------------------------------------------------------ 435
C.D. No. 2
Other names : none
Official no. : C156942
Type at loss : unrigged derrick scow, wood
Build info : 1906, R. Weddell, Trenton, Ont.
Specs : 70x30x5, 94 cg/cn.
Date of loss : 1940, Aug 30
Place of loss : 3.5 mi W of Erieau, Ont., harbor, 12 mi out
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : foundered
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Went down in 8 fathoms of water. Out of Chatham, Ont.
Sources: mmgl,h,win


------------------------------------------------------ 436
C.O.D.
Other names : none
Official no. : 33908
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1873, Callister, Grand Haven
Specs : 140 ft, 289g 274n
Date of loss : 1887, Oct 22
Place of loss : 3 mi E of Port Burwell, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : wheat
Detail : This schooner beached in a northwest gale and soon broke up. She had been bound Port Huron for Buffalo. Most of the crew swam to shore, but the woman cook, who was lashed to the rigging, perished.
Owned by John Kelderhouse of Buffalo
Sources: nsp,h,ledc,mv,wb,win,hgl,usls,sb,es3-1,


------------------------------------------------------ 437
CABOTIA
Other names : built as HIAWATHA renamed in 1913
Official no. : C133825
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1880, Linn & Craig, Gibraltar, MI [US#95600]
Specs : 235x36x20 1299g 1160n
Date of loss : 1919, Aug 25
Place of loss : Main Duck Isl.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : stranded
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : CABOTIA went ashore and split her hull, becoming a constructive total loss.
Sold Canadian, 1913
See also HIAWATHA
Sources: mmgl,csv,ns3,hcgl

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CACOUNA - See JENNIFER

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CADILLAC - See MAPLEHURST


------------------------------------------------------ 438
THOMAS H. CAHOON
Other names : none
Official no. : C125558
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1881, T Arnold, E. Saginaw [US# 59404]
Specs : 166x31x10 437g 410n
Date of loss : 1913, Oct 11
Place of loss : Innes Isl., Georgian Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Bound S.S. Marie for Byng Inlet in tow of steamer C.W. CHAMBERLAIN, she stranded and went to pieces on Kenny Shoal, SW corner of island.
Sold Canadian [E. Burke of Midland, Ont.] in 1913
Built for L.P. Mason of Saginaw, later owned by Shannon & Garey lumber of the same place.
Sources: nsp,slh,is(3-76),vbs,ns2,mv,lhdc,win,do,hcgl not in mmgl


------------------------------------------------------ 4170
CAIRO
Other names : none
Official # : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1854, G. S. Weeks, Buffalo
Specs : 355 t. om
Date of loss : 1863, Oct 18
Place of loss : near Death’s Door
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : salt, carboys of acid
Detail : She was driven ashore and became a total wreck, breaking up within two hours of striking. Some of her gear was removed by the bark NEWSBOY. Owned by Western Transportation Co.
Major repairs in 1861
Sources : nsp,jm,wl,umr

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CALABRIA - See GLENFINLAS


------------------------------------------------------ 439
CALATCO #2
Other names : built as U.S. Navy tug NO. 56, later renamed LEADER, remaned CALATCO #2 about 1946
Official no. : 236512
Type at loss : propeller tug, steel, oil motor
Build info : 1918, Greenport, L.I., N.Y. for U.S. Navy
Specs : 82x21x10, 101 gt 69 nt
Date of loss : 1946, Nov 13
Place of loss : Oswego, NY, in harbor
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none, towing a gasoline barge
Detail : She caught fire near her engine and burned to a constructive total loss. Firemen made no headway against the blaze, which was fueled by diesel oil around her engine, and were finally pulled back because the volume of water used was sinking her. Local Coast Guardsmen finally pulled her out against the breakwater, where she burned out. Valued at over $100,000.
Owned by Canal and Lake Towing Co. of New York
Sources: h,rp not in mmgl

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S.D. CALDWELL - See LOUIE O’NEILL

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CALEDONIA - See also GALE STAPLES


------------------------------------------------------ 440
CALEDONIA
Other names : C?
Official no. : none (or 4384)
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : (1843, Hackett, Saugeen, Ont. or 18??, Cleveland)
Specs : ?
Date of loss : 1862 (also given: 1856 or 58)
Place of loss : near Sleeping Bear Point
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : (6)
Carrying : flour & salt pork
Detail : Blown ashore and wrecked.
A schooner CALEDONIA was shore near Port Colborne and expected to break up in early September of 1856, but recovered. Perhaps the same vessel as below.
The same or another schooner CALEDONIA capsized while trying to make harbor in a gale near Grand Haven, MI, Sep 17, 1856 with the loss of all six crew. The schooner went completely over and broke her masts off short against the bottom, then floated in to shore keel upward.
Probably the vessel built for the fur trade and once owned by J.J. Astor.
Sources: sb,nb,hgl,nsp,mpl


------------------------------------------------------ 3310
CALEDONIA
Other names : none
Official no. : 4384
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1861, Hackett, Saugeen, Ont.
Specs : 70x18x7, 52g 50n
Date of loss : 1901, Nov 25
Place of loss : Near Glen Haven, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 3
Carrying : slabs, X-mas trees
Detail : Abandoned in sinking condition well offshore. Washed ashore near Glen Haven. Crew picked up by schooner LOMIE A. BURTON (qv).
May be the same vessel as 1862 loss. May also be the 1870 vessel of this name, a former Canadian reported wrecked and burned in 1885-6.
Sources: nsp,mv, ,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------ 443
CALIFORNIA
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : ?(1849, L.Shickluna, St. Catharines, Ont or 1849, G. Ashenbach, Vermilion, OH)
Specs : ?(103x21x8, 176 t. or 71x19x4, 41 t.)
Date of loss : 1859
Place of loss : Niagara Reef, W end of Lake
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : stranded
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : no detail
Probably also wrecked near Barcelona, NY, in 1851.
Another schooner of this name was launched at Cleveland in 1853 - she was a large 3-master.
Sources: ledc,hgl,(mmgl,wl),nsp


------------------------------------------------------ 442
CALIFORNIA
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1846, J. W. Banta, Buffalo
Specs : 169x25x10, 420 t.
Date of loss : 1862, Oct 23
Place of loss : Gull Isl. Reef
Lake : Erie*
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : "Wrecked" on reef.
*Also seen as L. Ontario.
Also ashore with significant damage on Pt. Pelee in Sept., 1846.
Sources: (lhl,hgl),lc,nsp,wl


------------------------------------------------------ 441
CALIFORNIA
Other names : later rebuilt as EDWARD S. PEASE (qv)
Official no. : C85309
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1873, A. Robinson, Hamilton, Ont.
Specs : 180x26x11, 901gc 580nc
Date of loss : 1887, Oct 3
Place of loss : 1 mi off St. Helena Isl, Straits of Mackinac
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 9 of 25
Carrying : general merch.
Detail : Overwhelmed by a storm and sank about 7 mi due W of the current Mackinac Bridge N anchorage. Some of her lost crew are buried at Mackinac City. Abandoned by her owners a few days later, but raised and rebuilt as PEASE (qv) at Bay City, thus transferring her to US ownership.
Owned by Crandall & Geddes, Toronto.
Rebuilt by Allan & Bros., Port Dalhousie, and lengthened 43 feet in 1883.
Ashore and wrecked near Sand Beach, MI, Lake Huron, in June of 1884.
Sources: nsp,slh,sol,is,h,lmdc,mod,hgl,mmgl,usls,sb,es3-1,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------ 444
BERTIE CALKINS
Other names : none
Official no. : C126127
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1874, Hanson & Scove, Two Rivers, WI US# 2915
Specs : 134x28x9 256g 243n
Date of loss : 1919, Oct 3*
Place of loss : near Belleville, Quinte bay
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Foundered and reported as a total loss, but later recovered. Ran as a schooner for a few more years, then converted to a barge. Abandoned around 1930, last registered in 1931.
*Date also given as Oct 9, 1917.
Registered out of Belleville, sold Canadian about 1909.
Sources: h,mv,is(2-90),win,mpl,dmt,hcgl not in mmgl


------------------------------------------------------ 445
CALUMET
Other names : none
Official no. : 126237
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1884, Union Dry Dock, Buffalo
Specs : 256x37x20, 1526g 1181n
Date of loss : 1889, Nov 28
Place of loss : near Ft. Sheridan, Ill, 20 mi N of Chicago
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 18
Carrying : coal
Detail : After springing a leak in a gale-blizzard, she was run up on beach to save crew but was broken up by storm waves. Her crew were taken off by the Lifesaving Service and a number of volunteer students from Northwestern U. after a terrific struggle. Her leak was attributed to her striking a nest of boulders near Bois Blanc Island, Detroit R., earlier in the voyage. The rocks had become an obstruction during this low-water year.
Sources: nsp,is(4-74),lmdc,mv,eas,wb,hgl,bb,mpl,es,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------ 446
D.D. CALVIN
Other names : none
Official no. : C83298
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1883, Calvin & Son, Garden Isl., Ont.
Specs : 166x32x15 750gc 283nc
Date of loss : 1910, Apr 11
Place of loss : Garden Isl. , Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Burned to a total loss while fitting out for the season.
Registered out of Kingston.
Hull launched Sep 11, 1883; engine & machinery fitted and installed at Cleveland.
Sources: (nsp),ns2,csv,win


------------------------------------------------------ 447
HIRAM A. CALVIN
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1868, H. Roney, Garden Isl., Ont as a large river tug
Specs : 144x43x10 309t
Date of loss : 1895, Dec
Place of loss : Garden Isl. Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Destroyed in accidental fire at the Calvin shipyard. Also reported as wrecked by ice.
Dismantling completed in Dec, 96.
Sources: csv,mmgl,wl


------------------------------------------------------ 3767
LAURA E. CALVIN
Other names : also seen as L.E. CALVIN. Built on the hull of the steamer ECLIPSE
Official no. : C ?
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1863, Henry Roney, Garden Isl. Ont. as a bark
Specs : 130x21x9, 216 t.
Date of loss : 1869, Aug 5
Place of loss : 10 miles off Braddock’s Point
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : none
Carrying : in ballast
Detail : Sprung a leak and foundered while bound Kingston for the Welland Canal.
Owned at Wolfe Island, Ont.
Supplement to ‘69 clu is annotated "erase the name."
Sources: hgl,mmgl,clu,nsp,rsl,mdwl

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CAMANCHE - See COMANCHE

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CAMBRIA - See also LAKELAND


------------------------------------------------------ 449
CAMBRIA
Other names : built as CHAMPION, last name in 1888
Official no. : C74297
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1877, A.F. Beaulieu, Levis, Que. As a sidewheel tug
Specs : 175x23x11 937gc 590nc
Date of loss : 1902, Jul 16
Place of loss : Reid's Isl., Welland Canal
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : navigational error
Loss of life : none
Carrying : passengers
Detail : Sheared off and struck the rocks surrounding the island. Raised soon after but found to be a constructive total loss.
Struck a log raft with heavy damage in 1897.
Built as a big rafting tug, lengthened 44' and rebuilt as a passenger vessel in 1887
Sources: mmgl,is(2-59),slh,ns1,mpl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------ 450
CAMBRIDGE
Other names : none
Official no. : 5399
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1868, Detroit Dry Dock, Detroit hull #4
Specs : 162x28x13 445g
Date of loss : 1873, Aug 30
Place of loss : near Marquette, MI [Big Bay Point]
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : (none)
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : Thrown on a rocky shore by a storm, where she broke up in another storm in early September. She had been bound Marquette for Cleveland.
Homeport: Detroit, owned by John Hosmer
Sources: atl,lss,mv,bb,nsp,hcgl

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M.C. CAMERON - See GEORGE GOBLE


------------------------------------------------------ 4032
CAMERONIAN
Other names : none
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1863, A. A. Hackett, Baie de dore, Ont.
Specs :
Date of loss : 1865, April 15
Place of loss : near Point Clark, Ont., S of Southampton
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : This schooner drove ashore in a snow storm and became a total loss. She was later stripped of her rigging and abandoned.
Owned by her skipper, Laughlen Cameron of Baie de dore [near Inverhuron, Ont.]
Sources: jw

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CAMILLA - See RUSSELL ROQUE

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CAMP - see COLONEL CAMP


------------------------------------------------------ 452
MYRTLE CAMP
Other names : none
Official no. : 92416
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1892, Manitowoc, WI
Specs : 68x18x6 48g 46n
Date of loss : 1894, May 18
Place of loss : off Deadman's Point, near Menominee, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : salt, empty barrels
Detail : Driven ashore 500 feet from deep water in a terrific spring gale, 1.5 mi north of Ingallston, MI. Tugs were unable to reach her and she was abandoned. However, she was later recovered, finished her days on the east coast after an abortive attempt to "round the Horn" in 1897, when she was not allowed to leave a U.S. harbor due to her poor condition and equipment.
Sources: rkr,h,mv,nsp,


------------------------------------------------------ 453
T.H. CAMP
Other names : none
Official no. : 145127
Type at loss : fishing tug, wood
Build info : 1876, Luther Read, Cape Vincent, NY
Specs : 65x15x6 59g 45n
Date of loss : 1900, Nov 16
Place of loss : near Madeline Isl, Apostles
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber camp supplies
Detail : She struck a reef and sank. She was a fish tug which had been chartered as a temporary cargo carrier and was bound for Madeline Isl.. Went down in 200 ft. of water.
She was built for moving from fishing boat to fishing boat, picking up the catch, and thus had a very shallow draft.
Owned by A. Booth of Chicago
Sources: gwgl,is(1-71),mv,nsp,

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COLIN CAMPBELL - See EMBURY


------------------------------------------------------ 454
FANNY CAMPBELL
Other names : none
Official no. : C96846
Type at loss : schooner, wood, but often described as a bark
Build info : 1868, L Shickluna, St. Catharines, Ont.
Specs : 404 t
Date of loss : 1899, Sep
Place of loss : unreported
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : ?
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Lost, no detail
In 1877 more than $10,000 was spent on the building of large iron tanks in her hold for the transport of oil cargoes. She ran crude oil cargoes to Montreal from points west for several years at least. It’s not known if the the tanks were still installed at the time of loss, but probably not.
Ashore and reported abandoned on Lake Erie in Nov, 1874. Recovered in July, 1875.
Capsized off Rondeau, Lake Erie, in Jun, 1869, and towed over 80 miles to Detroit by the tug CLEMATIS while still on her beam ends.
Sources: nsp,mmgl,h,win,es

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GORDON CAMPBELL - See STRATHMORE


------------------------------------------------------ 455
P.M. CAMPBELL
Other names : none
Official no. : C94684
Type at loss : propeller tug, wood
Build info : 1889, S.D. Andrews, Collingwood
Specs : 72x14x7, 49g 33n
Date of loss : 1908, Sep 11
Place of loss : at Manitowaning, Ont., Manitoulin Isl.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Burned at the dock at Manitowaning. Her captain stayed aboard and ran the burning vessel to deeper water, where she was scuttled, thus saving her machinery. The hull was later removed to a point just off Chicken Island, Collins Inlet, and there scuttled.
Document surrendered after burning at Little Current, Ont, Nov 15, 1899.
Sources: mmgl,h,win,go


------------------------------------------------------ 456
PEARL B. CAMPBELL
Other names : none
Official no. : 150296
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1883, J.B. Martel, Saugatuck, MI
Specs : 55x16x7 22g 11n
Date of loss : 1895, Dec 7
Place of loss : near Huron Islands
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 7 [all]
Carrying : none
Detail : Returning to Duluth after pulling at the stranded schooner HENRY A. KENT near Marquette, she filled and sank stern first in a gale after accumulating a heavy load of ice on her upperworks.
See C.J. KERSHAW for more on KENT.
Feared lost in a gale in November of same year while on same job, but turned up sheltering.
Sources: nsp,is(4-73),gwgl,gsgl,h,mv,wb,lss,hgl,mpl


------------------------------------------------------ 457
RALPH CAMPBELL
Other names : none
Official no. : 21179
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1855, Peck & Masters, Cleveland
Specs : 127x26x9 227g 215n
Date of loss : 1909, Oct 14
Place of loss : near Long Point
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Swamped by a storm and drifted ashore, where she was wrecked by waves after a 54-year career.
Ashore and given up for lost on Hog Island Reef, Lake Michigan, in 1859.
Rebuilt in 1862
Sources: ns1,mv,rsl,nsp

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CANADA - See also EUREKA, J.W. STEINHOFF


------------------------------------------------------ 3437
CANADA
Other names : ?
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood
Build info : 1826, Rouge River [Toronto], Ont.
Specs : 250 t.
Date of loss : 1837
Place of loss : near Oswego, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Wrecked.
Sources: csv(s),hgl


------------------------------------------------------ 458
CANADA
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : bark, wood, 3-mast formerly sidewheel steamer
Build info : 1846, Chippawa, Ont.
Specs : 199x28x13, 758 t.
Date of loss : 1858, Aug 30
Place of loss : at Chicago
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber [a half million board feet]
Detail : Came into Chicago harbor the previous day leaking from a storm and settled just north of downtown. The next day, while the tug McQUEEN was trying to rescue her, she blew southward and struck a bar off the old waterworks, where she broke her back and later went to pieces.
Owned by E. A. Bruce, Chicago.
Built in Canada as a steamer, seized by U.S. in 1849, rebuilt as a bark in 1852.
Brought a locomotive and 2300 rails to Chicago in the spring of 1853.
Sources: is,csv,hgl,mmgl,mpl,nsp,wl,rnc


------------------------------------------------------ 3908
CANADA
Other names : also seen as CANADA No. 2 and YOUNG CANADA
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sidewheel tug, wood
Build info : 1852, St. Antoine de Tilly, Quebec
Specs : 108x18x? , ca. 59 t.
Date of loss : 1865, Nov 28
Place of loss : near Bar Pt.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : schooner and barge in tow
Detail : She struck bottom near Bar Point while trying to bring her charges into the Detroit River. The Hackett brothers, local tugmen from Malden, Ont. came immediately to the crew's rescue at great peril to themselves and their tug ZOUAVE. The little sidewheeler broke up quickly, but her machinery was later recovered.
Owned by Cherry & Barker, Chicago.
Sold American after a devastating fire at her dock on the St. Clair R. in October, 1855. Owned out of Bay City in 1864.
Rebuilt at Detroit in 1856. Major repair in 1862
Sources: nsp,csv,rsl not in lhl


------------------------------------------------------ 3281
CANADA
Other names : none
Official no. : C
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1861, L. Shickluna, St. Catharines Ont. as a bark
Specs : 143x26x12, 399 t.
Date of loss : 1882, Nov 11
Place of loss : Colchester Shoal
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : black walnut and oak lumber
Detail : Ran aground. At first she was not seriously damaged, but she was later destroyed by wave action. Totally broken up by Nov 25. She had been bound Toledo for Quebec.
Owned by S Neelon of St. Catharines.
Major repairs in 1871 and 74
Sources: nsp,clu,rp,rsl,es not in mmgl


------------------------------------------------------ 459
CANADA
Other names : ?
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : propeller, wood, freighter
Build info : 1858, Detroit
Specs : 143 t
Date of loss : 1883
Place of loss : off Rockport, MI, near Rogers City
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : sank
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Reported sunk and lost.
Not in '69 mvus or mmgl
Sources: slh,hdm,hgl


------------------------------------------------------ 460
CANADA
Other names : rebuilt as EUREKA in 1893
Official no. : C100392
Type at loss : propeller, wood, freighter
Build info : 1872, A. Robertson, Hamilton, Ont.
Specs : 135x24 557gc
Date of loss : 1892, Oct 18
Place of loss : at Port Huron, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Caught fire and gutted, abandoned by owners. Later raised by U.S. salvors, engine removed and hull converted to the American schooner-barge EUREKA.
Originally 142 ft, 644 t.; rebuilt and reduced in size, spring,1892
Sources: is,slh,h,csv,hgl,mmgl,st


------------------------------------------------------ 461
CANADA
Other names : ?
Official no. : C116485
Type at loss : steamer
Build info : ?
Specs : 2,445 t
Date of loss : 1916, Nov 2
Place of loss : Mitchell's Bay
Lake : St. Clair
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : She reportedly collided with a tug and sank, but details are sketchy. Name of tug may be MITCHELL'S BAY or that may be location of the loss.
Probably recovered.
Built or acquired from foreign sources about 1904.
Sources: h,win not in mmgl


------------------------------------------------------ 462
CANADA #2
Other names : ?
Official no. : C111911
Type at loss : towbarge, wood
Build info : unknown
Specs : 96x18, 107gc 85nc
Date of loss : 1902, Apr
Place of loss : 3 mi E of Toronto harbor entrance
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Wrecked in a gale - cast off by tug in big waves, went ashore and pounded to pieces.
Out of Toronto
Built or acquired from foreign sources about 1901
Sources: h,win,mmgl

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CANADIAN - See OLIVER LEE, ONTARIO


------------------------------------------------------ 463
CANADIAN
Other names : none
Official no. : C none?
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1856, M. Simpson, Oakville, Ont.
Specs : 103x21x9, 160gc 153nc
Date of loss : 1880, Nov 5
Place of loss : near Clara Isl. [Robert Pt.], North Channel
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : stranded
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Stranded, total loss.
Date also given as Nov 6, tonnage 230.
Out of Oakville, formerly of Toronto
Sunk near Port Credit, Ont. in December of 1856.
Major repair in 1863, rebuilt in 1871
Sources: slh,h,lhdc,win,mmgl,rsl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------ 464
FRANK CANFIELD
Other names : none
Official no. : 120256
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1875, Manistee*
Specs : 63x16x8 48g 25n
Date of loss : 1904, Apr 11
Place of loss : Big Sable Point, Michigan
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 3 of 5
Carrying : none
Detail : Pushed onto a bar after her steering chain parted, where she broke up and sank. Owned by Barnes & Co. of Ludington, her crew was from Manistee.
Major repair in 1882. By 1884 she was a wrecking tug.
*unofficial sources say she built by Rand & Burger, Manitowoc, Manistee is official (mv), but probably incorrect
Sources: nsp,sol,h,mpl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------ 4171
M. L. CANFIELD
Other names : built as MARY LYDIA, renamed in 1881
Official # : C
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : between 1871 and 73
Specs : 104x23x10, 150 t.
Date of loss : 1881, Sep 15
Place of loss : off Bar Point
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Bound Sandusky, OH, for Amherstburg, Ont., she encountered a storm and anchored off Bar Point. As the wave increased, they began to sweep her decks and she was abandoned. Her crew made it to Amherstburg after 8 hours in an open boat. The following spring the Canadian government contracted to have the wreckage, which had been moved and largely broken up by ice, removed. She was dredged out of existence by mid-July.
Owned by Canfields of Kingsville, Ont.
Rebuilt and enlarged at Amherstburg, Ont., in 1881. Essentially a new vessel afterwards, was lost barely a month later.
Sources : es,clu,jm,nsp


------------------------------------------------------ 465
CANISTEO
Other names : none
Official no. : 4394
Type at loss : propeller. Wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1862, Mason & Bidwell, Buffalo
Specs : 196 ft. 856g 668n
Date of loss : 1880, Oct 14
Place of loss : tip of Waugoschance Point, Straits of Mack.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : flaxseed, flour, corn, lard and passengers
Detail : She collided with the schooner GEORGE MURRAY in a storm and sank, a total loss. Barrels of lard from her cargo washed ashore for weeks. Some gear and her machinery was salvaged over the next few years.
Sources: ssm,nsp,slh,is,lmdc,lhl,hgl,mpl


------------------------------------------------------ 466
CANISTEO
Other names : none
Official no. : 126360
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1886, W. Dulac, Mt. Clemens
Specs : 182x34x12 595g 539n
Date of loss : 1920
Place of loss : Port Huron, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Burned offshore, a constructive total loss. Her remains were scrapped the next year.
Equipped with a deck crane at Duluth, 1908
Sources: slh,ns3,mv,mpl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------ 467
CANOBIE
Other names : built as IRON KING last name in 1913
Official no. : C133826
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1887, Detroit Dry Dock, Detroit [US#100412] hull# 80
Specs : 259x38x22 1748gc 1031nc
Date of loss : 1921, Nov 1
Place of loss : 30 mi WSW of Port Colborne, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Heavily damaged offshore by a storm. She was somehow able to limp into Erie, PA, where she sank. She was inspected and declared a constructive total loss and was eventually stripped of usable items and burned.
Sold Canadian, 1913. Registered out of Montreal.
Sources: atl,mmgl,ns3,h,csv,win,mpl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------ 3312
CANOPUS
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : brig, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1855, F. D. Ketchum, Huron, OH
Specs : 386 t.
Date of loss : 1865, Jun 24
Place of loss : off Claybanks
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 16,500 bu wheat
Detail : She collided with bark REPUBLIC between 3 and 4 am and sank in 7 fathoms of water after about 20 minutes. Her crew escaped in her yawl. Owned by Munn & Scott of Chicago. The tug DISPATCH recovered her outfit two weeks later.
Went ashore and was expected to break up at Erie, PA, in September of 1859, but later rescued.
Sources: nsp,rsl

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CANTON - See FRONTIER CITY


------------------------------------------------------ 468
CAPELLA
Other names : none also on official lists as CAPPELLA
Official no. : 4578
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1850, Halver Nelson, Algoma, WI
Specs : 51x15x6, 25 gt
Date of loss : 1883, May 9
Place of loss : 3 mi N of harbor entrance at Racine, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 3
Carrying : slabs
Detail : She ran ashore in a squall. She was pulled off after several days, but rolled on her beam ends twice while being towed in. Declared a total loss after the second time and was reportedly abandoned, but she still shows on some later records.
Sources: mv,h,usls,bb


------------------------------------------------------ 469
M. CAPRON
Other names : none
Official no. : 90772
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1875, P. White, Conneaut, OH
Specs : 116x23x9 170g 161n
Date of loss : 1898, Oct 31
Place of loss : off Bailey's Harbor, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Foundered on Halloween.
Sources: mv,h,mpl


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CAPT. GEORGE W. NAUGHTIN - See BERWYN


------------------------------------------------------ 3438
CAPTAIN K
Other names : ?
Official no. : C
Type at loss : fishing trawler,steel
Build info : ?
Specs : ?
Date of loss : 1991, Mar 18
Place of loss : off Port Dover, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : 3
Carrying : smelt
Detail : Rammed at night by Canadian Coast Guard Cutter GRIFFON and sank. Returning to port when lost. Immediate search failed to locate any wreckage or crew. The hulk was later located on the bottom.
Sources: nsp,radio

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CAPTAIN JOHN ROEN - See GEORGE M. HUMPHREY

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CAPT. G. H. SMITH - See MARY KAY


------------------------------------------------------ 470
J.F. CARD
Other names : none
Official no. : 12778
Type at loss : schooner, wood,
Build info : 1864, Nichols, Vermilion, OH
Specs : 137x26x11 277g 263n
Date of loss : 1900, Nov 15
Place of loss : Point Douglas, N of Inverhuron, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Driven on the rocky point by a nor’wester and broke up in place. Her crew was rescued from shore by locals in a small rowboat. She had been bound for Saginaw.
Owned by H. Wineman of Detroit, hailed from Port Huron.
Sources: nsp,is(3-66),ns1,lhdc


------------------------------------------------------ 471
CARDINAL
Other names : built as steamer WINDSOLITE, renamed IMPERIAL WINDSOR in 1947, CARDINAL in 1973
Official no. : C138580
Type at loss : propeller, steel, tanker
Build info : 1927, Furness Shipbuilding, Haverton Hill, Eng. as a package freighter
Specs : 250x43x18 1930gc
Date of loss : 1974, May 21
Place of loss : Pelee Passage
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : She had blown for passing the big bulker HENRY STEINBRENNER starboard-starboard, but she cut in front of the giant steamer during the maneuver and was cut 2/3 through by the resulting collision. One of HENRY's bower anchors was sheared off above the flukes by the force of the collision. CARDINAL staggered off and sank on a rocky shoal nearby. The hulk was recovered but declared a constructive total loss.
Sources: mmgl,csv,ff,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------ 472
M.D. CARDINGTON - erroneous reporting of an accident to E. M. CARRINGTON (qv) in 1873

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W.S. CARKIN - See also JOSEPH H


------------------------------------------------------ 473
W.S. CARKIN
Other names : none
Official no. : 81198
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1874, Ch. Wheeler, E. Saginaw
Specs : 70x16x6 29g 14n
Date of loss : 1887, Nov 23
Place of loss : near Presque Isle, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : stranded
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Bound S.S. Marie for Saginaw, she struck a reef in heavy weather and wrecked. Her crew was rescued by the tug EFFIE L.
A new vessel of the same name was launched the next year (see JOSEPH H)
Sources: slh,sbs,nsp,vbs,phr,hgl


------------------------------------------------------ 474
CARLINGFORD
Other names : none also seen as CARLINGSFORD
Official no. : 125024
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1869, Fitzgerald & Leighton, Port Huron
Specs : 155x31x12 470g
Date of loss : 1881, Nov 12
Place of loss : off Dunkirk, NY
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : 26,000 bu wheat
Detail : Collided with iron steamer BRUNSWICK (qv), both vessels sank. The dead crewman was lost in the scramble to her boats as she quickly sank.
One report says she drifted below the surface until her wreckage came to rest near Port Colborne, Ont., 30 miles from wreck site, but the wreck was discovered only 12 miles off Dunkirk in the mid-1990’s.
Broke nearly in 2 and sank off the Manitous, Lake Michigan, in Nov, 1869. Recovered in Apr, 1870, and completely rebuilt.
Also rebuilt in 1880 after stranding on Horseshoe Reef, Lake Erie, in the fall of 1879.
Sources: do2,eas,sol,h,ledc,nsp,hgl,usls,mpl,mv,es


------------------------------------------------------ 475
CARLOTTA
Other names : none
Official no. : 105834
Type at loss : gas screw (fish tug?)
Build info : 1879, Boston as a schooner
Specs : 39x14x5, 14g 12n
Date of loss : 1913
Place of loss : off Grand Island, Munising bay, MI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Caught fire while underway.
Registered out of Buffalo in 1911
*1910, changed from schooner to gas screw after 1910
Sources: (gwgl),mv


------------------------------------------------------ 3439
CARLYLE
Other names : ? also seen as CARLISLE
Official no. : C
Type at loss : propeller, wood
Build info : 1870, Bedford Mills, Ont.
Specs : 105 ft., 128 t.
Date of loss : 1893, Sep
Place of loss : near Picton, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : "Wrecked"
Reportedly condemned in 1885.
Sources: nsp,hgl,csv


------------------------------------------------------ 4150
CARMINA
Other names : built as DAN, renamed in 1892. Also seen as CARMANA
Official no. : C92559
Type at loss : propeller (tug?), wood
Build info : 1889, Louis Braulac, Sorel, Que.
Specs : 90x16x5, 56gc 38nc
Date of loss : 1902, Sep
Place of loss : Bay of Quinte, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : (none)
Carrying : ?
Detail : Caught fire and burned to a total loss on the north shore of the Bay, near Belleville, Ont.
Out of Belleville
Sources: mmgl,csv

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CARMONA - See PITTSBURG


------------------------------------------------------ 3622
RICHARD J. CARNEY
Other names : also seen as R.J. CARNEY
Official no. : 56496
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1871, Saginaw [Official records show her built at Buffalo, but 1871 news clippings from Saginaw describe her launch there. Hull may have been built at Saginaw, finished in Buffalo]
Specs : 150x31x11, 397g 377n
Date of loss : 1895, Sep 28 (or Dec.)
Place of loss : near Shelldrake, MI, Whitefish Bay
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Stranded and pounded to pieces near Shelldrake dock, where she had been loading lumber. Caught by a storm, she was driven ashore, along with her tow steamer NELLIE TORRENT.. Document surrendered at Port Huron 12/30/95.
Sources: vbs,nsp,lss,wb


------------------------------------------------------ 476
CAROLINE
Other names : ?
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : (1825, Kingston, Ont.)
Specs : ?
Date of loss : 1832, Dec 2
Place of loss : off Duck Isls
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1 of 6 [2 were passengers]
Carrying : drygoods worth $30-40,000
Detail : She capsized and sank in a violent squall, while her crew abandoned in her yawl. Bound Oswego for Ogdensburg, NY. Crew made it to the Ducks in six hours, where, after much suffering from cold and snow, they were picked up by the schooner HURON. The vessel was later towed in, but there is no information on whether she returned to service.
Owned by J.T. Trowbridge & Co., Oswego or out of Genesee, NY.
Some sources say erroneously that she was lost on Ducks in L Huron.
Sources: slh,hgl,osdo,rp


------------------------------------------------------ 477
CAROLINE
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood
Build info : 1822, New York City (some sources say Charleston, SC, others Ogdensburgh, NY)
Specs : 71x21x6, 46 t.
Date of loss : 1837, Dec 29
Place of loss : Niagara Falls.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : military
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : none
Detail : She was a commercial vessel which came to the lakes in 1835 and was chartered to tranport arms and munitions to Navy Island, near Buffalo. On the night in question, she was commandeered by about 60 Canadian rebels under command of a Royal Navy officer at Schlosser on the Niagara R. In the fight that followed, she was set afire, then was abandoned and drifted down the river, where she burned to the waterline. Some sources say she went over the Falls. The incident caused hostile feelings along the U.S. northeastern frontier for many months.
Owned by William Wells of Buffalo.
Sources: is(1-69),sol,h,lhl,hgl,eh,nsp


------------------------------------------------------ 478
CAROLINE
Other names : built as armed sloop PORCUPINE, renamed 1830
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1812, Presque Isle, PA
Specs : 60 t
Date of loss : 1855
Place of loss : Spring Lake, near Grand Haven, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : hull failure
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Veteran of Perry's War of 1812 fleet. Later a survey vessel (surveyed water border between U.S. & Canada), a revenue cutter and still later a merchantman. Retired in 1840's and tied up on Spring Lake, where she eventually sank. Later parts of her hull were salvaged and cut into souvenirs. A historical society has the rest of her.
A 1900 nsp article says she was turned over to the Field Mus.
Sources: nsp,lmdc,is,mpl


------------------------------------------------------ 3578
GEORGE CARPENTER
Other names : none
Official no. : 39388
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1864, G. Carpenter, Bay City
Specs : 41x10x4, 10g 10n
Date of loss : 1893
Place of loss : unreported
Lake : unreported
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : No detail. Document surrendered Dec 6, 1893 at Port Huron, annotated "wrecked."
This may be the reporting of a stranding of this vessel in October, 1889.
Sources: vbs,phr,mv,hgl,nsp


------------------------------------------------------ 479
HONORA CARR
Other names : built as MAPLE LEAF
Official no. : US
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1867, Redmond & Tait, Picton, Ont.
Specs : 92x23x8, 107t
Date of loss : 1886, Sep 4
Place of loss : 2 mi SW of Pt Abino
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1 of 5
Carrying : coal
Detail : Bound Buffalo for Port Huron. Turned back for Buffalo for shelter in a storm, but foundered in 60 feet of water a few miles short.
Driven ashore near Buffalo in fall of '83. Abandoned, but recovered & rebuilt in 1885 by Michael Carr of Buffalo. Came into U.S. registry at that time.
Sources: win,nsp,ledc,h,hgl,mmgl,usls


------------------------------------------------------ 480
CARRIER
Other names : none
Official no. : 4334
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1865, D. Lester, Marine City, MI as a bark
Specs : 123x26x9 187g 178n
Date of loss : 1923, Sep 30
Place of loss : off Waukegan, IL
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : hull failure
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She had been retired from commercial service for many years and was just ending a carrer serving as a yacht club clubhouse. Sank while being towed away for scrapping.
One source says built in 1863. Rebuilt to a three-mast schooner before 1871.
Sources: mv,lmdc,mpl,wl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------ 3768
CARRIER DOVE
Other names : none
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2 mast
Build info : 1854, Austin Horn, Wolfe Isl, Ont.
Specs : 89x19x8, 111 t.
Date of loss : 1867, May 9
Place of loss : at Oswego, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : "lost"
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Swept from her moorings and down the Oswego R., she went directly UNDER a large moored schooner, where he masts were ripped out. The hulk rolled out into the lake and eventually came ashore nearby, a total loss.
Major repair in 1861
Sources: hgl,mmgl(nac),rp,rsl not in clu ‘66


------------------------------------------------------ 481
F. CARRIN
Other names : ?
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : propeller (tug?)
Build info : ?
Specs : ?
Date of loss : 1912
Place of loss : ?
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : no detail
Sources: slh


------------------------------------------------------ 482
CARRINGTON
Other names : none
Official no. : 4342
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1853, Black R., OH
Specs : 121x25x10, 275 t
Date of loss : 1870, Oct 30
Place of loss : Hat Island Reef
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 6 of 7
Carrying : 200 t. pig iron, 1.5 million shingles
Detail : Bound Depere for Chicago, she stuck on reef and was broken up by waves. Bound Depere for Chicago, owned out of Chicago.
Out of Chicago, owned by the Connell Bros., one of whom was the skipper of the vessel and the other the mate. The mate was lost. Most of her cargo was salvaged the following March.
Rebuilt in 1861
Sources: nsp,lmdc,hgl,wl,rsl,mv


------------------------------------------------------ 483
E.M. CARRINGTON
Other names : none
Official no. : 8104
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1867, A. Stewart, Port Huron, MI
Specs : 88x22x8, 121 t
Date of loss : 1880, Nov 5
Place of loss : midlake, 25 mi SE of Milwaukee
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 4 [all]
Carrying : lumber [100,000 ft]
Detail : Bound Muskegon for Milwaukee, she became waterlogged in a storm and capsized well offshore. She was considered lost, but was later found awash, was righted and repaired and later returned to service.
Registered out of Milwaukee.
Drove ashore in a gale near AuSable, Michigan, in 1873.
Major repairs in 1874 & 78.
Sources: nsp,h,usls,mpl,slh,hgl,jos


------------------------------------------------------ 484
E.T. CARRINGTON
Other names : none
Official no. : 135211
Type at loss : sidewheel tug, wood
Build info : 1876, T. Boston, Bangor, MI
Specs : 76x17x6 57g 48n
Date of loss : 1907, Aug 23
Place of loss : 15 mi out of Duluth
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She sprang a leak and foundered while inbound for Duluth from Ashland. Her crew were rescued by the steamer FREDERICK B. WELLS.
Also nearly destroyed by fire while towing a log raft off Baraga, MI, 1885 or 6, May 17.
Sources: eas,vbs,is,gwgl,sbs,vbs,lss,hgl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------ 485
M.D. CARRINGTON
Other names : none
Official no. : 90792
Type at loss : propeller tug, iron
Build info : 1875, D. Bell, Buffalo
Specs : 67x16x9 64g 32n
Date of loss : 1902, Sep 1
Place of loss : Duluth-Superior harbor
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : towing accident
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : none
Detail : Towing the freighter WATT when she got out of line with her, fouled in her own towline, capsized and sank. The tug’s engineer drowned getting into the liferaft.
Recovered. Dismantled in 1949.
Also burned near Keweenaw in May 17, 1885.
Sources: nsp,gwgl,mv,mpl,df,bb,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------ 486
J.J. CARROLL
Other names : none
Official no. : 224735
Type at loss : oil screw fish tug
Build info : 1925, LaFountain, Sandusky, OH
Specs : 59x16x5 77g
Date of loss : 1929, Nov 7
Place of loss : Pelee Isl.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Destroyed by fire, no detail. Owned by United Fisheries Co.
Sources: www,mpl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------ 487
J.J. CARROLL II
Other names : built as JOSEPH T. SLOAT last name in 1929
Official no. : 204977
Type at loss : oil screw fish tug, wood
Build info : 1908, L. Pouliot, Sandusky, OH
Specs : 63x15x5 30g 20n
Date of loss : 1939, Oct 12
Place of loss : 6 mi E of Fairport, OH
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : foundered
Loss of life : none [nobody aboard]
Carrying : none
Detail : Having drifted away from her dock, she struck a bar and foundered close to shore.
Rebuilt from a small freighter to a fishing tug in 1929 to replace J.J. CARROLL(qv).
Sources: www,h,mpl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------ 488
MAGGIE CARROLL
Other names : none
Official no. : 91593
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1883, M Carroll, Duluth
Specs : 49x14x4 16g 9n
Date of loss : 1893, Sep 28
Place of loss : Wisconsin side of Duluth-Superior harbor
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She burned to the waterline at the lighthouse dock.
Sources: nsp,mv,is,gwgl,lss,hgl


------------------------------------------------------ 489
JAMES CARRUTHERS
Other names : none sometinmes seen as JAMES C. CARRUTHERS
Official no. : C131090
Type at loss : propeller, steel, bulk freight
Build info : 1913, Collingwood Shipbuilding, Collingwood, Ont. hull# 38
Specs : 529x58x27 7862gc 5606nc
Date of loss : 1913, Nov 11
Place of loss : off Kincardine, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 25 [all]
Carrying : 10,000 t wheat
Detail : This modern steamer was overwhelmed and foundered in the "Big Storm" of 1913. Probably capsized in the greatest Great Lakes storm on record. She was brand-new and was the largest Canadian laker when lost.
(Wreckage reported found in late 1980's.)
Sources: is(3-71),mmgl,lol,glss,gsgl,sol,ttgl,mol,win,mpl,hcgl


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CARRY - see COLONEL CARRY


------------------------------------------------------ 491
J.N. CARTER
Other names : none also seen as J.S. CARTER
Official no. : C72962
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1875, W. Redmond, Picton, Ont.*
Specs : 112x25x9, 187gc 187nc
Date of loss : 1890
Place of loss : Missasagi Strait, NW end of Manitoulin Isl.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : stranded
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : She plowed into a reef [now called "Carter Rock"] and was destroyed. Out of Picton, Ont., owned by Welbanks Bros.
Also stranded 2 mi S of Kincardine Pier, Ont. Nov 15, 1883 [see ERIE BELLE].
*Built by John Tait at Redmond shipyard
Major repair, 1882
Sources: slh,polk,mmgl,win,es,eb


------------------------------------------------------ 492
W.J. CARTER
Other names : none
Official no. : C141764
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1886, Wolf & Davidson, Milwaukee US# 81112
Specs : 122x28x10 317gc 170nc
Date of loss : 1923, Jul 28
Place of loss : 20 mi S of Point Petre, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : She sprang a leak in a gale and foundered. Bound Oswego to Cobourg, Ont. Her crew was later rescued from their lifeboat, by the propeller KEYPORT..
Damaged when she went ashore on Yorkshire Isl, Lake Ont., in 1919.
Sold Canadian in 1920.
Sources: mmgl,ms3,mv,csv,win,mpl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------ 493
CARTHAGINIAN
Other names : none also seen as CARTHAGENIA and CARTHAGENIAN
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1855, A Miller, Oswego [East Cove], NY
Specs : 139x26x12 405g 374n
Date of loss : 1867, Nov 29
Place of loss : at Baldwin Bay, below Oswego, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : wheat
Detail : Her bowsprit and headgear were torn out by a high wind just as she was entering Oswego harbor, causing her to go out of control. She drifted onto the rocks at Baldwin Bay. Her crew made it to shore with the aid of the Oswego harbormaster and local shipmasters who manned a small boat, lowered it over a 75 foot cliff, and rescued them from the ship's perch. She had been bound Chicago for Oswego.
Owned by Lyons & Finney, Oswego.
Sources: osdo,is,hgl,rsl,nsp


------------------------------------------------------ 494
JACQUES CARTIER
Other names : none
Official no. : C71253
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight "steambarge"
Build info : 1870, Napoleon Muron, Detroit built as a pass & pkg freight vessel
Specs : 85x19x5, 74gc 66nc
Date of loss : 1878, Oct 28
Place of loss : near Goderich, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Wrecked in a storm, but there is little detail. Out of Windsor.
Location & date also given as "near Kincardine, Nov, 1878."
Sold Canadian in 1875.
Sources: nsp,mmgl,hdm,slh,h,csv


------------------------------------------------------ 495
CARTIERCLIFFE HALL
Other names : built as RUHR ORE this name in 1976. Renamed WINNIPEG in 1988, currently sailing as ALGONTARIO
Official no. : C 372490
Type at loss : propeller, steel, bulk freight
Build info : 1960, Germany rebuilt & lengthened in 1976
Specs : 716x76x36, 18531gc 12617nc
Date of loss : 1979, Jun 5
Place of loss : off Copper Harbor, MI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : 6 or 7
Carrying : corn
Detail : A blaze in her superstructure caused $4.5 million damages to the vessel and her cargo as well as the loss of several of the crew, who were unble to abandon ship with the rest.. Her survivors were picked up by the freighters LOUIS R. DESMARAIS and THOMAS W. LAMONT. She was later rebuilt at Collingwood.
Sources: is,go,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------ 496
CASCADEN
Other names : none
Official no. : C?
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1866, A. Hackett, Saugeen, Ont.
Specs : 138 t
Date of loss : 1871, Oct 17
Place of loss : 3 miles below Cape Hurd, near Tobermory, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : lighthouse supplies
Detail : She went ashore and was wrecked in a gale. She had on board supplies for the Cove Island Lighthouse keeper and his family who were in desperate straits. Bound there from Goderich, Ont.
Out of Saugeen, Ont.
Sources: eas,slh,lhdc,nsp,wl,do not in mmgl


------------------------------------------------------ 497
CASE
Other names : built as JAMES C. LOCKWOOD renamed, 1900
Official no. : C126198
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1889, Quayle & Sons, Cleveland [US# 76824]
Specs : 286x42x22 2279g 1912n
Date of loss : 1917, May 1
Place of loss : E. Sister Island
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Discovered to be leaking and beached on the island to save her, but she broke up in place. She caugth fire while her crew was abandoning, and burned to ta toal loss. Her cargo was later salvaged.
Sold Canadian, 1914
Sources: do2,ns2,h,mv,ledc,csv,win,mpl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------ 498
GEORGE M. CASE
Other names : none
Official no. : 85386
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1874, J. Martel, Saugatuck, MI
Specs : 137x26x12., 344g 327n
Date of loss : 1886, Oct 14
Place of loss : 3 mi off Port Colborne, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 3 of 7
Carrying : corn
Detail : Foundered in a SW gale just after leaving the harbor. She had been bound Chicago for Buffalo. 4 crew were saved from the spars by tugs BOOTH and W.A. MOORE. She was later [1887] stripped and flattened with explosives.
Out of Chicago. Owned by Capt. McDonald.
Sources: mv,eas,nsp,h,ledc,wb,win,hgl,usls,mpl,rp,es,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------ 499
REED CASE
Other names : none
Official no. : 21929
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1869, Bailey Bros., Toledo
Specs : 137x26x14, 330g 314n
Date of loss : 1888, Oct 19
Place of loss : 4 mi from Portage Ship Canal entrance
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1 [capt]
Carrying : light
Detail : Bound from Duluth, she dragged anchor and went on a reef in a SW gale and pounded heavily. The captain drowned when coming ashore in her yawl and it capsized. Tug A.C. ADAMS got her off the reef and almost pulled the disabled schooner to the canal entrance before she foundered.
Owned by C.J. Magill of Chicago.
Sources: mv,h,ks,lss,nsp,wb,hgl,sb,df,eas,bb


------------------------------------------------------ 500
WILLIAM CASE
Other names : none*
Official no. : 26643
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1855, Roderick Calkins, Cleveland
Specs : 137x27x11 267g 254n
Date of loss : 1906, Jul 26
Place of loss : 5 mi NNE of Colchester Shoal Light
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Her seams opened in heavy weather & sank.
*Shown on official records as WM. CASE, but "William" was painted on hull and called this in nsp accounts of her career.
Sources: ns1,mv,ledc,eas,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------ 501
CASPIAN
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger & freight
Build info : 1851, J. Wolverton, Newport [Marine City], MI
Specs : 252x31x12, 921 t
Date of loss : 1852, Jul 1
Place of loss : short distance off Cleveland piers
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Foundered, but no detail. Some of her gear and structural members were salvaged in the spring of 1853, and the wreck was flattened with dynamite.
Engine came from NORTHWEST (? 3-45)
Sources: eas,is(1-45),sol,h,lhl,hgl,nsp,mpl,wl


------------------------------------------------------ 4172
CASPIAN
Other names : none
Official # : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1853, Huron, OH
Specs : 58x16x6, 48 t.
Date of loss : 1856, Oct 28
Place of loss : near Erie, PA
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : sabotage
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Bound Cleveland for Buffalo, she was lying to at Fairport when she was stolen by her crew. They abandoned her and let her go ashore. As of Dec 6, she was still there, embedded in the sand. Later reports call her a total loss.
Sources : nsp,wl,jm


------------------------------------------------------ 4173
CASPIAN
Other names : hull built as LADY HILLIARD at Kingston in 1835 or 29, reconstructed as ISABELLA in 1847, renamed CASPIAN after 1854
Official # : C
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1847, Taylor, Cobourg, Ont.
Specs : 81 t.
Date of loss : 1866, Nov 10
Place of loss : near Port Hope, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : In a gale which destroyed or damaged 10 vessels in the area, she was driven on a bar and sunk. She was reported as "gone to pieces" by the 4th.
Rebuilt in 1856
Sources : nsp,rsl,jm,wl


------------------------------------------------------ 4097
LEWIS CASS
Other names : none
Official no. :
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1846, Bradley, Vermilion, OH
Specs : 98x24x9, 192 t.
Date of loss : 1865, late Oct
Place of loss : near Bailey's Harbor, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : (none)
Carrying : ?
Detail : She was reported a total wreck at Bailey's Harbor.
Owned by Capron & Russell, Conneaut
Also reported wrecked near Conneaut in 1854.
Major repairs in 1860
Sources: nsp,rsl,hgl


------------------------------------------------------ 502
CASTALIA
Other names : none
Official no. : 4270*
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1847, D Dibble, Sandusky, OH as a brig
Specs : 119x25x9 242g 221n
Date of loss : 1871, Jul 4
Place of loss : near Cove Isl., Georgian Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : light
Detail : She was overwhelmed by a storm, driven ashore and stranded in 3 feet of water, nearly a mile from deep water. She broke up in a storm the 12th. Homeport: Detroit. Owned by Lodewyck Bros.
Rebuilt from brig to schooner in 1870-71 and just came out of drydock from the rebuild in May.
*Also given as 4383
Sources: eas,slh,www,hgl,nsp,mpl,wl,mv


------------------------------------------------------ 503
LAUREN CASTLE
Other names : built as GEN. G.M. SORREL, renamed McALLISTER BROS. in 1949, NORTH AMERICAN in 1968 and LAUREN CASTLE in 1969
Official no. : 203337
Type at loss : propeller tug, steel, diesel
Build info : 1906, Delaware Shipbuilding, Chester, PA
Specs : 98x21x11, 180g 122n
Date of loss : 1980, Nov 8
Place of loss : Grand Traverse Bay, 7 mi N ofTraverse City
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : 1 of 4
Carrying : none
Detail : She was towing disabled tanker AMOCO WISCONSIN when she struck bottom and slowed, causing her to be rammed from behind by the tanker. She sank quickly - some reports say within 15 secoinds. Lies in almost 400 feet of water.
Owned by Selvick & Co.
Two crewmen were killed in a towing accident involving her, fleetmate tug JON M. SELVICK and the cement boat S.T. CRAPO in Mar, 1974.
Sources: is(2-74),lmdc,mpl,ws,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------ 504
W.B. CASTLE
Other names : also seen as WILLIAM B. CASTLE
Official no. : 26860
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1862, Peck & Masters, Cleveland
Specs : 115x21x11 173g 111n
Date of loss : 1906, Jul 24
Place of loss : above Belle Isle, opposite Peche Isl. buoy
Lake : Detroit R.
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Collided with steamer ROBERT HOLLAND (qv), and sank. A number of vessels struck her wreckage, destroying what was left of her. Her machinery was salvaged.
Slid completely out of the water on a clay riverbank after her steering gear broke, Nov, 1904. No damage.
Also wrecked by fire, Nov 30, 1898, at Duluth
Sources: nsp,gwgl,mv,lhl,phr,hcgl

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CATARACT - See also MYLES


------------------------------------------------------ 505
CATARACT
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1856, Totten, Sandusky, OH
Specs : 133x26x11 349g
Date of loss : 1857, May
Place of loss : WSW of Long Point light, 1 mi offshore
Lake : Ontario (maybe Erie)
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Stranded and wrecked
Sources: eas,www,hgl,nsp


------------------------------------------------------ 3440
CATARACT
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : propeller, wood
Build info : 1852, B.B. Jones, Buffalo
Specs : 150x25x11, 352 t. [394 t. om]
Date of loss : 1861, Jun 16
Place of loss : five miles off Erie, PA
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : 4
Carrying : general merchandise
Detail : She caught fire under her boiler and became and inferno astern in just minutes. Attempts to launch one of her boats were foiled by the flames, but those aboard were able to make it away in the small boat. They and a few others adrift on wreckage were picked up by the schooner ST. PAUL and a fishing boat soon after. The wreck was towed in to Misery Bay by the tug BROOKS and scuttled, but was never rebuilt. Owned by Ontario Steamboat Co., Oswego.
It was reported at the time that Capt. Mosher of ST. PAUL, who picked up Capt. McNally and the carpenter of the CATARACT, had picked up the same two when the propeller INDIANA(qv) was lost on Lake Superior in 1858.
This is the probably also the CATARACT stranded in a fog on the Fox Islands, L. Mich, in 1855, owned by the American Transportation Co.
Major repairs in 1860
Sources: lhl,hgl,nsp,rp,wl,eas,umr


------------------------------------------------------ 506
CATARAQUI
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger & freight
Build info : 1836, Kingston, Ont.
Specs : ?
Date of loss : 1840, Apr 17 or 10
Place of loss : Kingston, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : CATARAQUI burned to a total loss during a great fire which destroyed much of Kingston’s waterfront area.
Sources: csv,mmgl,nsp


------------------------------------------------------ 507
CATARAQUI
Other names : built as CATARAQUI, named SWAN in 1853, then CATARAQUI again in 1856.
Official no. : none
Type at loss : propeller, wood, freighter
Build info : 1847, Portsmouth, Ont.
Specs : 91ft, 101 t.
Date of loss : 1864
Place of loss : unreported
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : "lost"
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : No detail
Sources: csv,hgl,mmgl

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EARL CATHCART - See F.W. BACKUS

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CATHY ANN - See RECORD


------------------------------------------------------ 508
E.S. CATLIN
Other names : none
Official no. : 36325
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood
Build info : 1869, Crosthwaite, Bangor, MI
Specs : 152x28x9 372g 360n
Date of loss : 1876
Place of loss : 5 mi E of Ashtabula, OH
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : She was reported stranded and broken up in a storm. Homeport: Bay City
Has the official number of an unrigged barge.
Reported as lying sunk in the Saginaw River opposite Bay City in May of the same year.
Sources: vbs,ledc,sbs


------------------------------------------------------ 509
CATTARAUGUS
Other names : ?
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1857, A. Miller, Oswego, NY
Specs : 309 t
Date of loss : 1864
Place of loss : unreported
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : "lost"
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Foundered, no other detail.
Sources: is,hgl

------------------------------------------------------
RALPH S. CAULKINS - See J.M. JENKS


------------------------------------------------------ 510
CAVALIER
Other names : none
Official no. : C ?
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1867, McKay & Warner, Quebec City as a bark
Specs : 134x26x12 268gc
Date of loss : 1906, Aug 31
Place of loss : off Chantry Isl.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : cedar lumber
Detail : She filled and sank after striking a reef. Her crew was rescued by the Chantry Island Lightkeeper. She had been bound Tobermorey for Sarnia.
Out of Quebec City
Sources: nsp,slh,ns1,h,win,clu not in mmgl


------------------------------------------------------ 511
CAYUGA
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : brig, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1841, Oswego, NY
Specs : 70x14x6, 60 t
Date of loss : 1854, Nov 6
Place of loss : Gull Reef, off South Bay Point
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : wrecked
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : wheat
Detail : Bound for Oswego, this small brig was driven ashore by a gale. Her skipper reamined aboard and was rescued by the steamer PASSPORT, whicle the crew made it ashore in her boat. She was later stripped and part of her cargo was recovered by the prop COASTER out of Oswego.
Hailed from Oswego.
Rebuilt at Kenosha, WI, about 1846
Sources: is,hgl,wl,rnc


------------------------------------------------------ 3441
CAYUGA
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1864, Geneva, NY
Specs : 41 t.
Date of loss : 1866
Place of loss : E. Saginaw, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Total loss to fire.
Sources: lhl,


------------------------------------------------------ 512
CAYUGA
Other names : none
Official no. : 126556
Type at loss : propeller, steel, bulk freight
Build info : 1889, Globe Iron Works, Cleveland
Specs : 290x41x13 2669g 1939n
Date of loss : 1895, May 10
Place of loss : near Skillagalee Shoals
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : oats & flour
Detail : Collided with wooden lumber hooker JOSEPH L. HURD(qv) in fog and narrow channel and sank. She had been bound Milwaukee for Buffalo. The crews of both vessels were rescued by the steamer MANOLA. A diver died trying to salvage her the next year, and Capt. Jim Reid's salvage company worked on her at great expense in 1899 & 1900, to no avail, though she was towed closer to shore while submerged. Some of the pontoons he used in an attempt to raise her are still attached to the wreck.
Sources: ssm,nsp,slh,is(4-61),lmdc,wb,hgl,mpl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------ 513
CECELIA
Other names : sometimes seen as CECILIA
Official no. : 5548
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1868, Gregory, White Lake, MI
Specs : 118 ft, 176g 167n
Date of loss : 1885
Place of loss : near Jacksonport, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Stranded and wrecked.
Hailed from Chicago
Sources: mv,lmdc,hgl


------------------------------------------------------ 3313
CECILIA or CECELIA
Other names : none
Official no. : C
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast - former bark
Build info : 1865, Donaldson & Andrews, Port Dalhousie, Ont
Specs : 136x24x11, 351gc 341nc
Date of loss : 1883, Nov 2
Place of loss : 20 miles out of Port Arthur
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : wood
Detail : She was abandoned in sinking condition after being disabled by storm waves. The crew made it to Port Arthur in her yawl. Her skipper spent many days looking for her remains. She had been bound Waiska Bay, Michigan, for Port Arthur, Ont.
Out of Windsor, owned by Wm. Ryan.
Sources: nsp,lss,mmgl,hgl,es


------------------------------------------------------ 514
CEDARVILLE
Other names : built as A.F. HARVEY, last name in 1957
Official no. : 226492
Type at loss : propeller, steel, self-unloading bulk freighter
Build info : 1927, Great Lakes Engineering, River Rouge, MI hull #255
Specs : 588x60x32 8575 g 6229n
Date of loss : 1965, May 7
Place of loss : 3 mi E of Mackinac Bridge, Straits
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : 10
Carrying : limestone
Detail : Moving at speed in fog, she collided with the Norwegian freighter TOPDALSFJORD about 9:50 am and sank quickly. German motor vessel WEISSENBURG picked up the survivors. Wreck location: 3.1 mi, 120 deg from S pier of Mackinac Bridge. She was later found to be at fault in the collision. She is a popular dive target.
Built as a bulk freighter, she was converted to a self-unloader at Defoe Shipbuilding, 1957
Sources: eas,glp,is(3-65),slh,sol,ns5,lhdc,ssm,mpl,hcgl

------------------------------------------------------
CELT - See SELT


------------------------------------------------------ 516
CELTIC
Other names : none
Official no. : C71151
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger & package freighter
Build info : 1874, A. Robertson, Hamilton, Ont.
Specs : 131x21x15 698gc 413nc
Date of loss : 1892, May 1
Place of loss : 15 mi off Rondeau Point, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : wheat, gen merch
Detail : After colliding with the steamer RUSSIA in a dense fog, she sank and became a total loss. Her crew was rescued by RUSSIA.
Largest vessel built in Hamilton upto that time. Launched with her engine and machinery already in place.
Sources: do2,mmgl,csv,hgl,mpl,,pdw,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------ 515
CELTIC
Other names : none
Official no. : 126662
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1890, Jas. Davidson, W. Bay City hull #39
Specs : 190x34x13 716g 680n
Date of loss : 1902, Nov 29
Place of loss : northern end of lake
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 8 [all]
Carrying : coal
Detail : Upbound, she broke her towline and was lost in a gale with all hands. Wreckage later washed up on the SE point of Cockburn Isl. Ont. and the wreck was located offshore in Nov,'03. Tow of steamer H.E. RUNNELS.
Owned by Spence Bros. of Cleve.
Sources: nsp,slh,sbs,vbs,gs,sol,is,ns1,lhdc,m&h,hcgl

------------------------------------------------------
CENTRAL WEST - See M.J. BARTELME


------------------------------------------------------ 517
CERISOLES
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : propeller minesweeper, wood(steel?)
Build info : 1918, Ft. William, Ont.
Specs : 143 ft, 630 t.
Date of loss : 1918, Nov 24
Place of loss : between Ft. William and the Soo
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 38 [all]
Carrying : none
Detail : Went missing on her delivery voyage across Lake Superior to the French Navy. In company of INKERMANN [also lost] and SEBASTOPOL of the same type. No wreckage or remains ever found. Later speculation was that she struck Superior Shoal, a pinnacle in the center of the lake that was uncharted until the 1940’s.
Sources: gwgl,mol,ls,is,wm2,lss,


------------------------------------------------------ 518
CHALLENGE
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : propeller, wood, freighter
Build info : 1853, Dixon, Newport, MI
Specs : 198x28x12, 665 t
Date of loss : 1853, Jun 22
Place of loss : off Cheboygan, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : boiler explosion
Loss of life : 5
Carrying : barrelled pork, oats
Detail : While she was bound Chicago for Buffalo on one of her first trips, a sudden boiler explosion blew her stern off and she burned and sank. Her remaining crew and passengers were rescued from their lifeboat by the schooner NORTH STAR, which had heard her blow up from 10 miles distance.
Sailed Detroit for Buffalo on her 1st trip May 23, lost on Jun 22.
Sources: eas,slh,is,lhl,ssm,nsp


------------------------------------------------------ 519
CHALLENGE
Other names : none
Official no. : 4574
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1853, Throop, Rochester, NY (also given as 1853, J. Oades, Youngstown, NY)
Specs : 96x21x9, 99 t.
Date of loss : 1871, Dec 9
Place of loss : off Sheboygan, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Missed the piers at Sheboygan in heavy weather. Stove in some of her planking, filled and sank. Out of Racine. Maybe recovered.
She was a particularly sleek craft, actually designed as a yacht, and was once owned by the Light-House Service as a resupply vessel. Her skipper at the time said she would have made a fine revenue cutter, as she could out-sail anything on the lakes.
Sources: is,lmdc,hgl,nsp,mpl,bb,rp


------------------------------------------------------ 521
CHALLENGE
Other names : none
Official no. : 5905
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1870, Ch. Wheeler, Bay City
Specs : 58x13x5 17g 11n
Date of loss : 1880
Place of loss : E. Saginaw, MI, Saginaw River
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : She was destroyed by fire, declared a total loss and passed off the registry. Operating out of E. Saginaw. Recovered, rebuilt and returned to registry in 1883.
Last documented out of Detroit, 1892.
Another major repair in 1878. Sunk in a boiler explosion at Saginaw in Aug, 1870, when brand-new.
Sources: vbs,sbs,slh,hgl,nsp


------------------------------------------------------ 520
CHALLENGE
Other names : none also seen as CHALLANGE
Official no. : 4349
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1852, Bates, Manitowoc
Specs : 88x23x7 87g 83n
Date of loss : 1910, Sep 5
Place of loss : 12 mi S of Sheboygan, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : wood
Detail : Went ashore in a storm, a total loss.
Probably the same schooner sunk near Milwaukee Harbor in a storm Nov 11, 1873, one life lost.
Also wrecked and declared a loss when she went on a reef near Bailey's Harbor, Dec 1901. Towed to Sheboygan in 1903 and abandoned, but resurrected in 1907.
Sources: (nsp),h,mv,lmdc,mpl,jd,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------ 522
PORTER CHAMBERLAIN
Other names : none
Official no. : 150067
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1874, A. Kenyon, Marine City, MI
Specs : 134x26x11 280g 205n
Date of loss : 1901, Nov 11
Place of loss : near Gore Bay, Ont., Georgian Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Grounded on a reef off Darch Island, caught fire and burned to the waterline, along with her consort, H.J. WEBB(qv).
Major repairs in 1883.
Sources: nsp,ns1,slh,mv,do2,mpl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------ 523
SELAH CHAMBERLAIN
Other names : none
Official no. : 115147
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight [steambarge]
Build info : 1873, Quayle & Martin, Cleveland
Specs : 212 ft, 1207g 964n
Date of loss : 1886, Oct 13
Place of loss : off Sheboygan, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : 5 of 16
Carrying : wood
Detail : Collided with prop JOHN PRIDGEON, Jr. in heavy fog and sank quickly. She had been towing the schr FAYETTE BROWN. Five crew died when the lifeboat davits became fouled and the boat dropped into the lake. Others made it ashore in the other boat after a 3-hour pull through the fog. Abandoned in Jul, 1889 after an expensive salvage effort.
Out of Cleveland
Sources: mv,nsp,h,lmdc,wb,hgl,usls,sb,mpl,eas


------------------------------------------------------ 3568
EDWARD H. CHAMBERLIN
Other names : none
Official no. : 135328
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1881, J. St. Peter, Saganing, MI
Specs : 51x14x3, 15 t.
Date of loss : (1886)
Place of loss : unreported
Lake : unreported
Type of loss : unreported
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Reported lost in a letter to Port Huron Custom House dated 11- 6-1886.
Sources: vbs,phr,


------------------------------------------------------ 525
HARMON A. CHAMBERLIN
Other names : often seen as H.A. CHAMBERLIN, yard: NORTH POLE
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood
Build info : 1874, Hitchcock, Salzburg, MI
Specs : 150x30x10 371g
Date of loss : 1875, Nov 30
Place of loss : near Cleveland
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : Left at anchor off Cleveland while towboat ELMIRA went in to coal. Quick-rising gale broke her anchor chains and drove her ashore, where she broke in two and was destroyed. Owned by Ferris Bros. of Bay City. Had been in line with 2 other Bay City built barges, GEORGIE KELLY (her sister) and H&G. Though in a bad spot, she did not actually break up beyond repair until April of the following year, and her document was not surrendered unitl November, 1877, at Port Huron.
Sources: vbs,sbs,mw,phr,nsp

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CHAMPION - See also CAMBRIA, HAMILTONIAN


------------------------------------------------------ 524
CHAMPION
Other names : none
Official no. : 5720
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1868, Campbell & Owen, Detroit hull# 5
Specs : 134x22x13, 264g 147n
Date of loss : 1903, Sep 15
Place of loss : Put-in -Bay, S. Bass Isl.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Burned to total loss in an accidental fire. Hull later abandoned in a boneyard at Detroit.
Converted to a wrecker in 1890
Famous for her long tows of schooners up and down the Detroit River.
Sister of VULCAN (qv)
Major repairs in 1879, 81, 82: rebuilt, 1896
Sources: atl,is,hcgl (nsp)


------------------------------------------------------ 526
CHAMPLAIN
Other names : built as ADELAIDE, later ECLIPSE (or ALLIANCE)
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1832, Chippawa, Ont. (or 1830)
Specs : 225 t.
Date of loss : 1840, May 3
Place of loss : 4 mi S of St. Joseph, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : general merch
Detail : She was driven ashore by a storm and wrecked, then abandoned to break up in place, but later recovered and rebuilt.
Built in Canada, seized by U.S. officials during the "Patriot War" in 1837 for violation of revenue laws and documented as CHAMPLAIN 4/5/38.
Reportedly almost destroyed by a boiler explosion in '30 or 31. 3 lives lost.
Also wrecked on L. Mich. in 1847 - see ECLIPSE.
Sources: is(2-61),is,lhl,csv,mmgl,le,egls,hgl,nsp


------------------------------------------------------ 527
CHAMPLAIN
Other names : rebuilt as CITY OF CHARLEVOIX, later KANSAS(1904,qv)
Official no. : 5848
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1870, Keating, Ogdensburg, NY*
Specs : 135x26x11, 438g 357n
Date of loss : 1887, Jun 16
Place of loss : off Charlevoix, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : 22 of 57
Carrying : passengers, merchandise, horses
Detail : Caught fire when an engine room lamp exploded offshore, catching engineer & engine room afire so that pumps could not be started. She was run for Fisherman's Island but struck a bar and sank a mile short. Most of the dead died by drowning. Declared a total loss, but later recovered, rebuilt and enlarged to 165x28x12, 715gt.
Also rebuilt in 1886 and 1904.
*Also seen as built at Cleveland, 1870, but just received her machinery there.
Sources: mv,nsp,glss,sol,lmdc,hgl,usls,wl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------ 528
ZACH CHANDLER
Other names : none
Official no. : 28020
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1867, Jones, Detroit
Specs : 194x37x14 727g 690n
Date of loss : 1892, Oct 29
Place of loss : 3 mi E of Deer Park, MI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1 of 8
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Downbound from Ashland, WI, in tow of steamer JOHN MITCHELL(qv), she became separated from her by a northerly gale. She was overwhelmed and broke up on shore in about 15 minutes. Five crew made it to shore in boat. Lifesaving Service saved the other two.
Also stranded with heavy damage, Oct, 1889 near the same spot, and went ashore with heavy damage 15 miles from Cleveland in November of 1887.
Also figured in the loss of the tug TAWAS(qv).
Sources: lol,lssc,lss,gwgl,sol,h,wb,hgl,nsp,usls


------------------------------------------------------ 3735
GRACE A. CHANNON
Other names : none , but many spelling variations of the name are seen including SHANNON, CHARMON, CHARMING, CHARME, etc.
Official no. : 85309
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1873, W. Ellinwood, E. Saginaw, MI
Specs : 141x26x12, 266 g
Date of loss : 1877, Aug 2
Place of loss : 12 mi S of Milwaukee
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : light or coal
Detail : Collided with the propeller tug FAVORITE and sunk. Bound Chicago for Buffalo. The young son of the owner of the schooner was lost.
Out of Chicago
Sources: vbs,usls,bb,es,nsp


------------------------------------------------------ 529
J.B. CHAPIN
Other names : none
Official no. : 13873
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1858, R.H. Chapin, Detroit
Specs : 98x26x7, 121 t [161 t. om]
Date of loss : 1877, Nov 8
Place of loss : Miller's Station, a few mi from S Chicago
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Narrowly escaped foundering from force of weather, went ashore between S. Chicago and Michigan City and broke up.
Homeport: Chicago
Major repairs in 1863
Sources: nsp,lmdc,hgl,wl,rsl


------------------------------------------------------ 3442
O.N. CHAPIN
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1854, Albany, NY
Specs : 64x14x6, 47 t.
Date of loss : 1856, Oct 31
Place of loss : at Port Stanley, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Stranded and wrecked, total loss. Recently purchased by S.L. Watson of Buffalo.
Sources: lhl,wl


------------------------------------------------------ 530
W.T. CHAPPELL
Other names : none
Official no. : 80642
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1877, Carpenter, Sebewaing, MI
Specs : 72x16x5 39g 37n
Date of loss : 1902, Oct 24
Place of loss : off Vermilion Point, MI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : wood
Detail : Sprang a leak in a gale, blown down and sunk, her crew was rescued by Vermilion Pt Lifesavers.
Rebuilt in 1880. Rebuilt again after going ashore near Middle Island, Lake Huron in July of 1885. Originally 58x16x5 30g, 28n.
Registered out of Alpena
Sources: vbs,nsp,gwgl,lssc,sbs,is,mv,usls,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------ 531
CHARGER
Other names : none
Official no. : 5490
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1868, D Rogers, Sodus Point, NY
Specs : 136 x25x10 278g 263n
Date of loss : 1890, Aug 7
Place of loss : near Bar Point, mouth of Detroit R.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : She collided with the steam barge CITY OF CLEVELAND and sank in the shipping channel 4 mi W of "the Dummy" lighthouse. Value of vessel and cargo: about $30,000.
Sources: mv,eas,h,wb,polk,hgl,sb,es,jb,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------ 532
CHARLEY
Other names : none
Official no. : 5053
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1863, A.B. Meyer, Detroit
Specs : 113 ft, 50 t.
Date of loss : 1881, May 10
Place of loss : mouth of Beaver R. Minnesota
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Wrecked at her dock. May have been repaired afterwards.
Out of Duluth in 1877.
Sources: mv,gwgl,lss,mpl


------------------------------------------------------ 533
CHARLIE
Other names : ?
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : ?
Specs : ?
Date of loss : 1877
Place of loss : near Whitefish Point
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : went missing
Loss of life : all
Carrying : ?
Detail : no detail
Not in 1869 mv,mmgl. Probably refers to CHARLEY, above, the only variation of the name in registry on the lakes.
Sources: gwgl,


------------------------------------------------------ 534
CHARLOTTE
Other names : ?
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : gas screw (fish tug?)
Build info : ? (possibly ex-motor yacht built 1926 - US#225787)
Specs : 13 t.
Date of loss : 1945, Jul
Place of loss : Michigan City, Ind
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Foundered
Sources: h,0hcgl)


------------------------------------------------------ 3443
CHARTER
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : propeller, wood
Build info : 1849, F. Ketchum, Huron, OH as a sidewheeler
Specs : 132x20x8, 197 t.
Date of loss : 1856, Aug 21
Place of loss : 6 mi above Fairport, OH
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : flour, oats & rye
Detail : Bound Cleveland for Buffalo, she swamped and sank in a storm. She was damaged beyond repair by storms before the end of the month, but her machinery was probably recovered, as she lay in relatively shallow water.
Owned by American Transportation Co.
Converted to a prop in 1853.
Sources: lhl,nsp,hgl


------------------------------------------------------ 3444
CHARTER OAK
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : propeller, wood
Build info : 1847, Bidwell & Banta, Buffalo as a schooner
Specs : 104x22x9, 184 t.
Date of loss : 1855, Oct 28
Place of loss : near Elk Creek, PA
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 10
Carrying : staves
Detail : Ashore and wrecked, a total loss.
Converted from schooner to prop in 1848, possibly at Detroit
Sources: hgl,lhl,nsp,wl


------------------------------------------------------ 535
CHASKA
Other names : none
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood (built as scow-brig)
Build info : 1869, Duluth
Specs : 72 ft, 50 t.
Date of loss : 1870, Aug 28
Place of loss : near Duluth (or Ontonagon)
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : stone
Detail : Wrecked in a northwesterly storm.
Reportedly the 1st vessel built at Duluth
Not in '69 mvus
Sources: lss,bb


------------------------------------------------------ 3445
JOHN CHASSELL
Other names : none
Official no. : 75352
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1868, (Houghton, Mich?)*
Specs : 51x10x3, 18 g
Date of loss : 1876, Oct 23
Place of loss : Portage Entry
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Destroyed by fire, reported $4000 loss.
Maybe vessel built as ECHO
Sources: lss,df,bb,mv,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------ 536
CHATTANOOGA
Other names : none
Official no. : 127255
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 3-mast, bulk freight
Build info : 1898, Jas. Davidson, W. Bay City, MI
Specs : 308x45x22 2339g 2266n
Date of loss : 1925, Fall
Place of loss : unreported
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Wrecked. No detail officially reported as abandoned in 1926.
Sold Canadian - to wrecker Tom Reid of Sarnia - on Dec 21, and refloated the following spring, but abandoned without further repair. Finally made into a stone dock at Duck Islands, Lake Huron.
Sources: vbs,ns3,is,mv,lhdc,sbs,mpl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------ 3446
CHAUTAUQUE
Other names : none also seen as CHAUTAUQUA
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood
Build info : 1839, J.W. Banta, Buffalo
Specs : 124x18x8, 162 t.
Date of loss : 1850, Aug 9
Place of loss : St. Clair R.
Lake : St Clair R
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Burned to a total loss. Her usual job was in towing and lighterage of vessels attempting to cross the St. Clair Flats.
Also reported driven ashore near Buffalo in an 1844 gale, sunk at Buffalo in 1846 and 1848.
In Sep, 1846, she made the papers by purposely ramming a schooner which blocked her path while she was attempting to leave Monroe, Mich., harbor.
Sources: lhl,is,hgl,nsp,mpl,wl,bc


------------------------------------------------------ 538
CHECOTAH
Other names : built as GEORGE D. RUSSELL, last name in 1890
Official no. : 85267
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood
Build info : 1870, Bailey Bros., Toledo
Specs : 199x34x12 658g 598n
Date of loss : 1906, Oct 30
Place of loss : off Port Sanilac, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Overcome by a storm, she was abandoned to sink about 8 mi ENE of Port Sanilac. She had been part of the tow of the steamer TEMPEST. Hulk later found 12 mi NNE of Port Sanilac, about 6 mi offshore.
Her document was surrendered after she was wrecked at Cleveland, 11/26/05.
As RUSSELL, she lay in the St. Mary's R. for several years after a collision with the steamer NORTHERNER on Sep 14, 1882, with the loss of 3 lives. Document was surrendered, but she was raised and rebuilt to this vessel in 1890.
May be the only Great Lakes vessel to have surrendered her registration document three times.
Sources: nsp,slh,ns1,mv,lhdc,eas,phr,hgl,mpl,es,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------ 539
CHENANGO
Other names : none
Official no. : 4335
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, built as a bark
Build info : 1862, Lafrinier, Cleveland
Specs : ca. 150 ft. 306n (384 t.)
Date of loss : 1875, Nov 20
Place of loss : Wood Island Reef, near Munising, MI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : pig iron
Detail : Downbound in tow of steamer JAY C MORSE, when a squall broke her towline and she went ashore. Crew weathered the storm in her cabin in two feet of freezing water for 36 hrs.
Owned by her skipper, Capt. Ferry.
Homeport in 1869: Chicago, she was a bark at that time. She was probably reduced to a barge after stranding with serious damage off Port Maitland in November, 1870.
Sources: nsp,ms,mv,lss,hgl,net,wl


------------------------------------------------------ 540
CHENANGO
Other names : rebuilt as LIZZIE MADDEN (qv)
Official no. : 126431
Type at loss : propeller, wood, package freight & passenger
Build info : 1887, J. Oades, Detroit
Specs : 176x34x13 696g
Date of loss : 1890, Apr 11
Place of loss : 1¾ mi off Erie, PA
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 40,000 bu wheat
Detail : Bound Toledo for Buffalo, she was partially consumed by fire and sank in 24 feet of water, whereupon she was declared a total loss. She was later raised at great expense and rebuilt as steamer LIZZIE MADDEN.
Owned at the time by C. D. Waterman, Grosse Ile, Mich
Sources: (nsp),ns1,sol,hgl,es,jb


------------------------------------------------------ 541
O.W. CHENEY
Other names : none
Official no. : 155187
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1890, O'Grady & Maher., Buffalo
Specs : 67x17x9 57g 28n
Date of loss : 1903, Jun 23
Place of loss : 7 mi W of Buffalo, 4 mi offshore
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : 3 of 5
Carrying : none
Detail : Rammed in dense fog and rolled over by the steamer CHEMUNG and sank. Owned by Great Lakes Towing.
Also sunk by collision at the Soo in 1894.
1902 often given as year - in error.
Sources: nsp,is,h,ledc,hgl,mpl,hcgl

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CHEQUAMEGON - See ROBERT C. PRINGLE

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CHEROKEE - See MAPLEGROVE


------------------------------------------------------ 4011
CHEROKEE
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1849, Racine, WI
Specs : 103x24x9, 204 t. om
Date of loss : 1856, Nov 26
Place of loss : 7 mi S of Manistee, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 10 or 14 [all]
Carrying : lumber
Detail : She foundered in a gale with all hands, no further detail.
Owned by Canfields of Chicago
Sources: bb,hgl,wl


------------------------------------------------------ 542
CHEROKEE
Other names : ?
Official no. : (126590)
Type at loss : propeller, wood
Build info : (1889, Lester, Marine City, MI)
Specs : (209x36x22 1305g 1019n)
Date of loss : 1913
Place of loss : Saginaw Point [this location unknown]
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : "lost"
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Towing two barges. Probably not a total loss, if it is the vessel described parenthetically above, it was not.
Sources: slh,mv,(hgl)


------------------------------------------------------ 4009
CHERUBUSCO
Other names : none also seen as CHERUBUSKO, CHIRIBUSCO
Official no. : 4329
Type at loss : bark, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1848, Hubbell, Milwaukee
Specs : 114x27x9, 203 gt [255 t. om]
Date of loss : 1872, Nov (10)
Place of loss : North Bay, Door Co., WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : (none)
Carrying : lumber
Detail : She stranded and wrecked in 10 feet of water. Wreckage still lies in the center of North Bay.
Sources: bb,mv,wl,nsp


------------------------------------------------------ 543
CHESAPEAKE
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1838, Maumee, Oh
Specs : 172x24x10., 412 t.
Date of loss : 1847, Jun 8 [ 1846, 1855 also given in error]
Place of loss : about 5 mi off Conneaut, OH
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : 13* of about 97
Carrying : dry goods, groceries
Detail : This fully-laden passenger steamer rammed the schooner JOHN F. PORTER(qv) on a dark night and began to sink. Ran to shore, but foundered a mile short, in about 40 feet of water. The lake was fairly calm, and the passengers and crew tried to make their ways to shore separately and in small groups, in boats and makeshift rafts. Most made it, and many were picked up along the way by the steamer HARRISON. One source says she was used as an offshore gambling casino at the time.
*other sources say 1, 6, 7 and 8. AT LEAST 9 died, as one newspaper names them.
Owned by Sandusky & Mansfield Railroad Co.
Sources: is,sol,le,ledc,lc,hgl,mpl,umich,lhl

------------------------------------------------------
CHICAGO - See also ROME


------------------------------------------------------ 544
CHICAGO
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1835, St. Joseph, MI
Specs : 105x20x10, 166 t [186 t.]
Date of loss : 1842, Nov 18
Place of loss : 3 miles E of Silver Creek, NY
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 60 passengers & crew
Carrying : merchandise, passengers
Detail : Struck by a gale between Ashtabula and Conneaut, she lost both her stacks and became unmanageable when her fires went out. Drove ashore and wrecked, but may later have been salvaged.
(Reenrolled in 1844.)
Sources: lhl,is,hgl,nsp,wl


------------------------------------------------------ 545
CHICAGO
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger & package freight*
Build info : 1842, Doolittle, Oswego, NY
Specs : 95x20x9, 151 t.
Date of loss : 1849, Aug 1
Place of loss : Buffalo Harbor
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Burned in the harbor.
*reported at the time of her launch as a "steam schooner"
One source says she was "nearly" a total loss. No registry after 1847.
Sources: eas,sol,h,wl,bcw,rp


------------------------------------------------------ 546
CHICAGO
Other names : none
Official no. : 127590
Type at loss : propeller, steel, package freight
Build info : 1901, Buffalo Ship Building, Buffalo
Specs : 324x44x14, 3195g 2546n
Date of loss : 1929, Oct 23
Place of loss : Michipicoten Isl.
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 31
Carrying : mixed freight
Detail : Caught in a storm, she was driven ashore by waves and heavily damaged. She slid off the reef and sank in December during salvage operations.
Same storm as loss of carferry MILWAUKEE (qv)
Sources: scan(31/1),eas,sol,ns3,mpl,do,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------ 547
CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE
Other names : often referred to in the press as just BOARD OF TRADE
Official no. : 4331
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast, package and bulk freight
Build info : 1863, Rand, Manitowoc, WI as a bark
Specs : 153x31x13 424g 403n
Date of loss : 1900, Nov 21
Place of loss : Niagara Reef, W end of lake
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : Heavy laden with ore, she struck the reef in a gale and went to pieces. The crew was rescued by the steamer J.K. SECOR.
Major repairs in 1871.
Sunk off Fairport, Ohio, by foul play in the fall of 1874, not recovered until mid July, 1875.
Rammed and sunk the schooner GOLDEN FLEECE(qv) in Lake Huron in 1883.
Sources: nsp,ns1,ledc,mpl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------ 548
CHICAGO HARBOR
Other names : ?
Official no. : ?*
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : ?
Specs : ?
Date of loss : 1892, Jul
Place of loss : off downtown Chicago
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : "lost"
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none