The Great Lakes Shipwreck File

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Great Lakes Shipwrecks

beginning with the letter

B

 

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  B. et T. - See    GILLY   


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  F.W. BACKUS

Other names   :  built as EARL CATHCART, renamed in 1852

Official no.     :  none

Type at loss    :  propeller, wood

Build info       :  1846, E Bates, Amherstburg, Ont

Specs              :  133x25x9, 289 t.[om]

Date of loss    :  1866, Nov 25

Place of loss   :  off Racine, WI (also given in error as near Chicago or Milwaukee)

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      :  none - those aboard included nine passengers

Carrying         :  hay, horses and cattle

Detail              : Discovered to be afire offshore and run to the beach, where her passengers and crew disembarked.. The tug DAISY LEE towed her out while she was still burning, with the intention of scuttling her, but was unable to do so. After she burned through her towline she drifted back to shore and burned to the waterline. Her live cargo was pushed overboard while she was still well out, but they all swam safely to shore. Master: Capt. J. Shortell. Probably owned by C.S. Hubbard, Chicago

Builder Bates was from Milan, OH, but built her in Canada.

Seized by U.S. for violation of shipping laws in 1852 and became an American bottom.

Rebuilt in 1861, repaired in 1865.

Sources            :  hgl,lhl,mpl,bb,rsl,nsp,hr,wls


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  MELVIN S. BACON

Other names   :  none

Official no.     : 90657

Type at loss    :  schooner-barge, wood, 3-mast

Build info       :  1874, J. Squires, Vermilion, OH

Specs              :  182x34x14   615g  584n

Date of loss    :  1915, Nov 16

Place of loss   :  near Grassy Island

Lake                : Detroit R.

Type of loss    :  collision

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  light

Detail              : Rammed and sunk by the steamer JOSEPH SELLWOOD, abandoned as a total loss.  Owned by W. E. Chapman of Cleveland, former Gilchrist boat at the time of this accident. Recovered under U.S. Govt contract, sold Canadian in 1919 and dismantled in 1929.

Had operated on the eastern seaboard for some years.

Burned and declared total loss after going ashore near Ashland, WI,Sep 24-5, 1905.

Sources            :   mv,mv,nsp,lss,eas,hcgl


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   BADGER

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  3156

Type at loss    :  scow-schooner, wood, 2-mast

Build info       :  1881,  Peter Johnson, Ft. Howard, Wis

Specs              :  80x21x4,  65g

Date of loss    :  1899, Oct 24

Place of loss   :   off Cedar River, Michigan

Lake                :  Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying          :  cedar ties

Detail              :  She was bound for Sturgeon Bay or Menominee when she began to fill. Despite her crew's efforts to pump her out for the next 12 hours, she eventually foundered. The crew was taken off by local fishermen before she went down. Master: Capt. Aldrich. Owned at Green Bay.

Sources            :    wgts,hr,nsp

 

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  BADGER

Other names   :  none

Official no.     : C138576

Type at loss    :  barge, wood*, crane-equipped

Build info       :  1914, Marine Iron Works, Duluth  [US#165842]

Specs              :  140(oa)x36x12,   334 t.

Date of loss    :  1929, Nov or Dec

Place of loss   :  Point Abino, Ont. [near Buffalo]

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    :  foundered

Loss of life      : ?

Carrying         :  none

Detail              : Struck bottom and sank while working over wreck of steamer  BRITON (qv), raised but declared a constructive total loss.

*constructed of fir, one of the few vessels ever made of this wood

Sold Canadian about 1923

Image from TBRC collection

Sources            :   ns3,hr,mv


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  BADGER STATE

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  2134

Type at loss    :  bark, wood, 3-mast

Build info       :  1853, James M. Jones, Milwaukee (often seen in error as Buffalo)

Specs              :  150x28x12,     302 t

Date of loss    :  1870, Nov 16

Place of loss   :  off Sleeping Bear Pt.

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  240 cords wood

Detail              :  Bound Grand Traverse Bay for Chicago, she stranded and wrecked on the tip of Sleeping Bear dune. Homeport: Chicago

Built on a salt-water model. Rebuilt and strengthened in 1862

Sources            :   nb,smi,hgl, soundings,nsp,rsl


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  BADGER STATE

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  2111

Type at loss    :  propeller, wood, bulk freight

Build info       :  1862, Mason & Bidwell, Buffalo as a passenger steamer

Specs              :  213x33x17  802g 494n

Date of loss    :  1909, Dec 6

Place of loss   :  at Marine City, MI

Lake                : St Clair R

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      :  15

Carrying         :  none

Detail              : Caught fire at her dock. After firefighters could not contain the blaze, she was cut loose and drifted to Fawn Isl,  where she burned herself out.

Built as a passenger steamer, converted to a floating pool hall for a couple of years around 1905-6, until purchased by  H. M. Loud's Sons Co. in May, 1906, and converted to a lumber boat.

Image of vessel afire from TBRC collection

Sources            :  eas,slh,sol,ns1,ledc,mv,mpl,nsp,hcgl


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  BADGER STATE

Other names   : none

Official no.     :  224114

Type at loss    :  propeller tug, oil screw, wood

Build info       :  1924, I. H. Larsen, Marinette, WI

Specs              :  60x14x9,   45g 30n

Date of loss    :  1939, Nov 9

Place of loss   :  off Northport, MI, Grand Traverse Bay [also given as Northport, WI]

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    :  (storm)

Loss of life      :  1

Carrying         :  none

Detail              : Foundered off Northport.

In 1934 she was owned by Great Lakes Dredge & Dock; out of Chicago.

Sources            :   sol,h,mpl,hr,mv


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  HORACE H. BADGER

Other names   :  built as schooner KATE GILLETT last name in 1882. Often called H. H. BADGER.

Official no.     :  14164

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 3-mast

Build info       :  1867, Miller, Conneaut, OH  as 2-mast schooner

Specs              :  129x30x10  264g  259n

Date of loss    :  1903, Jun 11

Place of loss   :  Cleveland, OH

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  coal

Detail              : Driven on the breakwater and broken up by storm waves. Crew of 7 rescued by Lifesaving Service. Master: Capt. Robert Thompson.

Ashore and declared lost at Cross Village, MI, September of 1895, and again near Alpena, September, 1896.

Rebuilt in 1882 after wrecking near Marinette, Wis., enlarged, converted 2-mast to 3.

Image from TBRC collection

Sources            :   nsp,ns1,h,mv,ledc,mpl,eas,hcgl


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  BAHAMA

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  2380

Type at loss    :  schooner-barge, wood, 3-mast, bulk freight

Build info       :  1863, Goble, Oswego, NY as a 3-mast schooner

Specs              :  136x26x13  333g  317n

Date of loss    :  1903, late May

Place of loss   :  Windmill Point, Ont.

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    :  hull failure

Loss of life      : none

Carrying         :  stone

Detail              : She had just picked up a load of stone at the location shown and was being moved from the dock when one side of her hull collapsed out and she fell to the bottom. She was so thoroughly destroyed that she was dynamited a few days later to obliterate her remains. She had recently been brought from Chicago to Buffalo with her towmate YANKEE and cut down to a stone barge. Owned by Hughes Bros. & Bangs, Buffalo, contractors on the Buffalo breakwater.

Also reported total loss in storm on Huron 9/17/93 , and reported foundered near Alpena in 1895.

One source says she was lost on Cleveland breakwater in 1903 and others she was abandoned in 1904.

Sources            :   phr,osdo,wb,tel,slh,mv,nsp


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   CAROLINE E. BAILEY

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  none

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  1855, Bailey, Madison Dock, OH

Specs              :  88x21x7, 121 t.

Date of loss    :  1867, Oct 31

Place of loss   :  at Grand Haven, MI

Lake                :  Michigan

Type of loss    :  (storm)

Loss of life      :  (none)

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              :  Reported ashore and total loss. Owned by Declerque and Dorr, Rochester, NY

Major repair in 1864

Sources            :    nsp,rsl,hgl,wl


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  DANIEL E. BAILEY - See IRON CITY


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   J. E. BAILEY

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  75646

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 2-mast

Build info       :  1874, J. Bailey, Saugatuck, Mich

Specs              :  130x26x10, 196g  186n

Date of loss    :  1884, Oct (26 or 8)

Place of loss   :  at Gill's Pier

Lake                :  Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none mentioned

Carrying         :  wood

Detail              :  Went ashore on Gill's Pier and reported a total loss.

Out of Milwaukee

Sources            :  es,jm,nsp,wmn,hgl

 

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  NINA BAILEY

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  18767

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  1873, Collins, Pentwater or Ludington, MI

Specs              :  52x16x5,  30 t

Date of loss    :  1880, Nov 1

Place of loss   :  St. Joseph, MI

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none of 2

Carrying         :  none

Detail              : Filled and went out of control, striking the North Pier and capsizing. Crewmen climbed up on her keel and were rescued by the Lifesaving Service. She later broke up and became a total loss of $900.

Registered out of Milwaukee.

Sources            :   nsp,h,usls,mv,bcha,bb,hr


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  FLORA L. BAINES

Other names   :  none

Official no.     : C71249

Type at loss    :  propeller steam tug, wood

Build info       :  1874, Penetang, Ont.

Specs              :  31x8,  9gc  6nc

Date of loss    :  1879, Sep 13

Place of loss   :  off Oakville, Ont.

Lake                : Ontario

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      : ?

Carrying         :  none

Detail              : Foundered.

 Out of Toronto

Sources            :   win,mmgl


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   B. M. BAKER

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  31217

Type at loss    :  schooner-barge, wood

Build info       :  1869, Geo. Hardison, Charlotte, NY

Specs              :   115x25x9,  187g  181n

Date of loss    :   1890,  May 29

Place of loss   :  at Springwells [Ecorse], Mich

Lake                :  Detroit R

Type of loss    :  wrecked

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying          :  lumber* and lath

Detail              :  Bound Port Huron for Toledo, she apparently opened and sank near the Springwells dry dock. Newspapers said ‘her stern appears to be entirely carried away.” Her cargo was removed in June of 1891, and supposedly she was going to be hauled out and rebuilt, but there is no record of her ever running again. Still in ‘95mv and not officially out of service ntil 1896

*185,000 bd. ft taken from the damaged ves. JOHN SHERMAN

Sources            :    nsp,hr,mv,tbms

 

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   DAN BAKER

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  35252

Type at loss    :  scow-schooner, wood

Build info       :  1869, Dan Hayes, Fairport, Oh

Specs              :  61 t.

Date of loss    :  1874,  Jun 12

Place of loss   :  off Cedar Point, Oh

Lake                :  Erie

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none mentioned

Carrying         :  stone

Detail              :  Sprung a leak and sunk by a gale near Sandusky.  Reported at the end of the year as a total loss.

Out of Cleveland, owned by Blanchard. Master: Capt. Goldsmith?

Sources            :    nsp,mv,wl,wmn,hgl

 

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   FANNY L. BAKER - See THOMAS FREEL BATTLE (1910 loss)


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  TIMOTHY BAKER

Other names   : often called TIM BAKER, T. BAKER

Official no.     :  24156

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  1857, S. Ruggles, Milan, OH

Specs              :  122x25x10,  224g  215n

Date of loss    :  1888, Oct 1

Place of loss   :  near Pelee Isl.

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  all?

Carrying         : lumber

Detail              :  ashore several miles below "The Dummy" (Bar Point Light). Crew presumed lost. Broke up in a storm on the 8th.

Owned by M. Scott, Marine City

Rebuilt 1867; major repair, 1882 after going ashore at Windmill Pt. the previous fall.

Sources            :   mv,nsp,phr,win,h,hgl,es3-1,hgl,wmn


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   W.L. BAKER 

Other names   : ?

Official no.     :  (80985)

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood or dredge

Build info       :  (1883, W. L. Baker, Ashtabula, OH)

Specs              :  (51x15x4, 19 g,  18n)

Date of loss    :  1890, Nov 8

Place of loss   :  off Ahnapee, WI [18 mi S of Minorville]

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  1 of 5

Carrying          :  wood

Detail              : Capsized in gale.

Sources           :   nsp,mv,hgl,bb,mpl,hr,wmn


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  H. P. BALDWIN

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  11199

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 3-mast

Build info       :  1866, J.M. Jones, Detroit, MI as a bark

Specs              :  178x33x12  495g  470n

Date of loss    :  1908, Aug 27

Place of loss   :  1 mi N of Indiana Shoals

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  1

Carrying         :  grain

Detail              : Capsized and foundered in a gale. Owned by Great Lakes Dredge & Dock, Chicago.

Heavily damaged in stranding near Cleveland in December 1881.

Ashore on Kelley's Island with heavy damage in 1883.

Stranded at Marblehead, OH, Nov 1893.

Ashore on Kelley’s Isl., May, 1904.

Rebuilt in 1883

Sources            :  h,ns1,lmdc,mv,usls,mpl,hgl,wmn


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   N.C. BALDWIN

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  none

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 2-mast

Build info       :  1836, Diodate Rodgers, Cleveland

Specs              :  102x23x9,  182 t.

Date of loss    :  1850, Mar  [ca. 24th or 7th]

Place of loss   :  near Twin River, WI

Lake                :  Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none mentioned

Carrying         :  lumber

Detail              :  While outbound from Chicago, she went ashore.

Out of Chicago

Also wrecked and abandoned at Conneaut in 1845. Rebuilt afterwards.

Sources            : nsp,wl,jm,wmn   

 

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  S.C. BALDWIN

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  23957

Type at loss    :  unrigged barge, wood, bulk freight

Build info       :  1871, Campbell & Owen, Detroit as propeller bulker  hull# 13

Specs              :  160x30x11  413g  356n

Date of loss    :  1908, Aug 27

Place of loss   :  Twin River Point, WI

Lake                :  Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  1 or 2

Carrying         :  stone

Detail              : Grounded, capsized and sank in a storm, a total loss. Tow of tug TORRENT.

Known as a “jonah” and had trouble getting crews: Nearly destroyed in an accident, 1876; ashore near Alpena, 1877;  damaged in a collision in 1894 and burned while awaiting repairs from another accident the same year; stranded in Green Bay in 1903.

 Major repairs, 1876, 1877, 1881, 1895; rebuilt 1884. Converted to a barge in 1904.

Image from TBRC collection

Sources            :   nsp,slh,stb,ns1,h,mv,atl,st,mpl,eas,hcgl,es,wgts


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  DANIEL BALL

Other names   :  none sometimes shown as DANIEL BELL

Official no.     :  6199

Type at loss    :  sidewheeler, wood, freighter

Build info       :  1861, Grand Rapids, MI

Specs              :  142x21x5  123t

Date of loss    :  1876, Oct 19

Place of loss   :  Bay City, MI

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  passengers

Detail              : She caught fire near her stack and burned to the waterline. Her skipper was able to run her up alongside a log raft, where her pasengers and crew were able to disembark without injury. She was a total l oss of $12 -15,000. Documents surrendered at Port Huron Jan 14, 1879. May have been recovered.

Owned by A. Root of E. Saginaw at time of loss

Image from TBRC collection

Sources            :  eas,phr,lhl,nsp,hr


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   M. BALLARD

Other names   :  also seen as MARY BALLARD

Official no.     :  none

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 2-mast

Build info       :  1855, Stevens & Presley, Cleveland

Specs              :  116x25x11,   288 t. om

Date of loss    :  1866, Nov 30

Place of loss   :  off Galloo Isl., NY

Lake                :  Ontario

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  9 or 11[all]

Carrying         :  wheat

Detail              :  Reported wrecked on Galloo Island Reef and sank,  a total loss with all hands. She went down in deep water, 1¼ mile NW of the lighthouse. Owned by her skipper, Capt. Hugh Coyne(d), of Cleveland. He was lost with her. The ship hailed from Detroit.

Major repairs in 1864.

Sources            :    nsp,hgl,wl,rsl


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  DAVID BALLENTINE - See   QUITO    


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   BALTIC

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  none

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 2-mast

Build info       :  1842, Jonathan Burtch, Burtchville, Mich.*

Specs              :  80x20x7,  96 t om

Date of loss    :  1852, May 19

Place of loss   :  halfway between Waukegan, Ill. and Southport [Kenosha], Wis

Lake               :  Michigan

Type of loss   :  storm

Loss of life     :  7 [all]

Carrying         :  light

Detail              :  This little schooner was blown down in a storm and capsized. Her crew apparently drowned, despite the efforts of the Chicago schooner ELBE. Her hulk was last seen floating stern upward off Southport. Out of Chicago.

*Burtchville was located just north of Port Huron, Mich.

At least one source reports that she was recovered and she appears on an 1854 list of Milwaukee-registered ships.

Sources           :    wls,wmn,wl

 

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  BALTIC

Other names   :  sometimes seen as BALTIN

Official no.     : C none

Type at loss    :  brig, wood, 2-mast

Build info       :  1851, Bear Creek [Wallaceburg], Ont.

Specs              :  94x22x9, 152 t.

Date of loss    :  1855, Sep (19)

Place of loss   :  near Port Stanley, Ont.

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    : storm

Loss of life      : none mentioned

Carrying         :  none

Detail              : Went on a reef and destroyed. Her outfit was probably later recovered and used in the rebuilding of the schooner BEAVER in 1857. Owned by Thomas Walters, out of Port Dover.

Went ashore on Georgian Bay and wrecked in 1853. Rebuilt at Wallaceburg.

May have capsized with loss of her entire crew off Waukegan, Ill, in May of 1852

Sources            :   mmgl,sagl,hgl,nsp,wmn         


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  BALTIC

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  31044

Type at loss    :  schooner-barge, wood, bulk freight

Build info       :  1847, Peck & Masters, Buffalo, as steamer, see below

Specs              :  224x30x12, 618 t. (825t as prop)

Date of loss    :  1872, Sep 29

Place of loss   :  off Long Point

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  7 [all]

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : Tow of tug MOORE with 3 other barges in a heavy gale, she broke her towline and tried to set sail, but was overwhelmed. Crew launched her boat but were all drowned.

Some sources show this loss at Thunder Bay, MI , but this is an error..

She was built as a sidewheeler, converted to "side-propeller" in '54, but ran only a year or so, was converted to a conventional prop   later (1863?) and to a barge in 1865

Image as a sidewheeler from TBRC collection.

Sources            :   nsp,slh,eas,hgl,hcgl


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   BALTIC

Other names   : 

Official no.     :  2680

Type at loss    :  scow-schooner, wood

Build info       :   ?

Specs              :  16 t.

Date of loss    :  1875, Sep (10)

Place of loss   :  3 mi N of Holland, Mich

Lake                :  Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none mentioned

Carrying         : 

Detail              : Went ashore while trying to salvage parts of the wrecked schooner HERO. A total loss.

Sources            :    mv,nsp,wmn   

 

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  BALTIC

Other names   :  none

Official no.     : C

Type at loss    :  scow-schooner, wood, 2-mast, bulk freight

Build info       :  1867, W. Waterbury, Wellington Sq., Ont.

Specs              :  106x22x10,  184g,  164n

Date of loss    :  1894, Nov 24

Place of loss   :  in Oswego, NY, harbor

Lake                : Ontario

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  12,000 bu. barley

Detail              : Collided with wharf and went ashore in a NE gale, where she broke up. The USLS crew anticipated the disaster and had a beach apparatus set up near where she struck. They fired a line over her and removed the crew of 6 by breeches' buoy. Later a pet dog and a horse were saved from the vessel, before she went to pieces.She had been bound Deseronto, Ont., for Oswego.

Out of Hamilton, Ont.

One source says she was the Oswego-built schooner of 1854.

Rebuilt, 1874

Image as a wreck from TBRC collection

Sources            :  csqw,mmgl,clu,osdo,win,is,h,glhs,hgl,mpl,dmt,usls,hcgl,ib


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  BALTIC

Other names   :  built as FRANCES SMITH  last name in 1888

Official no.     : C92310*

Type at loss    :  sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger/package freight

Build info       :  1867, M Simpson, St. Catharines, Ont.

Specs              :  182x28x12,  1324gc 832nc

Date of loss    :  1895, Sep 5     Several sources say she burned 1896, in error.

Place of loss   :  at Collingwood, Ont.

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  none

Detail              :  She had been tied up at her dock since 1893 and  had no fires in her boiler nor any others on board when she caught fire in the middle of the night and burned to the waterline.  A long court case regarding the payment of insurance claimes followed and eventually went all the way to the Canadian Supreme Court, which decided in favor of the insurance companies.  Owned by Charles Cameron, Collingwood [Great Northern Transit Co].

Stranded with heavy damage on Higbee Isl., L. Sup. in 1885

Stranded with heavy damage on Clapperton Isl., Sep 1888.

Her engine & machinery were from the steamer CLIFTON.

 *1st given, 1888.

Major repairs in 1882 & 3, rebuilt, 1888.

Photo as FRANCES SMITH

Sources            :   nsp,lh,slh,sol,is,h,csv,mmgl,win,hgl,mpl,hcgl,sc


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   BALTIC BELLE

Other names   :  built as THEMIS, probably renamed on her arrival in Canada

Official no.     :  C195748

Type at loss    :  powered (fishing) boat, wood, 1-mast

Build info       :  1918, Lysekil, Sweden

Specs              :  46x18x5,  25gc  17nc

Date of loss    :  1956, Aug

Place of loss   :   lagoon behind Algonquin Island, Toronto

Lake                :  Ontario

Type of loss    :  storm?

Loss of life      :  ?

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              :  She sank in the lagoon in Toronto Islands during this period and was never recovered. Her remains are still visible below the surface. Owned by R. G. Turner, Ward's Island.

She came to Canada, probably in the 1940's, bringing refugees from the Baltic states fleeing the new Communist regimes there.

Image

Sources            :  go

 

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  BALTIMORE - See  also PATRICIA McQUEEN     


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  BALTIMORE

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  none

Type at loss    :  sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger/package freight

Build info       :  1847, A. Keating, Monroe, MI

Specs              :  170x22x11,   513t [om]

Date of loss    :  1855, Sep 18

Place of loss   :  near the Government pier at Sheboygan, WI

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  corn and misc supplies

Detail              : Bound Chicago for the new Soo Canal and Lake Superior. Ran into a gale so violent that soon waves were washing right over her decks. One particulaly large one smashed her forward cabin and toppled one of her stacks, causing great danger from fire. Disabled, she tried to put in to Sheboygan, but struck bottom after one of her anchor chains broke.  Drove ashore and settled in shallow water,  later broken up by wave action. Master: Capt. J. A. Reed.

Sources            :  eas,is(2-60),is,lmdc,less,hgl,nsp,mpl


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  BALTIMORE

Other names   :  built as ESCANABA, renamed in 1899

Official no.     :  135487

Type at loss    :  propeller, wood, bulk freight

Build info       :  1881, Linn & Craig, Gibraltar, MI

Specs              :  201x36x20  1161g  918n

Date of loss    :  1901, May 24

Place of loss   :  SE of AuSable, MI

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  13 of 15

Carrying         :  coal

Detail              : She struck a reef, broke in two and foundered after fighting all the way to above Thunder Bay in a gale. She turned back for Tawas, but didn’t quite make it. Maybe towing a steam drill and a lighter. Master: Capt. Morton H. Place(d). Engine & boiler recovered in Oct & Nov, 1901, most of the rest of her gear brought up in 1903.

Ashore with heavy damage on Gull Isl reef, L. Mich., May, 1896.

Image from TBRC collection

Sources            :   nsp,slh,sol,ns1,h,lhdc,mpl,pf,hcgl


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  EDWARD BANCROFT

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  none

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 2-mast

Build info       :  1836, Pt. Peninsula, NY

Specs              :  79x20x8,  114 t.

Date of loss    :  1842, Nov 19

Place of loss   :  at the harbor mouth of St. Joseph, MI

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  salt, apples and merchandise

Detail              :  arriving off the harbor from Buffalo in a gale, she struck the north pier, then drifted ashore near the south pier, where she reportedly broke up.  She was a total loss of $2,700. Owned by Wheeler & Porter and her skipper, Capt.Boulton, all of St. Joseph

Sources            :   nsp,hgl,bb,lotl,wl,hr


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   BANNER

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  2582

Type at loss    :  scow-schooner, wood

Build info       :   1853, A. Sommerville, Detroit

Specs              :   77x21x6,  75 t.

Date of loss    :   1883, Nov 4

Place of loss   :  at Sturgeon Bay, Wis

Lake                :  Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  55 cords wood

Detail              :  Had just set sail for Racine when her rudder broke in heavy seas. Her skipper attempted to make it back to port steering with canvas alone, but missed the harbor entrance and drove ashore. Owned by Nelson & Schultz - they had purchased her only two weeks before. Master: Capt. John Stokes.

Sources            :    polk,bb,wgts,mv,hr,tbms

 

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  BANNER

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  2155

Type at loss    :  schooner-barge, wood, bulk freight

Build info       :  1847, Lent, Conneaut, OH  as a brig

Specs              :  140x28x10,  289gt.

Date of loss    :  1888, Nov 8

Place of loss   :  Fish Point [Point Au Sable] near Oscoda, MI

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  lath & shingles

Detail              : Driven on a reef by a gale. Her crew was saved before she was pushed  into deeper water, where she sank. After they had spent the night lashed to the rigging, local townspeople succeeded in taking them off in a tiny yawl. Out of Mt. Clemens, owned by her master, Capt. Webb.

Converted to 3-m schooner in 1869-70.  Probably converted to a barge in 1876.

Ashore in 1868.

Major repairs in 1859,'69,'76,'82. Originally 431 t. brig

Sources            :   mv,nsp,polk,sol,is,h,hgl,mpl,rsl,hr


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   EMMA BANNER

Other names   :  also seen as EMMA BOONER

Official no.     :  136065

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 2-mast

Build info       :  1889, Gustafson, Onekama, Mich

Specs              :  81x24x7, 92g  88n

Date of loss    :  1897, Aug 19

Place of loss   :  off Little Sable Point

Lake                :  Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  109 cords bark

Detail              :  Bound Manistee for Milwaukee, she capsized in a squall. Her crew made it into her yawl, but drifted 22 hours before being picked up by the steamer FRED PABST.  She was later towed into Manistee by the tug IRMA L. WHEELER but was in very poor condition. No record that she ever ran again.

Owned by Capt. Pederson, Milwaukee.

Sources            :  wmn,hgl,wmhs,bb,mv,nsp,hr

 

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  BANNOCKBURN

Other names   :  none

Official no.     : C102093

Type at loss    :  propeller, steel, bulk freight

Build info       :  1893, Dixon & Co.,  Middlesborough, England

Specs              :  245x40x21      1620gc 1035nc

Date of loss    :  1902, Nov 22

Place of loss   :  Mid-lake

Lake                : Superior

Type of loss    : went missing

Loss of life      :  21 [all]

Carrying         :  95,000 bu. wheat

Detail              : Sailed out from Ft. William into a storm and was never seen again. One of her lifeboats later found ashore. She was considered to be of the absolute highest quality construction available.. Her loss is one of the big mysteries of the Big Lake. For many years, sailors claimed to  see her running without lights on stormy nights, looking in vain for some safe port. Owned by Montreal Transportation Co., Montreal. Master; Capt. George R. Wood(d).

Image from WL photo database

Image from TBRC collection

Sources            :   nsp,gwgl,gs,is(4-73),lol,sol,wm2,ns1,csv,mmgl,hcgl,wl,es


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  BANSHEE

Other names   :  built as BANSHEE, named HERO 1860-1, BANSHEE again in 1861.

Official no.     :  C none

Type at loss    :  propeller, wood, freight

Build info       :  1852, G. Ault, Portsmouth, Ont.

Specs              :  119x18x3,  166t

Date of loss    :  1861, Aug 21

Place of loss   :  Timber Isl., near False Ducks Isls. Location also given as "off  South Bay."

Lake                : Ontario

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  1 of 11

Carrying         :  wheat,flour & butter

Detail              : Bound Lake Erie for Montreal, she foundered after engine failure [broken shaft] in a storm left her helpless. One passenger died, crew made it to Timber Island. Registry not closed until 1876. Owned by Howard & Rowe of Quebec. Master: Capt. McCree.

Wreck located in 1967.

Also reported as lost in 1876. The vessel was physically surveyed in 1872, meaning she survived the 1861 accident and it is questionable whether the wreck found in 1867 is actually her.

Sources            :  csqw,mmgl,csv(s2),hgl,rp,do,tr


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  BARBARA - See also MAJOR BARBARA


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  BARBARA LYN

Other names   :  built as SUMPTER, renamed in 1989

Official no.     :  276723

Type at loss    :  propeller diesel tug, aluminum

Build info       :  1958, Bayou la Batra, Alabama

Specs              :  51x17x6,  51g  35n

Date of loss    :  1990, Oct 1

Place of loss   :  off Pte Aux Barques, MI

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  1

Carrying         :  2-barge tow

Detail              : Towing 2 construction barges, enroute to Alpena, she capsized in 12-foot seas and sank 12 mi north of Huron City, MI. 3 crew swam to the barges and were rescued by helicopter, 1 drowned.

Owned by Ryba Marine Construction, Cheboygan, MI

Sources            :   nsp,mpl,hcgl


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  BARBARIAN

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  2137

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 2-mast

Build info       :  1855, A. Miller, Oswego, NY

Specs              :  136x26x11  298g  283n

Date of loss    :  1898, Oct 25

Place of loss   :  near Milwaukee

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      : none mentioned

Carrying         :  4,500 RR ties

Detail              : She came to anchor just outside the harbor and tried to ride out a storm, but her stern was wrenched off and she went to pieces.

Sources            :   osdo,is,h,hgl,bb,rp,nsp,hr


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  J. BARBER

Other names   :  also seen as JOE BARBER

Official no.     :  12981

Type at loss    :  propeller, wood, passenger & fruit boat

Build info       :  1856, L. Moses, Cleveland

Specs              :  125x26x8, 306 t.

Date of loss    :  1871, Jul 19

Place of loss   :  14 miles off Michigan City, Ind.

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      :  5

Carrying         :  fruit and passengers

Detail              :  She was on her regular route ,  when she caught fire near her stack and waa destroyed.  The steamersCORONA and A C Van RAALTE came to her rescue, saving most of her passengers and crew - about 30 (some sources say 18 saved, 2 lost) in all were saved. Bound St. Joseph for Chicago, she went down in about 80 feet of water. Owned by Capt. Selah Dustin of Detroit Master: Capt. James F. Snow.

Rebuilt in 1864, 66

Sources            :   lmdc,nsp,hgl,mpl,wl,bcha,hcgl


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  WILLIAM BARCLAY

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  26834

Type at loss    :  scow-schooner, wood

Build info       :  1857, Sylvester Larned, Detroit

Specs              :  73x19x5,  53g

Date of loss    :  1868, Dec 5

Place of loss   :  unreported

Lake                : unreported

Type of loss    : "lost"

Loss of life      : ?

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : No detail. Built for the lumber-coal trade, Saginaw and Cleveland. Document surrendered 12/17/1878 at Port Huron, annotated  "lost 12-5-1868." This may be an error, supposed to read"12-5-78" as official number were not assigned to schrs by the date of her loss. Vessel also shows on 1871 insurance list.

Sources            :   phr,mv,wl


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  JAMES BARDON No.7

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  76625

Type at loss    :  propeller steam tug, wood

Build info       :  1879, Lockport, NY

Specs              :  69x15x7,  51g  26n

Date of loss    :  1890, Nov 10

Place of loss   :  St. Louis R. near Duluth Harbor

Lake                : Superior

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      : ?

Carrying         :  none

Detail              : Burned to total loss

Sources            :   mv,lss,gwgl,is,hgl


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  BARGE 43

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  172728

Type at loss    :  unrigged barge, scow, steel

Build info       :  1911, Manitowoc, Wis

Specs              :  150x36x12, 546 t.

Date of loss    :  1961, May 24

Place of loss   :  outer harbor at Buffalo

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    :  hull failure

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  salvaged lumber

Detail              : Used as a vessel for the burning of salvaged timbers during a harbor inprovement project, she was discovered to be leaking on the date shown. Despite the use of her pumps to try to save her, she sank just outside the channel. Later salvage efforts were given up,and the vessel still lies where she went down

Sources            :   nsp,ewe


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  BARGE 104

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  53257

Type at loss    :  unrigged barge, steel whaleback, bulk freight

Build info       :  1890, A. MacDougall [American Steel Barge Co.], Superior, WI

Specs              :  276x36x19, .1295g  1231n

Date of loss    :  1898, Nov 10 (1899 often given, in error)

Place of loss   :  Cleveland Harbor

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none of 7

Carrying         :  light

Detail              : She was waiting for the steamer ROCKEFELLER to take her in tow,  Cleveland for Duluth, and was in tow of the tug ALVA B, when she broke loose and rammed the breakwater, sinking quickly.  Her crew was rescued by the U.S. Lifesaving Service with much difficulty. She was at first thought to have gone completely to pieces very quickly, since only fragments of her were found, but it was later discovered that she had drifted underwater more than 500 feet from where she had gone down. Owned by American Steel Barge Co. she was the first whaleback to become a total loss in a lakes accident.

Image from TBRC collection

Sources            :  is,h,hgl,mpl,hcgl,nsp


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  BARGE 115

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  53269

Type at loss    :  unrigged barge, steel whaleback, bulk freight

Build info       :  1891, A MacDougall [American Steel Barge Co.], W. Superior, WI

Specs              :  256x36x19,  1169g  1111n

Date of loss    :  1899, Dec 18

Place of loss   :  Pic Isl. near Marathon, Ont.

Lake                : Superior

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  iron ore

Detail              : Broke from her tow steamer, the whaleback COLGATE HOYT,*  well out in the lake, went ashore 5 days later & broke up.  Other ships of her fleet saerched the lake for her for days. Her crew was thought to be lost, but showed up days later after long tramp through the wilderness. Ship declared total loss the following May.  This was the first foundering of a whaleback, Barge 104 (qv) was stranded and wrecked a year earlier.  Master: Capt. Arthur A. Boyce. Owned by Pickands, Mather & Co.

*Some sources say FRANK ROCKEFELLER, in error. 

Image from TBRC collection

Sources            :  is,nsp,lss,rf,hcgl,nsp


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  BARGE 129

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  53276

Type at loss    :  unrigged barge, steel whaleback, bulk freight

Build info       :  1893, A. MacDougall [American Steel Barge Co.], Superior, WI

Specs              :  292x36x22,   1311g  1266n

Date of loss    :  1902, Oct 13

Place of loss   :  off Vermilion Point, MI

Lake                : Superior

Type of loss    :  collision

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  iron ore

Detail              : Broke towline from steamer MAUNALOA in heavy weather. While trying to reconnect, was rammed by the steamer and sank quickly after her side was penetrated by an anchor. MAUNALOA picked up her crew. Went down in 125 ft. of water. Owner: U. S. Steel.

Image from TBRC collection

Sources            :   nsp,lssc,lol,gwgl,is(2-69),sol,ns1,hcgl


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  BARGE A

Other names   : ?

Official no.     :  30189

Type at loss    :  unrigged scow-barge, wood

Build info       :  1895, Peshtigo, Wis

Specs              :  135x35x10,   410g

Date of loss    :  1900, May 15

Place of loss   :  Racine, WI

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    : sank

Loss of life      : none

Carrying         :  160 cords stone

Detail              : Broke in half and went down in the channel, just inside the harbor. It was quickly dynamited to clear the harbor for navigation. Owned by Lake Michigan Car Ferry Transportation Co. at the time, but leased a group of Milwaukee shippers.

Sources            :  h,nsp,wmhs,bb,nsp,hr,wls


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  BARGE NO. 1

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  67313

Type at loss    :  barge, wood, RR ferry-barge, 28 car

Build info       :  1895, Jas. Davidson, W. Bay City, MI   hull #70

Specs              :  310x44x12  1544g  1463n

Date of loss    :  1918, Nov 8

Place of loss   :  North Point, Thunder Bay, MI

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none of 5

Carrying         :  lumber, chickens

Detail              : Normally used as a RR carferry. Grounded in storm, broke in two and slipped into deep water.

Holed by a launching timber and sank during her launch.  Rails were installed on her deck at Chicago (see also BARGE NO 2)

Sources            :   stb,glc,is,ns2,mpl,eas


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  BARGE NO. 2

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  67314

Type at loss    :  barge, wood, RR carferry

Build info       :  1895, Jas. Davidson, W. Bay City    hull #71

Specs              :  310x44x12  1548g  1462n

Date of loss    :  1906, Sep 9 [also given as Sep 29]

Place of loss   :  Chicago Harbor

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    : Capsized

Loss of life      :  3

Carrying         :  RR cars

Detail              : Capsized due to a loading error. Floated bottom-up for more than a month, foiling all efforts to right her, and finally sank in the yacht basin. Raised keel-up in spring of 1907, towed out & scuttled 3 mi off Calumet Harbor. Dynamited by Corps of Engineers in Aug of the same year. RR cars which she had aboard were recovered in Oct, 1906.

She and No.1(qv) were biggest barges in the world when built

Sources            :   nsp,glc,is,vbs,mpl,eas,mv


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  BARGE NO. 3

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  67317

Type at loss    :  barge, wood, RR carferry, 28 cars

Build info       :  1896, Craig Shipbuilding, Toledo, OH  hull# 70

Specs              :  306x47x12, 1581 t

Date of loss    :  1900, Nov 12.

Place of loss   :  near Long Point

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  pulpwood

Detail              : Tow of tug S.M. FISCHER with BARGE NO. 4(qv). She wnt out of  control in a storm and was cut loose by FISCHER after  her crew was taken off.  She foundered soon after. The cook had to be forcibly removed from the barge as she was  abandoned.

Sources            :   nsp,glc,is,ns1,mpl,ewe


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  BARGE NO. 4

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  67318

Type at loss    :  barge, wood, RR carferry, 28 car

Build info       :  1896, Craig Shipbuilding, Toledo   hull# 71

Specs              :  306x47x12,  1581 t.

Date of loss    :  1900, Nov 12

Place of loss   :  near Long Point

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  pulpwood

Detail              : Barge identical to BARGE NO. 3, details of loss also nearly identical. In fact, BARGEs 3 and 4 were nearly identical to BARGEs 1 and 2 and built to the same design.

Sources            :   nsp,glc,is,ns1,mpl,ewe


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  BARGE NO. 7 - See No. 7


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  M.P. BARKALOW

Other names   :  none

Official no.     : 90277

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, bulk and package freight, 2-mast

Build info       :  1871, O. Harper, Perry, OH

Specs              :  104x23x8  122g  116n

Date of loss    :  1902, Apr 26

Place of loss   :  off S. Bass Isl.

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  4

Carrying         :  salt

Detail              : She foundered while riding out a gale at anchor. The lost were skipper, his wife, his stepson and 1 crewman. Master: Capt. Robert Pardy(d), out of Marine City, Mich., owned by Capt. A. V. Kirchner, Detroit.

Sunk with heavy damage at Toledo in fall 1894 after a railroad drawbridge was lowered on her.

Image from TBRC collection

Sources            :   nsp,is,ns1,mv,ledc,phr,mpl,hcgl

 

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   FRANK D. BARKER

Other names   :  also called  F.D. BARKER

Official no.     :  9165

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  1867, S. Johnson, Clayton, NY

Specs              :  137x26x12,  305gt  290 nt.

Date of loss    :  1887, Sep 27

Place of loss   :  Spider Island, Rawley’s Bay, Wis.

Lake                :  Michigan

Type of loss    :  stranded

Loss of life      :  none?

Carrying         :  light

Detail              :  She drove ashore on a rocky reef. At first it was thought that she could be rescued easily and it was later reported that she was, but on Nov 15th it was reported that she had been swung onto another reef by heavy seas, thrown on her beam ends, and was going to pieces.

Out of Cleveland, owned by E. S. Minor.

Sources            : nsp,mv,polk,jk,wmn,hgl,bb,wgts,hr

 

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  JOHN J. BARLUM

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  76914

Type at loss    :  schooner-barge, wood, bulk freight

Build info       :  1890, Craig, Toledo, OH

Specs              :  223x41x16  1185g  1126n

Date of loss    :  1922, Sep 18 (or 8)

Place of loss   :  near Marblehead Light, Sandusky, OH

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    : sank

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  coal

Detail              : Outbound in tow of the tug GUARDIAN, she filled and sank five miles off the harbor entrance. Later removed to deeper water.

Canadian registry 1901-1911, C#107490.

Image from TBRC collection

Sources            :  eas,ns3,mv,ledc,mpl,hcgl,ewl


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   BURT BARNES

Other names   :  none

Official no.     : C150489

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 3-mast

Build info       :  1882, G.S. Rand or Rand & Burger, Manitowoc, WI      US#3193

Specs              :  96x25x7  134g  127n

Date of loss    :  1926, Sep 3

Place of loss   :  12 mi SE of Picton, Ont.

Lake                : Ontario

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  coal

Detail              : Foundered off Lake Ontario's Long Point during a gale. Bound for Picton from Sodus Pt., NY. Her crew abandoned her in a patched-up lifeboat and landed near Rochester, NY, 32 hours later.

Sold Canadian in 1904. Registered out of Kingston in 1926.

One of the last working schooners on the lakes.

Image from TBRC collection

Sources            :  csqw,win,is(2-90),win,is,h,mv,osdo,mpl,hcgl


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  FRANK C. BARNES

Other names   :  none

Official no.     : C116386

Type at loss    :  propeller steam tug, wood

Build info       :  1892, Manistee, MI  US# 120894

Specs              :  67x16x7  63g  43n

Date of loss    :  1915, Nov 1

Place of loss   :  off Gull Pond, near Pt. Petre, Ont.

Lake                : Ontario

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  all 5(6)

Carrying         :  none

Detail              : Went missing in storm at unknown position. Some pilothouse wreckage and a body eventually washed up on shore. The wreck was later located off Pt. Petre.

Sold Canadian in 1906. Owned by Canada Steamship Lines

May have been built from the tug J.C. OSGOOD [US#75159], built 1863, New Baltimore, NY.

Image from TBRC collection

Sources            :  csqw,nsp,gs,sol,mv,mmgl,mpl,hcgl


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   D. N. BARNEY

Other names   : 

Official no.     :  none

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  1844, Clayton, NY

Specs              :  140 t.

Date of loss    :  1849, May 25

Place of loss   :  at 40-mile Point, eastern Straits of Mackinac

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none mentioned

Carrying         :  bulk potter's clay

Detail              :  Reported ashore on a rocky bottom and become a total loss.

Out of Cape Vincent, NY

Sources            :    wmn,wl,nsp,wmhs

 

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  F.T. BARNEY

Other names   :  none

Official no.     : 9535

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 2-mast

Build info       :  1856, W. Cheney, Vermilion, OH

Specs              :  126x26x11, 255 t

Date of loss    :  1868, Oct 23

Place of loss   :  below Nine Mile Point, NW of Rogers City

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  collision

Loss of life      : none

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : Collided with the schooner TRACY J. BRONSON and sank while bound Cleveland for Milwaukee. She reportedly sank "in about 2 minutes." Her crew abandoned and were later picked up off Presque Isle by the schooner CLAYTON BELLE. Newspapers of the time report that the wreck was struck by several passing vessels and was located "about midway between theSouth Passage and 40-mile Point."  Wreck was reportedly located about 1987, sits in deep water, upright in almost perfect condition, though this doesn't quite jibe with the newspaper accounds of multiple collisions. Registered out of Vermilion, OH. Master: Capt. Egbert Doville.

Major repair in 1862

Sketch from TBRC collection

Sources            :   mv,slh,lhdc,nsp,ssm,mpl,rsl,hcgl,wmn


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  WILLIAM H. BARNUM

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  80342

Type at loss    :  propeller, wood, freighter

Build info       :  1873, J.M. Jones, Detroit

Specs              :  219x35x21  1212g  1059n

Date of loss    :  1894, Apr 3

Place of loss   :  5.5 mi ESE of Mackinaw City

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    : ice

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  55,000 bu corn

Detail              : Her hull was cut by floating ice and she attempted to make it to shore, but came up against shelf ice and stranded. The wrecking tug CRUSADER tried to save her, but was only able to take her crew off before she went down in 11 fathoms of water. She was reportedly in poor condition at the time of her last trip and had been given insurance for only that single voyage. She had been bound Chicago for Port Huron and was one of the first vessels to attempt the Straits that spring. Owners: C. A. Chamberlain et al., Detroit; Master: Capt. William Smith, Marine Ci ty.

Partially "salvaged" in 1969, mostly stripped of artifacts.

Image from TBRC collection

Sources            :  is(3-69),slh,hdm,h,mv,lhdc,wbm,ssm,mpl,hcgl,es,nsp


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  H.A. BARR

Other names   :  none

Official no.     : C107489

Type at loss    :  schooner-barge, wood, 3-mast

Build info       :  1893, Jas. Davidson, W. Bay City    hull #56   [US# 96218]

Specs              :  217x35x17  1119g  1063n

Date of loss    :  1902, Sep 24 (some sources erroneously give Aug 24 as date.)

Place of loss   :  30 miles off Port Stanley, near Braddock Pt.

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  iron ore

Detail              : Downbound from Lake Superior, tow of "saltie" THEANO (qv). She broke her towline in giant waves and foundered. Her crew was picked up by THEANO. Owner: F. H. Clergue, Soo, Mich.

Sold Canadian in 1901. Owned by Algoma Central Steamship Co., Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.

Went ashore and given up for lost on False Presque Isle, Lake Huron, in April of 1898.

Sources            :   nsp,is,ns1,ledc,win,vbs,mpl,do,ew     not in mmgl


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  WILLIAM H. BARRETT

Other names   :  also seen as W. H. BARRETT

 

Official no.     :  80458

Type at loss    :  sidewheel steamer, wood, river

Build info       :  1874, J. Ganoe & Sons, Grand Rapids, Mich

Specs              :  129x24x4,  118 g  112n

Date of loss    :  1894, Nov 6

Place of loss   :  at Grand Rapids, MI

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  none

Detail              : Burned at her winter layup moorings at 1 a.m.,  a  total loss. Insurance had run out Nov 1 and she was lying at her dock without a watchman.. Owned by Valley City Trans. Co.

She had been a long-time Grand River steamer, built to run between Grand Rapids and Grand Haven..

Image from TBRC collection

Sources            :   nsp,mv,hcgl


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  BARRIE - See also COMMODORE JACK BARRY, COMMODORE BARRY


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  MICHAEL J. BARTELME

Other names   :  built as JOHN J. McWILLIAMS,  renamed CENTRAL WEST in 1916, last name in 1928 [Most often seen as M. J. BARTHELME]

Official no.     :  77170

Type at loss    :  propeller, steel, bulk freight

Build info       :  1895, F.W. Wheeler, W. Bay City     hull #105

Specs              :  352x45x23  3400g  2808n

Date of loss    :  1928, Oct 4

Place of loss   :  SE tip of Cana Isl.

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    : stranded

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  in ballast

Detail              : Stranded and destroyed by waves while heading north through a dense fog, she was a constructive total loss. Later [starting in 1933], she was cut up for scrap where she lay.

Image as a wreck from TBRC collection

Sources            :   vbs,sbs,sol,is,ns3,lmdc,mpl,eas,hcgl,wgts


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  A.F. BARTLETT

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  105130

Type at loss    :  propeller steam tug, wood

Build info       :  1871, Herminger, E. Saginaw

Specs              :  48x10x4  11g  5n

Date of loss    :  1888, Sep

Place of loss   :  at Duluth

Lake                : Superior

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      : ?

Carrying         :  none

Detail              : Burned and declared total loss. Continued in registry until 1900 but this was probably a paperwork oversight.

Had another disastrous fire at Saginaw in Sep, 1884

Sources            :   mv,vbs,polk,slh,hgl,tbms


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   AGNES BARTON

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  none

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 2-mast

Build info       :  1835, Buffalo

Specs              :  92x23x8,   156 t. om

Date of loss    :  1855, Aug 7

Place of loss   :  near Conneaut, OH

Lake                :  Erie

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  coal

Detail              :  Bound Cleveland for Buffalo, she sprang a leak and foundered in 30 feet of water, 1.5 miles offshore and 1.5 miles from Conneaut light. It was reported that she would probably not be salvaged because she was "an old vessel and about used up."

Out of Toledo

Rebuilt and enlarged in 1842  orig 73 ft.

Sources            : nsp,wl,wmn  

 

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  BENJAMIN BARTON

Other names   :  also seen as BEN. BARTON

Official no.     :  none

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  1835, Mt. Clemens, MI

Specs              :  87x24x9,  178 t.  [om]

Date of loss    :  1838, Nov 5

Place of loss   :  just east of the pier at Conneaut, OH

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      : ?

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : Blown ashore and wrecked by gale. Reported a total loss, but released and repaired the following spring. Lasted until at least 1844.

Owned by Morse & Co. of Detroit

Sources            :  is,nsp,hgl,wl


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  PLINY F. BARTON

Other names   :  none      also seen as P.F. BARTON

Official no.     :  none

Type at loss    :  propeller steam tug, wood

Build info       :  1853, Laveya,  Buffalo

Specs              :  61x14x5,  40 t

Date of loss    :  1865, May

Place of loss   :  at Baby's Point

Lake                : St Clair R

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      :  (none)

Carrying         :  none

Detail              : Burned to a total loss. No detail.

Sources            :   lhl,hgl,st,wl,nsp,hr


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  BESSIE BARWICK

Other names   :  none

Official no.     : C83146

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  1866, L. Shickluna, St. Catharines, Ont. as a bark

Specs              :  135x26x11, 296gc,  274nc

Date of loss    :  1887, Oct 28

Place of loss   :  Pilot Harbor, Michipicoten Isl.

Lake                : Superior

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  lumber

Detail              : Bound Port Arthur for Kingston in tow of the steamer CELTIC, which let her loose to fend for herself after her shaft broke on Nipigon Bay. The schooner was seen on the 28th, but her subsequent whereabouts were unknown for more than 10 days. Westerly gale had pushed her into the shallows where she pounded to pieces. Her crew were sheltered by local fishermen, later made it to the Soo in a small open boat. Out of St. Catharines. Owned by R. O. MacKay, Hamilton. Master: Capt. Owen Gallagher.

Sources            :   nsp,gwgl,is,h,eas,mmgl,wb,win,lss,hgl,wl


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  BATCHAWANA

Other names   :  built as ROBERT A. PACKER renamed in 1906. Also seen as BATACHAWANA

Official no.     : C117032

Type at loss    :  propeller, wood, bulk freight

Build info       :  1881, W. S. Crosthwaite, Bay City, MI[US# 110491]

Specs              :  209x33x16  921g  770n

Date of loss    :  1907, Jun 27 [Jun 21 also given]

Place of loss   :  off Coppermine Point, Ont.

Lake                : Superior

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : Burned to a total loss.

 Sold Canadian, 1906.

Sources            :   win,vbs,mmgl,lssc,gwgl,is,ns1,h,csv,mpl


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   WEBSTER BATCHELLER

Other names   :  also seen as BATCHELDER, BATCHELLOR

Official no.     :  80766

Type at loss    :  propeller tug, wood

Build info       :  1880, Callister, Grand Haven, MI

Specs              :  69x16x8, 46gt  23nt

Date of loss    :  1889, Nov 14

Place of loss   :  off Red River, Green Bay

Lake                :  Michigan

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      :  none mentioned

Carrying         :  towing log raft

Detail              :  Caught fire while she was picking up a log raft and burned to a total loss. Owned by Island Lumber Co, Sturgeon Bay, Wis.

Burned at Grand Haven in November, 1881

Sources            :  nsp,hgl,mv,polk,bb,wgts,hr

 

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  ELI BATES

Other names   :  none   also seen as ELLA BATES

Official no.     :  7236

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  1857, Geo. Hardison, Erie, PA

Specs              :  265 t

Date of loss    :  1871, Nov 16

Place of loss   :  about 7 mi N of harbor at Ashtabula, OH

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    :  foundered

Loss of life      :  9[all]

Carrying         :  wheat

Detail              : Disappeared in a gale, and no positively identifiable wreckage or bodies found. Topmasts that were found sticking out of the water between Ashtabula and Conneaut were later identified as hers and in June of the following year she was located off Conneaut in 14 fathoms of water. She had been bound Sheboygan, WI, for Buffalo with wheat. Homeport: Buffalo, owned out of Detroit by Capt. J. Montgomery. Master: Capt. Timothy McEwen(d).

Went ashore on Windmill Point, Lake Erie, 9/25/70 and had major repairs following.

Sources            :  h,mv,hgl,ledc,nsp,jk


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   EVALINE BATES

Other names   :  also seen as EVELINE BATES

Official no.     :  7322

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  1859, E. Bates, Huron, Oh

Specs              :  128x26x10,  234g  222n  [324 t. om]

Date of loss    :  1891, Sep 1

Place of loss   :  on Beaver Island

Lake                :  Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none mentioned

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              :  She went ashore in a storm and filled with water. She was deemed too old an valueless to salvage, and was left to break up.

Owned by M. Russell, Chicago

Ashore on Grand Island, Mich,  Lake Superior in 1869 and expected to become a total loss. Wrecked and given up near Chicago in the fall of 1877.

Spent some time in the coasting trade on the Atlantic when she was new, returned to the lakes during the Civil War.

Sources            :    mv,nsp,wmn

 

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  STEVEN S. BATES

Other names   :  also seen as STEPHEN BATES, S. BATES, and STEVEN BATES

Official no.     :  23341

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood “clipper built”

Build info       :  1856, Bates & Son., Manitowoc

Specs              :  97x27x7,  139 t.

Date of loss    :  1883, Apr 23

Place of loss   :  5 mi N of Grosse Point, IL

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none of 6

Carrying         :  posts and hardware

Detail              : Bound Muskegon, MI, and Horne’s Pier, WI, for Chicago, she was driven into the shallows by a storm after her anchors dragged and was broken up by wave action. The U.S. Lifesaving Service crew from Evanston helped rescue her crew. Out of Chicago, owned by Capt. William Bates. Master: Capt. Frank Walsh.

Major repairs in 1870.

Sources            :   mv,polk,h,lmdc,usls,nsp,wl,es


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   WILLIAM BATES

Other names   :  also seen as W. M. BATES

Official no.     :  80052

Type at loss    :  scow-schooner, wood

Build info       :   1866, Trenton, Mich

Specs              :    55 t.

Date of loss    :   1878, Oct 6

Place of loss   :  40 miles out of Chicago

Lake                :  Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none of 3

Carrying          :  oak lumber

Detail              :  She capsized in a storm while bound Holland, Michigan, for Chicago. After her mainmast and deckload fell off, she righted again. Her crewmen then tried to launch her yawl, which was also lost. After clinging to the tossing wreck for several hours they were saved by the skiff SANDY MORRISON. The scow came ashore 1.5 miles north of Chicago harbor, a total loss.

Sources            :    nsp,wmn,mv,wmhs

 

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  BATISCAN - See  UNITED STATES     


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  GERALDINE BATTLE

Other names   :  built as PURITAN, renamed SANDY HOOK('02), last name '07

Official no.     : C126094

Type at loss    :  barge, wood, bulk freight

Build info       :  1893, R. Mills, Buffalo as propeller passenger steamer [US#150630]

Specs              :  136x32x12,   266gt.

Date of loss    :  1916, Oct 21

Place of loss   :  Thorold, Ont, Welland Canal

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      : ?

Carrying         :  gravel

Detail              : Was unloading at Thorold when she caught fire and was destroyed.

Burned at Buffalo, Jan 6, 1906. Sold Canadian, 1907 and rebuilt.

As steamer she was 136x32x10 409g  345n, converted to bulker in 1902, to bulk barge in 1907

Sources            :   ns2,mpl,hr              


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  MARY BATTLE - See DETROIT, LINCOLN


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  THOMAS FREEL BATTLE

Other names   :  built as tug F.B. BRADY, renamed in 1905

Official no.     : C107948

Type at loss    :  propeller steam tug, wood

Build info       :  1901, Freeman Green, Sr, Dunnville, Ont.

Specs              :  47x13x7, 29 t.

Date of loss    :  1907, Oct 17

Place of loss   :  Port Maitland, Ont.

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      : none

Carrying         :  none

Detail              : She caught fire around her boiler while tied to a plaster dock in Port Maitland harbor and her crew was helpless to do anything to stop it. She burned to total loss.

Registered out of St. Catharines

After her loss this tug was replaced by the prop tug THOMAS FREEL BATTLE, below.

Sources            :   win,mmgl,h,waw,bb


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  THOMAS FREEL BATTLE

Other names   :  built as American  tug FANNIE L. BAKER, renamed in 1910

Official no.     : C126092

Type at loss    :  propeller steam tug, wood

Build info       :  1888, W. L. Baker, Detroit    US# 120729

Specs              :  68x17x6,  44g  22n

Date of loss    :  1910, Nov

Place of loss   :  Thorold, Ont.

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      : ?

Carrying         :  none

Detail              : Reported in Canadian registry as  burned to total loss. Actually recovered, returned to American hull [and her original name] in 1917 and abandoned about 1938.

Sold Canadian in 1910. Registered out of St. Catharines. Replaced Canadian tug of the same name.

Sources            :   mmgl,mv,hcgl,hr

 

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  JOHN C. BAUER

Other names   :  built as PLANET, renamed in 1882

Official no.     :  54159

Type at loss    :  scow-schooner, wood, lumber

Build info       :  1855, M. Fox,  Black R., OH

Specs              :  117x25x7  158g  151n

Date of loss    :  1900, Jul 6

Place of loss   :  S. Fox Isl. harbor

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    : stranded

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  light

Detail              : Stranded near the beach in a fog and became total loss. Bound Milwaukee for Cecil Bay in the Straits of Mackinac. Abandoned by her crew, who were later picked up by an Indian fishing boat. Later towed away to clear the S. Fox harbor. Owned by Andrew Nelson of Milwaukee, who may also have sailed her.

Narrowly avoided sinking in deep water when she sprang a leak off Milwaukee in May of 1900.

Capsized off Sheboygan, Wis. with the loss of all but one of her crew in November, 1855.

Sources            :   nsp,mv,ns1,wmn


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  BAVARIA

Other names   :  none

Official no.     : C72595

Type at loss    :  schooner-barge, wood, 3-mast

Build info       :  1873, H. Rooney, Garden Island, Ont.

Specs              :  145x26x13, 376g  361n

Date of loss    :  1898, Oct 19

Place of loss   :  1 mi S of Cape Smith, Manitoulin Island.

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :   squared lumber

Detail              : Driven ashore by a gale and pounded to pieces. Bound Byng Inlet for Walkerville, Ont.  Her crew was saved by local Indians. Master: Capt. M. Mahoney. Owned out of Sarnia by Kidd & Riley.

On May 29, 1889, she broke from the tow of  the steamer D.D. CALVIN and began to founder near Long Point, L. Erie (maybe L. Ont.). Her crew abandoned, but didn't make it to shore - all 8 lost. The wreck washed ashore on Long Point, little damaged. Master: Capt. John Marshall.

Locally called a "timber drougher"

Ashore and abandoned [temporarily] near Goderich, Ont., Lake Huron in November, 1891. Recovered the following spring.

Image from TBRC collection

Sources            :  csqw,mmgl,nsp,osdo,sol,is(1-76),slh,hgl,mpl,es3-2,hcgl


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  BAVARIAN

Other names   :  see below

Official no.     : C none

Type at loss    :  sidewheel steamer, iron, passenger/ package freight

Build info       :  1855, Gilbert & Co, Montreal

Specs              :  176 ft, 427 t

Date of loss    :  1873, Nov 5

Place of loss   :  15 miles off Bowmanville, Ont.

Lake                : Ontario

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      :  14 of 36

Carrying         :  general freight, passengers

Detail              : In transit Montreal for Toronto when her boiler exploded and she burned to a shell.

Iron hull survived several wrecks. Built 1855 as KINGSTON,  gutted by fire, 1872 and rebuilt as BAVARIAN at Kingston after another fire at Bowmanville with loss of several lives. Rebuilt as ALGERIAN after the '73 fire  & assigned C#71609. Renamed CORNWALL in 1904, rebuilt in 1913, dismantled in 1930 and hull scuttled off Amherst Isl..

Image as ALGERIAN from WL image database

Sources            :  csqw,do2,clu,mmgl,sol,is,h,rp,nsp,hcgl


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  BAY CITY

Other names   :  built as FOREST CITY, renamed in 1853

Official no.     :  none

Type at loss    :  sidewheel paddle tug, wood

Build info       :  1852, Eli Bates, Trenton, MI

Specs              :  199x27x9,  480 t.

Date of loss    :  1862, May 20

Place of loss   :  near Port Burwell, Ont

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  none

Detail              : She sprang a leak and sank off shore and washed to shallow water in one piece. Her crew was rescued by the new tug WINSLOW. Her engine & boiler  were removed during 4 different salvage attempts in June & July. The hull was finally abandoned Jul 21, though plans had been made to convert it into a schooner. Hgl says this is the same vessel as 1880 loss of same name, but in 1899 the Canadian gov’t authorized Frank Hackett to salvage her boiler at the point shown. Owned by her master Capt. Edwards of Detroit.

Converted to a large tug in 1860.

Sources            :   nsp,sagl,wl,es


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   BAY CITY

Other names   :  ?

Official no.     :  (none)

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  (1853, Vermillion, Oh)

Specs              :  (216 t.)

Date of loss    :  1859, prior to Nov 18

Place of loss   :  East Sister Reef

Lake                :  Erie

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  (none)

Carrying         :  corn

Detail              :  Went ashore on the reef, stranded in 7 feet of water. The tug BRUCE and the wrecker RELIEF tried to save her, but she was later  reported abandoned (about Nov. 24), but further  attempts may have been made the next spring to remove her.

Probably out of Sandusky

Sources            : nsp,jm,wl,wmhs


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  BAY CITY - Former entry regarding the Nov, 1880 loss is eliminated. The vessel was US#2135 (see below), and not the former steamer shown in some sources. She was recovered in June, 1881


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  BAY CITY

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  2451

Type at loss    :  propeller, wood, steam barge

Build info       :  1867, Geo. Gardiner, Marine City, MI

Specs              :  152x27x14,  372g  295n

Date of loss    :  1891, Jun 6

Place of loss   :  foot of Rivard St. River Rouge [Detroit] MI

Lake                : Detroit R

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  300,000 ft white pine lumber

Detail              : Burned to total loss while being repaired. Her watchman reported the fire during the night and firemen thought they had it out, but it reawakened and burned to a total wreck.

She was owned in Cleveland, managed by P. H. Clark, Marine City

Rebuilt in 1871, then caught fire and burned nearly to the waterline on her first trip out, April 10, 1871. Major repairs in 1879

Image from TBRC collection

Sources            :   lhl,hgl,mv,mpl,es,hcgl


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  BAY CITY

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  2135

Type at loss    :  schooner [sloop]- barge, wood,1-mast, bulk freight

Build info       :  1856, S. Tripp, Saginaw as brig

Specs              :  140x29x10  306g  290n

Date of loss    :  1902, Nov 29

Place of loss   :  at Alpena, MI

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  none

Detail              : Left at anchor in Thunder Bay by steamer HURON CITY. Anchor chains parted and she was driven against Gilchrist dock and wrecked. Crew abandoned her with difficulty.  Later removed, but not returned to service. Master: Capt. McDermald.

On Nov 20, 1880,  she was cast adrift by steamer JAMES P. DONALDSON, driven ashore and wrecked in a gale, 4 mi E of Erie, PA.  Her crew  was saved by  the Lifesaving Service  using breeches' buoy. Captain of the barge and captain of lifesaving crew were old shipmates.  She was heavily damaged and declared a total loss in some papers,  but was recovered in June of 1881.

Rebuilt in 1876.

Completely dismasted in a gale in 1856.

Sources            :   nsp,stb,ns1,h,vbs,mh,ade


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   BAY OF QUINTE

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  C  none

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  1853, Thurston, Bath, Ont.

Specs              :  151x24x8,  250 t.

Date of loss    :  1863, Nov 18

Place of loss   :  Salmon Point, north shore

Lake                :  Ontario

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  7,500 bu wheat

Detail              :  Bound for Toronto, she went ashore in a storm and became a total wreck.

Owned by Capt. Gaskin of Kingston, who was also her master.

Rebuilt at Kingston, Ont,. in 1861.

Sources            :  clu,hgl,nsp,rnc,hcgl


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  BAY STATE

Other names   : none

Official no.     :  none

Type at loss    :  propeller, wood

Build info       :  1852, Bidwell & Banta, Buffalo, NY

Specs              :  137x26x11,  372 t. om

Date of loss    :  1862, Nov 2

Place of loss   :  “in the vicinity of Oswego

Lake                : Ontario

Type of loss    : went missing

Loss of life      :  22 [all, including 6 passengers]

Carrying         :  general merchandise

Detail              : Bound for Lake Erie ports from Oswego, she broke up offshore in a terrific gale and foundered with all hands. The shoreline for miles was strewn with her wreckage. Northern Trans. Co. boat out of Ogdensburg, NY. Master: Capt. John Brown(d).

Stranded and thought to be a total loss on May of 1856, but recovered in July. Major repairs in 1861.

Sources            :  gs,hgl,osdo,(mmgl),nsp,rp,wl,hcgl,umr


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   BAY TRADER

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  C none*

Type at loss    :  scow-schooner, wood, 2-mast

Build info       :  1873, John Glover, Port Rowan, Ont.

Specs              :  113x22x7,  172gc

Date of loss    :  1888, Jul 11

Place of loss   :  at Clear Creek [Canadian side]

Lake                :  Erie

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  wood

Detail              :  Bound Port Rowan for Buffalo, she ran ashore and was reported a total loss.  She lay under a 40-foot cliff and her crew had lost hope until rescued from above on a line thrown by Canadian Lifesavers.

Owned by Austin Steers, Port Rowan.

*Canadian registry says "no official number allowed"

May have been recovered, as an 1890 insurance lists says of her  says "wrecking lighter - requires repairs”

Sources            :    mmgl,hg,hr,.clu,wl

 

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  BAYANNA

Other names   :  built as ARAGON, renamed 1946

Official no.     : C150811

Type at loss    :  propeller, steel, self unloading bulker

Build info       :  1896, Detroit Dry Dock, Wyandotte, MI hull #123  US# 107228

Specs              :  249x42x17  1643g  963n

Date of loss    :  1962, Dec 1

Place of loss   :  near Deseronto, Ont., Bay of Quinte

Lake                : Ontario

Type of loss    : struck obstruction

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : Stranded and sank in shallow water. Later raised but declared a constructive total loss after being brought up in Dec, 1963. Gutted by fire in lieu of dismantling and  cut up for scrap in 1964.

Sold Canadian, 1922, after an accident on Lake Ontario.

Converted to a sandsucker at Canandian Vickers, Montreal in 1927, and to self-unloader  at Muir Bros., Port Dalhousie, in 1942.

Image from TBRC collection

Sources            :  a&f,mmgl,sol,is,h,csv,osdo,mpl,hcgl


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  BAYERSHER - See   GEORGE J. WHELAN    


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  BAYPORT

Other names   :  built as tug FAIRPORT, renamed in 1945; renamed TUG A in 1962 and TWIN PORT in 1963

Official no.     : C171939

Type at loss    :  propeller tug, steel, steam

Build info       :  1914, Great Lakes Towing, Cleveland

Specs              :  72x17x12,  65g  31n

Date of loss    :  1959, Jun 22

Place of loss   :  at Collingwood, Ont.

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    : Towing Accident

Loss of life      :  3 of 6

Carrying         :  none

Detail              : Hooked by her own tow cable to steamer CAPT. C.D. SECORD,  capsized and sank. Exact position given as Lat 44 deg. 32'00"N, long 80 deg. 13'12" W, 160 deg., 300' from buoy #7. Owned by Canada SS Lines. Recovered, rebuilt & still operating in late 70's

Sold Canadian 1945.

Converted from steam to diesel on raising.

Image from TBRC collection

Sources            :  is(3-59,1-60),win,h,mmgl,hcgl


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   BEAGLE

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  C  none

Type at loss    :  propeller, wood

Build info       :  1843, Niagara, Ont.

Specs              :  90x17, 95 t.

Date of loss    :  1849, Oct 10

Place of loss   :  near Port Hope, Ont.

Lake                :  Ontario

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none mentioned

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              :  Wrecked near the wharf at Port Hope. It was expected that she would be recovered, but in May of 1851 she was offered for public auction "as she now lies at Port Hope."

Owned by Culcutt & Scott, Cobourg, Ont.

Also wrecked near Presque Isle, Lake Ontario, in November, 1847.

Sources            :  csv,wmn

 

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  JOHN BEAN, Jr.

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  13764

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, lumber

Build info       :  1867, Pentwater, MI

Specs              :  106x24x8, 157g

Date of loss    :  1886, Sep 30

Place of loss   :  Muskegon, MI, harbor

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    :  collision

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  none

Detail              :  While entering the harbor unter tow, she collided with a pier and sank through mishandling. Lifesaving service rescued her crew, and the vessel was later raised, though she had been considered a total loss.

Also sunk at Muskegon the previous year.

Sources            :   mv,h,hgl,usls,nsp,hr


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  MAX BEARD - See   SIDNEY E. SMITH    


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  BEATRICE - See also LULU BEATRICE

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  BEATRICE

Other names   :  none

Official no.     : C83029

Type at loss    :  propeller excursion boat and tug, wood

Build info       :  1882, McDonnel, Wallaceburg, Ont.

Specs              :  79x16x6  66gc  45nc

Date of loss    :  1885, Dec 4 [also given as Apr 12 - 4/12 or 12/4]

Place of loss   :  Port Stanley, Ont

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      :  (none)

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              :  A fire started in her engine room, and she was burned to total loss. Registry closed in July, 1886

Owned by Capt. J. Ellison, she had the machinery from the 1867 Canadian tug BEAVER.  Master: Capt. McGregor.

Caught fire on The St Clair R. near Port Huron Aug 23, 1883, awakening her skipper, who set her adrift to save the dock. The tug ONTARIO got a line on her and pulled her to the foot of Sanborn's Grain Elevator, where she burned to a nearly  total loss.

Another Canadian prop BEATRICE [C#71118], built 1877 at Collingwood by M Cross as SANFORD DAVIE, 63x12x6, 31g 21n, reported burned about 1909.

Sources            :  hgl,polk,mmgl,nsp,wmn


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   IRENE BEAUCHINE

Other names   :  built as J. L. MINER, renamed in 1928

Official no.     :  76162

Type at loss    :  propeller tug, wood

Build info       :  1880, Ellenwood, Detroit

Specs              :  54x14x6,   23g  12n

Date of loss    :  1930, May 7

Place of loss   :  at Buffalo

Lake                :  Erie

Type of loss    :  collision

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  none

Detail              :  She collided with the 260 foot motor tanker AMSTERDAM SCOCONY and sank about 800 feet from the south pier light in Buffalo harbor, in 20 feet of water.

J. L. MINER was well- known tug on the lakes for decades and was involved in a number of wrecks and rescues.

Image from TBRC collection

Sources            :  hcgl,mv,hr

 

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  BEAUHARNOIS - See  QUINTE     


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   BEAVER

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  none  [British warship]

Type at loss    :  armed sloop, wood

Build info       :  ca. 1762

Specs              :   "small"

Date of loss    :  1763, Aug 28

Place of loss   :  Cat Fish Creek, 14 miles from the site of Buffalo

Lake                :  Erie

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  (none)

Carrying         :  provisions, including pork and flour

Detail              :  She was bound for Detroit to relieve the fort there, which was then under seige by the Indian leader Pontiac. 185 barrels of her cargo was saved and went on to Detroit on the schooner GLADWIN, which had been in company with the BEAVER.  Master: Capt. Horsey.

Sources            :    nsp,hgl,www


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  BEAVER

Other names   :  ?

Official no.     :  none

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, passenger & freight

Build info       :  1771

Specs              :  ?

Date of loss    :  1771

Place of loss   :  2-3 mi W of harbor entrance at the site of Lorain, OH

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    :  foundered

Loss of life      :  17

Carrying         :  "valuable" cargo + passengers

Detail              : Probably went down in a storm. Member of Commodore Grant's fleet of exploration and trading vessels.  Location of loss also given as Sandusky, OH

Sources            :  h,ledc,www,hgl


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  BEAVER

Other names   : ?

Official no.     :  C none

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  1848, Kingston, Ont.

Specs              :  200 t.

Date of loss    :  1861

Place of loss   :  off Nine Mile Point

Lake                : Ontario

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      : ?

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : Driven ashore and wrecked.

Maybe wrecked L. Huron.

Sources            :   slh ,hgl,hr                not in mmgl


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  BEAVERSTONE

Other names   :  built as GEORGE W. CUYLER.  Also seen as BEAVERTON

Official no.     : C111809

Type at loss    :  propeller tug, wood

Build info       :  1880, F.W. Wheeler, W. Bay City, MI  [US# 85638]

Specs              :  69x15x6,  18t

Date of loss    :  1926, May 23 (May 14 also given)

Place of loss   :  Bustard Isl, Georgian Bay, Ont.*

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      : ?

Carrying         :  none

Detail              : Blown ashore and destroyed by waves near Grondine Pt.  Owned by C. Beck Manufacturing Co., Penetanguishene. The loss was blamed by local newspapers on low water due to diversion of waer from Lake Michigan through the Chicago Ship and Sanitary Canal, known as the “Chicago Steal.”

Sold Canadian 1902

*Location also given as Black Bay, Lake Superior.

Image as CUYLER from TBRC collection

Sources            :   win,lss,is,h,hr,rl,csv,wl,wmn


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  B.H. BECKER

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  231681

Type at loss    :  Diesel packet

Build info       :  1932, Marine City, MI

Specs              :  37x12x5,  19g  13n

Date of loss    :  1937, Aug 10

Place of loss   :  off Greenbush, MI [off Harbor Beach, MI also given]

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      : ?

Carrying         :  none

Detail              : Foundered in heavy seas, 9 mi N of Oscoda, MI

Owned by Frank Becker in 1934, out of Detroit.

Sources            :   slh,sol,h ,mpl,hr,mv


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  PHILIP BECKER

Other names   :  none

Official no.     : C74214

Type at loss    :  propeller steam tug, wood

Build info       :  1876, J. Lerock, Buffalo

Specs              :  51x13x6, 29g  20n

Date of loss    :  1879, Nov 17

Place of loss   :  10 mi off Oswego, NY

Lake                : Ontario

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  3 [all]*

Carrying         :  none

Detail              : Foundered in blizzard/gale. She was working with 4 other  tugs when sunk. 16 of 32 lives in the little fleet were  lost.

Sold Canadian in 1876, out of Montreal. Master: Capt. Chas. Drescholdt(d).

*Crew actually transferred to the dredge barge GORDON, which then sank with all hands.

Sources            :  hgl,is,osdo,mmgl,h,nsp


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  R.H. BECKER

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  56207

Type at loss    :  scow-schooner, wood, 2-mast,  bulk freight

Build info       :  1867, J. A. Johnson, Dover Bay, OH

Specs              :  108x23x7  141g  134n

Date of loss    :  1908, May 1*

Place of loss   :  at Sheboygan, WI

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      : none

Carrying         :  lumber

Detail              : Capsized and sank near shore in a gale. Partially raised two weeks later to clear the harbor, dragged outside and beached nearby to break up. Crew rescued by USLS.

*May 7 also given, 1st is official

Had number of unrigged barge, probably built as such

Image from TBRC collection

Sources            :   ns1,h,lmdc,eas,hcgl,bw


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  J.L. BECKWITH

Other names   :  also seen as JAMES L BECKWITH

Official no.     : C111802

Type at loss    :  propeller packet, wood

Build info       :  1873, Union Drydock Co., Buffalo  US#75602

Specs              :  67x23x8  61gc   33nc

Date of loss    :  1912, Jul 26

Place of loss   :  Sandy Point or Sandy Island

Lake                : Superior

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      : ?

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : Wrecked, no detail. Out Sault Ste Marie, Ont.

Used as a ferry and excursion boat for early part of her career

 Sold Canadian, 1901

Image from TBRC collection

Sources            :   win,mmgl,gwgl,h,mv,mv,wl


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  JORDAN BEEBE, Jr.

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  76246

Type at loss    :  propeller steam tug, wood, fish

Build info       :  1881, R. Satimore, Bay City as a schooner

Specs              :  46x14x5, 21g  20n

Date of loss    :  1893, Nov 20

Place of loss   :  Put-in-Bay, S. Bass Isl.

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : Burned to a total loss. Owned by Port Huron Fish Co. Document surrendered Dec 29.

Converted from a schooner to tug by her original builder in 1883-4.

Sources            :   nsp,vbs,svv,phr,hgl


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  ALICE M. BEERS

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  382

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 2-mast, lumber

Build info       :  1864, Z. Pangborn, Algonac

Specs              :  105x25x10  154g  147n

Date of loss    :  1902, Sep 4

Place of loss   :  off docks at Glen Arbor, MI

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  light

Detail              : Hove to off the docks in a gale, but slipped her anchor and drove onto channel marker. Holed and drifted shore, where she later broke up. Bound Milwaukee for Glen Haven.  Hailed from Milwaukee, owned by Henry Brander.

Sunk near Manistee in 1875.

Rebuilt, 1888

Image from TBRC collection

Sources            :   nsp,is,ns1,h,lmdc,sb,nb,hgl,wl,hcgl


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  LENA BEHM

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  140840

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  1886, F. Behm, Grand Haven, MI

Specs              :  59x16x6  34g  32n

Date of loss    :  1900

Place of loss   :  off Port Hope, MI

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      : ?

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : Caught fire well offshore and destroyed. Document surrendered at Port Huron 12/31/1900.

Image

Sources            :   phr,slh,mv,mpl,mar,hcgl


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  ETTA BELL - See ETTA BELLE

 

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  JANE BELL

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  12782

Type at loss    :  bark, wood, 3-mast

Build info       :  1862, Campbell, Detroit

Specs              :  1388x12,  374g  (447 t om)

Date of loss    :  1880, Sep 7

Place of loss   :  at Geneva, Ohio

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  2

Carrying         :  iron ore

Detail              : She was driven ashore by a storm while bound Escanaba, mich for Ashtabula, Ohio. Her crew abandoned her the next day in her yawl, and two of the were drowned when her lifeboat capsized in the surf. Master: Capt. P. H. Finlay.

Ashore and seriously damaged on Plum Island, Death's Door, in October of 1876.

Several sources say she was lost in Sep or Oct, 1881, on western Lake Michigan (given as near Chamber’s Island and Death’s D oor), but this is probably confusion with the schooner JENNIBEL(qv).

Sources            :  hgl,lmdc,usls,mpl,mv,hcgl,nsp,wgts


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  LAURA BELL

Other names   :  also seen as LAURA BELLE

Official no.     :  15723

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  1870, Bailey Bros., Toledo, OH

Specs              :  133x26x13, 269gt

Date of loss    :  1883, Sep 7

Place of loss   :  off Shot Point, E of Marquette

Lake                : Superior

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  1

Carrying         :  coal

Detail              : Stranded and became a total loss, breaking her back after resting for several days astride a large boulder. Hailed from Cleveland and bound for Marquette from there. After spending three days in her rigging, her crew were rescued by a tug from Marquette.

Heavily damaged in a grounding in Waiska Bay, Lake Superior,  in 1879.

Rebuilt, 1883.

Sources            :  gwgl,lssc,lss,h,polk,usls,sip,nsp,hr


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  LAURIE BELL - See  LAURIE BELLE  (under “L’s”)   


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  LIZZIE BELL

Other names   :  also seen as LIZZIE BELLE

Official no.     :  15146

Type at loss    :  scow-schooner, wood

Build info       :  1866, G. Johnson, Marine City, MI

Specs              :  77x19x6,  59g

Date of loss    :  1870 or 1878

Place of loss   :  unreported

Lake                : Ontario

Type of loss    :  (storm)

Loss of life      : ?

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : No detail. Document surrendered at Port Huron Dec 19, 1878  annotated "wrecked in 1870," other sources say 1878.

Sources            :   phr,mv,hr


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  MATTIE C. BELL

Other names   :  none

Official no.     : 91420

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  1882, T. Arnold, E. Saginaw, MI

Specs              :  181x33x11,  769g  742n

Date of loss    :  1895, Nov 25

Place of loss   :  at Big Summer Island

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         : 900 t. coal

Detail              : In tow of the steamer JIM SHERRIFS(qv), she stranded in a fall gale and broke up, a total loss. The crew was rescued. A concerted salvage effort lasted into the following summer and included offloading her cargo and filling her with cedar to make her float, but she was finally abandoned. Her document was surrendered at Port Huron 12/30/1896, annotated "stranded and abandoned."  Owned by L.P. Mason, Saginaw

Sources            :   phr,hgl,mv,vbs,wb,wgts,nsp


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  BELLE

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  none

Type at loss    :  steamer, wood

Build info       :  1850, J. W. Banta, Buffalo, NY

Specs              :  142x22x8,  240 t

Date of loss    :  1852, May

Place of loss   :  off Cape Croker, Georgian Bay

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      : ?

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : She foundered in a storm.

Sources            :   lhl,hgl,wl


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   BELLE

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  none

Type at loss    :  brig, wood, 2-mast

Build info       :  1848, Wm. Lent, Conneaut, Oh.

Specs              :  100x26x10,  276 t. om

Date of loss    :  1860, Sep 30

Place of loss   :  near Bailey's Harbor, Wisc.

Lake                :  Michigan

Type of loss    :  (storm)

Loss of life      :  none mentioned

Carrying         :  11,300 bu. corn

Detail              :  Bound Chicago for Buffalo, she sprang her foremast and developed a serious leak near the Manitou Islands, at the foot of Lake Michigan. She turned and tried to make Twin River Point [Two Rivers], but went ashore on a rocky bar near Bailey's Harbor and was wrecked. Master: Capt. Hall.

*also given as Cleveland

Sources            :  hgl,wmn,wmhs,wl,whs

 

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  BELLE

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  2159

Type at loss    :  propeller, wood, packet

Build info       :  1860, B.M. Hagedorn, Port Huron, MI

Specs              :  91x10x8, 129 t.

Date of loss    :  1869, Nov 20

Place of loss   :  off Port Washington, WI in deep water

Lake                :  Michigan

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      :  2

Carrying         :  lumber

Detail              : She caught fire offshore in a gale. Her crew and the single  passenger abandoned in the yawl, but it capsized and two  were lost. Survivors were picked up by the brig C.J. HUTHINSON later. She had been bound Manitowoc for Milwaukee. Out of Milwaukee. Master: Capt. Patrick Barnes(d).

Image from TBRC collection

Sources            :   lhl,hgl,nsp,mpl,bb,mdwl,hcgl,hr


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  BELLE

Other names   :  none

Official no.     : C83153

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 2-mast

Build info       :  1866, A. Shaw, Port Dover, Ont.

Specs              :  61x15x6,  40gc  40nc

Date of loss    :  1886, Dec 8

Place of loss   :  unreported

Lake                : unreported

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      : ?

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : Burned while frozen in at anchor. Total loss.

A 65 t. vessel of this name foundered near Port Dalhousie in Nov, 1887 [h]

Sources            :   mmgl


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  BELLE

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  2242

Type at loss    :  schooner-barge, wood, 2-mast, bulk freight

Build info       :  1856, Bates & Son, Manitowoc, WI

Specs              :  95x25x7  104g  99n

Date of loss    :  1908, Dec 12

Place of loss   :  near Big Sable Point, MI

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      : none

Carrying         :  lumber

Detail              : Tow of the steamer F.W. FLETCHER she broke her towline in big waves & foundered. 52 years of age  at loss.

Image as schooner from TBRC collection

Sources            :  eas,nsp,mv,h,lmdc,hcgl


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  BELLEVILLE - See SPARTAN


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   AUGUSTA BELMONT

Other names   :  also seen as AUGUST BELMONT, AUGUSTE BELMONT

Official no.     :  none

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  1847, Ohio City

Specs              :  208 t.

Date of loss    :  1857, Nov (14)

Place of loss   :  near Manistee, Mich.

Lake                :  Michigan

Type of loss    :  (storm)

Loss of life      :  none mentioned

Carrying         :  wheat

Detail              :  Bound Chicago for Buffalo, she sprang a leak while halfway down Lake Michigan. She made a run for Manistee, and want ashore just north of the harbor.  No further information given, but her last known registration was dated Sep., 1856. Owned by William Sill, Buffalo or Oswego.

Sources            :  hgl,wmn,wmhs,wl

 

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  BELOIT

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  2139

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  1862, E. M. Beckwith, Holland, MI

Specs              :   93x23x7,  105 t.

Date of loss    :  1881, Nov 19

Place of loss   :  near Michigan City, Ind.

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      : none

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : Collided with a pier while coming into Michigan City and sank. A week later the tug tried to tow the water-filled vessel into the harbor from her position moored to the pier, but she became unmanagable and was abandoned. She went to pieces over the next couple of days.

Also stranded near White Lake, L. Mich., in 1868

Rebuilt, 1874

Sources            :   mv,lmdc,hgl,nsp,hr


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   BELVIDERE

Other names   : 

Official no.     :  C

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 2 mast

Build info       :  1848, Ashman, Oakville, Ont

Specs              :  60 t.

Date of loss    :  1856, Dec 14

Place of loss   :  off Oakville, NY

Lake               :  Ontario

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  5 [all]

Carrying          :  wood

Detail              :  Bound for Oakville, Ont., she capsized in a gale, killing her entire crew. Owned by her skipper, Capt. Burnside (d).

The vessel may have been recovered, as some reports of later ownership have been found.

Sources            : nsp,hgl,wmn,tbms

 

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  A. J. BEMIS

Other names   :  none?

Official no.     : ?

Type at loss    :  propeller steam tug, wood

Build info       :  1859, Buffalo

Specs              :  49t

Date of loss    :  1872, Sep 15

Place of loss   :  6 mi from Alpena, 3/4 mi offshore

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  none

Detail              : Caught fire while underway, ran for shore but sank 3/4 mi  short. Fire originated under boiler. Master: Capt. Barrington.

Sources            :   nsp,slh,lh      not in '69 mvus, wl,mmgl or lhl


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   CAROLINE A. BEMIS

Other names   :  also seen as C. A. BEMIS

Official no.     :  none

Type at loss    :  brig, wood

Build info       :  1850, Irving, NY

Specs              :  207 t., om

Date of loss    :  1854, Sep 30

Place of loss   :  ca. halfway between Cleveland and Pt. Pelee, near Black R., Ohio.

Lake                :  Erie

Type of loss    :  collision

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  200 t. coal

Detail              :  Bound Cleveland for Chicago, she collided with the brig CAROLINE out of Chicago with corn, at about midnight. Cut nearly to the waterline just forward of her fore chains, she went down in deep water in ten minutes. Some of her crewmen lept aboard the CAROLINE , while others made it away in her small boat. Her masts were seen emergent with the sails still set a few days later. Master: Capt. Ferris. Owned by E.K. Bruce and Capt. Ferris, out of Buffalo

Sources            : nsp,jm,wl ,wmhs


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   E. S. J. BEMIS

Other names   :  also seen as E. St. JOHN BEMIS

Official no.     :  7328

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 2-mast

Build info       :  1855, S Ruggles, Milan, OH

Specs              :  119x25x10, 294 t. [om]

Date of loss    :  1870, Sep 20

Place of loss   :  15 mi off Port Rowan, Ont

Lake                :  Erie

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  14,000 bu wheat

Detail              :  Bound Detroit for Buffalo, she was caught by a gale and  foundered in about 100 feet of water.  Her crew took to the yawl and made it to shore safely. The tug SARAH E. BRYANT attempted to salvage her in Oct.

Owned by John Stewart of Detroit or Buffalo. Master: Capt. Hubert.

Sources            : nsp,rsl,mv,wmn,ec,jm

 

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  PHILO S. BEMIS

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  19684

Type at loss    :  propeller tug, wood

Build info       :  1859, D. Bell,  Buffalo

Specs              :  50x12x6,   29 gt  16 nt

Date of loss    :  1879

Place of loss   :  Alpena, MI

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      : ?

Carrying         :  none

Detail              : Burned at  her dock. Repairs were begun, but abandoned before completion.

homeport: Alpena

Burned  nearly to a total loss near Plough's Fishery, about 6 miles from Alpena, in Sep of 1872.

She was an odd-looking tug with sloping cabin walls and wheel forward of the cabin, originally an Erie Canal tug.

Image from TBRC collection

Sources            :   mv,rkr,slh,lhl,hgl,nsp,wl,hcgl


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  BEN HUR

Other names   :  built as M. C. UPPER, renamed 1889

Official no.     :  3411

Type at loss    :  schooner-barge, wood, wrecker

Build info       :  1874, Walkerly, Dunville, Ont.

Specs              :  138x26x11,  315 g  298 n

Date of loss    :  1890, Nov 8

Place of loss   :  near Port Huron

Lake                : St Clair R

Type of loss    :  collision

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  none

Detail              : Had been purchased for and was attempting to salvage the schooner M.E. TREMBLE (qv) when she was rammed and sunk by the towed schooner-barge SUPERIOR [towed by PASSAIC]. The hulk came to rest on top of TREMBLE. A lighter scow she was using went down with her. Reportedly destroyed by dynamiting in 1891

Owned by Murphy Wrecking, which was initially formed just to remove the TREMBLE.

Sources            :   nsp,slh,is,hgl,st,wmhs,mv,hr


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  E.G. BENEDICT

Other names   :  none

Official no.     : C61132

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 2-mast

Build info       :  1869, H. Rathbun & Son, Mill Point, Ont.

Specs              :  105x26x8 ft, 155 t

Date of loss    :  1891, Nov 19

Place of loss   :  near Port Stanley, Ont.

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  elm bolts

Detail              : Bound Smith’s Dock for Buffalo, she struck a bar near the harbor entrance, went out of control, and was driven ashore. Her crew was rescued by the local lifesaving service and the vessel went to pieces soon after. Owned and sailed by Capt. Thomas Lucas of Windsor, Ont.

Sources            :   mmgl,sagl,ledc,hgl,nsp


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   BENECIA BOY

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  2575

Type at loss    :  sloop, wood

Build info       :  1872, Galloo Isl., NY

Specs              :  21g  15n

Date of loss    :  1883, May

Place of loss   :  at Cape Vincent, NY

Lake                :  Ontario

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : She had been fighting a losing battle with a storm while at anchor, so she attempted to raise her hook and put into Cape Vincent. She struck the pier with a  force great enough to break her to pieces, but her crew was able to jump onto it before she came apart.

Sources            :  hgl,wmn,wmhs

 

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   J.W. BENNETT

Other names   :  built as JAMES W. BENNETT, renamed in 1913

Official no.     :  C131055

Type at loss    :  propeller tug, wood

Build info       :  1876, Squires, Huron, OH  [US#75895]

Specs              :   91x18x9,  107gc  73nc

Date of loss    :  1915, Oct 19

Place of loss   :  Black Bay, Ont.

Lake                :  Superior

Type of loss    :  wrecked

Loss of life      :  none mentioned

Carrying         :  none

Detail              :  Reportedly wrecked near Porphryry Lighthouse and a total loss. However, her documentation was not closed until 1923 and there is some evidence that she may have survived.

Sold Canadian in 1913.

Five lives were lost aboard her in Nov, 1876, when she ran aground on Epoufette Shoal. The victims had gone to the cabin above the boailer to keep warm when a steam valve broke, filling the cabin with live steam and smothering them.

Sunk in a collision with the steamer SAUGATUCK in upper Green Bay in Aug, 1906 and raised the next year.

Image from TBRC collection

Sources            :    mpl,mmgl,hcgl,wmn,nsp,tbms


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  BENNINGTON

Other names   :  none?

Official no.     :  162596

Type at loss    :  wrecking barge, wood, unrigged

Build info       :  1891, Saginaw, Mich

Specs              :  250 t

Date of loss    :  1908, Sep 5

Place of loss   :  off Whitefish Point

Lake                : Superior

Type of loss    :  hull failure?

Loss of life      :  2 of 2

Carrying         :  none

Detail              : Suddenly foundered in fair weather while under tow. Bound Port Arthur for Soo.

Owned by Reid wrecking.

Sources            :   mv,eas,phr,lssc,gwgl,lss,wmhs


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  C.B. BENSON

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  125266

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  1873, J Duff, Port Clinton, OH

Specs              :  136x26x13, 299g  284n

Date of loss    :  1893, Oct 14

Place of loss   :  Gravelly Bay, near Port Colborne, Ont.

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  7 [all]

Carrying         :  coal

Detail              : She was wrecked by a storm and sank in 80 feet of water at 10:15 am while bound for Buffao from Toledo. The tips of her main & mizzen masts protruded from the water for at least 2 years. A piece of wreckage bearing her name washed ashore below Niagara Falls in 1901. Owned by the Duff Family. Master: Capt. John Duff(d).

Ashore for over a month after an Oct, 1877 storm.

Sailed the Atlantic, 1874-7, said to be 1st vessel to carry a cargo of corn from the Lakes across the Atlantic.

Schooner KATE WINSLOW, owned by same company, was lost 10/14/97, in fact NELLIE A DUFF, C.B.BENSON and KATE WINSLOW, all schooners owned by the Duff family all were lost on Oct 14, but in different years.

Image from TBRC collection

Sources            :   nsp,wb,is(2-60),h,mv,ledc,hgl,wes,hcgl,ewe


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   JAMES R. BENSON

Other names   :  also seen as J. R. BENSON

Official no.     :  C85413

Type at loss    :  barge, wood

Build info       :  1873, L. Shickluna, St. Catharine’s, Ont. as a schooner

Specs              :  139x24x12, 370 t.

Date of loss    :  1899, Jun 20

Place of loss   :  off Cedar Point, Sandusky bay

Lake                :  Erie

Type of loss    :  sank

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  802 t. coal

Detail              :  Bound Lorain for Amherstburg, Ont, via Sandusky,  she sprang a leak and sank in 20 feet of water. Her crew escaped in her yawl. Master: Capt. Mackey. Owner: Cuddy-Mullen Coal Co., Amherstburg, O nt. The wreck was described as a menace to navigation and so was removed or flattened by dynamite in 1900.

Also capsized and foundered on Lake Erie in 1883, with the loss of one life.

Image from TBRC collection

Sources            : nsp,hgl,polk,es,jb,hr,es

 

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  JAMES R. BENTLEY

Other names   :  none  shows in '69 mvus as JAMES R. BENTLY

Official no.     :  12720

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 3-mast

Build info       :  1867, Bailey Bros., Fairport, OH

Specs              :  170 ft, 575 t.

Date of loss    :  1878, Nov 12

Place of loss   :  off 40-mile Point, eastern Straits of Mackinac

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  grain

Detail              : Bound Buffalo for Chicago, she struck a shoal in heavy weather and foundered. Her crew was rescued from rough seas by the bark ERASTUS CORNING(qv).

Wreck was located in 1984.

Sources            :   mv,hgl,slh,ssm,mpl


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  JOHN BENTLEY

Other names   : none

Official no.     : C?

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 3 mast

Build info       :  1873, Rathbun [Jamieson - master carpenter], Mill Point, Ont

Specs              :  150x29x12,  518 t.

Date of loss    :  1886, Oct

Place of loss   :  off Cabbage Head, Georgian Bay

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      : none mentioned

Carrying         :  lumber

Detail              : Driven ashore by a squall and a total loss, despite a serious effort to rescue her. Owned by William Hall

Had a close call with a storm and was rescued by the USLS in Sept of the previous year.

Sources            :   slh,hgl,usls,hr,tbms


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  BENTON

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  2145

Type at loss    :  propeller, wood, bulk freight

Build info       :  1867, Hitchcock  & Gibson, Buffalo as a passenger steamer

Specs              :  152x28x9  308g  159n

Date of loss    :  1909, Aug 1

Place of loss   :  Rouge River, near Detroit, MI

Lake                : Detroit R

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      : ?

Carrying         :  unfinished wooden automobile parts

Detail              : Burned at the Ford Rouge plant while unloading partially finished wood auto parts.

Ashore with damage on S Bass Isl, Lake Erie, Oct, 1906. Major repairs in 1883 and probably converted to bulker at that time.

Image from TBRC collection

Image early in career - same source

Sources            :   nsp,ns1,mv,mv,mpl,hcgl


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  BERLIN

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  2161

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 3-mast

Build info       :  1854, S. Ruggles, Milan, OH

Specs              :  112x25x11,  214 t.  [270t. om]

Date of loss    :  1877, Nov. 8

Place of loss   :  Burnt Cabin Pt., near Pte Aux Barques

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  4 of 6

Carrying         :  limestone

Detail              : Bound Marblehead, Ohio, for Bay City,  she was driven ashore and broken up in gale. The captain, cook & a deckhand were washed overboard. Capt's son died of exposure while lashed to the rigging. Homeport: Buffalo. Master: Capt. A. M. Johnson(d).

Capsized in the Straits of Mackinac in a squall in late April, 1861, crew all safe. Recovered by the wrecking tug LEVIATHAN.

Sources            :   nsp,slh,sol,h,lhdc,mv,hgl,usls,es,ec


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   BERLIN CITY

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  none

Type at loss    :  sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger & package freight

Build info       :  1856, Phelps, Ruddock & Co., Berlin, Wis.

Specs              :  100 ft., 74 t.

Date of loss    :  1870, Nov 24

Place of loss   :  Oshkosh, Wis.

Lake                :  Michigan

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              :  Destroyed by fire. Owned by Morse & Paige, Oshkosh.

Stranded at the same place Jul 8 1861. No detail.

Sources            :  eas,lhl,nsp,whs 


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  BERMUDA - See  also SENATOR DERBYSHIRE      


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  BERMUDA

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  2100

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  1869, G. Goble, Oswego, NY

Specs              :  138x26x12,  394t

Date of loss    :  1870, Oct 9

Place of loss   :  Grand Island, near Munising, MI

Lake                : Superior

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  3

Carrying         :  iron ore

Detail              : Sank in almost the same spot in November of '69. Raised July '70 and rebuilt and was on her 1st trip when cast into the shallows. She was tied up to trees ashore, but suddenly foundered when the bank gave way. At first it was reported that no lives had been lost. Master and owner: Capt. P. Turney.

Raised again in 1883, but abandoned in 1884 without repair even though she was lying above water at Grand Island waiting to be towed to Detroit in July.

Image from TBRC collection

Sources            :   nsp,ms,gwgl,is,osdo,tel,lss,hgl,mpl,rp


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  BERMUDA

Other names   :  none

Official no.     : C72701

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  1868, J. Tait, Sophiasburg, (Robbins Cove, Long Reach,) Ont.

Specs              :  96x23x8, 160 t

Date of loss    :  1880, Nov 6

Place of loss   :  off Port Granby, Ont. [False Ducks]

Lake                : Ontario

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  9000 bu. barley

Detail              : Grounded intentionally when she began to leak, the  vessel and  Carrying  becoming a total loss on the rocky shore. Bound Oshawa, Ont., for Oswego, NY.

Registered out of Whitby, Ont.

Sources            :   nsp,csqw,h,mmgl


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  LOTTA BERNARD

Other names   :  none  name actually consists of two first names

Official no.     :  15635

Type at loss    :  sidewheel steamer, wood,  "rabbit" freighter

Build info       :  1869, W & L Jackson, Port Clinton, OH [fitted out at Sandusky]

Specs              :  125x20x7, 147 t.  [190 t. old measure]

Date of loss    :  1874, Oct 29

Place of loss   :  off Encampment Isl.

Lake                : Superior

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  3

Carrying         :  general merch

Detail              : Foundered in a terrific gale while bound Silver Islet for Duluth. She was capable of only 4 mph & was at the mercy of any fast-rising storm. Her skipper put her under full steam and ran for Duluth, but it became apparent that she would founder, so he put her in the shallows 6 miles below Encampment River. Her crew made it to shore in her boat, but three died of exporsure in the a long trek to find help in this desolate area. They finally staggered into an Indian settlement, where they found shelter. Owned by E. Ingalls & Co. of Duluth. Master: Capt. Michael Norris.

Image from TBRC collection

Sources            :   nsp,lss,gwgl,is,www,hgl,mpl,hcgl


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  FRANCES BERRIMAN

Other names   :  none  also spelled FRANCIS

Official no.     :  120067

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 3-mast (also described as a bark, in error)

Build info       :  1872, Parsons & Humble, Tonawanda, NY

Specs              :  180x33x14,  669 t.

Date of loss    :  1877, May 7

Place of loss   :  10 mi off Sturgeon Pt., MI

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  collision

Loss of life      :  2 of 10

Carrying         :  wheat

Detail              : Bound Milwaukee for Buffalo, she collided with the steamer DAVID W. RUST at about 10:30 pm and sank. RUST saved 8 of her crew. The collision was apparently due to a passing error. She sank in about 11 minutes. Out of Erie, PA and owned by Berriman Bros., Buffalo. Master: Capt. Norris.

Sources            :   nsp,slh,hgl,usls,mv,es,hr


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  BERRY - See also COMMODORE JACK BARRY


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  BERTIE - See  GOSSOON     


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  JACOB BERTSCHY

Other names   :  none  also seen as JACOB BETSCHY and J. BERTSCHY

Official no.     :  75124

Type at loss    :  propeller, wood, bulk freight

Build info       :  1867, A.C. Stokes, Sheboygan, WI

Specs              :  140x27x9,  467 t.

Date of loss    :  1879, Sep 3

Place of loss   :  just  W of  Grindstone City, MI

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none of 51

Carrying         :  wheat & shingles

Detail              : She was sheltering in Port Austin harbor when the wind shifted and she began to pound heavily. Made for open water, but sprang a leak and was run for the beach under a bluff to save her passengers and crew.  Enroute she shipped so much water that her fires were doused and she lost steam, went on a reef and wrecked. Pte Aux Barques Lifesaving crew took her people off  by lifeboat after a terrific struggle. BERTSCHY was totally destroyed by the storm. Bound Saginaw for Cleveland. Master: Capt. G. W. McGregor.

Suffered over $10,000 damage in a fire at Depere, Wisconsin, in August of 1872.

Sources            :   mv,slh,h,lhdc,lhl,hgl,usls,mpl,nsp,hr


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  BERWYN

Other names   :  built as R. C. CRAWFORD, renamed CAPT. GEORGE W. NAUGHTIN in 1883, BERWYN in 1901

Official no.     :  21585

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, bulk freight

Build info       :  1866, Chas. Hinman, Algonac, MI*

Specs              :  132x29x10  269g  238n

Date of loss    :  1908, Nov 25

Place of loss   :  2 mi from Pilot Isl. Light, Death's Door

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  light

Detail              : Caught by a sudden gale, she stranded and broke up on a reef. Tow of steamer WALTER VAIL. Owned out of Chicago by J. P. Bates.

*Builder also given as Smith & Butterfield.

Major repairs in 1880, 1884

Image from TBRC collection

Sources            :   nsp,ns1,lmdc,mv,eas,mpl,hcgl,wgts


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  BESSEMER

Other names   :  built as JUSTIN R. WHITING renamed in 1885

Official no.     :  46130

Type at loss    :  propeller, wood, bulk freight

Build info       :  1875, Langell, St. Clair, MI

Specs              :  178x28x16,  590g

Date of loss    :  1889, Oct 5

Place of loss   :  off North end of Portage Ship Canal

Lake                : Superior

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life     :  none

Carrying         :  iron ore

Detail              : She and consort SCHUYLKILL were struck by a rapidly-rising gale, and ran for the  Canal when it became apparent that  BESSEMER was going to sink. The two went onto a reef at the mouth of the canal, collided and broke up quickly. Crew were able to jump onto the breakwater. Her remains partly blocked the canal until cleared by dynamiting the next fall. Master: Capt. Hurlburt.

She was rebuilt from WHITING to BESSEMER at Milwaukee in 1885-6, being lengthened 45 feet and widened 3 feet!

Sources            :   nsp,gwgl,h,ks,mv,eas,lss,wb,hgl,sb,mpl,df,hr


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  BETHLEHEM

Other names   :  built as E.P. WILBUR, renamed in 1904

Official no.     :  135984

Type at loss    :  propeller, steel, package freight

Build info       :  1888, Globe Shipbuilding, Cleveland   hull# 16

Specs              :  290x41x14, 2633g 1902n

Date of loss    :  1910, Sep 23

Place of loss   :  SW side of S. Manitou Isl.

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life     :  none

Carrying         :  general merch

Detail              : Went ashore in gale. Lifesavers and crew unloaded her over several days. Battered by several storms while ashore. Local sources say she broke up in place, but she was actually pulled off and repaired at Milwaukee.

Sold for the Atlantic trade in 1917, scrapped in 1923.

Image from TBRC database

Sources            :  is(1-61),smi,hcgl


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  BETTY L

Other names   :  built as S.S. RUMAGE, renamed CHARLIE O. SMITH ('93), last name in '29

Official no.     :  22380

Type at loss    :  propeller steam tug, wood

Build info       :  1863, Quayle & Martin,  Cleveland

Specs              :  74x16x8, 64g 39n

Date of loss    :  1929, Nov 6

Place of loss   :  at Wallaceburg, Ont.

Lake                : St. Clair R

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life     :  none

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : Burned to total loss at her dock.

Image as SMITH from TBRC database

Sources           :   lhl,phr,mv,mpl,jb,eas,hcgl


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   BIDE-A-WEE - See BRIDGEBUILDER X


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   BIG Z.

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  none

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 2-mast

Build info       :  1844, Z. Wright, Lexington, MI

Specs              :  112x20x9,  168 t. om

Date of loss    :  1859,  Feb 9

Place of loss   :  5 mi S of Sheboygan, WI

Lake                :  Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  (none)

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              :  She was driven ashore by a storm and broken up.

Rebuilt and enlarged in 1848 at Irving, NY. Originally 88x20x9, 128 t. om

Sunk at Cleveland with heavy damage in 1849.

Sources            :  bb,wl,hgl,bcw,whs,hr

 

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  J. BIGLER

Other names   :  none also shown as JOHN BIGLER

Official no.     :  12785

Type at loss    :  scow-schooner, wood

Build info       :  1866, J.M. Jones, Detroit

Specs              :  144x26x12, 344g  327n

Date of loss    :  1884, Sep 3

Place of loss   :  off Lower Entry to Keweenaw Waterway, about 10 mi N of Huron Isls.

Lake                : Superior

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  stone

Detail              : Bound Nipigon for Chicago, she foundered in gale. Owned by G.L. Finney of Chicago

Major repairs in 1878

Sources            :   mv,lss,ks,osdo,df,hr,nsp


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  ROSAMUND BILLETE - See HOWARD S. GERKEN


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  MARY BIRCKHEAD

Other names   :  none   also seen as MARY BIRKHEAD

Official no.     :  17618

Type at loss    :  schooner-barge, wood, 2-mast [scow hull]

Build info       :  1867, Jackson, Oak Harbor [or Sandusky, OH]

Specs              :  125x26x10,  226g  215n

Date of loss    :  1891, Oct 9

Place of loss   :  at Lime-Kiln Crossing

Lake                : Detroit R

Type of loss    :  collision

Loss of life      : none of 6

Carrying         :  coal

Detail              : Bound for Port Huron in tow of the tug ANNIE MOILES, she collided with the steamer ROMAN and sank near the Crossing. The wreck nearly blocked the channel completely until  the end of the month, when it was blown up with dynamite. Document surrendered at Port Huron 12/31/1891, annotated "wrecked, total loss." Owned by Peter H. Fisk or Fick, Saginaw

Sources            :   phr,polk,mv,hgl,wl,es


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  P.H. BIRCKHEAD

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  20400

Type at loss    :  propeller, wood, bulk freight

Build info       :  1870, D. Lester, Marine City, MI

Specs              :  157x28x13  495g  222n

Date of loss    :  1905, Sep 30

Place of loss   :  off docks at Alpena, MI

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      :  none of 13

Carrying         :  coal

Detail              : She had been towed in to Alpena the previous day with a blown cylinder head.  After repairs, she was pulling away from the dock when she caught fire, burned to  waterline and sank in the Bay. Bound Ashtabula for Racine. Owner: James O’Conner, Tonawanda. Master: Capt. James Heffron.

Unusual twin tandem arch construction [double arches built  into hull on both sides] and built with twin compound engines running a single shaft.

Image from TBRC collection

Sources            :   nsp,stb,slh,ns1,mv,lhdc,mpl,eas,hcgl


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  BIRDIE

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  3143

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 2-mast

Build info       :  1881, Sheboygan, WI

Specs              :  47x11x3,  13g  12n

Date of loss    :  1892, Oct 7 or 9

Place of loss   :  in Hammond Bay, E Straits of Mackinac

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : She dragged ashore and wrecked in a gale.  She was purchased where she sat in November in hope of salvage, but finally given up as lost the following summer.

Some official lists show her built in 1878.

Sources            :   phr,slh,h,hgl,usls


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   BIRMINGHAM

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  none

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  1843, Vermillion, Oh

Specs              :  138 t.

Date of loss    :  1854, Dec 4

Place of loss   :  Horseshoe Reef, in front of Buffalo harbor

Lake                :  Erie

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none mentioned

Carrying         :  coal

Detail              :  Bound Erie for Buffalo, she went on the reef in a snowstorm. Sources disagree as to whether she was recovered or destroyed. The loss was $4000, about the value of the ship.

Sources            :   wmn,hgl,wmhs

 

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  H.B. BISHOP

Other names   :  also seen as HENRY C. BISHOP

Official no.     :  none

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 2-mast

Build info       :  1846, Jacob W Banta, Buffalo

Specs              :  122x25x9,  264t

Date of loss    :  1852, Oct

Place of loss   :  Nottawasaga Harbor, Georgian Bay

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  grain

Detail              : Driven over a bar and into shallows by storm. She was at Nottawasaga to prove that the harbor was navigable to larger schooners. Her remains were still visible on the beach for at least 100 years.

Sources            :   tfgl,slh,hgl,rnc        


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  BISHOP’S DERRICK – See DERRICK

 

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  BISMARCK

Other names   : perhaps BISMARK

Official no.     :  (none)

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  (1871, Andrews & Son, Port Dalhousie)

Specs              :  (131x26x12  322gc  303nc)

Date of loss    :  1878, Sep 13

Place of loss   :  near Port Credit, Ont

Lake                : Ontario

Type of loss    : stranded

Loss of life      : ?

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : May have been re