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M.C. & M.C. No. 2 - See SIDNEY O. NEFF

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MACASSA - See MANASOO

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MACATAWA
Other names : none
Official # : 91561
Type at loss : propeller, wood, excursion steamer
Build info : 1883, J.B. Martel, Saugatuck, MI as a tug
Specs : 96x17x6, 71 gt 57 nt
Date of loss : 1897, Oct 23
Place of loss : in Calumet R, S. Chicago
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : 2
Carrying : none
Detail : Burned to water’s edge at 2 a.m. Out of Grand Haven, MI.
Also burned at Chicago in 1895

Sources : nsp,hgl,mv,polk,hcgl

------------------------------------------------------1703
MACEDONIAN or MACEDONIA
Other names : (none)
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : (1826, Cleveland or 1824, Brooklyn, OH)
Specs : (60 t. or 50x15x5, 32 t.)
Date of loss : 1829, Nov 23
Place of loss : W side of E Sister Isl.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 11
Carrying : barrelled whitefish and general freight
Detail : She left Detroit Nov 22 and fought the storm for more than a full day before becoming heavily laden with ice and driven ashore. Her crew swam to shore one by one and survived in an abandoned cabin until the storm abated and some were able to row to Sandusky. The schrs MINERVA and WILLIAM TELL of Detroit finally picked up the balance of the crew and much of her cargo and rigging.
Sources: ledc,nsp,wl

------------------------------------------------------1705
MACK JEAN
Other names : built as C.W. ENDRESS, renamed in 1918
Official no. : C130778
Type at loss : propeller, wood (fish tug?)
Build info : 1898, Burger & Burger, Manitowoc, WI US#127288
Specs : 83x18x8, 146 t.
Date of loss : 1927, Aug
Place of loss : at Kingsville, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Burned in port a total loss.
Sold Canadian in 1913.
Sources: mmgl,csv,mv,mpl

------------------------------------------------------1704
LYDIA MACK
Other names : none also seen as LYDIA MAC
Official no. : C?
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1872, Crouth, Port Stanley
Specs : 100 t,
Date of loss : 1877, Sep 22 or Oct 3
Place of loss : 20 mi SW of Port Stanley
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : hull failure
Loss of life : none of 5
Carrying : coal
Detail : She sprang a leak while bound Cleveland for Port Stanley. At first her pumps could handle it, but then one broke and she foundered in 50 feet of water at about 5 am.
Out of Port Stanley, owned by Berry Bros.
Sources: h,clu,win,es not in mmgl

------------------------------------------------------1706
MACKINAC
Other names : none
Official no. : 51214
Type at loss : unrigged scow, wood
Build info : 1882, Sturgeon Bay, WI
Specs : 238g, 238n
Date of loss : 1893, Nov 16
Place of loss : off Muskegon, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Foundered.
Hailed from Grand Haven
Sources: h,mv

------------------------------------------------------1707
MACKINAW
Other names : none
Official no. : 90135
Type at loss : propeller, wood, freighter
Build info : 1866, J. Stupinsky, Detroit, as a sidewheeler
Specs : 125x26x9, 203g 164n
Date of loss : 1890, Oct 28
Place of loss : at dock at Black River, MI, south of Thunder Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : corn
Detail : A fire started under her boiler and she burned to a total loss at the dock while unloading her cargo. Her crew and the local dockwallopers pushed her away from the wharf.
Rebuilt to a prop from a sidewheeler in 1877. Lengthened 19' in 1880.
Owned by Rice & Van Buskirk of Port Huron
Sources: mv,nsp,slh,hdm,lhl,phr,hgl,mpl

------------------------------------------------------4188
DAVID MACY
Other names : none
Official no. : 6958
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1878, Duncan Robertson, Grand Haven, Mich
Specs : 127x26x8, 193g 183n
Date of loss : 1896, Sep 21
Place of loss : off Bar Point
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : She was run into at night by the steamer FEDORA near Bar Point and cut to the water's edge. Her crew was able to abandon in her yawl and made it to Amherstburg the following morning.
Out of Spring Lake, Mich
Sources: bbas,hgl,mv,polk,jm

------------------------------------------------------1708
SILVANUS J. MACY
Other names : none
Official no. : 115784
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1881, W. Morley, Marine City
Specs : 165x32x11, 753g 613n
Date of loss : 1902, Nov 23
Place of loss : abeam of Port Burwell, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 14 [all]
Carrying : coal
Detail : Bound Buffalo for Kenosha and Racine, WI, she foundered after dark with all hands after fighting through a heavy gale for a full day. She released her barge MABLE WILSON and was never seen again.
Owned by Inter-Lake Trans. Co. of Detroit
Rebuilt and her tonnage increased in 1887
Sources: sol,is,ns1,h,mv,ledc,nsp,mpl,m&h

------------------------------------------------------1709
LIZZIE MADDEN
Other names : built as steamer CHENANGO(qv), last name in 1890
Official no. : 126431
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1887, J. Oades, Detroit
Specs : 175x34x13, 691g 518n
Date of loss : 1907, Nov 22
Place of loss : near Point Lookout, Saginaw Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : lumber
Detail : She caught fire while underway, and burned to the waterline after hger crew abandoned. The hulk drifted out to Charity Isl., where it stranded. Total loss.
Almost destroyed by fire on L Erie, Apr 11, 1890.
Rebuilt, shortened 6', depth reduced 7' at Davidson yd., 1890
Sources: slh,sbs,ns1,phr,mv,mpl

------------------------------------------------------1710
MADELINE
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1837, Lorain, OH
Specs : 40 ft., 20 t.
Date of loss : 1839
Place of loss : Isle Royale, Minnesota Pt. or Madeline Isl.
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Stranded and wrecked.
Much confusion over the location
Sources: gwgl,is,ls,

------------------------------------------------------1711
MADEIRA
Other names : none also spelled MADIERA
Official no. : 90321
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1871, G. Goble, Oswego, NY
Specs : 137x26x11, 322 t.
Date of loss : 1877, Oct 3
Place of loss : Long Point of Lake Erie
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : grain
Detail : She stranded and broke up. Bound for her homeport of Oswego.
Some sources say 1887 was year of loss, but not in ‘84 Polk.
Sources: nsp,osdo,win,mpl,mv,eas

------------------------------------------------------1712
MADEIRA
Other names : none
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : schooner-barge, steel, bulk freight
Build info : 1900, Chicago Shipbuilding, S. Chicago hull# 41
Specs : 436x50x29, 5,039 t.
Date of loss : 1905, Nov 29
Place of loss : Shovel Point, near Split Rock, MN
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1 of 11
Carrying : light
Detail : Cut loose from the tow of steamer WILLIAM EDENBORN(qv), she was blown ashore by a gale and broke up. The two had been bound for Duluth for iron ore. The crew was saved by the heroic actions of one crewman who jumped from the tossing ship to the rock cliff with a rope in hand, then tied it up to help bring the others ashore.
Frequent dive target - her bow lies in shallow enough water to be seen under the right conditions, while her stern is in 130 feet.
Sources: is(2-83),gwgl,ml,is,ns1,mv,lss,eas,mu

------------------------------------------------------3653
MADISON
Other names : ?
Official no. : naval
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1812, U.S. Govt. as a 24-gun sloop-of-war
Specs : 538 t.
Date of loss : 1835
Place of loss : at Oswego
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Wrecked and sunk.
Sunk by storm at Sacket's Harbor in 1813. Raised and fitted out as a merchant vessel.
Sources: osdo,hgl

------------------------------------------------------1714
MAGANETTAWAN
Other names : none
Official no. : C71112
Type at loss : propeller, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1877, J. Story, Byng Inlet, Ont.
Specs : 100x20x9, 187gc 127nc
Date of loss : 1896, Jul 15
Place of loss : near Byng Inlet, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : She went on a bar and was wrecked, a total loss.
Rebuilt in 1888 and 1893
Sources: mmgl,csv,slh,is,lhdc,hgl

------------------------------------------------------4159
MAGDALENA
Other names : none
Official no. : C71115
Type at loss : propeller tug, wood
Build info : 1875, Sutton & Bros., Buffalo
Specs : 48x12x6, 19gc 13nc
Date of loss : 1888, Nov 16
Place of loss : Grant's Isl., North Channel
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : (none)
Carrying : none
Detail : She was driven ashore by a gale and became a total wreck.
Out of Collingwood, Ont.
Rebuilt 1877
Sold Canadian in 1878
Sources: mmgl,csv,polk

------------------------------------------------------1715
MAGELLAN
Other names : none
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1873, L. Shickluna, St. Catharines, Ont.
Specs : 142x26x12, 370 t.
Date of loss : 1877, Nov 9
Place of loss : Wisconsin, near Two Rivers
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 9 [all]
Carrying : corn
Detail : She foundered in a storm and became a total loss. At first it was thought that she had simply been overwhelmed by a gale, but it later appeared out that she had been run down & totally destroyed, probably by the propeller JOSEPH L. HURD. Crewmen aboard another Canadian schooner, C.P. MERRICK, claimed to have witnessed the collision. At least one crewman's body was torn to pieces. Another theory said that she capsized in storm and the wreckage was then inadvertently run over by the HURD. Her wreckage came ashore 3 mi N of Manitowoc.
Sources: hgl,mmgl,clu,usls,mpl,bb,es,pdw

------------------------------------------------------1716
MAGGIE
Other names : built as schooner SPEEDWELL, renamed in 1861
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1847, Sanford & Moses, Cleveland
Specs : 97x22x8, 106 t.
Date of loss : 1883, Nov 13
Place of loss : somehere off Erie, PA
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 2 [all]
Carrying : ?
Detail : Left Erie for Buffalo the evening before a gale. The next day a large part of her inner hull was found floating off Erie. Her cabin door also came ashore. Considered to be lost with all hands.
Bound Tawas for Detroit, she went ashore near Goderich, Ont. and was wrecked Aug 31, 1871.
"Sold by U.S. Marshall Mar. 1881." [mmgl] Probably remained a Canadian bottom.
Originally 94x23x9, 160 t., rebuilt to this size in 1861.
Sources: hgl,(mv),clu['69],slh,nsp,mmgl,wl,rsl,jm

------------------------------------------------------1717
MAGGIE
Other names : ? (built as ONEIDA)
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, bulk freight
Build info : ?(1870, Garden Isl., Ont.)
Specs : (484 nt)
Date of loss : 1918 (ca.)
Place of loss : off Presque Isle, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : Took on water as her seams opened and she wallowed until she sank. Tow of steamer EMBERLY(EMBURY?).
Another vessel of this name built by Shickluna, 1881, 284 t. [also Canadian].
Sources: is(2-83), not in mmgl

------------------------------------------------------1718
MAGIC
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1853, Ferry & Sons, Grand Haven, MI
Specs : 93x26x7, 100 t.
Date of loss : 1869, Nov
Place of loss : near Bailey's Harbor, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : She was driven on the rocks by a gale and wrecked. Several salvage attempts failed.
Wrecked in Saginaw Bay in 1860 or 61. Recovered in '61.
Ashore for several months in 1858 near Milwaukee. She was raised by strapping a scow to each flank to support her, then sliding a sail under her wound and pumping her out.
Capsized 30 mi NNE of Chicago in Jun of 1855. The schooner NORTH YUBA stayed tied to her for more than a day to keep her from sinking, until both were towed in to Chicago by the U.S. gunboat MICHIGAN.
Designed and modelled by Bates of Manitowoc, WI. At the time of her launch it was said that her wide and shallow hull allowed lumber to be loaded and unloaded much more quickly than conventional arrangements.
Sources: slh,nsp,hgl,rsl,mdwl

------------------------------------------------------1732
MAGNET
Other names : none
Official no. : 16318
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1856, S Kirby & Hoyt, Saginaw as a sidewheel tug
Specs : 145x23x10, 217g 206n
Date of loss : 1900, Sep 12
Place of loss : 1 mile NE of Middle Sister Isl.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Bound for Marine City, she foundered in storm. The crew was rescued by the steamer FRANK E. KIRBY [designed by and named after the son of this vessel's builder].
Built as a log rafting tug, rebuilt & converted to a wrecking tug at Buffalo in 1863 and had a very famous career as such. Converted to sloop-barge in 1879, converted to schooner in 1888 by J. W. Westcott..
As a wrecker, she carried the first line mortar ever used on the lakes.
Sources: vbs,polk,nsp,phr,mpl,es

------------------------------------------------------1719
MAGNETIC
Other names : none
Official no. : 91497
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, bulk freight, 2-mast
Build info : 1882, Presley, Cleveland
Specs : 264x38x20, 1676g 1592n
Date of loss : 1917, Aug 25
Place of loss : 19 mi W of Long Point
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : Tow of steamer E.M. BREITUNG, she rode up on a big wave in a moderate gale, hogged, broke her back and sank.
Sources: ns2,mv,mpl

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MAGNOLIA - See LUCKPORT

------------------------------------------------------1720
J.H. MAGRUDER
Other names : none
Official no. : 13745
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1869, Herring, Toussaint, OH
Specs : 115x23x7, 137g 130n
Date of loss : 1895, Sep 17
Place of loss : few miles S of Sturgeon Pt., near Harrisville
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : She sprang a leak in a 50-mph gale and was run onto the beach to save her crew. Lifesavers from Sturgeon Pt took them off. Bound Grace Harbor for Detroit with cedar and other lumber.
All but one of her crew were lost in a storm in '80 when she went ashore near Pte Aux Barques.
Major repairs in 1880 and 82
Sources: nsp,slh,h,mv,lhdc,wb,hgl

------------------------------------------------------3355
MAHONING
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : brig, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1848, William Jones, Black R., OH
Specs : 119x26x19, 259 t.
Date of loss : 1864, Nov 13
Place of loss : Near Port Washington, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 2
Carrying : 2 large steam pumps
Detail : She went ashore near Sheboygan, WI, in a gale with heavy damage. On Dec 1 she capsized and sank while in tow of a tug engaged in her salvage, taking two lives with her. The big wrecking tug MAGNET was engaged to rescue the pumps by diver, which was done in June of 65. Blocks, anchors, chains and standing rigging were also recovered at that time.
Sources: nsp,hgl,bb

------------------------------------------------------1721
MAIA
Other names : none
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : self-unloading barge, steel, bulk freight
Build info : 1898, Chicago Shipbuilding, Chicago hull# 33
Specs : 376x48x26, 3804 t.
Date of loss : 1905, Nov 29
Place of loss : near Split Rock, MN
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Torn away from her tow steamer in a violent gale and cast ashore. Heavy damage caused her to be declared a total loss immediately, but she was later recovered.
Sunk for a breakwater in 1956 and scrapped in 1962.
Sources: mj,ns5,mv,hs

------------------------------------------------------1722
MAID OF THE MIST
Other names : none
Official no. : 17349
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1854, Buffalo [or 1863, Roy, St. Clair, MI]
Specs : 110 t.
Date of loss : 1878, Sep 25
Place of loss : Ninemile Point, Straits of Mackinac
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : She was driven ashore and wrecked in a storm. The total value of the vessel and cargo was about $800. She had even been condemned a short time before the loss.
Sources: nsp,mv,is,wl

------------------------------------------------------1723
MAID-OF-THE-MIST
Other names : none
Official no. : C90692
Type at loss : propeller, wood, excursion
Build info : 1886, A. White, Port Robinson, Ont.
Specs : 71x16, 62gc 33nc
Date of loss : 1955, Apr
Place of loss : at Niagara Falls, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Destroyed by fire along with her sister, MAID-OF-THE-MIST #2
Had thrilled hundreds of thousands by challenging the roiling water at the base of Niagara Falls.
Sources: mmgl,csv

------------------------------------------------------1724
MAID-OF-THE-MIST #2
Other names : none
Official no. : C138273
Type at loss : propeller, wood, excursion
Build info : 1892, Niagara Falls, NY
Specs : 76x19, 80 t.
Date of loss : 1955, Apr
Place of loss : at Niagara Falls, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Destroyed by fire along with her sister, MAID-OF-THE-MIST.
Had thrilled hundreds of thousands by challenging the violent water below Niagara Falls.
Sold Canadian in 1921.
Sources: mmgl,csv

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MAIME - See MAINE LAW, MAINE

------------------------------------------------------1725
MAINE LAW
Other names : also seen as MAIME
Official no. : none
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1853, L.S. Bedford, Port Huron, MI
Specs : 53x17x5, 36 t. [om]
Date of loss : 1858, Sep 24
Place of loss : just off Pte Aux Barques, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : foundered
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Blown from dock at Bark Shanty, where she was loading lumber, and went on a bar, where she broke up.
The "Maine Law" was the first prohibition law passed in the U.S. - passed in 1853.
Sources: slh,hgl,nsp,wl

------------------------------------------------------1727
MAINE
Other names : sometimes seen as MAIME and MAIN
Official no. : 16402
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1852, W.B. Linn, Black R., OH
Specs : 103x25x8, 152g 144n
Date of loss : 1887, Oct 23
Place of loss : mouth of the harbor at Milwaukee
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 6
Carrying : RR ties
Detail : Bound White Lake, Michigan, for Chicago, she sprang a leak in about mid-lake during the night, made for shore but sank somewhat short. Her crew had climbed her rigging as she went down and was saved by the Lifesaving Service. The cargo reportedly washed up on beaches all over the lake for months afterwards.
Out of Chicago.
Sources: mv,h,lmdc,nsp,wb,hgl,sb,usls,eas

------------------------------------------------------1726
MAINE
Other names : none
Official no. : 16445
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1862, Stevens & Presley, Cleveland
Specs : 132x28x12, 332g 255n
Date of loss : 1911, Jul 17
Place of loss : at Marine City, MI
Lake : St Clair R
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Destroyed by fire at her owner's dock, a total loss.
A hard-luck ship: 6 lives were lost in a boiler explosion, 1871; sank in Welland Canal, 1872; major fires in 1880, 1892 and 1906, sank on Lake Superior [Portage Canal] in 1906.
Rebuilt many times.
Sources: is,mv,slh,ns2,lhl,nsp,phr,st,mpl,eas

------------------------------------------------------1728
MAITLAND
Other names : none
Official no. : 16320
Type at loss : bark, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1861, Marlton, Goderich, Ont.
Specs : 137x25x13, 253 t.
Date of loss : 1871, Jun 11
Place of loss : near Waugoschance Pt., western Straits
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : corn
Detail : She foundered following a bizarre nighttime collision between she and the schooners MEARS(qv) and GOLDEN HARVEST in NW gale. She was struck by the HARVEST, then sheered to a position broadside to MEARS, which rammed her solidly to forward, sinking her in less than five minutes. She had been bound Chicago for Buffalo.
Sold to Buffalo parties,Oct, 66 after stranding on L.Ont 1865
Sources: clu,slh,lmdc,mmgl,hgl,nsp,ssm,rsl

------------------------------------------------------4239
ALEXANDER MAITLAND
Other names : none
Official # : 30291
Type at loss : barge, steel , bulk freight
Build info : 1902, Buffalo Dry Dock, Buffalo
Specs : 366x44x26, 3,351g 2,998n
Date of loss : 1924, Dec 9
Place of loss : Port Huron, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Burned to reported total loss at Grand Trunk elevator. Surrendered to underwriters and hulk sold. Rebuilt to Canadian barge GLENBOGIE [C#152645]

Sources : eas,mv,hcgl

------------------------------------------------------1729
THOMAS MAITLAND
Other names : none
Official no. : C107595
Type at loss : propeller, wood
Build info : 1899, Owen Sound, Ont. (also given as Port Arthur)
Specs : 90x18, 107cg 73nc
Date of loss : 1927, May 9
Place of loss : at Port Arthur, Ont.
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : She caught fire and was heavily damaged. Declared a total loss, but a year later she was resurrected and rebuilt.
Removed from registry in 1947.
Out of Port Arthur
Sources: is,mmgl,win

------------------------------------------------------1731
MAJESTIC
Other names : none
Official no. : 92116
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1889, J. Davidson, W. Bay City hull# 25
Specs : 291x40x21, 1985g 1610n
Date of loss : 1907, Sep 19
Place of loss : 12 mi W of Long Point
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : Bound Buffalo for Toledo, she caught fire enroute, burned to the waterline & sank. Her crew were rescued by the big steel steamer CHARLEMAGNE TOWER, Jr.
Sources: vbs,ledc,nsp,mpl,eas

------------------------------------------------------1730
MAJESTIC
Other names : none
Official no. : C100950
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1895,Collingwood Dry Dock Co., Collingwood, Ont.
Specs : 209x35x13, 1578gc 1073nc
Date of loss : 1915, Dec 15
Place of loss : Point Edward, Ont.
Lake : St Clair R
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : She caught fire at her dock. After a few moments the fire burned through mooring lines and she drifted downstream, threatening docks, buildings and other craft. Finally sank below Sarnia.
Owned by Northern Navigation Co. [later part of C.S.L.]
Sources: win,slh,ns2,sol,is,mmgl,mpl

------------------------------------------------------1733
MAJOR
Other names : built as steamer JOHN MITCHELL, renamed in 1902
Official no. : 76792
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1889, F Wheeler, W Bay City hull# 47 US# 76792
Specs : 283x41x20, 1865g 1492n
Date of loss : 1913, Nov 13
Place of loss : Whitefish Bay
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Damaged by waves at the end of the "Big Storm" of 1913, she sprang a leak and was abandoned by her crew when she began to sink. Thought to have foundered, but later found still afloat.
Sold Canadian after rebuilding in 1914 [C134263]. Converted to floating drydock at Midland, Ont., 1920. Partly destroyed in a fire, 1931, scuttled in Midland Bay. Moved to deeper water, 1962
Sources: mmgl,vbs,gwgl,lssc,lss,sol,ns4,mpl,eas

------------------------------------------------------4061
MAJOR ANDERSON
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : bark, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1861, Cleveland
Specs : 568 t. om
Date of loss : 1863, Nov (27)
Place of loss : N Manitou Island
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : corn
Detail : Bound for Collingwood, Ont., she went ashore and was abandoned for the winter. She was supposed to be pulled off in the spring, but there is no evidence that she ever resumed operations.
Ashor at Middle Isl., L. Huron, the same fall.
Sources: nsp,hgl

------------------------------------------------------123
MAJOR ANDERSON
Other names : none Built on the hull of the old schooner MARY
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1861, P. Lamoree, Oswego, NY
Specs : 95 ft 143 t.
Date of loss : 1871, Oct 10
Place of loss : Two Rivers, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Driven ashore by a gale on the 10th and pounded to pieces by the 14th - became a total loss. Owned by J. Prindiville of Chicago.
In 1863 she grounded on Middle Island, near Thunder Bay, MI and was declared a total loss, but later recovered. Also reported ashore on Twin River Point in 1863.
There were a number of other vessels of this name launched at about this time. Anderson was one of the first Union Civil War heroes.
Sources: hgl,osdo,stb,slh,nsp,rsl

------------------------------------------------------233
MAJOR BARBARA
Other names : ?
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : bark, wood, 3-mast
Build info : ?
Specs : ?
Date of loss : 1871, Oct 8
Place of loss : Big Sable Point
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : stranded
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Blinded by smoke from the great Peshtigo Forest Fire, went ashore and wrecked.
Sources: lsp,nsp not in mmgl, '69 mv

------------------------------------------------------23
MAJOR BARNUM
Other names : none
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1849, Dexter, NY
Specs : 71x18x6, 66 t. [om]
Date of loss : 1854, Sep 14
Place of loss : near Two Rivers, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Caught by a storm while loading and driven on the beach, where she was later described as a total wreck.
Sources: nsp,bb

------------------------------------------------------1002
MAJOR N.H. FERRY
Other names : none
Official no. : C126130
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1867, Pierson, Ferrysburg, MI US# 16631
Specs : 117x25x8 171g 163n
Date of loss : 1913, May 28
Place of loss : Murray Canal, Bay of Quinte
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : She struck a pier at the mouth of the canal and sank. Because of her advanced age. she was considered to be beyond repairand was abandoned.
Registered out of Kingston
Sold Canadian after 1909
Sources: ns2,mv,nsp,win ,mpl not in mmgl

------------------------------------------------------1734
MALAKOFF
Other names :
Official no. : US
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 18??
Specs :
Date of loss : 1857, Nov
Place of loss : 4 miles off Goderich, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm/foundering
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Bound Cleveland for Chicago, she encountered a gale and was forced onto a reef near Nine Mile Point, Straits of Mackinac, where she was temporarily abandoned Oct. 21. On Nov 5, the tug RESCUE pulled her off and was making for Detroit in heavy weather when the canvas jacket over the hole in her hull washed off and the pump which was keeping her clear of water clogged with coal. She sank by the head in 30 feet of water. Only her cargo and the valuable pump were saved.
Rebuilt at Milan OH, in 1856-7.
A Canadian propeller MALAKOFF also existed at this time. Burned at Montreal in 1859.
Sources: nsp,hgl,rnc

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MALCOLM - See ALLEGHENY

------------------------------------------------------1735
MANASOO
Other names : built as steamer MACASSA, last name in 1928
Official no. : C93932
Type at loss : propeller, steel, passenger and package freight
Build info : 1888, W. Hamilton & Co., Glasgow, Scotland hull# 64
Specs : 178x24x16, 529 t.
Date of loss : 1928, Sep 15
Place of loss : mid-Georgian Bay, abreast Griffith Isl. light
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 16 of 21
Carrying : cattle, 2 passengers
Detail : Fighting a heavy storm, she capsized when her cargo of 116 cattle apparently shifted to one side, overbalancing her. The recent addition of increased passenger accommodations on her upper deck is thought to have contributed to her instability. She sank quickly. The bodies of her cattle are said to have stocked many a winter larder along the shores that year. All five of the survivors drifted for 60 hours in a life raft before being picked up by the steamer MANITOBA.
Rebuilt, lengthened 24' in 1905 at Collingwood. Passenger accommodations increased in 1928 at Toronto to allow her to be used as a night boat, came out in April.
Sources: is(4-59),mmgl,slh,ns3,csv,win,mpl,gcs

------------------------------------------------------3543
MANCHESTER
Other names : none
Official no. : C
Type at loss : brig, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1847, J. Oades, Port Metcalf, Ont
Specs : 128x24x9, 254 t.
Date of loss : 1859, Apr 23
Place of loss : near Madison Dock
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 2
Carrying : oak timbers
Detail : Bound St. Clair R. for Kingston, Ont., she sprang a leak in a gale while off Long Point. When she beached at the site shown her masts went by the board and she broke in two, a total loss.
Sources: nsp,hgl,clu

------------------------------------------------------1736
MANHATTAN
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : brig, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1836, O. Newberry, Detroit
Specs : 93x28x12, 140 t.
Date of loss : 1838, Oct (20)
Place of loss : Point Abino
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : (none)
Carrying : general merch
Detail : She went aground and broke up in a gale while bound for Chicago, having just left Buffalo.
At the time of her loss, she was the largest square-rigged vessel in operation on the Lakes. A news clipping at the time of her stranding called her "the noblest craft on western waters." Broken up by early November.
Beached in a gale on Lake Michigan in December, 1837.
Sources: is(2-59),ttgl,ledc,nsp

------------------------------------------------------1737
MANHATTAN
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1847, Sanford & Moses, Cleveland
Specs : 149x23x10, 319 t.
Date of loss : 1859, Sep 1
Place of loss : mouth of harbor at Grand Marais, MI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : (none)
Carrying : gen. frt, passengers
Detail : Trying to make shelter, she ran aground and was wrecked in the mouth of the harbor. Her cargo was later removed by the scow NEPTUNE and taken to Marquette, her original destination. The hulk partially blocked the entrance for almost 20 years.
Collided with MONTICELLO (qv) in fall,'51
In 1861 a trapper wrote his supplier that he had scavenged her for grooved siding to use for building a window in his
cabin.
Portaged around Soo in the summer of 1850, while most large vessels were brought around in winter when they could be skidded on frozen ground.
Sources: is(2-60,2-69),gwgl,lssc,lss,hgl,nsp,eas

------------------------------------------------------1738
MANHATTAN
Other names : none
Official no. : 91905
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1887, Detroit Dry Dock, Wyandotte, MI hull #74
Specs : 252x38x19, 1546g 1103n
Date of loss : 1903, Oct 26
Place of loss : East Channel, near Munising, MI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm/fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : wheat
Detail : Her steeering gear was disabled by a storm driving down the channel and she was pushed on the rocky shore. There she caught fire and was destroyed before she could be released. The crew was rescued by the tug WARD.The wreck later drifted to near Sand Point.
Member of Gilchrist Fleet
Sources: atl,nsp,ms,gwgl,is,sagl,ns1,mv,lss,net,mpl

------------------------------------------------------1739
MANISTEE
Other names : none
Official no. : 90311
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1867, E. Peck, Cleveland
Specs : 184x30x10, 677 t.
Date of loss : 1883, Nov 16
Place of loss : W of the Keweenaw Peninsula off Eagle Harbor
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 23 of 26 [usls and others give 30 as the number lost]
Carrying : mixed freight
Detail : This steamer broke up offshore and foundered in a gale in one of Lake Superior’s worst disasters. Bound Bayfield, WI for Ontonagon, MI.
Rebuilt in 1871
Sources: is(4-74),gwgl,ms,gs,lss,gsgl,sol,wm2,polk,hgl,usls,mpl,df,eas

------------------------------------------------------1740
MANISTEE
Other names : built as the propeller LORA, renamed ALICE STAFFORD in 1897, last name in 1905
Official no. : 140537
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1882, B Randall, Benton Harbor, MI as a package freighter
Specs : 202x32x22, 843g 485n
Date of loss : 1914, Jan 28 [also given as Jun 28]
Place of loss : Ferrysburg, MI [near Grand Haven]
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Caught fire and destroyed at her winter berth.
Lengthened 48' in 1890, deepened and converted to this configuration in 1901
Sources: mv,ns2,mpl,bb,eas

------------------------------------------------------
MANISTIQUE, MARQUETTE & NORTHERN No. 1 - See MILWAUKEE

------------------------------------------------------
MANITOBA - See PITTSBURG

------------------------------------------------------1741
MANITOBA
Other names : none
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : propeller, wood, freight "steambarge"
Build info : 1870, Crow, Chatham, Ont.
Specs : 74x21, 100 t.
Date of loss : 1883, Nov 1
Place of loss : at Chatham, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : She caught fire and burned to total loss.
Had a shallow-draft csow hull, built for river duty.
Sources: clu,csv not in mmgl

------------------------------------------------------1742
MANITOU
Other names : none
Official no. : C ?
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1873, Port Dalhousie, Ont.
Specs : 146 ft., 333 t.
Date of loss : 1905, Nov 4
Place of loss : off Scotch Bonnet light
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : She foundered in a storm after springing a leak.
Sources: mmgl,ns1,mv,eas not in clu

------------------------------------------------------1743
MANITOULIN
Other names : rebuilt as ATLANTIC
Official no. : C85491
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1880, J. Simpson, Owen Sound, Ont.
Specs : 152x30x11, 706gc 480nc
Date of loss : 1882, May 18
Place of loss : 4 miles out of Manitowaning, Ont., Georgian Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : 11 to 25 [or more - some sources estimate up to 40]
Carrying : gen frt, passengers
Detail : She was discovered to be afire while crossing Georgian Bay. Her skipper, "Black Pete" Campbell beached her near Manitowaning in an effort to save the passengers & crew. She was nearly destroyed, but was later recovered and rebuilt, lost to fire in 1903 (see ATLANTIC).
Owned by Great Northern Transit Line.
Sources: lh,slh,sol,is,ns1,mmgl,hgl,mpl,rp

------------------------------------------------------1744
MANITOWOC
Other names : none
Official no. : 90465
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast, lumber
Build info : 1868, Rand, Manitowoc, WI as a sidewheeler
Specs : 210x29x13, 507g 479n
Date of loss : 1900, Nov 10
Place of loss : on North Manitou Isl.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Ashore and wrecked.
Converted to a barge in 1874 after a fire; her engine, formerly in the steamer MAY QUEEN, going into the steamer CHICAGO. The barge was later rebuilt to this schooner.
Rebuilt 1879, 83
Sources: ns1,mv,lhl,polk,nb,rsh

------------------------------------------------------1750
MANOLA
Other names : later MAPLEDAWN(qv)
Official no. : 92170
Type at loss : propeller, steel, bulk freight
Build info : 1890, Globe Iron Works, Cleveland hull #30
Specs : 275x42x21, 2326g 1836n
Date of loss : 1918, Dec 2
Place of loss : near Main Duck Island
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 11 [all]
Carrying : none
Detail : She was sold for saltwater use and was cut in half for towing up the St. Lawrence. Enroute the bow section, in tow of tug MICHIGAN, was struck by a fast rising, violent squall and foundered quickly with all on board.
The orphaned stern was purchased by Canadian parties and a new forward section built for her. Relaunched in 1920 as MAPLEDAWN(qv)
Sources: csqw,do2,eas

------------------------------------------------------3808
MANSFIELD
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1847, Buffalo
Specs : 116x24x9, 213 gt [om]
Date of loss : 1855, Jun 30
Place of loss : 30 mi SW of Manitou Islands
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : (none)
Carrying : wheat
Detail : Bound Milwaukee for Oswego in a heavy fog, she was run down and sunk by the schooner TELEGRAPH just after being brought about. Cut nearly to her keel, she went down in about 10 minutes, in 20 fathoms of water. Owned by Vielle & Greene of Buffalo.
She went ashore near Euclid, OH Dec 4, 1854 and wrecked. No lives were lost. She had been bound for Detroit with coal, iron and soap.
Sources: nsp,hgl,bb

------------------------------------------------------1745
MANZANILLA
Other names : none in mmgl as MANZARILLA
Official no. : C85412
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1873, L. Shickluna, St. Catharines Ont. as a bark
Specs : 137x26x12, 340gc 320nc
Date of loss : 1887, Oct 13
Place of loss : at Van Buren Pt., 6 mi W of Dunkirk, NY
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumb. or stone block
Detail : She was driven ashore and wrecked by a SW gale. Her crew made it ashore on their own, and the skipper was rescued by fishermen from Barcelona, NY in the fishing boat BEECHER after the Lifesaving Service failed to respond. She had been bound Cleveland for Toronto.
Sister of schooner MAGELLAN(qv)
Registered out of St. Catharines or Hamilton, to Capt. Williamson, Toronto.
Major repairs in 1880
Sources: mmgl,h,ledc,nsp,wb,win,hgl,sb,pdw,es1-3

------------------------------------------------------
MAPLE LEAF - See also HONORA CARR

------------------------------------------------------4116
MAPLE LEAF
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1854, G S Weeks, Buffalo
Specs : 293 t.
Date of loss : 1867, Nov [1^st week]
Place of loss : Detroit Island, Death's Door
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : (none)
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Reported ashore and a total loss.
Sources: nsp,rsl,hgl

------------------------------------------------------1747
MAPLE LEAF
Other names : none
Official no. : 50396
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1866, J Arnold, Port Huron
Specs : 84x20x7, 87 t.
Date of loss : 1879, Nov 19
Place of loss : at Grand Haven, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 4
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Bound Whitehall, MI, for Milwaukee, she drove against the north pier at Grand Haven in a storm and went into the shallows. Her crew was rescued by the Lifesaving Service. She was resting fairly easily until the schooner J.A. HOLMES piled ashore at the same spot and cut her in two. HOLMES was later recovered.
Out of Milwaukee.
Sources: mv,h,phr,usls

------------------------------------------------------1746
MAPLE LEAF
Other names : none
Official no. : 50873
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1872, Bigland, Bayfield, WI
Specs : 52 t.
Date of loss : 1882, Nov
Place of loss : mouth of Iron River, MN
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber,fish
Detail : She was driven ashore and broken up by a storm.
Wrecked and declared lost in 1872, near Isle Royale.
Sources: nsp,gwgl,irs,is,lss,mv

------------------------------------------------------1748
MAPLE LEAF
Other names : none
Official no. : C73914
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1867, Redmond & Tait, Picton, Ont.
Specs : 92x22x8, 114g 108n
Date of loss : 1883, Nov 16
Place of loss : off harbor entrance at Buffalo
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber, staves and wood bolts
Detail : Overwhemed by gale, she was driven ashore and wrecked. She ended up so high on the beach that she was declared a total loss, but was later recovered by Americans and rebuilt as HONORA CARR(qv).
Bound Port Burwell for Buffalo. Hailed from Port Burwell.
mmgl gives date of loss as 10/10/86.
Sources: mmgl,h,hgl,usls

------------------------------------------------------1749
MAPLEDAWN
Other names : built as MANOLA(qv), renamed in 1920
Official no. : C141836
Type at loss : propeller, steel, bulk freight
Build info : 1890, Globe Iron Works, Cleveland hull# 30 US# 92170
Specs : 350x40x21, 2325gc 1835nc
Date of loss : 1924, Nov 30
Place of loss : Christian Isl. near Penetang, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : stranded
Loss of life : none
Carrying : barley
Detail : Blinded by snow, disoriented by heavy waves, she went hard aground. Couldn't be pulled off and was cut up for scrap in place. Bound Fort William for Midland, Ont.
Owned by Canada Steamship Lines.
See MANOLA for earlier major accident. Sold Canadian and forward portion built on earlier stern, 1918-20.
Lengthened 68' at Collingwood, 1924.
Sources: csqw,mmgl,slh,is,ns3,mv,lhdc,csv,win,do

------------------------------------------------------1751
MAPLEGROVE
Other names : built as propeller CHEROKEE, renamed MAPLEGROVE in 1919, renamed JED in 1921
Official no. : C141378
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1889, M. Lester, Marine City, MI US# 126590
Specs : 208x36x14, 1177gc 636n
Date of loss : 1920, Jul 11
Place of loss : Welland Canal
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : She struck a lock gate in the Welland Canal and beached. She was declared total loss and later removed as a hazard, but waspurchased as a wreck and converted to the barge JED in 1921.
Sustained heavy weather damage on L. Ontario Nov 21, 1921 and abandoned to her underwriters. Officially abandoned in 1924.
Sold Canadian, 1919.
Sources: mmgl,h,csv,mpl

------------------------------------------------------1752
MAPLEGULF
Other names : built as PAWNEE, renamed in 1920
Official no. : C141752
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1888, M. Lester, Marine City, MI US# 150455
Specs : 174x33x13, 821 t.
Date of loss : 1920, Nov 15
Place of loss : off Kingston, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : While fighting a gale, she rode up on a big wave and cracked in two. She was in a desperate, sinking condition, but still made it into Kingston safely. She was declared a constructive total loss at the dock and was later cut up for scrap.
Sold Canadian in 1920 [Canada Steamship].
Sources: mmgl,ns3,mv,csv,win,mpl

------------------------------------------------------1753
MAPLEHURST
Other names : built as steamer CADILLAC, renamed in 1920
Official no. : C138230
Type at loss : propeller, steel, bulk freight
Build info : 1892, Chicago Shipbuilding, Chicago hull#5 US#126876
Specs : 235x37x19, 1297 t.
Date of loss : 1922, Dec 1
Place of loss : near Portage Ship Canal, Keweenaw
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 11 of 20
Carrying : coal
Detail : Her engine failed in gale and she fell into troughs of the big waves, capsized and sank. Some sources say she was driven ashore and wrecked just off Upper Entrance. Bound Lorain, OH for Ft.William, Ont.
Sold Canadian, 1916
Sources: mmgl,gwgl,lss,sol,is,ns3,csv,mpl,eas,bb

------------------------------------------------------4240
DAN MARBLE
Other names : none
Official # : 6093
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1848, J Tyler, Conneaut
Specs : 169 t.
Date of loss : 1875, Jul 21
Place of loss : 8-9 mi E of Long Point
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : (storm or hull failure)
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 300 t. coal
Detail : Bound Detroit for Buffalo, she foundered in 25 fathoms of water. Her crew abandoned in her boat, were picked up by the schooner MONT BLANC and made it to Long Point, from whence the schooner STERLING brought them to Detroit. Her skipper and part owner Capt. C. Talbot, arrived at Detroit with the only thing saved from the vessel - her clock - under his arm.
Out of Buffalo in 1871
Sources : eas,hgl,wl, jb,nsp

------------------------------------------------------1754
J.P. MARCH
Other names : also seen as JOHN P. MARCH
Official no. : 13482
Type at loss : schooner, wood (3-mast), former bark
Build info : 1864, Crozier, Vermilion, OH
Specs : 146x30, 355 t.
Date of loss : 1878, Oct 30
Place of loss : Good Harbor, MI, near Sleeping Bear Point
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 4 of 8
Carrying : coal
Detail : Driven onto the rocks by gale, she broke up and became a total loss.
Sources: mv,ssb,nb,wl

------------------------------------------------------1755
MARENGO
Other names : none
Official no. : 17456
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1873, Wolf & Davison, Milwaukee
Specs : 189x32x14, 648g 616n
Date of loss : 1912, Oct 12
Place of loss : near Morgan's Point, Ont., W of Port Colborne
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Tow of steamer LLOYD S. PORTER(qv), her hawser parted and she was driven on the beach, where she broke up.
Out of Erie, PA
2nd vessel of this name. The first was possibly sunk near the Sisters Islands, Lake Erie, in 1856.
Sources: mv,ns2,ledc,win,mpl,eas,hgl

------------------------------------------------------
MARGARET MARY - See MARY MARGARET

------------------------------------------------------1757
MARGRETTA
Other names : none also seen as MARGARETTA
Official no. : 92423
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1892, Ashtabula, OH
Specs : 53x13x5, 19g 10n
Date of loss : 1907, Oct
Place of loss : off Grindstone City, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Caught fire and burned to a total loss. Her documents were surrendered at Port Huron, Oct 31, 1907, first registered there Oct 2 of the same year.
Heavily damaged by grounding in great storm of Oct 20, 1905.
Sources: slh,mv,phr

------------------------------------------------------1758
MARIA
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1836, Maumee, OH
Specs : 24 t.
Date of loss : 1841
Place of loss : near Nine Mile Point, Straits of Mackinac
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Foundered.
Sources: slh,hgl

------------------------------------------------------3949
MARIA
Other names : none
Official no. : 50612
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1866, A. Stewart, Port Huron
Specs : 95x23x7, 104 t.
Date of loss : 1883, Nov 5
Place of loss : at Hedgehog Harbor, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Went on the rocks in a gale and was expected to go to pieces.
Owned by Saveland & Cushing of Milwaukee.
Sources: nsp,hgl,polk,bb,phr (not in ‘69 or ‘84 mv)

------------------------------------------------------4028
MARIA
Other names : none
Official no. : (91096)
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : (1878, Milwaukee)
Specs : (34x12x4, 9g 8n)
Date of loss : 1895, Nov
Place of loss : near Two Rivers, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 6
Carrying : railroad ties
Detail : After she began to leak heavily in a storm, her crew was evacuated by local fishermen. The vessel blew ashore near Two Rivers and broke up.
Sources: bb,mv

------------------------------------------------------
RAMON MARIMON - See also BURLINGTON

------------------------------------------------------
MARINA - See GEORGE A. GRAHAM

------------------------------------------------------4160
MARINE CIGAR
Other names : nicknamed "Fool Killer" by many
Official no. : none
Type at loss : miniature submarine, steel, salvage*
Build info : 1851, Lodner D. Phillips, Michigan City, Ind.
Specs : 40' long, 14 ft. diameter
Date of loss : 1853
Place of loss : Mid-lake over wreck of ATLANTIC (1852 - qv)
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : gear failure
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She had been brought to Lake Erie on a train by her inventor and builder for the purpose of salvaging the ATLANTIC. She began to leak 100' into a preliminary dive, so was raised to the surface and repaired. In an unmanned test dive which followed she was lost when her lift line fouled with the steamer's rigging and broke. The boat fell to the bottom near the ATLANTIC, where it still lies.
*may have been steam-powered, but probably hand-cranked propeller
Sources: fk,is(3-83),nsp

------------------------------------------------------1759
MARINE CITY
Other names : none
Official no. : 16447
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1866, Lester & Arnold, Marine City, MI
Specs : 192x28x11, 695 t.
Date of loss : 1880, Aug 30
Place of loss : 2 mi off Alcona, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : 9 to 20 of 158
Carrying : shingles, fish
Detail : She caught fire while downbound. She was seen to be ablaze from Harrisville, MI, from whence the tugs VULCAN & GRAYLING rushed to her rescue. They and the Sturgeon Point Lifesaving crew saved most of those aboard, but could do nothing for the ship, and she was a total loss. Her boiler was reported to still be visible above water in 1950's, according to local sources.
Sources: hmc,is,sol,h,ach,lhl,phr,hgl,usls,mpl

------------------------------------------------------1760
MARINE CITY
Other names : none
Official no. : 50516
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2 mast
Build info : 1866, Somers, Marine City, MI as a schooner-barge
Specs : 147x28x11, 338g 321n
Date of loss : 1901, Nov 11
Place of loss : off Goderich, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 4 [all]
Carrying : pulpwood
Detail : Bound Blind River, Ont. for Detroit, she went on the rocks at Scarecrow Isl., S of Thunder Bay, MI and was abandoned by her crew. She later slipped off the reef and drifted out into the lake. Steamer INDIA found her abandoned and put 4 men aboard in heavy seas to tow her in, but she drifted away and finally wrecked near the Canadian side.
Built at 128x27x9, 367 t., rebuilt and enlarged in 1875.
Sources: phr,slh,sol,ns1,mv,lhdc,nsp,wl

------------------------------------------------------1761
MARINER
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1824, A. Jones, Sandusky, OH
Specs : 75x22x7, 96 t.
Date of loss : 1852, fall
Place of loss : near Chicago
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : wrecked
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Went ashore in a gale and broke up. Her outfit was salvaged the following season by the steamer DETROIT.
Sources: www,hgl,nsp

------------------------------------------------------3487
MARINER
Other names : none
Official no. : 17607
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood [also shown as a steam barge]
Build info : 1860, J.A. Jenking, Detroit
Specs : 81x25x6, 135g 104n
Date of loss : 1869, Nov 20
Place of loss : at Thames, R., Chatham, Ont.
Lake : St Clair
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Destroyed by fire.
Sources: lhl,hgl,hdm,wl,mdwl,eas

------------------------------------------------------
MARINETTE - See also JOHN B. BREYMANN

------------------------------------------------------1762
MARINETTE
Other names : sometimes misreported as MARIONETTE
Official no. : 90766
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood
Build info : 1873, J. Martel, Saugatuck, MI
Specs : 505g 480n
Date of loss : 1886, Nov 19
Place of loss : SE of Fairport, MI, Garden Peninsula.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 6 of 7
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Tow of the steamer MANISTIQUE, she broke tow and went ashore in a 3-day NW gale. The woman cook and her 13 year old daughter were among the lost. The wreck eventually washed ashore near Frankfort.
See also MENEKAUNEE.
Owned by Loud of Oscoda.
Sources: mv,nsp,h,lmdc,phr,wb,hgl,sb,eas,es

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MARION - See CHARLES HORN , JURA

------------------------------------------------------
EDGAR MARION - See MARION EGAN

------------------------------------------------------1763
MARJON S or MARION S
Other names : none
Official no. : C158604
Type at loss : propeller tug
Build info : ?
Specs : 5 t.
Date of loss : 1943, Apr 29
Place of loss : 1 mi WSW of Port Burwell, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : explosion/fire
Loss of life : 3
Carrying : none
Detail : She exploded and burned to a total loss.
Built or acquired from foreign sources about 1935.
Out of Port Dover, Ont.
Sources: sol,h,win not in mmgl

------------------------------------------------------1474
JOHN MARK
Other names : none
Official no. : 45698
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1870, A. Turner, Trenton, as 3-mast schooner
Specs : 142x27x9 299g 284n
Date of loss : 1903, Oct 23
Place of loss : off Kelley's Isl.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : stone
Detail : Bound Marblehead for Fairport, she sprung a leak in heavy seas and foundered. Lifesaving service rescued her crew.
Ashore on Simcoe Isl., L. Ont., with heavy damage in 1870.
Sources: nsp,ns1,mv

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MARKET DRAYTON - See NELLIE SHERWOOD

------------------------------------------------------1764
MAROLD II
Other names : built as steam yacht LaBELLE, renamed 1919
Official no. : 208565
Type at loss : propeller, steel, ferry
Build info : 1911, Dialogue & Sons, Camden, NJ
Specs : 129x19x10, 165g 112n
Date of loss : 1937, Jan 1
Place of loss : Simmons Reef, N of Beaver Island
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : explosion
Loss of life : 5 [all]
Carrying : gasoline
Detail : She and her crew were siphoning gasoline off the stranded tanker J. OSWALD BOYD(qv) when a tremendous explosion occurred, totally destroying MAROLD and her crew. Only pieces of MAROLD were found. The captain’s body washed ashore in Green Bay the next year.
Built as the private yacht of auto (and speed) magnate Alexander Winton. Impressed for service as a subchaser in WW I.
Burned at Marysville, MI, St. Clair R. in Sep, 1921.
Sources: is(2-72),nsp,ltr,gsgl,is,lm,ssm,mpl,eas

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MARQUETTE - See also HOWARD M. HANNA, Jr., B.L. WEBB

------------------------------------------------------1765
MARQUETTE
Other names : none
Official no. : 90142
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1869, J.M. Jones, Detroit
Specs : 139x26x11, 323 t.
Date of loss : 1872, Nov 14
Place of loss : west Channel, Munising Bay
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : She stranded in heavy seas. Initial salvage attempts failed and it was hoped that she could winter over and be taken off in the spring, but late fall and winter storms tore her to pieces, and she was abandoned as a total loss in May of the following year..
Sunk with some loss of life by collision with the bark H. P. Baldwin in the Straits, 1870. Rebuilt at Bay City in 1871.
Homeport: Marquette. Owned by E.B. Ward. Ward built another MARQUETTE by J. Bushnell at Newport, MI, in 1856: 131x30x11, 420 t. (om). She was reported lost at Hope Isl, Ont., in 1862, but apparently had an official number (not issued until 1868) - 16396 - so may have been recovered.
Sources: slh,ms,lss,hgl,mpl,nsp

------------------------------------------------------1767
MARQUETTE
Other names : built as steamer REPUBLIC, renamed, 1890
Official no. : 110465
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1881, Presley, Cleveland
Specs : 235x36x18, 1343g 1118n
Date of loss : 1903, Oct 15
Place of loss : near Apostles Isls.
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : hull failure
Loss of life : none
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : Downbound in good weather, she sprang a leak and began to settle bow first. Air trapped in her hull blew her cabins off and broke her in two aft of the pilothouse. The crew escaped in lifeboats as she went down.
Sixth Gilchrist boat to be lost that year: JOHN CRAIG, WAVERLY, A.A. PARKER, V. SWAIN (later recovered), MOONLIGHT.
Sources: nsp,is,gwgl,lss,sagl,ns1,mpl

------------------------------------------------------1766
MARQUETTE
Other names : ?
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : barge
Build info : ?
Specs : ?
Date of loss : 1924
Place of loss : at Essexville, MI, Saginaw
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : "sunk"
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : no detail
Sources: slh

------------------------------------------------------1768
MARQUETTE & BESSEMER No. 2
Other names : none
Official no. : 202514
Type at loss : propeller, steel, carferry, 30 car
Build info : 1905, American Shipbuilding, Cleveland, OH hull #428
Specs : 338x55x20, 2514 t
Date of loss : 1909, Dec 8
Place of loss : midlake, exact location unknown
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 36 [all]
Carrying : 32 coal hopper cars
Detail : Bound Conneaut, OH for Port Stanley, Ont. on her regular roiute, she foundered in a powerful gale. Her distress whistle was heard and lights seen on both sides of the lake as she vainly searched for hours for a safe port. Old-time sailors still claim to her her whistle on stormy nights.
Sources: gs,cfgl,sol,sagl,ns1,mv,ledc,mpl,eas

------------------------------------------------------1769
MARQUIS
Other names : (built as the schooner TOBIAS BUTLER) also seen as MARCUS
Official no. : C71246
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1872, Jamieson, Mill Point, Ont.
Specs : 148x29 446gc 424 nc
Date of loss : 1892, Nov 12
Place of loss : off Harbor beach, abreast of Forest Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Stranded in a blizzard and gale. USLS saved four of her crew, the rest made it to shore on their own. Registration document says "Got on reef in snowstorm, total loss, 3 mi S of Port Hope."
Heavy damage in the Great Storm of Nov 11-17, 1883, on Lake Ont.
Sources: mmgl,slh,h,hgl,usls,es

------------------------------------------------------
MARS - See also MARTIAN

------------------------------------------------------1770
MARS
Other names : none
Official no. : 50877
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1872, McLeod, New Jerusalem, OH
Specs : 122x27x9, 235g 223n
Date of loss : 1903, Nov 19
Place of loss : S. Fox Island
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Driven ashore and pounded to pieces by wave action.
Major repairs in 1881
Sources: nsp,sol,ns1,mpl

------------------------------------------------------1771
CAROLINE MARSH
Other names : none
Official no. : C ?
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1852, H. Hacker (or Collins), Port Hope, Ont.
Specs : 320 t.
Date of loss : 1890, Nov 3
Place of loss : harbor at Oswego, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Unable to make it into the harbor, she signaled for a tow. Picked up by a harbor tug, but broke her towline and driven ashore, where she broke up in place. Crew rescued by Lifesaving Service .
Reg out of Port Hope to Vinden & Co.
Major repairs in 1883, rebuilt, 1874
Sources: eas,win,clu,is,h,nsp,osdo,wb,hgl,sb,dmt not in mmgl

------------------------------------------------------1772
GEORGE A. MARSH
Other names : none
Official no. : C133750
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1882, A.J. Footlander, Muskegon, MI US# 85727
Specs : 135x27x9, 243gc 220nc
Date of loss : 1917, Aug 8
Place of loss : Pigeon Shoal, off Amherst Isl., approach to Kingston, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 10 of 13
Carrying : coal
Detail : Bound Big Sodus, NY (or Oswego), for Kingston, Ont. She left port in good weather, but in three hours was in the midst of a terrible gale. She sprang a leak, capsized and foundered after fighting the storm for five hours. At first all but 2 were thought to be lost [4 crew plus captain’s wife and five children] , but in 1927 John W. Smith, her skipper, died in Harrah, OK, after confessing that he had escaped the wreck and fled to the U.S.
Sold Canadian after 1914.
registered out of Kingston
Sources: mmgl,ns2,h,mv,is(2-90),win,osdo,mpl,rp,do

------------------------------------------------------3356
JOHN A. MARSH
Other names : none perhaps built as LIVERPOOL, renamed before '55. Some sources call her JANE ANN MARSH
Official no. : C
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood
Build info : 1848, Collins, Port Hope, Ont.
Specs : 171 t.
Date of loss : 1883, Oct 22
Place of loss : somewhere off Charlotte, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 4
Carrying : light
Detail : She was bound Montreal for Fair Haven, NY in tow of tug CARIBOO with PACIFIC, EUGENE and one other. The tow was broken up in a gale and MARSH collided with PACIFIC. MARSH drifted away with distress signals flying, but was never seen again. Owned by Vetal Pardee of Montreal
Major repairs in 1857
Sources: nsp,clu,hgl,rsl not in mmgl

------------------------------------------------------1773
PHINEAS S. MARSH
Other names : none
Official no. : 19679
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1867, G.W. Jones, Black River, OH
Specs : 177x31x13, 543g 516n
Date of loss : 1896, Aug 26
Place of loss : near Crisp Point, MI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : limestone blocks
Detail : She was driven in by a storm and struck bottom. Her crew took to the rigging as she sank, from whence they were rescued by the Lifesaving Service. MARSH broke up soon after and was declared a total loss Aug 30.
Owned by J. Daville of Cleveland
Sunk in the Straits in the fall of 1869 and again in 1886.
Major repairs in 1880, 83.
Sources: nsp,lssc,lss,gwgl,h,mv,wb,hgl

------------------------------------------------------
MARSHALL - See also CHIEF JUSTICE MARSHALL

------------------------------------------------------1774
J.D. MARSHALL
Other names : none
Official no. : 76964
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1891, South Haven, MI
Specs : 155x34x12, 532g 428n
Date of loss : 1911, Jun 11
Place of loss : off Michigan City, IN
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm/stowage
Loss of life : 4
Carrying : iron pigs and machinery
Detail : Her cargo shifted in a moderate blow, causing her to turn turtle and sink. Four divers were arrested for stripping her of artifacts in 1978.
Sources: mv,ns2,lmdc,mv,nsp,mpl

------------------------------------------------------3912
JOHN MARSHALL
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : paddle (sidewheel) steamer, wood
Build info : 1839, Perrysburg, OH
Specs : 98x16x7, 108 t. [om]
Date of loss : 1844, Oct 18
Place of loss : SE of Stoney Point
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : passengers
Detail : Bound Kingston, Ont., for Oswego, she was driven ashore by a gale and later pounded to pieces. Her passengers were mainly immigrants [one source says 50 Mormons].
Out of Oswego, NY
Rebuilt and enlarged at Henderson, NY, in 1844.
Sources: nsp,rp,hgl,lhl,wl

------------------------------------------------------1775
AGNES E. MARSILLIOT
Other names : built as brig TOM CORWIN. Often seen as A. E. MARSILLIOT
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1840, Charleston, OH
Specs : 88x21x8, 129 t.
Date of loss : 1860, Sep 24
Place of loss : 7 mi below Port Stanley.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 2
Carrying : none
Detail : She had recently been purchased in a crippled condition by her skipper, after being damaged by a fire near Holland, MI, in the fall of 1859. Her skipper/owner thought she could be safely sailed to Port Burwell, since the weather was fine. Enroute she was struck by a freak storm, turned turtle and sank.
Rebuilt in 1857 and renamed.
Owned and skippered by Capt. Burger.
Sources: hgl,sagl,nsp, wl

------------------------------------------------------1776
MARTHA
Other names : ?
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : propeller tug, (wood), fishing
Build info : ?
Specs : 19 t.
Date of loss : 1933, Dec
Place of loss : near Michigan City, IN
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : 4 [all]
Carrying : none
Detail : She capsized and sank with all hands.
Sources: lmdc

------------------------------------------------------1777
MARTIAN
Other names : built as propeller MARS, renamed in 1913
Official no. : C216581
Type at loss : propeller, steel, bulk freight [US#93123]
Build info : 1901, Detroit Shipbuilding, Wyandotte, MI hull # 139
Specs : 346x48x28, 3728g 2948n
Date of loss : 1927, Dec 9
Place of loss : Hare Island, Thunder Bay
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Ashore and wrecked, she was later raised, but there is some confusion over her disposition. Most sources say she was a constructive total loss at this point and never ran again until the hulk was finally scrapped in 1937. Other sources say she ran a few more years, then lay idle until the '37 scrapping.
Rebuilt, 1923 Sold Canadian, 1913 [CSS].
Sources: is,h,ns4,mv,lss,mmgl,win

------------------------------------------------------1778
C.C. MARTIN
Other names : none
Official no. : C116670
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1906, 12-mile Bay, Ont. [near Midland, Ont.]
Specs : 71x16 ft., 78 t.
Date of loss : 1911, Aug 21
Place of loss : off Key Harbour, Georgian Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : sank
Loss of life : 10 [all]
Carrying : none
Detail : Towing barge ALBATROSS(qv), she was probably dragged down when the barge sank unexpectedly. Her crew apparently had enough time to build a substantial raft and drifted for some time before they perished.
Registered out of Midland, Ont..
Sources: nsp,slh,h,www,mmgl,win

------------------------------------------------------1779
D.R. MARTIN
Other names : none
Official no. : 6134?
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1857, Quayle & Martin, Cleveland
Specs : 138x30x12, 326g 310n
Date of loss : 1904, Nov 3
Place of loss : Devil's Island, Georgian Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Went ashore and wrecked. 47 years old at the time of her loss.
Ashore and in danger of wrecking near Presque Isle, Lake Huron in late November of 1857. Spent the winter in place and recovered in May of the next year. She was so badly holed that she was filled with cedar posts to prevent her from sinking as she was towed in.
Foundered near Milwaukee pier in Sep, 1893.
Rebuilt in 1883
Sources: mv,eas,ns1,nsp,polk,bb

------------------------------------------------------1780
J.B. MARTIN
Other names : none
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1858 or 68, J.M. Jones, Detroit
Specs : 385 t.
Date of loss : 1869, Nov 5
Place of loss : northeast of Presque Isle, Mich in 15 fathoms of water
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 10 [all]
Carrying : wheat
Detail : Bound Milwaukee for Buffalo in one of the biggest gales of the century, she passed the Straits of Mackinac on the 4th and was never heard from again. She was located by a diver in March, 1871 and salvage was attempted.
Out of Milwaukee, owned by J. Herrick & Son of New York
Sources: slh,nsp,hgl,mpl,mdwl, not in mv,mmgl,rsl

------------------------------------------------------1781
JESSIE MARTIN
Other names : none
Official no. : 76212
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1881, Footlander, Muskegon, MI
Specs : 68x17x6, 42g 40n
Date of loss : 1908, Aug 20
Place of loss : near Ludington, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 2
Carrying : lumber
Detail : She stranded and went to pieces in gale.
Capsized during salvage from beach near Grand Haven in Nov of 1882 with loss of one life.
Sources: nsp,mv,phgl,h,lmdc,mpl,rp

------------------------------------------------------1782
JOHN MARTIN
Other names : none
Official no. : 12793
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1857, Quayle & Martin, Cleveland
Specs : 102x19x9, 132g 83n
Date of loss : 1890, Jul 26
Place of loss : Georgian Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : mechanical failure
Loss of life : none
Carrying : Towing 2 barges laden with ice
Detail : Bound Midland, Ont. for Buffalo with the schooners HAYES and MOTT, she foundered in deep water when her sternpipe broke. Her crew was rescued by the HAYES.
Owned by Rochester Transportation Co. of Rochester, NY
Rebuilt in 1881, and 1889
Sunk in a collision with the schooner NABOB in May of 1863, while she had the Canadian schooner BRITISH LION (qv) in tow.
Sources: mv,slh,lhl,hgl,mpl,wl,rsl,es3-2

------------------------------------------------------1783
JOHN MARTIN
Other names : none
Official no. : 75717
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 3-mast, bulk freight
Build info : 1873, Quayle & Martin, Cleveland
Specs : 220x34x14, 938g 891n
Date of loss : 1900, Sep 22
Place of loss : at Ft. Gratiot, MI
Lake : St Clair R
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : 4
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : She collided with the big steel bulker YUMA and sank quickly. She had been in tow of the steamer GROVER and apparently sheered and was struck and demolished. The wreck was about 100 feet from the American side and it and the wreck of the FONTANA(qv), on the other side, made the channel very narrow.
Sources: nsp,slh,ns1,h,mv

------------------------------------------------------1784
MARIA MARTIN
Other names : none
Official no. : 16433
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1866, Quayle & Martin, Cleveland as a bark
Specs : 175x33x13, 568g 540n
Date of loss : 1906, Nov 22
Place of loss : off Detroit
Lake : Detroit R
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : She broke her layup moorings in a storm and was blown upriver, finally jamming under the Belle Isle Bridge with heavy damage. Declared a constructive total loss, but she was later returned to a berth in Malden, Ontario, for use as a breakwater. This never came to pass, however, and the hulk was left there to rot. In 1935 a dyke built near Bois Blanc Island (Bob-Lo) changed the current and she began to make her way back into the channel. She was finally distroyed by explosives in July of 1935.
Stranded near Beaver I., L. Mich in fall, 1870, declared lost.
Major repairs in 1871,81,83,84
A small tug of this name was built at Cleveland by James Harley in 1858.
Sources: sagl,ns1,mv,nsp,mpl,ae

------------------------------------------------------1786
S.K. MARTIN
Other names : built as prop CITY OF ST. JOSEPH, renamed 1888
Official no. : 126125
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1883, J.H. Randall, Benton Harbor as a passenger/package freight steamer
Specs : 153x28x11, 303g 241n
Date of loss : 1912, Oct 12
Place of loss : 3 miles off Harbor Creek, NY
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : She sprang a leak in a gale and sank, but her crew made it to shore in her yawl. Owned by William J. Jock et al of Marine City, MI.
Converted from a passenger/package freighter to a bulker in 1888. She was one of the earliest vessels to be converted to a fore and aft cabin bulker.
Burned at Benton Harbor in 1883.
Sources: mv,ns2,mv,ledc,phr,mpl,eas

------------------------------------------------------1787
W.J. MARTIN
Other names : none
Official no. : C116664
Type at loss : propeller tug, wood
Build info : 1905, Midland, Ont.
Specs : 69x15, 86 t.
Date of loss : 1905, Nov
Place of loss : 12-mile Bay of Georgian Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : stranded/fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : She stranded and burned, no detail
Sources: lhdc,mmgl,csv,do

------------------------------------------------------1785
MARY MARTINI
Other names : none
Official no. : 90978
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1877, F. Wheeler, W Bay City, MI hull# 1
Specs : 85x19x6, 91g 76n
Date of loss : 1885, Dec 23
Place of loss : Brule Pt., 13 mi E of Grand Marais, MN
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : navigational error
Loss of life : none
Carrying : misc cargo
Detail : She stranded in fair weather and became a total loss, but her passengers and crew were taken off by the Duluth tug T.H. CAMP. Enrollment surrendered at Duluth the 30th.
Out of Marquette.
Sources: mv,vbs,lss,hgl,mpl

------------------------------------------------------3809
RICHARD MARTINI
Other names : none - often seen as just MARTINI
Official no. : 56508
Type at loss : scow barge, wood, lighter
Build info : 1876, L. A. Holmes, Sebewaing, MI
Specs : 134x28x9, 266g 253n
Date of loss : 1905, Apr 23
Place of loss : just upriver from Belle Isle bridge
Lake : Detroit R.
Type of loss : hull failure
Loss of life : none
Carrying : street sweepings and dunnage
Detail : Suffered a massive hull failure while upbound in tow of the tug LORMAN. Sides fell open and deck caved in under a heavy load, sending her to the bottom quickly. The wreck was later dynamited to empty her, then towed to the "Grosse Pointe dump" and abandoned on June 20. Owned by Berry Co. of Detroit
Sources: nsp,vbs,mpl

------------------------------------------------------1788
SELDEN E. MARVIN
Other names : none
Official no. : 115771
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1882, Bailey Bros., Toledo as a 3-mast schooner
Specs : 175x33x12, 618g 588n
Date of loss : 1914, Nov 19
Place of loss : off Crisp Point, E of Grand Marais, MI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 7(ca)[all]
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Tow of the lumber hooker C.F. CURTIS(qv) with ANNIE F. PETERSON (qv), she was caught in a terrific gale and separated from the others. All three vessels were lost, with the MARVIN being torn to pieces and sunk somewhere in this vicinity. Her wreckage was strewn on the beach all along this coast.
Owned by Edward Hines Lumber Co. of Chicago
Sources: nsp,lssc,lss,lol,mol,gwgl,sol,ns2,mv,mpl,eas

------------------------------------------------------1789
SYLVANUS MARVIN
Other names : also seen as S. MARVIN, SYLVESTER MARVIN
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1842, Sam’l Farmin or Farnum, Milwaukee
Specs : 65x19x6, 65 gt. [om]
Date of loss : 1851, May 22
Place of loss : off Grand Haven, MI or Racine, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : "lost"
Loss of life : 9
Carrying : ?
Detail : no detail
Sources: is,hgl,mpl,bb,wl

------------------------------------------------------
MARY - See also MAJOR ANDERSON

------------------------------------------------------1790
MARY
Other names : ?
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : about 1835
Specs : 40 t.
Date of loss : 1844, Fall
Place of loss : mouth of Saginaw Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : foundered
Loss of life : (none)
Carrying : ?
Detail : She swamped and was abandoned in the mouth of the Bay, wreckage drifting ashore near Goderich a few days later.
Sources: slh,is,nsp,+

------------------------------------------------------3488
MARY
Other names : ?
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : schooner, wood (3-mast)
Build info : (1848, L. Shickluna, St. Catharines)
Specs : (112 t.)
Date of loss : 1859, Aug 17
Place of loss : at Oswego, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : grain
Detail : Caught fire from a burning grain elevator while she was tied to a dock. The dock, the elevator and the MARY were destroyed.
Sources: nsp,is,rnc not in mmgl

------------------------------------------------------1797
MARY
Other names : often seen as MARY OF DETROIT
Official no. : 50620
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : ?
Specs : 28 nt
Date of loss : 1870, Oct 17 (1860 also given, but ‘70 is correct)
Place of loss : Cleveland near the lighthouse
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 4 [all]
Carrying : stone
Detail : Bound Kelley's Island for Cleveland, she struck a pier in a gale, broke up and sank. Her skipper had sailed from Kelley's Island into the storm despite entrreaties by his brother, who had had a premonition that something dreadful was about to happen to the scow. The vessel was later raised and MAY have been rebuilt.
Owned by Martin L. Peterson, who had just paid the last installment of her purchase price of $600.
Noted in 1872 Merchant Vessels as "lost."
Homeport: Detroit
Sources: nsp,is,(hgl),rnc,mv

------------------------------------------------------3748
MARY
Other names : none
Official no. : 16416
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1869 or earlier (1851, Lafrinier, Cleveland)
Specs : 82 t. (94 t., om)
Date of loss : 1878, Sep 10
Place of loss : 25 mi out of Chicago
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 4 (all?)
Carrying : wood
Detail : When she became waterlogged she was abandoned by the crew in her yawl, but neither boat nor crewmen ever made it to shore. Out of Chicago.
Sources: usls,mv,rsl

------------------------------------------------------3357
MARY
Other names : none
Official no. : C74378
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1877, G. Harker, Merriton, Ont.
Specs : 84x20x7, 87g 87n
Date of loss : 1905, Nov 6
Place of loss : East of Oswego
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 4 [all]
Carrying : coal
Detail : Bound Fair Haven, NY, for Napanee under command of her owner Andy Baird, she was caught in a terrific storm. She was last seen off Oswego driving eastward under bare poles. Some wreckage of her was later found floating near Galoo Isl.
Out of Napanee
Sources: nsp,tfgl,mmgl

------------------------------------------------------1791
MARY
Other names : none
Official no. : 90910
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger & tug
Build info : 1876, Brooks, Milwaukee
Specs : 71x13x6, 36g 22n
Date of loss : 1910
Place of loss : 18 mi from S. Chicago
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Foundered in a gale.
Sources: mv,lmdc

------------------------------------------------------3639
MARY AMELIA
Other names : none
Official no. : 50611
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1865, Bedford, Port Huron, MI
Specs : 85x24x7, 99g 90n
Date of loss : 1899?
Place of loss : halfway between Bar Pt. & Det. R. mouth
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Foundered as a result of a collision and became a total loss.
Sources: phr,mv,polk

------------------------------------------------------1792
MARY AND LUCY
Other names : none
Official no. : C77773
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1855, Roderick Calkins, Cleveland [US# 17571]
Specs : 94x23x7, 113gc/nc*
Date of loss : 1879, Nov
Place of loss : shore of Chantry Isl. near Southampton, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 3
Carrying : pine lumber
Detail : She was driven into the shallows and wrecked by the action of waves. Four crewmen from the steamer MANITOBA attempted to take her crew off, but their yawl capsized and 3 of them were lost.
Out of Goderich, Ont.
Sold Canadian, 1879, after wrecking near Goderich.
*Original measurements - rebuilt and enlarged at Algonac, MI, in 1866.
Sources: mv,mmgl,tfgl,slh,is,h,lhdc,phr,win,rsl,nsp

------------------------------------------------------4189
MARY ANN
Other names : built as IDA or IOTA
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1855, St. Catharine's Ont.
Specs : 52 t.
Date of loss : 1870, Jul 1
Place of loss : at Marblehead, Oh
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : stone
Detail : She arrived at Marblehead, her destination, and came to anchor off shore. A sudden squall tore her from her moorings and she went ashore, where she was quickly pounded to pieces. A few days later her outfit was salvaged, but the vessel was a total loss, financially ruining her owner and skipper, Capt. Henderson.
Rebuilt in 1869.
Sources: nsp, rsl,hgl

------------------------------------------------------1793
MARY ANN
Other names : ?
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : ?
Specs : 6 t.
Date of loss : 1882, Sep 10
Place of loss : Owen Sound, Georgian Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 2
Carrying : none
Detail : Foundered. No detail.
A schooner of this name was reported lost near Grand Haven the same year by hgl, see MARY NAU.
Sources: hgl,slh,rp not in mmgl

------------------------------------------------------3641
MARY D
Other names : none
Official no. : 90992
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1877, D. Dutcher, Sebewaing, MI
Specs : 81x19x5, 52g 51n
Date of loss : 1901, Aug 30
Place of loss : 17 mi N of Sand Beach USLS station
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : She sprang a leak in a NW gale and was abandoned by her crew after she filled. The Pte. Aux Barques Lifesaving Service crew pulled out to her and were able to get her into Sand Beach with the help of a tug, but she was apparently stripped and abandoned. Document surrendered at Port Huron Sep 30, 1901, annotated "Total loss off Pte Aux Barques, 9-1-01."
Rebuilt and lengthened in about 1887.
Sources: phr,vbs,mv,wes

------------------------------------------------------3810
MARY FRANCES
Other names : none
Official no. : C33549
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1848, L. Shickluna, Prescott, Ont. (1851 also given)
Specs : 91x20x9, 96 t.
Date of loss : 1865, Jul
Place of loss : near "Chervell" in the vicinity of Rondeau, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : "Wrecked," and a total loss of about $2,600.
Major repairs several times.
Sources: mmgl,hgl,rsl,nsp

------------------------------------------------------1794
MARY HATTIE
Other names : none
Official no. : 16458
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1866, Summerfield, New Baltimore*, MI
Specs : 100 ft., 174 t. (141n in '69)
Date of loss : 1889, May 30
Place of loss : near Whitestone Point, MI, lower Saginaw Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : She lost her sails and began to sink in a storm. Her crew took to the rigging as she went down and were rescued by the Tawas Point Lifesaving Service crew.
Went ashore and declared a total loss near Forestville, MI, in 1888.
*place of build also given as New Liverpool, MI
Major repairs in 1881 and 82 Owned by McKay of Port Huron
Sources: mv,slh,nsp,phr,jb

------------------------------------------------------3811
MARY JANE
Other names : ?
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : (Manitowoc)
Specs : ?
Date of loss : 1857, Nov 16
Place of loss : 12 mi N of Chicago
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Driven back by a gale while attempting to make Chicago harbor, she was eventually abandoned by her crew and went ashore, where she broke up.
Another MARY JANE, a schooner, was reported wrecked and a total loss at Chicago, Dec 22, 1857. She capsized off the harbor entrance after being denied entrance by a heavy northeaster. Out of Manitowoc. [nsp only]
May be the vessel of this name reported sunk at Toronto in 1855.
Sources: nsp,hgl

------------------------------------------------------1795
MARY JANE
Other names : none
Official no. : C ?
Type at loss : bark, wood, 3-mast (maybe schooner)
Build info : 1862, L. Shickluna, St. Catharines Ont.
Specs : 142x26x12, 345 t.
Date of loss : 1881, Nov 19
Place of loss : Long Point Cut, near Port Rowan, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 9
Carrying : telegraph poles
Detail : Bound Port Hope. Ont. for Erie, PA., she was driven ashore by a storm and broke up. The first known of her fate was when wreckage washed ashore near Dunkirk, NY, on the 20^th.
Owned by Capt. Flanagan and others of Toronto.
Ashore on Long Point in the fall of 1863 and not recovered until the following spring.
Another MARY JANE (US#90077) is shown in 1884 Merchant Vessels as "lost or otherwise out of service."
Sources: mmgl,clu,h,ledc,usls,es

------------------------------------------------------3869
MARY KAY
Other names : built as PAYDAY II, renamed CAPT. G.H. SMITH or SWIFT in 1987
Official no. : 275121
Type at loss : propeller diesel tug, steel
Build info : 1957, Franklin, LA
Specs : 55 ft., 35 t.
Date of loss : 1988, Sep 1
Place of loss : Just west of Oswego, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 2
Carrying : none
Detail : She had just been purchased by new owners in N. Weymouth, MA, and was enroute there from Rochester, NY, when caught by a following gale. Nine-foot waves swamped her fantail and washed down her hatchways. She filled, listed and sank quickly. The U.S.C.G. out of Oswego saved her 2-man crew.
She was previously owned by International Barge Lines and had been on the lakes, stationed at Port Weller, Ont., since July of 1987.
Sources: net,mpl

------------------------------------------------------
MARY LYDIA - See M. J. CANFIELD

------------------------------------------------------1756
MARY MARGARET
Other names : also seen as MARGARET MARY
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1852, Chicago
Specs : 51x18x5, 39 gt. [om]
Date of loss : 1854, Nov 9
Place of loss : 20 miles off Milwaukie [later Milwaukee]
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Bound for Chicago, she was caught in a gale, filled and capsized. The crew clung to the heaving wreck for four hours until rescued by the schooner MAGIC.
On May 30, 1853 she capsized between Muskegon and Grand Haven in heavy weather. Four crewmen were trapped below and drowned, while the captain and mate held on for 60 hours until picked up by a passing ship. The hulk was towed in two weeks later.
Sources: is,hgl,nsp,bb

------------------------------------------------------3695
MARYSBURGH
Other names : none
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1870, J. Tait, Marysburg, Ont.
Specs : 99x22x9, 150 t.
Date of loss : 1881, Oct 31
Place of loss : near Port Union, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Ashore and wrecked, a total loss.
Also in trouble on Pt.Pelee in 1871, and damaged in a collision off Braddock's Point, Lake Ontario, in the spring of 1876.
Sources: clu,mmgl,win,nsp,rp

------------------------------------------------------1798
MARYSVILLE
Other names : built as propeller NORMANDIE, renamed in 1920
Official no. : 130655
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1894, P. Thrall, Green Bay, WI
Specs : 160x35x11, 567g 430n
Date of loss : 1928, Jun 25
Place of loss : mouth of Belle River, Marine City, MI
Lake : St Clair R
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : She burned to waterline and sank at the mouth of the river. She had been tied up at a dock when she caught fire.
Sources: sol,ns3,mv,mpl,eas

------------------------------------------------------
MASON - see also GOVERNOR MASON

------------------------------------------------------1800
JANE MASON
Other names : none
Official no. : 76139
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1880, J. Huxtable, Sand Beach, MI
Specs : 60x15x6, 33 t.
Date of loss : 1889, Oct 30
Place of loss : near Oscoda, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : bricks
Detail : Stranded and wrecked. Document surrendered at Port Huron 11/20/1890 annotated "wrecked, total loss."
Sources: mv,slh,phr,jb

------------------------------------------------------1801
L.G. MASON
Other names : none
Official no. : 15325
Type at loss : sidewheel tug, wood, rafting tug
Build info : 1864, Kelley, Grand Rapids, MI
Specs : 122x17x5, 139g 117n
Date of loss : 1886, Oct 15
Place of loss : Saginaw River at Bay City
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Burned to a total loss and sank.
Remains are still visible near Lafayette Bridge, Bay City.
Out of E. Saginaw in '84
Rebuilt, 1879
Sources: mv,slh,lsp,lhl,phr,hgl,mpl

------------------------------------------------------3996
L. M. MASON
Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1853, J. P. Arnold, Port Huron
Specs : 125x25x11, 340 t. om
Date of loss : 1861, Nov 21?*
Place of loss : near Presque Isle, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : (none)
Carrying : ?
Detail : She was driven ashore by a gale, along with at least 8 other schooners in the same vicinity. She was stripped and abandoned the following week, and presumably broke up.
*Tuesday before Oct 24.
Sources: nsp,hgl (shows Lake Ont.)

------------------------------------------------------3812
MAGGIE MASON
Other names : none
Official no. : C83387
Type at loss : propeller (tug), wood
Build info : 1882, Alexander Coghill, Toronto, Ont.
Specs : 53x17, 56gc 38nc
Date of loss : 1893
Place of loss : Burlington Bay
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Went ashore and broke up.
Sources: mmgl,csv,hgl

------------------------------------------------------1802
NELLIE MASON
Other names : none
Official no. : 130221
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1882, Crosthwaite, E. Saginaw
Specs : 181x33x12, 554g 527n
Date of loss : 1905, Nov 13
Place of loss : Cleveland harbor
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Outbound for Alpena in tow of the steamer LANSING with the barge B.W. PALMER, she struck the breakwall and stranded. Not too badly damaged initially, but destroyed by a series of storms before she could be released.
Stranded and burned on Observation Point, near Alpena in Oct, 1887, declared total loss and documents surrendered, but later refloated and rebuilt. Also had major repairs in 1883, 1895
Sources: nsp,slh,ns1,h,mv,ledc,phr,wb,mpl,eas

------------------------------------------------------
E.L. MASON - See ELLA G. STONE

------------------------------------------------------1803
R.P. MASON
Other names : none
Official no. : 21877
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1867, H. Pierson, Ferrysburg (Grand Haven), MI
Specs : 115x25x8, 155g 148n
Date of loss : 1917, Jun 20
Place of loss : unreported
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm (also given as fire)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Swamped and sank in a storm during her 50th season.
Capsized and sank, drowning 5, in the Straits, Oct 15, 1871, during a salvage operation. The following summer she was raised and towed to St. Helena inverted by stuffing her hull with cedar posts to make her bouyant.
Ashore with heavy damage near Chicago in May of 1883.
Driven ashore and broke her back near Marinette, WI, May 2, 1905.
Sources: ns2,nsp,usls,mpl,sip,eas

------------------------------------------------------3603
MASSASAUGA
Other names : none
Official no. : 91332
Type at loss : propeller, wood
Build info : 1881, Hingston, Buffalo as a yacht
Specs : 94x16x6, 165g 136n
Date of loss : 1888
Place of loss : unreported
Lake : unreported
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Burned to a total loss.
Hgl shows her burned at Gibraltar in 1890.
May have been either a yacht or a tug at time of loss.
Sources: phr,mv,hgl

------------------------------------------------------1804
MASSASOIT
Other names : built as schooner JESSE H. LINN, renamed in 1888
Official no. : 75605
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1874, Linn & Craig, Gibraltar, MI
Specs : 189x34x16, 842g 800n
Date of loss : 1904, Nov 25
Place of loss : Niagara River, above the falls
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : stranded
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : Stranded on the waterworks intake crib and sank. She was considered uneconomical to salvage, and was abandoned, then dynamited as a hazard to navigation in the spring of 1905. Her stranding and the subsequent blasting caused expensive damage to the water works and its crib.
Spent the winter of 1874-5 ashore, thought to be a total loss, but recovered in June of the following year.
Sources: nsp,sol,ns1,mv,eas

------------------------------------------------------1805
MASSILON
Other names : none
Official no. : 16431
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast with foretop & topgallant sails
Build info : 1857, Roderick Calkins, Cleveland as a bark
Specs : 130x26x12, 298g 278 n
Date of loss : 1876, Oct 19
Place of loss : 20 mi above Pte Aux Barques, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : hull failure
Loss of life : none
Carrying : limestone
Detail : Bound Kelley's Island, on Lake Erie, for Chicago, she sprang a leak - probably from her heavy cargo - and went down in about 20 minutes. Her crew quickly abandoned her in her yawl and drifted for five hours until picked up by the tug VULCAN.
Owned by James Corrigan, Cleveland
Probably same vessel as wrecked in Sleeping Bear Bay in Dec, 1858.
Sources: slh,mv,ssb,hgl,nsp,rsl,jb

------------------------------------------------------1806
JOSEPH G. MASTEN
Other names : none
Official no. : 13750
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast, bulk freight
Build info : 1867, Quayle & Martin, Cleveland as a bark
Specs : 186x34x13, 620g 590n
Date of loss : 1897, Dec 4
Place of loss : N of Two Rivers, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : coal
Detail : Blown ashore and wrecked.
Sources: h,mv,hgl,mpl

------------------------------------------------------
I.U. MASTERS - See PHOENIX

------------------------------------------------------1807
MATAAFA
Other names : built as propeller PENNSYLVANIA, renamed 1899
Official no. : 150810
Type at loss : propeller, steel, bulk freight
Build info : 1899, Cleveland Shipbuilding, Cleveland hull# 33
Specs : 430x50x29, 4775g, 3957n
Date of loss : 1905, Nov 27
Place of loss : Duluth harbor
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 9
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : Outbound from Duluth with the barge JAMES NASMYTH, she was unable to breast a terrific gale. She turned back, dropped the barge some miles out and tried to make the harbor. Her machinery failed and she was driven on the breakwater, where she broke in two. Heroic effort by Lifesaving Service saved the forward crew but those stranded on the after end froze to death within sight of a crowd gathered on the breakwater.
Recovered, converted to auto carrier in '46, scrapped in '65
Sources: a&f,mol,gwgl,sol,is,h,ns1,nsp,mpl,eas

------------------------------------------------------1808
MATERIAL SERVICE
Other names : none
Official no. : 228371
Type at loss : motor vessel, steel, bulk freight, self-unloading
Build info : 1929, L. Smith, Sturgeon Bay, WI hull# 253
Specs : 240x40x15, 1077g 736n
Date of loss : 1936, Jul 29
Place of loss : off S. Chicago lighthouse
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 15 of 22
Carrying : sand
Detail : Foundered in a heavy summer gale. She was a canal motor barge not designed for open-lake use.
Wreck lies in 31 ft of water, 2100 ft, 12 deg from Calumet harbor light.
Link
Sources: glp,mv,s,sol,ns4,h,lmdc,mpl

------------------------------------------------------3894
SAMUEL L. MATHER
Other names : also seen as S. L. MATHER
Official no. : 23925
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1870, Nicholls, Vermilion, OH
Specs : (538 t.)
Date of loss : 1877, Aug 9
Place of loss : 4 miles off Cat Head Point, near Leelanau, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : She was bound Escanaba for Cleveland with a heavy load. She collided on a dark, rainy night with the schooner MARY COPLEY, which was bound from Chicago on the opposite tack. She sank quickly in deep water, while COPLEY stood by and picked up her crew. Owned by C.P. Minch and Capt. Treuter of Cleveland.
Sources: nsp,hgl,wl

------------------------------------------------------
SAMUEL MATHER - See also CLIFTON

------------------------------------------------------1809
SAMUEL MATHER
Other names : none
Official no. : 116142
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1887, Cleveland
Specs : 246x40x19, 1576g 1287n
Date of loss : 1891, Nov 22
Place of loss : Off Pt. Iroquois, Whitefish Bay
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : wheat
Detail : She collided with the package freighter BRAZIL in thick fog and sank in the early a.m. BRAZIL picked up her crew. She was a major loss of $176,000.
Wreckage, in well-preserved state, was located by divers in 1978.
Home port: Cleveland - owned by Pickands, Mather & Co.
Sources: mv,is(2-69),lss,lssc,gwgl,nsp,wb,hgl,sb,eas

------------------------------------------------------1810
MATILDA
Other names : none
Official no. : 50157
Type at loss : sloop-barge, wood
Build info : 1863, Auger, Montreal, PQ
Specs : 141x25x11, 298 t.
Date of loss : 1886, Dec 1
Place of loss : near Pine River, lower Saginaw Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : wine and coal
Detail : Tow of the tug PETER SMITH, she was cut by ice and went down. in 35 ft of water off Pte. Au Gres. SMITH saved her crew. Bound Kelley's I., Lake Erie, for Saginaw.
Former St. Lawrence R. river barge sold U.S. in 1866, and owned out of E. Saginaw.
Sources: nsp,phr,mmgl,slh,hgl,rsl

------------------------------------------------------1811
MATOA
Other names : later GLENRIG(1923) and HUGUENOT(1926)
Official no. : 92204
Type at loss : propeller, steel, bulk freight
Build info : 1890, Globe Iron Works, Cleveland hull# 34
Specs : 290x40x24, 2311 t.
Date of loss : 1913, Nov 11
Place of loss : Port Austin Reef, mouth of Saginaw Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : A powerful vessel, she was driven aground by the "Big Storm" of 1913. Declared a total loss, she was later recovered & rebuilt at great cost.
Cut in two and reassembled on saltwater, 1915. Cut in two again and returned to Lakes as a Canadian in 1923. Scrapped in 1937 after a period of idleness.
Sources: gsgl,slh,lol,sol,h,mv

------------------------------------------------------1812
MATTAWAN
Other names : none
Official no. : C71607
Type at loss : propeller, wood, freighter
Build info : 1874, Cantin, Montreal
Specs : 143x26, 348 t.
Date of loss : 1888, Oct 8
Place of loss : SE of Forestville, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Stranded and a total loss near Richmondville.
Her machinery later was salvaged.
Rebuilt, 1887
Sources: mmgl,slh,csv,nsp,hgl,jb

------------------------------------------------------1813
MAUD L
Other names : none
Official no. : C126265
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1907, E.S. Pratt, Parry Sd., Ont.
Specs