port Huron, MI
Specs : 137x26x12, 341g
Date of loss : 1880, Sep 28
Place of loss : 9 mi N of Two Rivers
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : Damaged in a towing collision and began to leak. She was taken in tow by salvagers, but sank before reaching shore.
Local dive target.
Sources: bb,phr


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AMERICA

Other names : none
Official no. : (355)
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood
Build info : (1849, Clayton, NY)
Specs : (138x26x10 271g 257n)
Date of loss : 1907
Place of loss : Chambers Isl.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : Went aground and broke up
Sources: lmdc,mv


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AMERICA

Other names : none
Official no. : 107367
Type at loss : propeller, steel, passenger and package freight
Build info : 1898, Wyandotte, MI
Specs : 165x31x11, 681g 478n
Date of loss : 1928, Jun 7
Place of loss : Washington Harbor, Isle Royale
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : nav. error
Loss of life : none [a passenger’s dog perished]
Carrying : pas., general merch.
Detail : Struck a reef in good weather and sank. A wreck diver died on her in 1970.
Lies about 200 ft off a small point on Isle Royale opposite Thompson Isl.
Owned by Booth Fisheries of Duluth.
Sources: eas,glp,irs,is,gwgl,sol,mh,ns3,mpl,hcgl


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AMERICA

Other names : later renamed MIDWAY (1982) and WISCONSIN, (1983)
Official no. : 107302
Type at loss : salvage tug,steel
Build info : 1897, Union Dry Dock Co, Buffalo, NY
Specs : 80x21x12, 123 gt.
Date of loss : 1941, Oct 21
Place of loss : Off Belle Isle
Lake : Detroit R
Type of loss : Towing accident
Loss of life : 6 of 13
Carrying : none
Detail : Capsized while trying to pull steel bulker B.F. JONES off a bar. She was on a cable between JONES and the big tug OREGON when the cable tightened, pulling the AMERICA out of the water and spinning her upside down. Recovered.
"G-tug" - most serious accident in Great Lakes Towing's History. AMERICA was part of the original 1899 fleet.
Sources: is(2-68,1-76),mv,hcgl


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AMERICA

Other names : ?
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : oil screw
Build info : ?
Specs : 13 t
Date of loss : 1950, May 5
Place