The Great Lakes Shipwreck File

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Great Lakes Shipwrecks

beginning with the letter

C

 

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  C.D. No. 2

Other names   :  none

Official no.     : C156942

Type at loss    :  unrigged derrick scow, wood

Build info       :  1906, R. Weddell, Trenton, Ont.

Specs              :  70x30x5, 94 cg/cn.

Date of loss    :  1940, Aug 30

Place of loss   :  3.5 mi W of Erieau, Ont., harbor, 12 mi out

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    :  foundered

Loss of life      : ?

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : Went down in 8 fathoms of water. Out of Chatham, Ont.

Sources            :   mmgl,h,win


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  C.O.D.

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  33908

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

Build info       :  1873, Callister, Grand Haven

Specs              :  140x26x10,  289g  274n

Date of loss    :  1887, Oct 22

Place of loss   :  3 mi E of Port Burwell, Ont.

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  1

Carrying         :  wheat

Detail              : This schooner beached in a northwest gale and soon broke up. She had been bound Port Huron for Buffalo. Most of the crew swam to shore, but the woman cook, who was lashed to the rigging, perished. Owned by John Kelderhouse of Buffalo

Sources            :   nsp,h,ledc,mv,wb,win,hgl,usls,sb,es3-1,hr


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  CABOTIA

Other names   :  built as HIAWATHA renamed in 1913

Official no.     : C133825

Type at loss    :  propeller, wood, bulk freight

Build info       :  1880, Linn & Craig, Gibraltar, MI  [US#95600]

Specs              :  235x36x20  1299g  1160n

Date of loss    :  1919, Aug 25

Place of loss   :  Main Duck Isl.

Lake                : Ontario

Type of loss    : stranded

Loss of life      : ?

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : CABOTIA went ashore and split her hull, becoming a constructive total loss.

Sold Canadian, 1913

See also HIAWATHA

Sources            :   mmgl,csv,ns3,hcgl

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  CACOUNA - See  JENNIFER     


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   CADET

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  none

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 2-mast

Build info       :  1845, G.A. Thayer, Ashtabula

Specs              :  67x19x7,   72 t.

Date of loss    :  1862, Aug 16

Place of loss   :  between Port Stanley and Port Burwell, Ont

Lake                :  Erie

Type of loss    :  storm or collision

Loss of life      :  6

Carrying         :  coal, petroleum

Detail              :  On Aug, 16th she left Erie, Pa. for Toronto, and was probably sighted in distress between Port Stanley and Port Burwell later the same day. Some days later some of her cargo and wheelhouse gear was found afloat off Buffalo.

Also sunk following a collision with the tug GORE at Northfort(?) in Nov, 1857.

Sources            :  hgl,nsp,wl,wmn,jm,rnc

 

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  CADILLAC - See   MAPLEHURST    


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  THOMAS H. CAHOON

Other names   :  none

Official no.     : C125558

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

Build info       :  1881, T Arnold, E. Saginaw   [US# 59404]

Specs              :  166x31x10  437g  410n

Date of loss    :  1913, Oct 11

Place of loss   :  Innes Isl., Georgian Bay

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  lumber

Detail              : Bound S.S. Marie for Byng Inlet in tow of steamer C.W. CHAMBERLAIN, she stranded and went to pieces on Kenney Shoal, SW corner of island.

Sold Canadian [E. Burke of Midland, Ont.] in 1913

Built for L.P. Mason of Saginaw, later owned by Shannon & Garey lumber of the same place.

Sources            :   nsp,slh,is(3-76),vbs,ns2,mv,lhdc,win,do,hcgl          not in mmgl


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   CAIRO

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  none

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  1854, G. S. Weeks, Buffalo

Specs              :  355 t. om

Date of loss    :  1863, Oct 18

Place of loss   :  near Death’s Door

Lake                :  Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  salt, carboys of acid

Detail              :  She was driven ashore and became a total wreck, breaking up within two hours of striking. Some of her gear was removed by the bark NEWSBOY. Owned by Western Transportation Co.

Major repairs in 1861

Sources            : nsp,jm,wl,umr


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  CALABRIA - See  GLENFINLAS     


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  CALATCO #2

Other names   :  built as U.S. Navy tug NO. 56, later renamed LEADER, renamed CALATCO #2 before 1946

Official no.     :  236512

Type at loss    :  propeller tug, steel, oil motor

Build info       :  1918, Greenport, L.I., N.Y. for U.S. Navy

Specs              :  82x21x10, 101 gt  69 nt

Date of loss    :  1946, Nov 13

Place of loss   :  Oswego, NY, in harbor

Lake                : Ontario

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  none, towing a gasoline barge

Detail              : She caught fire near her engine and burned to a constructive total loss. Firemen made no headway against the blaze, which was fueled by diesel oil around her engine, and were finally pulled back because the volume of water used was sinking her. Local Coast Guardsmen finally pulled her out against the breakwater, where she burned out. Valued at over $100,000. Owned by Canal and Lake Towing Co. of New York. Master: Capt. J. E. Paqueit.

Sources            :  h,rp,mv   


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   CALCUTTA

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  4340

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

Build info       :  1849,  G.W. & B. Jones, Cleveland

Specs              :   90x21x7,  96 t.  [116 t. om]

Date of loss    :  1868, Oct 19

Place of loss   :  at Michigan City, Ind.

Lake                :  Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none mentioned

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              :  Driven ashore at Michigan City and wrecked. Her outfit was later saved by the schooner J. B. STEVENS, but the vessel was abandoned. Out of Chicago

Also wrecked on Lake Michigan in 1861.

Sources            :  hgl,wmn,mv,jm,wl,hr

 

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  S.D. CALDWELL - See   LOUIE O’NEILL    


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  CALEDONIA - See  also GALE STAPLES     


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  CALEDONIA

Other names   : C?

Official no.     :  none

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 2-mast

Build info       :  1837,  Oswego, NY

Specs              :  70x20x8,  110 t.

Date of loss    :  1851, Nov 2

Place of loss   :  near Port Burwell

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none mentioned

Carrying          :  lumber or coal

Detail               :  Blown ashore and wrecked. Out of Buffalo.

Sources            :   hgl,wmn,wl,wmhs


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  CALEDONIA

Other names   : none

Official no.     :  none

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  1855, St. Joseph, Mich

Specs              :  137 t.

Date of loss    :  1858, Oct

Place of loss   :  16 mi N of St. Joseph

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none mentioned

Carrying          :  flour & salt pork

Detail              : Driven ashore in a storm. Her hull was quickly closed in by sand, but a salvage captain expected her to be rescued. However, she was reported a total loss in a year-end list of casualties. Out of Chicago.

Sources            :   wmn,wl,blu[58],wmhs


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  CALEDONIA

Other names   : C?

Official no.     :  none (or 4384)

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  (1843, Hackett, Saugeen, Ont. or 18??, Cleveland)

Specs              :  ?

Date of loss    :  1862 (also given: 1856 or 58)

Place of loss   :  near Sleeping Bear Point

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  (6)

Carrying         :  flour & salt pork

Detail              : Blown ashore and wrecked.

A schooner CALEDONIA was shore near Port Colborne and expected to break up in early September of 1856, but recovered. Perhaps the same vessel as below.

The same or another schooner CALEDONIA capsized while trying to make harbor in a gale near Grand Haven, MI, Sep 17, 1856 with the loss of all six crew. The schooner went completely over and broke her masts off short against the bottom, then floated in to shore keel upward.

Probably the vessel built for the fur trade and once owned by J.J. Astor.

Sources            :   sb,nb,hgl,nsp,mpl, blu[1856]


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   CALEDONIA

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  C ?

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 2-mast

Build info       :  1842, Randall, Port Credit, Ont.

Specs              :  152 t.

Date of loss    :  1881, Sep 8

Place of loss   :  Bluff Point, near Oshawa, Ont.

Lake                : Ontario

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  2

Carrying         :  coal

Detail              :  Driven ashore on a reef and  heavily damaged by a southeast gale, she then broke up by the 20th. When built she was of the larger class of vessels, but was a tiny carrier when lost.

Stranded on S. Bay Point in Sep, 1871, and was expected to become a total loss. Recovered the next year.

Sources            :    wmn,wl,nsp

 

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  CALEDONIA

Other names   : none

Official no.     :  4384

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  1861, Hackett, Saugeen, Ont.

Specs              :  70x18x7,  52g  50n

Date of loss    :  1901, Nov 25

Place of loss   :  Near Glen Haven, MI

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none of 3

Carrying         :  slabs, X-mas trees,600 bu. potatoes

Detail              :  Abandoned in sinking condition well offshore and later washed ashore near Glen Haven. Her crew was picked up by schooner LOMIE A. BURTON (qv). Master: Capt. Hans Peterson. She had been long-retired when purchased early in the month and fixed up just for this trip.

May be the same vessel as 1862 loss. May also be the 1870 vessel of this name, a former Canadian reported wrecked and burned in 1885-6.

Sources            :   nsp,mv,nsp,hcgl,wmn


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  CALIFORNIA - See C. G. ALVORD

 

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  CALIFORNIA

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  none

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  ?(1849, L.Shickluna, St. Catharines, Ont or 1849, G. Ashenbach, Vermilion, OH)

Specs              :  ?(103x21x8, 176 t. or 71x19x4,  41 t.)

Date of loss    :  1859

Place of loss   :  Niagara Reef, W end of Lake

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    : stranded

Loss of life      : ?

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : no detail

Probably also wrecked near Barcelona, NY, in 1851.

Another schooner of this name was launched at Cleveland in 1853 - she was a large 3-master.

Sources            :   ledc,hgl,(mmgl,wl),nsp


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  CALIFORNIA

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  none

Type at loss    :  propeller, wood, passenger & package freight

Build info       :  1846,  J. W. Banta, Buffalo

Specs              :  169x25x10,  420 t.

Date of loss    :  1862, Oct 23

Place of loss   :  Gull Isl. Reef

Lake                : Erie*

Type of loss    :  (storm)

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : "Wrecked" on reef.

*Also seen as L. Ontario.

Also ashore with significant damage on Pt. Pelee in Sept., 1846.

Sources            :  (lhl,hgl),lc,nsp,wl


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  CALIFORNIA

Other names   :  later rebuilt as EDWARD S. PEASE (qv)

Official no.     : C85309

Type at loss    :  propeller, wood, passenger & package freight

Build info       :  1873, A. Robinson, Hamilton, Ont.

Specs              :  180x26x11,   901gc  580nc

Date of loss    :  1887, Oct 3

Place of loss   :  1 mi off St. Helena Isl, Straits of Mackinac

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  9of 25

Carrying         :  general merch.

Detail              : Overwhelmed by a storm and sank about 7 mi due W of the current Mackinac Bridge N anchorage. Some of her lost crew are buried at Mackinac City.  Master: Capt. J. V. Trowell.  Owned by Crandall & Geddes, Toronto. Abandoned by her owners a few days later, but raised and rebuilt as PEASE (qv) at Bay City, thus transferring her to US ownership.

Rebuilt by Allan & Bros., Port Dalhousie, and lengthened 43 feet in 1883.

Ashore and wrecked near Sand Beach, MI, Lake Huron, in June of 1884.

Sources            :   nsp,slh,sol,is,h,lmdc,mod,hgl,mmgl,usls,sb,es3-1,hcgl


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  BERTIE CALKINS

Other names   :  none

Official no.     : C126127

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 3-mast

Build info       :  1874, Hanson & Scove, Two Rivers, WI   US# 2915

Specs              :  134x28x9  256g  243n

Date of loss    :  1919, Oct 3*

Place of loss   :  near Belleville, Quinte bay

Lake                : Ontario

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      : ?

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : Foundered and reported as a total loss, but later recovered. Ran as a schooner for a few more years, then converted to a barge. Abandoned around 1930, last registered in 1931.

*Date also given as Oct 9, 1917.

Registered out of Belleville, sold Canadian about 1909. 

Sources            :  h,mv,is(2-90),win,mpl,dmt,hcgl              not in mmgl


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  CALUMET

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  126237

Type at loss    :  propeller, wood, bulk freight

Build info       :  1884, Union Dry Dock, Buffalo

Specs              :  256x37x20, 1526g 1181n

Date of loss    :  1889, Nov 28

Place of loss   :  off Ft. Sheridan, Ill, 20 mi N of Chicago

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none of 18

Carrying         :  coal

Detail              :  after springing a leak in a gale-blizzard, she was run up on beach to save crew but was broken up by storm waves. Her crew were taken off by the Lifesaving Service  and a number of volunteer students from Northwestern U. after a  terrific struggle. Her leak was attributed to her striking a nest of boulders near Bois Blanc Island, Detroit R., earlier in the voyage.  The rocks had become an obstruction during this low-water year. Owned by James Ash, Buffalo. Master: Capt. Orville Green.

The next year, when her owner contracted to have her machinery removed from the wreck, the work could not be begun because the army at Fort Sheridan was using her remains for target practice. The resulting plea for redress went all the way to the Secretary of War.

Sources            :   nsp,is(4-74),lmdc,mv,eas,wb,hgl,hr,mpl,es,hcgl


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  D.D. CALVIN

Other names   :  none

Official no.     : C83298

Type at loss    :  propeller, wood, bulk freight

Build info       :  1883, Calvin & Son, Garden Isl., Ont.

Specs              :  166x32x15   750gc  283nc

Date of loss    :  1910, Apr 11

Place of loss   :  Garden Isl. , Ont.

Lake                : Ontario

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      : ?

Carrying         :  none

Detail              : Burned to a total loss while fitting out for the season.

Registered out of Kingston.

Hull launched Sep 11, 1883; engine & machinery fitted and installed at Cleveland.

Sources            :  (nsp),ns2,csv,win


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  HIRAM A. CALVIN

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  C none

Type at loss    :  sidewheel steamer, wood, wrecker and sometime towboat

Build info       :  1868, H. Roney, Garden Isl., Ont as a large river tug

Specs              :  144x43x10  309t

Date of loss    :  1895, Dec 31

Place of loss   :  below Garden Isl. Ont.

Lake                : Ontario

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      : none (nobody aboard)

Carrying         :  none

Detail              :  She was torn loose from her moorings at Garden Island by a storm and drifted down the St. Lawrence. She struck first on Ferguson’s Point, then  grounded on rocky Halliday’s Point, where she was wrecked by the current. Owned by Hiram A. Calvin & Son, Garden Island.

Dismantling completed in Dec, 96.

Also erroneously reported as destroyed in accidental fire at the Calvin shipyard and reported as wrecked by ice.

Sources            :  csv,mmgl,wl,nsp


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   LAURA E. CALVIN

Other names   :  also seen as L.E. CALVIN. Built on the hull of the steamer ECLIPSE

Official no.     :  C ?

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 3-mast

Build info       :  1863, Henry Roney, Garden Isl. Ont. as a bark

Specs              :  130x21x9,  216 t.

Date of loss    :  1869, Aug 5

Place of loss   :  10 miles off Braddock’s Point

Lake                :  Ontario

Type of loss    :  (storm)

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  in ballast

Detail              :  Sprung a leak and foundered while bound Kingston for the Welland Canal.

Owned at Wolfe Island, Ont.

Supplement to ‘69 clu is annotated “erase the name.”

Sources            :  hgl,mmgl,clu,nsp,rsl,mdwl


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  CAMANCHE - See COMANCHE


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  CAMBRIA - See   also LAKELAND    


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  CAMBRIA

Other names   :  built as CHAMPION, last name in 1888

Official no.     : C74297

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

Build info       :  1877, A.F. Beaulieu, Levis, Que. As a sidewheel tug

Specs              :  175x23x11    937gc  590nc

Date of loss    :  1902, Jul 16

Place of loss   :  Reid's Isl., Welland Canal

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    : navigational error

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  passengers

Detail              : Sheared off and struck the rocks surrounding the island. Raised soon after but found to be a constructive total loss.

Struck a log raft with heavy damage in 1897.

Owned by M. Nesbitt, Port Arthur, Ont.

Built as a big rafting tug, lengthened 44' and rebuilt as a passenger vessel in 1887

Sources            :   mmgl,is(2-59),slh,ns1,mpl,hcgl,wl


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  CAMBRIDGE

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  5399

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 3-mast

Build info       :  1868, Detroit Dry Dock, Detroit   hull #4

Specs              :  162x28x13  445g

Date of loss    :  1873, Aug 30

Place of loss   :  near Marquette, MI [Big Bay Point]

Lake                : Superior

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  (none)

Carrying         :  iron ore

Detail              : Thrown on a rocky shore by a storm, where she broke up in another storm in early September. She had been bound Marquette  for Cleveland. Homeport: Detroit, owned by John Hosmer

Sources            :  atl,lss,mv,hr,nsp,hcgl


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  M.C. CAMERON - See  GEORGE GOBLE     


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   CAMERONIAN

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  ?

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  1863, A. A. Hackett, Baie de dore, Ont.

Specs              :  

Date of loss    :  1865, April 15

Place of loss   :  near Point Clark, Ont., S of Southampton

Lake                :  Huron

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              :  This schooner drove ashore in a snow storm and became a total loss. She was later stripped of her rigging and abandoned.

Owned by her skipper, Capt. Laughlen Cameron of Baie de dore [near Inverhuron, Ont.]

Sources            :  jw


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  CAMILLA - See  RUSSELL ROQUE     


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  CAMP - see COLONEL CAMP


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  MYRTLE CAMP

Other names   :  none

Official no.     : 92416

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  1892, Burger & Burger, Manitowoc, WI

Specs              :  68x18x6   48g  46n

Date of loss    :  1894, May 18

Place of loss   :  off Deadman's Point, near Menominee, MI

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  salt, empty barrels

Detail              : Driven ashore 500 feet from deep water in a terrific spring gale, 1.5 mi  north of  Ingallston, MI.  Tugs were unable to reach her and she was abandoned. However, she was later recovered, finished her days on the east coast after an abortive attempt to “round the Horn” and sail to Hawaii in 1897, when she was not allowed to leave a U.S. harbor due to her poor condition and equipment.

Master: Capt. Charles Zeiser.

Sources            :   rkr,h,mv,nsp,sm


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  T.H. CAMP

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  145127

Type at loss    :  fishing tug, wood

Build info       :  1876,  Luther Read, Cape Vincent, NY

Specs              :  65x15x6  59g  45n

Date of loss    :  1900, Nov 16

Place of loss   :  near Madeline Isl, Apostles

Lake                : Superior

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  lumber camp supplies

Detail              : She struck a reef and sank. She was a fish tug which had been chartered as a temporary cargo carrier and was bound for Madeline Isl.. Went down in 200 feet of water. Owned by A. Booth & Co. of Chicago.

She was built for moving from fishing boat to fishing boat, picking up the catch, and thus had a very shallow draft.

Sources            :  gwgl,is(1-71),mv,nsp,


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  COLIN CAMPBELL - See EMBURY


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  FANNY CAMPBELL

Other names   :  none

Official no.     : C96846

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, but often described as a bark

Build info       :  1868, L Shickluna, St. Catharines, Ont.

Specs              :  139x26x12,   404 t

Date of loss    :  1898, Aug 22

Place of loss   :  Johnston's Harbor, Georgian Bay

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      : none

Carrying         :  light

Detail              : Inbound for a load of cordwood, she went ashore and was expected to become a total loss. Out of Sarnia, Ont.; owned by McGibbon. This may not have been her final demise, as date is also given as Sep, 1899.

In 1877 more than $10,000 was spent on the building of large iron tanks in her hold for the transport of oil cargoes. She ran crude oil cargoes to Montreal from points west for several years at least. It’s not known if the the tanks were still installed at the time of loss, but probably not.

Ashore and reported abandoned on Lake Erie in Nov, 1874. Recovered in July, 1875.

Capsized off Rondeau, Lake Erie, in Jun, 1869, and towed over 80 miles to Detroit by the tug CLEMATIS while still on her beam ends.

Sources            :   nsp,mmgl,h,win,es,jb,hr,jmk


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  GORDON CAMPBELL - See  STRATHMORE     


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  P.M. CAMPBELL

Other names   :  none

Official no.     : C94684

Type at loss    :  propeller tug, wood 

Build info       :  1889, S.D. Andrews, Collingwood

Specs              :  72x14x7,  49g  33n

Date of loss    :  1908, Sep 11

Place of loss   :  at Manitowaning, Ont., Manitoulin Isl.

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      : none

Carrying         :  none

Detail              : Burned at the dock at Manitowaning. Her captain stayed aboard and ran the burning vessel to deeper water, where she was scuttled, thus saving her machinery. The hull was later removed to a point just off Chicken Island, Collins Inlet, and there scuttled for good. Owner: Collins Inlet Lumber Co. Master: Capt. Casselman.

Document surrendered after burning at Little Current, Ont, Nov 15, 1899.

Sources            :   mmgl,h,win,go


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  PEARL B. CAMPBELL

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  150296

Type at loss    :  propeller steam tug, wood

Build info       :  1883, J.B. Martel, Saugatuck, MI

Specs              :  55x16x7  22g 11n

Date of loss    :  1895, Dec 7

Place of loss   :  near Huron Islands

Lake                : Superior

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  7 [all]

Carrying         :  none

Detail              : Returning to Duluth after pulling at the stranded schooner HENRY A. KENT near Marquette, she filled and sank stern first in a gale after accumulating a heavy load of ice on her upperworks. Master: Capt. McGillivray(d). Owner: Inman Tug Line, Duluth.

See C.J. KERSHAW for more on KENT.

Feared lost in a gale in November of same year while on same job, but turned up sheltering.

Sources            :   nsp,is(4-73),gwgl,gsgl,h,mv,wb,lss,hgl,mpl


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  RALPH CAMPBELL

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  21179

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 2-mast

Build info       :  1855, Peck & Masters, Cleveland

Specs              :  127x26x9  227g  215n

Date of loss    :  1909, Oct 14

Place of loss   :  near Long Point

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      : ?

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : Swamped by  a storm and drifted ashore,  where she was wrecked by waves after a 54-year career.

Ashore and given up for lost on Hog Island Reef, Lake Michigan, in 1859.

Rammed in Chicago harbor by the whaleback passenger steamer CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS and sunk. Raised a few days later and was reportedly to be converted to a houseboat-like vessel  for use around Chicago harbor.

Rebuilt in 1862

Sources            :   ns1,mv,rsl,nsp


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   ROBERT B. CAMPBELL

Other names   :  also seen as R. B. CAMPBELL

Official no.     :  21178

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  1853, Cole & Campbell, Grand Traverse, Mich

Specs              :   96x23x9,  122 t.

Date of loss    :  1876, Oct 16

Place of loss   :  10 miles off Muskegon

Lake                :  Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  shingles

Detail              :  The schooner capsized about 10 miles off Muskegon in heavy weather, her crew clung to the upturned hull until rescued by the tug JAMES McGORDON. The vessel drifted onto the beach 2 mile north of Muskegon a couple of days later, righting just before she hit. She broke up soon after.

Rebuilt in 1867

Also ashore on Lake Michigan in 1874

Out of Chicago

Sources            :    nsp,wl,mv,hgl

 

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  CANADA - See also EUREKA, J.W. STEINHOFF


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  CANADA

Other names   : ?

Official no.     : C none

Type at loss    :  sidewheel steamer, wood

Build info       :  1826, Rouge River [Toronto], Ont.

Specs              :  250 t.

Date of loss    :  1837

Place of loss   :  near Oswego, NY

Lake                : Ontario

Type of loss    :  (storm)

Loss of life      : ?

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : Wrecked.

Sources            :  csv(s),hgl


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   CANADA

Other names   : 

Official no.     :  C

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :   ?

Specs              :    ?

Date of loss    :  1848, Dec 1

Place of loss   :   near Port Hope, Ont

Lake                :  Ontario

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  3

Carrying         :  salt & merchandise

Detail              :  Went ashore above Cobourg, Ont. and wrecked, a $3,500 loss.  She had been bound Oswego for Cobourg, and most of her crew were from Oswego.

Out of Kingston

Sources            :  hr,wmn,nsp,rp

 

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  CANADA

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  C none

Type at loss    :  bark, wood, 3-mast  formerly sidewheel steamer

Build info       :  1846, Chippawa, Ont.

Specs              :  199x28x13, 758 t.

Date of loss    :  1858, Aug 30

Place of loss   :  at Chicago

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  lumber [a half million board feet]

Detail              : Came into Chicago harbor the previous day leaking from a storm and settled just north of downtown. The next day, while the tug McQUEEN was trying to rescue her, she blew southward and struck a bar off the old waterworks, where she broke her back and later went to pieces. Owned by E. A. Bruce, Chicago.

Built in Canada as a steamer, seized by U.S. in 1849, rebuilt as a bark in 1852.

Brought a locomotive and 2300 rails to Chicago in the spring of 1853.

Heavy damage to rigging and cargo in a storm on lake Michigan in Nov., 1856.

Sources            :  is,csv,hgl,mmgl,mpl,nsp,wl,rnc,blu[56]


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   CANADA

Other names   :  also seen as CANADA No. 2 and YOUNG CANADA

Official no.     :  none

Type at loss    :  sidewheel tug, wood

Build info       :  1852, St. Antoine de Tilly, Quebec

Specs              :  108x18x? ,  ca. 59 t.

Date of loss    :  1865, Nov 28

Place of loss   :  near Bar Pt.

Lake                :  Erie

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  ?

Carrying         :  schooner and barge in tow

Detail              :  She struck bottom near Bar Point while trying to bring her charges into the Detroit River. Master and owner: Capt. D. Miesel. The Hackett brothers, local tugmen from Malden, Ont. came immediately to the crew's rescue at great peril to themselves and their tug ZOUAVE. The little sidewheeler broke up quickly, but her machinery was recovered in 1875.

Sold American after a devastating fire at her dock on the St. Clair R. in October, 1855. Owned out of Bay City in 1864.

Rebuilt at Detroit in 1856. Major repair in 1862

Sources            :    nsp,csv,rsl    not in lhl


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  CANADA

Other names   :  none

Official no.     : C

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 3-mast

Build info       :  1861, L. Shickluna, St. Catharines Ont. as a bark

Specs              :  143x26x12, 399 t.

Date of loss    :  1882, Nov 11

Place of loss   :  Colchester Shoal

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  black walnut  and oak lumber

Detail              : Ran aground on the reef. At first she was not seriously damaged, but she was later destroyed by wave action. Totally broken up by Nov 25, despite the efforts of the tug ERIE BELLE. The wreck lay only yards from the remains of the tug MAYFLOWER, which went on the previous year. CANADA had been bound Toledo for Quebec. Owned by S Neelon of St. Catharines, who later sued the Canadian Government because the Colchester Shoal lightship was not operating.

Major repairs in 1871 and 74

Sources            :   nsp,clu,rp,rsl,es,wmn              


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  CANADA(1883) entry removed. Vessel was wrecked and recovered near Rockport, St. Lawrence River

 

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  CANADA

Other names   :  rebuilt as EUREKA in 1893

Official no.     : C100392

Type at loss    :  propeller, wood, freighter

Build info       :  1872, A. Robertson, Hamilton, Ont.

Specs              :  135x24x13,  557gc

Date of loss    :  1892, Oct 18

Place of loss   :  at Port Huron, MI

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      : none mentioned

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : Caught fire and gutted, then abandoned by her  owner, John Nesbitt of Sarnia. Later raised by U.S. salvors, engine removed and hull converted to the American schooner-barge EUREKA.

Originally 142 ft, 644 t.; rebuilt and reduced in size,  spring,1892

Sources            :  is,slh,h,csv,hgl,mmgl,st,hr,nsp


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  CANADA

Other names   : ?

Official no.     : C116485

Type at loss    :  barge

Build info       :  1907, Wallaceburg, Ont.

Specs              :  84x22x5, 

Date of loss    :  1916, Nov 2

Place of loss   :  Mitchell's Bay

Lake                : St. Clair

Type of loss    :  collision

Loss of life      : ?

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : She reportedly collided with a tug and sank, but details are sketchy. Name of tug may be MITCHELL'S BAY or that may be location of the loss.

 Probably recovered.

Built or acquired from foreign sources about 1904.

Sources            :  h,win,hr        not in mmgl


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  CANADA #2

Other names   : ?

Official no.     : C111911

Type at loss    :  towbarge, wood

Build info       :  unknown

Specs              :  96x18,  107gc 85nc

Date of loss    :  1902, Apr

Place of loss   :  3 mi E of Toronto harbor entrance

Lake                : Ontario

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      : ?

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : Wrecked in a gale - cast off by tug in big waves, went ashore and pounded to pieces.

Out of Toronto, owned by Canada Ice Co.

Built or acquired from foreign sources about 1901

Sources            :  h,win,mmgl,wl


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  CANADIAN - See  OLIVER LEE, ONTARIO     


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  CANADIAN

Other names   :  none

Official no.     : C none?

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 2-mast

Build info       :  1856, M. Simpson, Oakville, Ont.

Specs              :  103x21x9,  160gc  153nc

Date of loss    :  1880, Nov 4

Place of loss   :  near Clara Isl. [Robert Pt.], North Channel

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    : stranded

Loss of life      : none

Carrying         :  lumber

Detail              : Bound Mudge Bay, Ont., for Sarnia, she ran  on a shoal and stranded. Her crew escaped to shore, bringing with them enough lumber from the schooner's cargo to build a shanty, in which they lived until help was sent from Owen Sound a week later. The vessel broke up in a storm a few days after stranding. Out of Oakville, formerly of Toronto, owned by Mr. Farmer.  Master: Capt. Blanchard.

Date also given as Nov 5 and 6, tonnage 230.

Sunk near Port Credit, Ont. in December of 1856, ashore near Point Abino, Ont., in early November, 1862 [probably with the loss of 11 lives].

Major repair in 1863, rebuilt in 1871

Sources            :   slh,h,lhdc,win,mmgl,rsl,hcgl,rp,wmn

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  FRANK CANFIELD

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  120256

Type at loss    :  propeller steam tug, wood

Build info       :  1875, Rand & Burger, Manitowoc, Wis

Specs              :  63x16x8  48g  25n

Date of loss    :  1904, Apr 11

Place of loss   :  Big Sable Point, Michigan*

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  3 of 5

Carrying         :  none

Detail              : Pushed onto a bar after her steering chain parted, where she broke up  and sank. Owned by Barnes & Co. of Ludington, her crew was from Manistee. Master: Capt. Henry J. Smith(d).

 Major repair in 1882. By 1884 she was a wrecking tug.

 *official sources say she was at Manistee, Mich, but his is probably incorrect

Sources            :   nsp,sol,h,mpl,hcgl,sm


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   M. L. CANFIELD

Other names   :  built as MARY LYDIA, renamed in 1881

Official no.     :  C

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 3-mast

Build info       :  before 1871, Kingsville, Ont as a scow

Specs              :  104x23x10,  150 t.

Date of loss    :  1881, Sep 15

Place of loss   :  off Bar Point

Lake                :  Erie

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  coal

Detail              : Bound Sandusky, OH, for Amherstburg, Ont., she encountered a storm and anchored off Bar Point. As the waves increased, they began to sweep her decks and she was abandoned. Her crew made it to Amherstburg after 8 hours in an open boat. The following spring the Canadian government contracted to have the wreckage, which had been moved and largely broken up by ice, removed. She was dredged out of existence by mid-July. Owned by Canfields of Kingsville, Ont. Master: Capt. W. R. Spence.

Lengthened at Port Dover, Ont., 1871. Rebuilt, converted to a schooner and  enlarged at Amherstburg, Ont., in 1881, after spending nearly a year underwater near Sandusky, Oh. Essentially a new vessel afterwards, she was lost barely a month later.

Sources            :  es,clu,jm,nsp


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  CANISTEO

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  4394

Type at loss    :  propeller,  wood, passenger & package freight

Build info       :  1862, Mason & Bidwell, Buffalo

Specs              :  196x28x12,    856g  668n

Date of loss    :  1880, Oct 14

Place of loss   :  tip of Waugoschance Point, Straits of Mackinac

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    :  collision

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  flaxseed, flour, corn, lard and passengers

Detail              : Due to a mistake in  running lights, she collided with the schooner GEORGE MURRAY and sank. She became a  total loss a few days later when a huge storm tore her to pieces. Barrels of lard from her cargo washed ashore for weeks.  Owner: Union Line. Master: Capt. Ben Hammond. Some gear and her machinery was salvaged over the next few years.

Sources            :   ssm,nsp,slh,is,lmdc,lhl,hgl,mpl,hr


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  CANISTEO

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  126360

Type at loss    :  propeller, wood, bulk freight

Build info       :  1886, W. Dulac, Mt. Clemens

Specs              :  182x34x12  595g  539n

Date of loss    :  1920

Place of loss   :  Port Huron, MI

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      : ?

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : Burned offshore, a constructive total loss. Her remains were scrapped the next  year.

Equipped with a deck crane at Duluth, 1908

Sources            :   slh,ns3,mv,mpl,hcgl


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  CANOBIE

Other names   :  built as IRON KING last name in 1913

Official no.     : C133826

Type at loss    :  propeller, wood, bulk freight

Build info       :  1887, Detroit Dry Dock, Detroit  [US#100412]  hull# 80

Specs              :  259x38x22 1748gc 1031nc

Date of loss    :  1921, Nov 1

Place of loss   :  30 mi WSW of Port Colborne, Ont.

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  light

Detail              : Heavily damaged offshore by a storm. She was somehow able to limp into Erie, PA, where she sank. She was inspected and declared a constructive total loss and was eventually stripped of usable items and burned.

Sold Canadian, 1913. Registered out of Montreal.

Sources            :  atl,mmgl,ns3,h,csv,win,mpl,hcgl,ewe


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  CANOPUS

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  none

Type at loss    :  brig, wood, 2-mast

Build info       :  1855, F. D. Ketchum, Huron, OH

Specs              :  136x26x12, 386 t.

Date of loss    :  1865, Jun 24

Place of loss   :  off Claybanks

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    :  collision

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  16,500 bu wheat

Detail              : She collided with bark REPUBLIC  between 3 and 4 am and sank in 7 fathoms of water after about 20 minutes. Her crew escaped in her yawl. Owned by Munn & Scott of Chicago. The tug DISPATCH recovered her outfit two weeks later.

Went ashore and was expected to break up at Erie, PA, in September of 1859, but later rescued.

Sources            :   nsp,rsl,hgl,hr


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  CANTON - See FRONTIER CITY


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  CAPE HORN

Other names   :  none 

Official no.     :  4345

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 2-mast

Build info       :  1857,  Wm. Barker, Huron, Oh

Specs              :  121x25x10,  214g

Date of loss    :  1873,  May 9

Place of loss   :  near Long Point

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    :  collision

Loss of life      :  1

Carrying         :  light

Detail              : She was upbound in fog when she collided with the big iron propeller JAVA and capsized.  All of her crew but two scrambled aboard the propeller as the schooner  was going down. The captain  made a valiant effort to save the female cook, but in vain.  Owner and master: Benjamin Eyster. The vessel  was reported a total loss in an 1877 court case regarding the collision, but was recovered in 1873 and lasted into the 20th century.

Sources            :   mv,wl,wmn,hr,wmhs


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  CAPELLA

Other names   :  none  also on official lists as CAPPELLA

Official no.     :  4578

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 2-mast

Build info       :  1850, Halver Nelson, Algoma, WI

Specs              :  51x15x6, 25 gt

Date of loss    :  1883, May 9

Place of loss   :  3 mi N of harbor entrance at Racine, WI

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none of 3

Carrying         :  slabs

Detail              : This little schooner ran ashore in a squall. She was pulled off after several days, but rolled on her beam ends twice while being towed in. Declared a total loss after the second time and was reportedly abandoned, but she still shows on some later records.

Sources            :   mv,h,usls,bb,hr


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  M. CAPRON

Other names   :  none

Official no.     : 90772

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  1875, P. White, Conneaut, OH

Specs              :  116x23x9  170g  161n

Date of loss    :  1898, Oct 31

Place of loss   :  off Bailey's Harbor, WI

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  lumber

Detail              : Wrecked on Halloween, dragging her anchor in a storm while anchored to wait out a storm and going on the beach.

Sources            :   mv,h,mpl,wgts


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   CAPT. GEORGE W. NAUGHTIN - See BERWYN


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  CAPTAIN K

Other names   : ?

Official no.     : C158606

Type at loss    :  Diesel fishing trawler,steel

Build info       :  1936, Harry Gamble, Port Dover, Ont

Specs              :  60x14x4,  12 t.

Date of loss    :  1991, Mar 18

Place of loss   :  off Port Dover, Ont.

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    :  collision

Loss of life      :  3

Carrying         :  smelt

Detail              : Rammed at night by Canadian Coast Guard Cutter GRIFFON and sank. She was returning to port when lost.  An immediate search failed to locate any wreckage or crew. The hulk was later located on the bottom, was raised by McKiel Marine of Hamilton and the bodies were recovered. The boat itself was cut up. Though the captain and mate on watch on the GRIFFON were charged in the collision, no one ever took or received the resposibility. Owned by Dover Foods, Port Dover. Master: Gary Speight(d).

Rebuilt at Port Dover in 1940

Link to wreck report.

Sources            :   nsp,radio,go,tsbc


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  CAPTAIN JOHN ROEN - See  GEORGE M. HUMPHREY     


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  CAPT. G. H. SMITH - See  MARY KAY     


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  J.F. CARD

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  12778

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 2-mast

Build info       :  1864, Nichols, Vermilion, OH

Specs              :  137x26x11  277g  263n

Date of loss    :  1900, Nov 15

Place of loss   :  Point Douglas, N of Inverhuron, Ont.

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  lumber

Detail              : Driven on the rocky point by a nor’wester and broke up in place. Her crew was rescued from shore by locals in a small rowboat. She had been bound for Saginaw. Owned by H. Wineman of Detroit, hailed from Port Huron. Master: Capt. Brown.

Sources            :   nsp,is(3-66),ns1,lhdc


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  CARDINAL

Other names   :  built as steamer WINDSOLITE, renamed IMPERIAL WINDSOR in 1947, CARDINAL in 1973

Official no.     : C138580

Type at loss    :  propeller, steel, tanker

Build info       :  1927, Furness Shipbuilding, Haverton Hill, Eng. as a package freighter

Specs              :  250x43x18  1930gc

Date of loss    :  1974, May 21

Place of loss   :  Pelee Passage

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    :  collision

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  light

Detail              : She had blown for passing the big bulker HENRY STEINBRENNER starboard-starboard, but she cut in front of the giant steamer during the maneuver and was cut 2/3 through by the resulting collision. One of  HENRY's bower anchors was sheared off above the flukes by the force of the collision. CARDINAL staggered off and sank on a rocky shoal nearby. The hulk was recovered but declared a constructive total loss.

Sources            :   mmgl,csv,ff,hcgl


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


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  W.S. CARKIN - See also JOSEPH H     


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  W.S. CARKIN

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  81198

Type at loss    :  propeller steam tug, wood

Build info       :  1874, Ch. Wheeler, E. Saginaw

Specs              :  70x16x6  29g  14n

Date of loss    :  1887, Nov 23

Place of loss   :  near Presque Isle, MI

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    : stranded

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  none

Detail              : Bound S.S. Marie  for Saginaw, she struck a reef in heavy weather and wrecked. Her crew was rescued by the tug EFFIE L.

A new vessel of the same name was launched the next year (see JOSEPH H)

Sources            :   slh,sbs,nsp,vbs,phr,hgl


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  CARLINGFORD

Other names   :  none   also seen as CARLINGSFORD

Official no.     :  125024

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  1869, Fitzgerald & Leighton, Port Huron

Specs              :  155x31x12  470g

Date of loss    :  1881, Nov 12

Place of loss   :  off Dunkirk, NY

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    :  collision

Loss of life      :  1

Carrying         :  26,000 bu  wheat

Detail              : Collided with iron steamer BRUNSWICK (qv), 10 mi E of Dunkirk and 10 miles from shore in a mixup of passing signals - both vessels sank. The dead crewman was lost in the scramble to her boats as she quickly went down. Owned by Beverstock, et. al., Huron, Oh. Master: Capt. Durand.

One report says she drifted below the surface until her wreckage came to rest near Port Colborne, Ont., 30 miles  from wreck site, but the wreck was discovered only 12 miles off Dunkirk in the mid-1990’s.

Broke nearly in 2 and sank off the Manitous, Lake Michigan, in Nov, 1869.  Recovered in Apr, 1870, and completely rebuilt.

Also rebuilt in 1880 after stranding on Horseshoe Reef, Lake Erie, in the fall of 1879.

Sources            :  do2,eas,sol,h,ledc,nsp,hgl,usls,mpl,mv,es,ewe


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  CARLOTTA

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  105834

Type at loss    :  gas screw (fish tug?)

Build info       :  1879, Boston as a schooner

Specs              :  39x14x5,  14g  12n

Date of loss    :  1913

Place of loss   :  off Grand Island, Munising bay, MI

Lake                : Superior

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      : ?

Carrying         :  none

Detail              : Caught fire while underway.

Registered out of Buffalo in 1911

 *1910, changed from schooner to gas screw after 1910

Sources            :  (gwgl),mv


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  CARLYLE

Other names   : ? also seen as CARLISLE

Official no.     : C

Type at loss    :  propeller, wood

Build info       :  1870, Doran, Bedford Mills, Ont.

Specs              :  105x21x6,  128 t.

Date of loss    :  1893, Sep

Place of loss   :  near Picton, Ont.

Lake                : Ontario

Type of loss    :  (storm)

Loss of life      : ?

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : "Wrecked"

Reportedly condemned in 1885.

Sources            :   nsp,hgl,csv,hr


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   CARMANA

Other names   :  built as DAN, renamed in 1892. Also seen as CARMINA

Official no.     :  C92559

Type at loss    :  propeller yacht and sometime passenger ves., wood

Build info       :  1889, Louis Braulac, Sorel, Que.

Specs              :   90x16x5,  56gc  38nc

Date of loss    :  1902, Sep or Oct

Place of loss   :  Bay of Quinte, Ont.

Lake                :  Ontario

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      :  (none)

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              :  Caught fire and burned to a total loss on the north shore of the Bay,  near Belleville, Ont.

Out of Belleville, owned by T. S. Carman

Sources            :    mmgl,csv


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  CARMONA - See  PITTSBURG     


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  RICHARD J. CARNEY

Other names   :  also seen as R.J. CARNEY

Official no.     :  56496

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

Build info       :  1871, Saginaw [Official records show her built at Buffalo, but 1871 news clippings from Saginaw describe her launch there. Hull may have been built at Saginaw, finished in Buffalo]

Specs              :  150x31x11,  397g  377n

Date of loss    :  1895, Sep 28  

Place of loss   :  near Shelldrake, MI, Whitefish Bay

Lake                : Superior

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  lumber

Detail              : Stranded and pounded to pieces near Shelldrake dock, where she had been loading lumber. Caught by a storm, she was driven ashore, along with her tow steamer NELLIE TORRENT.. Owner: Penoyer, AuSable, Mich. Document surrendered at Port Huron 12/30/95.

Sources            :   vbs,nsp,lss,wb


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  CAROLINE

Other names   : ?

Official no.     :  none

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  (1825, Kingston, Ont.)

Specs              :  ?

Date of loss    :  1832, Dec 2

Place of loss   :  off Duck Isls

Lake                : Ontario

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  1 of 6 [2 were passengers]

Carrying         :  drygoods worth $30-40,000

Detail              : She capsized and sank in a violent squall, while her crew abandoned in her yawl. Bound Oswego for Ogdensburg, NY. Crew made it to the Ducks in six hours, where, after much suffering from cold and snow, they were picked up by the schooner HURON. The vessel was later towed in, but there is no information on whether she returned to service. Owned by J.T. Trowbridge & Co., Oswego or out of Genesee, NY. Master: Capt. Joel F. Tyler.

Some sources say erroneously that she was lost on Ducks in L Huron.

Sources            :   slh,hgl,osdo,rp


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  CAROLINE

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  none

Type at loss    :  sidewheel steamer, wood

Build info       :  1822, New York City (some sources say Charleston, SC, others Ogdensburgh, NY)

Specs              :  71x21x6,  46 t.

Date of loss    :  1837, Dec 29

Place of loss   :  Niagara Falls.

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    : military

Loss of life      :  1

Carrying         :  none

Detail              : She was a commercial vessel which came to the lakes in 1835 and was chartered to tranport arms and munitions to Navy Island, near Buffalo. On the night in question, she was commandeered by about 60 Canadian rebels under command of a Royal Navy officer at Schlosser on the Niagara R. In the fight that followed, she was set afire, then was abandoned and drifted down the river, where she burned to the waterline. Some sources say she went over the Falls. The incident caused hostile feelings along the U.S. northeastern frontier for many months.

Owned by William Wells of Buffalo. Master: Capt. Gilman Appleby.

Sources            :  is(1-69),sol,h,lhl,hgl,eh,nsp


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  CAROLINE

Other names   :  built as armed sloop PORCUPINE, renamed 1830

Official no.     :  none

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  1812, Presque Isle, PA

Specs              :  60 t

Date of loss    :  1855

Place of loss   :  Spring Lake, near Grand Haven, MI

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    :  hull failure

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  none

Detail              : Veteran of Perry's War of 1812 fleet. Later a survey vessel (surveyed water border between U.S. & Canada), a revenue cutter and still later a merchantman. Retired in 1840's and tied up on Spring Lake, where she eventually sank. Later parts of her hull were salvaged and cut into souvenirs. A historical society has the rest of her.

A 1900 nsp article says she was turned over to the Field Museum.

Sources            :   nsp,lmdc,is,mpl


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  GEORGE CARPENTER

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  39388

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 2-mast

Build info       :  1864, G. Carpenter, Bay City

Specs              :  41x10x4, 10g  10n

Date of loss    :  1893

Place of loss   :  unreported

Lake                : unreported

Type of loss    :  (storm)

Loss of life      : ?

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : No detail. Document surrendered Dec 6, 1893 at Port Huron,  annotated "wrecked."

This may be the reporting of a stranding of this vessel in October, 1889.

Sources            :   vbs,phr,mv,hgl,nsp


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  HONORA CARR

Other names   :  built as MAPLE LEAF

Official no.     : 95851

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 2-mast

Build info       :  1867, Redmond & Tait, Picton, Ont.

Specs              :  92x23x8,  112g

Date of loss    :  1886, Sep 4

Place of loss   :  2 mi SW of Pt Abino

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  1 of 5

Carrying         :  200 t. coal

Detail              : Bound Buffalo for Port Huron. Turned back for Buffalo for shelter in a storm, but foundered in 60 feet of water a few miles short. The survivors of her crew were rescued by a Port Colborne harbor tug, which must have taken quite a chance on the open lake in a gale. Master: Capt. Edward Carr.

Driven ashore near Buffalo in fall of '83. Abandoned, but recovered & rebuilt in 1885 by Michael Carr of Buffalo.  Came into U.S. registry at that time.

Sources            :   win,nsp,ledc,h,hgl,mmgl,usls,wmhs


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   CARRIE AND CORA

Other names   : 

Official no.     :  33893

Type at loss    :  canal boat, wood

Build info       :  1872, North Bay, NY

Specs              :  115 t.

Date of loss    :  1882, Nov (10)

Place of loss   :  near Point Petre

Lake                :  Ontario

Type of loss    :  (storm)

Loss of life      :  ? (probably all)

Carrying         :  barrelled apples, onions and potatoes

Detail              :  She foundered while in tow of the tug M. J. CUMMINGS, leaving her cargo and parts of her hull and cabin  to wash up on the local beaches. More than 350 barrels of apples washed up on Lake Ontario's Long Point alone.

Out of Oswego in 1872

Sources            : nsp,wmn ,wmhs

 

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  CARRIER

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  4334

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 3-mast

Build info       :  1865, D. Lester, Marine City, MI as a bark

Specs              :  123x26x9  187g  178n

Date of loss    :  1923, Sep 30

Place of loss   :  off Waukegan, IL

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    :  hull failure

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  none

Detail              : She had been retired from commercial service for many years and was just ending a carrer serving as a yacht club clubhouse. Sank while being towed away for scrapping.

One source says built in 1863. Rebuilt to a three-mast schooner before 1871.

Sources            :   mv,lmdc,mpl,wl,hcgl


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   CARRIER DOVE

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  C  none

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 2 mast

Build info       :  1854, Austin Horn, Wolfe Isl, Ont.

Specs              :  89x19x8,  111 t.

Date of loss    :  1867, May 9

Place of loss   :  at Oswego, NY

Lake                :  Ontario

Type of loss    :  “lost”

Loss of life      :  none