The Great Lakes Shipwreck File

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Great Lakes Shipwrecks

beginning with the letter

E

 

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  E.C.L.

Other names   :  built as the brig WABASH, renamed in 1855

Official no.     :  7294

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 3-mast

Build info       :  1845, Doolittle & Miller, Sackett's Harbor, NY

Specs              :  249 t.

Date of loss    :  1880, Nov 24

Place of loss   :  Sister Bay, near Death's Door, WI

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      : none mentioned

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : Driven ashore while anchored and wrecked, she was a total loss. She was stripped on the 27th.

Rebuilt in 1855 at Chicago as a bark and given this name after wrecking near that port in 1851

Sources            :   nsp,rsl,wl,wgts,hr


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  EAGLE

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  none

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 2-mast

Build info       :  1837, Black Rock, NY

Specs              :  68x18x6,  66 t.

Date of loss    :  1838, Nov 5

Place of loss   :  Elk Creek, ca. 5 miles east of Erie, PA

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  light

Detail              : This early schooner was driven ashore and pounded to pieces in a localized gale that was considered the most destructive on Lake Erie up to that point in time.

Owned by her skipper, Capt. Wm. C. Davison and his brother John, both of  Buffalo.

Sources            :  hgl,nsp,wl,wmn


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   EAGLE

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  none

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  1839 Newport or 1842 Swan Creek, there were several other small EAGLES

Specs              :  29 t. or 37 t.

Date of loss    :  1848, Apr 18

Place of loss   :  20 mi NE of Sheboygan, WI [N of Amsterdam]

Lake                :  Michigan

Type of loss    :  (storm)

Loss of life      :  7 [all]

Carrying         :  lumber or chestnuts

Detail              :  Found disabled and probably capsized by the propeller PRINCETON. One crewman’s body was the only trace of the crew. Her captain's name was Jacob Lawson(d).. Vessel  may have been recovered .

Sources            :  nsp,hgl,wmn,bb,hr

 

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   EAGLE

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  none

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  1845, Sandusky

Specs              :  180 t.

Date of loss    :  1852, Nov 5

Place of loss   :   mouth of Grand River, Canada side

Lake                :  Erie

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  1

Carrying         :  wheat

Detail              :  She was driven ashore and wrecked. Her crew spend six hours in the rigging and suffered much from the cold before being rescued.  She had been bound for Oswego and was a total loss of $13,000. Out of Sandusky, Capt. A. Finefield, master.

Sources            :  nsp,wmn,wl

 

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  EAGLE

Other names   : none

Official no.     :  241859

Type at loss    :  gas screw fish tug

Build info       :  1941, Pentwater, Mich

Specs              :  33x10x4,  13g    9 n

Date of loss    :  1947, Apr 5

Place of loss   :  in harbor at South Haven, MI

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    : sank

Loss of life      : ?

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : no detail

Out of Muskegon;  owned by Edw. Tahaney

Sources            :  h,mv,hr


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  EAGLE WING - former entry deleted. The vessel was not seriously damaged.


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  JAMES E. EAGLE

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  13668

Type at loss    :  propeller steam tug, wood

Build info       :  1859, Chas. Hindman, Algonac, MI as a passenger steamer

Specs              :  120x21x8, 137 t.

Date of loss    :  1869, Aug 8

Place of loss   :  Saginaw Bay near Bay City

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  none

Detail              : She burned to a total loss at 4 am while towing a log raft. Her crew escaped in her yawl while the tug, still under weigh, steamed on until she sank. She was a total loss of about $10,000. Owned by R. Burlington of Port Huron. Master: Capt. Robert McNeff.

Sources            :   nsp,slh,lhl,hgl,mpl,mdwl


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  HATTIE EARL

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  11175

Type at loss    :  schooner or scow-schooner, wood

Build info       :  1869, Snell, South Haven

Specs              :  96x23x7  101g  96n

Date of loss    :  1893, Sep 16

Place of loss   :  just outside Michigan City, IN (also given as near Kenosha)

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : She was driven ashore by a gale and pounded to pieces while bound Caseville, Michigan, for Chicago.

Sunk in a collision with the schooner CITY OF GREEN BAY Oct 24, 1881 at Chicago.

Driven ashore near Kenosha and wrecked in storm Apr 5, 1889. Reported broken up, but salvaged that summer.

Sources            :  h,mv,hgl,wb,mpl,wmn


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  EAST SAGINAW

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  8106

Type at loss    :  propeller, wood, bulk freight

Build info       :  1866, McDole, Marine City

Specs              :  136x26x10  235 t.

Date of loss    :  1883, Sep 24

Place of loss   :  near Sand Beach, Mich.

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      : none

Carrying         :  barges in tow

Detail              : She was trying to make the harbor of refuge at Sand Beach and struck a reef south of the breakwater. With her steering gear all damaged, she was able to pull of the bar using a foresail, but her hull was damaged and she went down in 25 fathoms of water. Her crew was rescued by the steamer CONEMAUGH, after several others had passed without seeing them.  Master: Capt. Harry Richardson. Owner: F. W. Gilchrist, Alpena, Mich. It has been reported in some sources that she was recovered years later and was destroyed by fire in 1923, but I can find no evidence of this.

Built as a passenger & package freight propeller, rebuilt in 1879 at Vermontville, Mich.

Sunk off Harrisville, MI in April, 1875.

Major repair, 1879, Vermilion. OH .

Sources            :   slh,lhl,ns2,phr,polk,hgl,mpl   (not in 1920-21mv's)


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  EASTLAND

Other names   :  later rebuilt as U.S.S. WILMETTE

Official no.     :  200031

Type at loss    :  propeller, steel, excursion steamer

Build info       :  1903, Jenks Shipbuilding, Port Huron   hull# 25

Specs              :  265x38x20, 1961g  1218n

Date of loss    :  1915, Jul 24

Place of loss   :  Chicago River, Chicago

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    :  capsized

Loss of life      :  835 [812 also given often]

Carrying         :  passengers

Detail              : The passenger steamer EASTLAND capsized while pulling away from her dock for an excursion. She was heavily loaded with passengers and rolled over in her berth, trapping hundreds inside. The ship's design was the main factor - flaws included a shallow draft and high center of gravity, an inadequate ballast system and the addition of several lifeboats and their associated gear on her upper deck (done due to the post-TITANIC “Boats for All” law).  This was the worst disaster in Great Lakes history in terms of loss of life.

Recovered soon after, sold to U.S. govt and converted to naval gunboat U.S.S. WILMETTE [GX-13]. Scrapped in 1950.

Link to an excellent webpage on the EASTLAND.

Post card

Sources            :  eastl,eas,is(3-59,3-60,1-65,2&3-78),lol,lm,hcgl,etc


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  EASTNOR

Other names   :  built as CHARLES LEMCKE, renamed HENRY PEDWELL in 1913, KAGAWONG in 1931, last name in 1932

Official no.     : C126058

Type at loss    :  propeller, wood

Build info       :  1909, Lion's Head, Ont.

Specs              :  90x24,  258 t.

Date of loss    :  1933, Nov 18

Place of loss   :  at Wiarton, Ont.

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      : ?

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : Caught fire and destroyed while loading bunker coal at Tyson's Coal Dock, Wiarton. Out of Owen Sound

Major rebuild in 1916 after a fire in Aug, '15. Rebuilt '30

Dimensions when built: 92x18 ft, 101 t.

Sources            :   mmgl,slh,h,csv,win


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   JOSHUA EATON

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  none

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 2-mast

Build info       :   1856, Charlotte, NY

Specs              :   small (cargoes: 3,500 bu wheat, $40 worth of coal)

Date of loss    :  1860 (Sep?)

Place of loss   :  near Goderich, Ont

Lake                :  Huron

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none mentioned

Carrying         :  coal

Detail              :  She went ashore in a storm and sat on the beach with little damage until she was destroyed by a huge gale on November 24.

Owned by Burns and Fancomb, Rochester, NY. Master: Capt. John Burns.

Sources            :    nsp,wmn

 

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   EBENEZER

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  7518

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 2-mast

Build info       :  1863, E. Sorenson, Ft. Howard, WI

Specs              :   92x22x9,  120 gt

Date of loss    :  1880, Oct 16

Place of loss   :  Mud Bay, near Bailey’s Harbor, WI

Lake                :  Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none mentioned

Carrying         : stone

Detail              :  Driven ashore by the gale known as “The Alpena Storm” due to the loss of the passenger steamer of that name. Owned out of Ephriam, Wis., hailed from Chicago.

Sources            :  bb, nsp,wgts,hr


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  EBENEZER

Other names   :  built as WATTS SHERMAN, renamed in 1883

Official no.     :  26168

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

Build info       :  1847, Jones, Buffalo

Specs              :  103x24x10  158g  150n

Date of loss    :  1903, Oct 14

Place of loss   :  S. Manitou Isl.

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      : ?

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : Blown ashore by a storm and a total loss. One of oldest vessels on the Lakes when lost (56 yrs).

Wrecked and declared total loss at Holland, MI Oct 3, 1887.

Runge files say she was sunk on Pine Lake [Lake Charlevoix].

Rebuilt 1881, 1883

Sources            :   nsp,smi,ns1,mv,mpl,usls


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  KATIE ECCLES

Other names   :  none    also referred to as KATE ECCLES

Official no.     : C75911

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 2-mast

Build info       :  1877, W. Jamieson, Deseronto [Mill Pt.], Ont.

Specs              :  95x26x10, 122 gc.

Date of loss    :  1922, Nov 28

Place of loss   :  off Timber Isl.

Lake                : Ontario

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      : none

Carrying         :  coal

Detail              : Bound Oswego for Napanee in heavy weather. After she lost her rudder, her skipper steered her to Timber Island by sail alone. After he and crew went ashore, her anchor chain broke and she drifted out and sank between Timber I and Nine Mile Point.

Sources            :  csqw,mmgl,is(2-90),hcgl


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   ECHO

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  7237

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 2-mast

Build info       :   1854, H. Kelley, Milan, Oh

Specs              :  109x25x9,  176g 

Date of loss    :  1868, Sep 16

Place of loss   :  Cleveland Harbor

Lake                :  Erie

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  1

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              :  While attempting to enter the harbor in a gale, she was wrecked near the harbor mouth. She was a total loss of about $8,000. One crewman died when he attempted to swim ashore. Owned by McCabe and Jesmer or Jeamer,  Buffalo.

Probably the same vessel was ashore and expected to become a total loss on East Sister Reef, Lake Erie, in July of the same year.

Sources            :    nsp,wmn,jm,wl

 

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  ECLIPSE - see also ADELAIDE


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  ECLIPSE

Other names   : none

Official no.     :  7495

Type at loss    :  propeller tug, wood

Build info       :  1852, F. N. Jones or Notter, Buffalo

Specs              :  94x18x9, 93 g [136 t. om]

Date of loss    :  1871, Oct 27

Place of loss   :  Lakeport, Mich

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  none

Detail              : She caught fire while lying at a dock a Lakeport and was puched away from the dock with a ladder. Her captain wished her farewell by emptying his pistol into her flank [he had been in trouble a few days earlier for accidentally shooting a crewman while playing with the gun]. Master: Capt. King. Owner: J. B. Scott, Detroit.

Sources            :   wmn,mv,wl


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  ECLIPSE

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  7495

Type at loss    :  barge,  wood,  former passenger vesssel, large tug and freighter

Build info       :  1853, F.N. Jones, Buffalo [machinery installed at Detroit]

Specs              :  94x19x9, 136 t.

Date of loss    :  1874, Oct 29

Place of loss   :  6 mi E of Black River, Oh

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  in ballast

Detail              : She had just had her machinery removed at Cleveland and was enroute to Huron, Ohio,  by the tug YOSEMITE, when the pair was struck by a gale.  The tug could not hold her against the violent winds and so cut the barge loose.  She went ashore near Black River and by Nov 5 had been declared a total loss. She was stripped and abandoned by the tug MAGNET.

Declared total loss after a fire at Lakeport, MI, Oct 20, 1871. She caught fire at the dock and was cut loose and towed out into the lake, where the fire was put out by a passing tug. She was converted from a passenger vessel to a steam barge afterwards.

Sprang a leak and sank in Cleveland harbor in October, 1865.

Exploded and broke in two at Chicago in the spring of 1853 when brand new. Her chief engineer at the time was a black man, probably one of the first to hold that position on the lakes. He was exonerated of any blame.

Rebuilt about 1868, major repairs in 1871 and 72.

Sources            :  eas,slh,sol,lhl,nsp,rsl


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  ECLIPSE

Other names   : none

Official no.     :  7517

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 2-mast

Build info       :  1852, E. Bates, Milan, OH

Specs              :  109x24x10,  221 t. om

Date of loss    :  1882, Nov 24

Place of loss   :  Big Sable Point

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  1

Carrying         :  shingles

Detail              : Driven onto a rocky reef in freezing gale. Her crew scrambled up the rigging as she sank, and all but one  was rescued by Lifesaving Service.    Bound Manistee for Chicago. Owned out of Chicago by Capt. Ted Warner.

Stranded in the same place in 1881 and just a few miles away in 1880.

Major repairs in 1870.

Sources            :   nsp,(mv),is,h,g8s,hgl,usls,rsl,wl,ec,wmhs


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  ECLIPSE

Other names   :  built as the  steamer JULIETTE

Official no.     : C77692

Type at loss    :  propeller tug & supply boat

Build info       :  1878, R. Cooper, Hamilton, Ont. [Cooper lived in New York]

Specs              :  90x20x6, 72gc  49nc

Date of loss    :  1883, Nov 22

Place of loss   :  off Wiarton, Ont.

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  7 [all]

Carrying         :  none

Detail              : Bound Algoma Mills for Sarnia with barge ETTA in tow. During  the night of the 22nd she foundered with all hands. The one man left to tend the ETTA during the storm was the only survivor of the accident. ETTA drifted ashore in Little Pike Bay and was later recovered. ECLIPSE  registered out of Hamilton or Sarnia. Master: Capt. Berry(d).

*Built as the passenger steamer JULIETTE, she nearly capsized on her first trip before pulling away from the dock. She was rerated to carry much fewer passengers, and the public turned against her. By the following year she had been rebuilt and renamed.

Sources            :   nsp,slh,h,mmgl,win,polk,es,ib


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  EDDIE S.

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  233600

Type at loss    :  diesel fishing tug

Build info       :  1933, H. Larson, Menominee

Specs              :  35x10x2,  16g 11n

Date of loss    :  1945, May 22

Place of loss   :  off Grand Marais, MI

Lake                : Superior

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  2 of 3

Carrying         :  none

Detail              : Foundered in a sudden 55mph squall near the harbor mouth. The one surviving  crewman was saved by USCG.

Out of Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.; owned by L. C. Bethway

Sources            :   lssc,gwgl,lss,hr,mv


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  JOHN F. EDDY

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  76645

Type at loss    :  barge, wood, bulk freight  built as propeller

Build info       :  1886, Detroit Dry Dock, Wyandotte, MI  hull #76

Specs              :  259x38x20   1678 g  1252 n

Date of loss    :  1920, Nov 13

Place of loss   :  7 mi off W. Sister Isl.

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  coal

Detail              : Tow of tug CUSTODIAN, she sprang a leak in gale and sank. Later dynamited as a hazard.

Built as bulk freighter, 1678gt, 1252nt, converted to a barge between 1910-1916.

Sources            :  atl,sol,sbs,ns3,mv,ledc,mpl,hcgl


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  NEWELL A. EDDY

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  130467

Type at loss    :  schooner-barge, wood, 3-mast, built as a schooner

Build info       :  1890, F.W. Wheeler, W. Bay City,  hull #71

Specs              :  242x40x16  1270g  1207n

Date of loss    :  1893, Apr 20

Place of loss   :  near Spectacle Reef, Straits of Mackinac

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  7 [all]

Carrying         :  grain

Detail              : Bound Chiacgo for Buffalo, she was lost from tow of the steamer CHARLES A. EDDY, which became disabled in a storm. Driven on a reef & sank, later pushed into deep water. Wreckage from her aft end washed up all over the Straits. $98,000 loss. Master: Capt. W. R. Burton(d). Owned by Eddy Transportation Co., Bay City, Mich.

Wreck, with masts still standing, was located in 1992.

Sources            :   nsp,slh,sol,is,h,mv,lhdc,ssm,vbs,phr,wb,hgl,mpl


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  WILLIAM EDENBORN

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  81702

Type at loss    :  propeller, steel, bulk freight

Build info       :  1900, W. Bay City Shipbuilding, W. Bay City  hull #40

Specs              :  478x52x25  5085g  4431n

Date of loss    :  1905, Nov 28

Place of loss   :  just west of Split Rock River  mouth, 6-7 mi SW from Split Rock Lighthouse

Lake                : Superior

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  1

Carrying         :  light

Detail              : This Pittsburger had the steel barge MADIERA in tow in a teriffic gale. After she cut MADEIRA loose, she  was pushed on a  reef by split in half. Declared a total loss,  she was eventually recovered and reassembled at great expense. One of her propellers still lies near the site. Owner: Pittsburgh Steamship Co.

Sold to city of Cleveland in 1962, stripped and scuttled for a breakwater at Gordon Park.

Image

Sources            :   vbs,gwgl,is,lss,s,nsp,mu


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   EDITH

Other names   :  none 

Official no.     :  C none

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 2-mast

Build info       :  1851, Wm. Ashman, Bronte, Ont.

Specs              :  67x19x7,  80 t.

Date of loss    :  1854, Nov 6

Place of loss   :  near Presqu’ile, Ont.

Lake                :  Ontario

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  wheat

Detail              :  Bound for Detroit, she struck a reef and sank with her decks just submerged and each wave washing over her. Men from the passing schooner CHARLOTTE, receiving no answer to their hail, came aboard and rescued her crew, who were in EDITH’s cabin in a helpless state. May have been recovered and lost in late Nov, 1860, near Stoney Pt., Lake Ont.

Out of Hamilton, owned by M.W. Browne.

Sources            :    mmgl,nsp,clu


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   EDNA

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  135309

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 2-mast

Build info       :  1877, N.L. Anderson, Chicago

Specs              :  62x17x5,  38g  36n

Date of loss    :  1887, Oct 26

Place of loss   :  2 mi off piers at Kenosha

Lake                :  Michigan

Type of loss    :  hull failure

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  gravel

Detail              :  Bound Chicago for Kenosha, she sprang a leak in moderate seas and foundered in 50 feet of water within sight of the lifesaving station. Her crew abandoned in her skiff. They began to drift out into the lake, but were rescued by the local U.S. Lifesaving Service crew [with the help of the tug KITTY SMOKE] after drifting lakeward for a short time. Owned by her skipper and builder, Capt. N. L. Anderson of Chicago.

Document was not surrendered until June of the next year.

Sources            :  bb,mv,polk,usls,hr


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   EDNA

Other names   :  ?

Official no.     :  7909

Type at loss    :  barge, wood

Build info       :  1866, New Baltimore, MI as a schooner

Specs              :  53g  40n

Date of loss    :  1916, Jul 15

Place of loss   :  at Algonac, MI

Lake                :  St Clair R

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              :  Burned to a total loss.

Out of Port Huron. Document surrendered 2/7/17, annotated "burned."

Sources            :  eas,phr,mv,wmn

 

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  JOHN EDWARD

Other names   : none

Official no.     : 75896

Type at loss    :  sloop, wood

Build info       :  1876, Grand Haven, Mich

Specs              :  34x11x4, 11g.

Date of loss    :  1876, Nov 9

Place of loss   :  near shore 5 mi N of Saugatuck, MI

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    :  (storm)

Loss of life      : ?

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : Foundered close in. Later recovered. Bound for Jacksonville, Fla. [that is correct] via Chicago and registered out of Apalachicola. Owned and sailed  by  Capt. T. F. McCurdy, Spring Lake, Mich

Sources            :  h,usls,mv,nsp


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  EFFORT

Other names   :  none

Official no.     : C96249

Type at loss    :  scow, wood, lumber

Build info       :  1889, W. Taylor, Wallaceburg

Specs              :  73x21x5, 51 gc

Date of loss    :  1898, Sep 6

Place of loss   :  opposite Port Huron

Lake                : St Clair R

Type of loss    :  collision

Loss of life      :  1 of 4

Carrying         :  wood

Detail              : Her towing tug ARIADNE attempted to cross between the steamer GEORGE STEPHENSON and the giant steel barge ROEBLING with EFFORT in tow. The tug cleared, but STEPHENSON’s tow cable caught the scow amidships, sawing her in half. A Kendall Ship Reporting Co. boat saved 2 of crew. Skipper of ARIADNE said he thought the big ROEBLING was a steamer. Later recovered in two pieces and rebuilt; abandoned at Thunder Bay, 1901

Sources            :   nsp,st,hgl,mmgl,nsp


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  MARION EGAN

Other names   : Shows in mv as EDGAR MARION

Official no.     :  7301

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  1861, John Squires, Huron, OH

Specs              :  262 t.

Date of loss    :  1875, Sep 22

Place of loss   :  17 mi SE of Thunder Bay Isl, MI

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  collision

Loss of life      :  2

Carrying         :  coal

Detail              : Collided with the schooner E.R. WILLIAMS in a night passing error and sank in about 7 minutes. Her surviving crew were rescued by WILLIAMS. Bound Cleveland for Racine and went down in 35 fathoms of water. Owned by W. Christie of Erie, Pa., who lost the schooner CITY OF BUFFALO(qv) a few days earlier. Master: Capt. Louch.

Ashore on Cove Island, mouth of Georgian Bay,  and abandoned in August of 1873. She was stripped in early September, but was recovered late in the same month..

Sources            :   nsp,slh,hgl,usls,wl,rsl,jb


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  JOHN EGGERS

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  76714

Type at loss    :  scow-schooner, wood

Build info       :  1887, Milwaukee

Specs              :  59x14x3  25g  24n

Date of loss    :  1906, May 26

Place of loss   :  Wind Point, near Racine, WI

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    : stranded

Loss of life      :  none of 1

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              :  no detail

Sources            :   mv,lmdc


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   EGYPTIAN

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  none

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 2-mast

Build info       :   1856, Roderick Calkins, Cleveland

Specs              :   136x26x11,  372 t.

Date of loss    :   1856, Nov [early in the month]

Place of loss   :   near Point Pelee

Lake                :  Erie

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none mentioned

Carrying         :   wheat

Detail              :   She was driven ashore and wrecked in her 5th month of service. Owned by Fitzhugh & Littlejohn, Oswego. Master: Capt. B. Hawkins.

Sources            :    blu[1856],wmhs,hgl,wl,wmn

 

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  EGYPTIAN

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  8988

Type at loss    :  propeller, wood, bulk freight

Build info       :  1873, Quelos & Peck, Black River, OH

Specs              :  232x36x14  1430g  1206n

Date of loss    :  1897, Dec 1

Place of loss   :  15 mi out of Alpena, MI

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      : none

Carrying         :  coal

Detail              : She caught fir e in her forward hold and burned to the waterline 10 miles out, off Sturgoen Point. She then sank in 170 feet of water while bound Cleveland for Milwaukee. Her crew took to her boats after it was seen that she could not be saved, and were rescued by the steamer SIR WILLIAM FAIRBAIRN.  Newspaper account attributed the fire to spontaneous conbustion. Master: Capt. Frank Goodrow. Owner: Capt. Nelson S. Whipple, Bay City.

Struck the wreck of the steamer PHILIP WALTER off Black R., OH in October of 1887 and sunk.

She had the 1st fore & aft compound engine in use on the Great Lakes.

Sources            :   stb,slh,mol,mv,hgl,nsp,mpl,hcgl,ade


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  EIGHTH OHIO

Other names   :  also seen as 8TH OHIO and MIDLAND

Official no.     :  8184

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

Build info       :  1867, G. Fordham, Sandusky, OH

Specs              :  121x20x7  122 t

Date of loss    :  1877, Aug 18

Place of loss   :  Fox’s Dock, Windsor, Ont.

Lake                : Detroit R.

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  probably none (one source says lives were lost)

Detail              : Extensively burned, probably by arson. Declared a total loss, but recovered and later rebuilt. The vessel had recently changed owners [for the umpteenth time] and had  been chartered by the Midland RR, which had christened her [unofficially] MIDLAND. At the time of the fire she being renovated for use as a ferry at Sarnia. Her new owners, however,  had failed to pay for either the vessel or the renovations, so she reverted back to the previous owners and her original name in July. Master at time of fire: Capt. Alfred Lovett.

Later 124x21x7  107g  55n

Sunk off Sringwells [Ecorse], Mich., Detroit R., in 1884. Rebuilt at Detroit following this and re-engined, using the powerplant from the burned prop HENRY HOWARD(qv). She came back out in July, 1886.

Burned to the water's edge in Ribinet's canal,  Sandwich, Ont., in March  of 1890. Rebuilt, abandoned in 1897.

Built as a sidewheeler, reportedly converted to a propeller in 1875 at Bay City.

Sources            :   nsp,www,mpl,es                      


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  EILEEN G

Other names   : ?

Official no.     : C190222

Type at loss    :  tug

Build info       :  1944, Owen Sound, Ont.

Specs              :  37 ft, 13 t.

Date of loss    :  1955, May 9

Place of loss   :  near Tunnel Island [latitude 46deg 28' N,  longitude 83deg 27' W]

Lake                : Superior

Type of loss    : sank

Loss of life      : ?

Carrying         :  none

Detail              : no detail

Owned out of Blind R. Ont.

Sources            :  is,lss,win


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  ELBING - See   FRANCISCO MORAZAN    


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  ELDORADO

Other names   :  built as steamer EQUATOR (qv), renamed in 1871

Official no.     :  135117

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  1857, F.N. Jones, Buffalo

Specs              :  189x32x11, 489 t.

Date of loss    :  1880, Nov 20

Place of loss   :  just E of harbor entrance at Erie, PA

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    : storm

Loss of life      :  none of 7

Carrying         :  none

Detail              : She was wrecked near Presque Isle in a terrific westerly  gale and blizzard. The steamer JAMES P. DONALDSON cast her and towmates GEORGE W. WESLEY(qv) and BAY CITY(qv) adrift  about a mile off the harbor. The three drifted ashore about 5 miles to the east. Crew of ELDORADO made it to shore on their own. The vessel broke up on the rocky coast, a total loss of $10,000.

Owned by L. Slyfield, St. Clair, Mi

Built from the wrecked steamer EQUATOR(qv) in 1871, at Sheboygan, WI

Sources            :  h,lhdc,hgl,usls,mpl,nsp,ewe


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  ELEANOR

Other names   : ?

Official no.     :  7298

Type at loss    :  schooner-barge, wood

Build info       :  1857, J. Harbridge, Two Rivers, WI

Specs              :  119x26x9,  188 t.

Date of loss    :  1880, Aug 18

Place of loss   :  Whiskey Reef, near Pte Aux Barques, MI

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none of 5

Carrying         :  lumber

Detail              : Torn loose from the prop MICHIGAN  and drifted onto the reef, where she eventually pounded to pieces. Her crew was rescued by another vessel. Document surrendered at Port Huron Dec 3, 1881. Owned out of Bay City by G. VanEtten. Master: Capt. Hazen.

Converted from a free-sailing schooner to a schooner-barge in the spring of 1880 after sinking in the Saginaw River..

Sources            :   phr,mv,usls,rsl,nsp


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  ELEANOR

Other names   :  none

Official no.     : C  none

Type at loss    :  propeller steam tug, wood

Build info       :  1866, J. Chaffey, Bedford Mills

Specs              :  47x10x7,  24g  7nc

Date of loss    :  1891, May 8

Place of loss   :  near Pigeon Isl.

Lake                : Ontario

Type of loss    : sank

Loss of life      : none

Carrying         :  2 coal barges in tow

Detail              :  Sprung a leak in heavy weather and foundered in 100 feet of water.

Registered out of Kingston. Insured as a river tug.

Also reported sunk at Kingston with no loss of life, May 14, 1891.

*date also given as May 14, 1891 and Feb. 29, 1892, 5 mi N of Main Duck. Doc surrendered Dec 31, 1891.

See CSQW for another version of her loss

Sources            :   mmgl,clu,h,win


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  ELEANOR

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  136603

Type at loss    :  propeller passenger vessel, wood

Build info       :  1897, Saugatuck, Mich

Specs              :  62x11x5,  17g  11n

Date of loss    :  1902, Nov 13

Place of loss   :  at Montague, Michigan

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      : ?

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : Burned to a total loss at her dock at White Lake

Sources            :  hcgl,hr


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  ELEANORA

Other names   :  built as str GREAT BRITAIN, renamed in 1845: also seen as ELEONORA

Official no.     : C 

Type at loss    :  bark, wood, 3-mast

Build info       :  1830, David Brown, Prescott, Ont.

Specs              :  159x27x12,  431 t.

Date of loss    :  1848, Apr 18

Place of loss   :  at Hamilton, Ont.

Lake                : Ontario

Type of loss    : storm

Loss of life      : none mentioned

Carrying         :  none

Detail              : Wrecked by a gale on the Hamilton piers when she missed her stays coming in. She was a total loss of $10,000.

Rebuilt to a storage hulk in 1840, then to this bark in 1845.

Registered out of Kingston.

Sources            :  hr,mmgl,hgl,csv,ib


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  ELFIN-MERE - See   CHARLES B. PACKARD     


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  ELGIN - See also LADY ELGIN


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  ELGIN

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  135898

Type at loss    :  schooner-barge, wood [also reported as a lighter]

Build info       :  1874, L Shickluna, St. Catharines Ont. as a bark (C77778)

Specs              :  139x26x12, 330g  310n

Date of loss    :  1906, Oct 29

Place of loss   :  off Grand Marais, MN

Lake                : Superior

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  Hay & coal

Detail              : In tow of the tug CROSBY, she was swamped and torn to pieces by a NE gale. She was owned by Capt. John Shea of Duluth.

Reverted to an American bottom after wrecking near Racine, Aug 2, 1885 [sold by U.S. marshall to regain the salvage cost].

A tug of this name was reported lost in 1896.

Sources            :   mmgl,mv,eas,ns1,mpl


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  WILLIAM ELGIN

Other names   :  none

Official no.     : C  ?

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 2-mast

Build info       :  1871, W. Jamieson, Mill Pt.  (built by Simpson?)

Specs              :  99x23x10, 190 gc, 156 nc

Date of loss    :  1888, May 19

Place of loss   :  16 mi NW of Oswego, NY

Lake                : Ontario

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  coal

Detail              : Sprang a leak and sank. Bound Oswego for Belleville. Her crew was picked up by steamer OCEAN WAVE(qv).

Registered to Capt. J. Savage out of Picton, Ont.

Also ashore near Oswego and not expected to survive in November, 1872.

Orned at Port Stanley in March, 1876.

Sources            :   mmgl,is,h,nsp,osdo,wb,hgl,rp    not in clu


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   ELI

Other names   :  ? 

Official no.     :  ?

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :   ?

Specs              :   ?

Date of loss    :  1887, Nov 14

Place of loss   :  near Ashtabula, OH

Lake                :  Erie

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  9

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              :  Reported foundered in a heavy SW gale. Worth about $12,000, with cargo.

Sources            :    sb,h


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  ELISE - See  WEXFORD    


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  ELITE

Other names   :  none

Official no.     : C96880

Type at loss    :  propeller steam tug, wood

Build info       :  1894, Goderich, Ont.

Specs              :  60x15x6,  36gt

Date of loss    :  1933, Sep 23

Place of loss   :  at dock at Jennie Island, Georgian Bay

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      : ?

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : Burned to the waterline

Rebuilt at Wiarton, 1916

Sources            :   mmgl,slh,h,hr


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  ELIZA

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  8248

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  1868, Pierson, Spring Lake. MI

Specs              :  53x15x6, 30g  28n

Date of loss    :  1890, Jul 1

Place of loss   :  unknown

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    : went missing

Loss of life      :  3 [all]

Carrying         :  sand

Detail              : Left Chicago for Milwaukee in July, never arrived. The son of Capt Hanson would not give up the search for his father, and the boat was not given up for lost until October. Master: Capt Hanson(d).

Capsized near Milwaukee in May, 1883.

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


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  ELIZA CAROLINE

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  7414

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  1851, D. Dibble, Sandusky, OH

Specs              :  45x14x6  33g  (21n)

Date of loss    :  1871, Sep 20

Place of loss   :  off Madison Point

Lake                : Michigan (also given as L. Erie)

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : She was driven ashore by a gale. Towed off the beach by U.S. Revenue Cutter SHERMAN on the 28th, but sank shortly afterwards. Homeport: Cleveland

Badly damaged in a stranding at Rondeau, Ont., Lake Erie, in September, 1867.

Sources            :   mv,www,hgl,nsp


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   ELIZABETH - See also ASP


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   ELIZABETH

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  C none

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  ?

Specs              :  “small”

Date of loss    :  1820, Nov 10

Place of loss   :  near Conneaut, Ohio

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  3 [all]

Carrying         :  luggage

Detail              : This early schooner foundered in a gale, her two crew and one woman passenger perishing.

Owned out of Ashtabula, O.; master: Capt. Napier(d). Compare this report with ASP and ZEPHYR.

Sources            :   nsp,rp,hgl,wmn


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   ELIZABETH

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  C none

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  1854, R. Robinson, Portsmouth, Ont.

Specs              :  88x17x7,  104 t.

Date of loss    :  1857, Jun 29

Place of loss   :  Between False Ducks and Nine Mile Point

Lake                :  Ontario

Type of loss    :  foundered

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  pig iron

Detail              :  She sprang a leak and foundered with little warning. Her crewmen saved themselves in the small boat.

Sources            :    nsp,hgl,


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  ELIZABETH

Other names   :  none

Official no.     : C none?

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  1865, Broders, Owen Sound

Specs              :  65 t.

Date of loss    :  1873, Oct 29

Place of loss   :  Christian Isl, Georgian Bay

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      : none

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : Stranded and a total loss “due to stress of weather.”

Sources            :   win,clu ,wmn                    not in mmgl


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  ELIZABETH

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  36201

Type at loss    :  scow-schooner, wood

Build info       :  1866, J. Miller, Swan Creek, MI

Specs              :  51x16x4  23 t.

Date of loss    :  1882, fall

Place of loss   :  near Detour, MI

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      : ?

Carrying         :  coal

Detail              : She was sunk by a gale  near the entrance to the St. Mary's R. She was abandoned a several efforts to release her failed. Her document was surrendered at Port Huron Dec 15, 1883, annotated  "wrecked", shown in 1884 Merchant Vessels of the U.S. as "lost or otherwise out of service."

Also stranded on Georgian Bay in 1872 and recovered.

Sources            :   mv,slh,h,phr,jb,hr


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   ELIZABETH

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  135939

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

Build info       :  1887,  Ole Nelson,  Sturgeon Bay

Specs              :  51x15x4,  25g

Date of loss    :  1905, Oct 19

Place of loss   :  at Menominee, Mich

Lake                :  Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none of 2

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              :  She collided with the pier at Menominee in a gale and became a total loss. Had been stranded in a storm mear Peshtigo less than a month earlier. Out of Sturgeon Bay.

Sources            :    wgts,mv,hr

 

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  ELK

Other names   : none

Official no.     :  136333

Type at loss    :  propeller steam  tug, wood

Build info       :  1892, F. A. Kirby, Grand Haven, MI

Specs              :  60x11x4,  28g  14n

Date of loss    :  1895, Nov 26

Place of loss   :  Buffalo Harbor

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    :  collision

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  none

Detail              : Rammed and cut in two by the Western Liner SYRACUSE when the latter was being towed into the harbor in strong winds.

Built as a fish tug.

Sources            :   nsp,mv,hr


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   ELLEN

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  C

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 2-mast

Build info       :  1846, Chas. Lee, Hamilton, Ont.

Specs              :  95x17x7, 96 t.

Date of loss    :  1848, Oct 28

Place of loss   :  near Wellington, Ont.

Lake                :  Ontario

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  9[all]

Carrying         :  none

Detail              :  Reported wrecked and a total loss, driven on the beach while trying to beat offshore. When the wind changed suddenly she was capsized and driven in. She had left Kingston on the 28th, bound for Wellington to take on a load of fish from the beach. Besides her crew of 7, two men who were helping to load  her were drowned. Owned by E. Browne & Co. of Hamilton. Master: Capt. George Law.

Sources            :  hr,hgl,mmgl,wmn

 

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  ELLEN

Other names   : ?

Official no.     :  none

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, (2-mast)

Build info       :  (1846, S.W. Turner, Cleveland)

Specs              :  (63x17x6,  61 t. [om])

Date of loss    :  1856, Nov

Place of loss   :  Black River Island, just S. of  Thunder Bay, MI

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    : storm

Loss of life      : none

Carrying         :  barrelled fish

Detail              : Bound Thunder Bay for Detroit, she dragged onto a reef in a gale and pounded to pieces, a total loss. Her cargo was lightered off and saved. Owned by Craig & Co., Detroit

Sources            :   slh,hgl,(wl),rnc,air


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  G. ELLEN

Other names   :  none  also seen as ELLEN G

Official no.     :  10194

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

Build info       :  1854, Hicks, Detroit

Specs              :  92x22x6,   85g  81n.

Date of loss    :  1901, Sep 16

Place of loss   :  off Milwaukee

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none of 4

Carrying         :  wood

Detail              : She had battled a storm for two days before the schooner started to break up. Crewmen lashed themselves to the cabin roof  to keep from being washed away. Big steamer NYACK spotted them, coming alee to haul them aboard in a thrilling rescue.  Out of Racine,  owner and master: Capt. Martin Nelson.

Sources            :   nsp,bb,rsl,wl,mv,hr


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   ELLINGTON

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  7235

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 2-mast

Build info       :  1847, J. Keating, Vermilion, OH

Specs              :  102x22x9, 143 t.

Date of loss    :  1873, late Oct

Place of loss   :  at Buffalo

Lake                :  Erie

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  all

Carrying         :  stone blocks

Detail              :  She struck the breakwater in a storm and sank in the harbor. She was deemed too overaged to rescue.

Sunk by a collision near Toledo in 1869.

She was one of the first vessels of the Bradley fleet.

Sources            :  nsp,hgl,’69mv,wl


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  ELLA ELLINWOOD

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  8604

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 3-mast (some sources show her as a two-master)

Build info       :  1869, Dixon, E. Saginaw, MI

Specs              :  106x26x9  157g  150n

Date of loss    :  1901, Sep 29

Place of loss   :  between Fox Point & Port Washington, WI

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  lumber & bark

Detail              : She went into the shallows in smoke on the 21st, then broke up in a storm on Oct 24. Her crew reached land safely, even after the yawl capsized in surf near shore. Owner: Thomas Flagstad, Montague, Mich.

This is probably the wreck shown in Great Lakes Pilot as lying 3.5 mi N of Fox Pt. in 12 ft. of water.

Sources            :   nsp,glp,vbs,nsp,ns1,sbs,h,lmdc,modoc


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  R.R. ELLIOTT

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  56349

Type at loss    :  schooner-barge, wood - built as a sidewheel tug

Build info       :  1854, Zadoc Pangburn (sic), Marine City, MI*

Specs              :  162x28x9, 254 t.

Date of loss    :  1872, Sep 18

Place of loss   :  9 mi ENE of Port Burwell, Ont.

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : She was torn loose from her tow steamer DUNKIRK and sank in a gale. In company with FORESTER(qv). Document surrendered at Port Huron Nov 7, 1877, annotated "wrecked, 9-18-72." Owner: Parks, Bay City.

 *Marine City list gives Bushnell & McCarney as builders, nsp gives Keane, this is from registration.

 Converted from steamer to barge in 1866.

Sources            :   nsp,h,hmc,mv,win,lhl,phr,hgl,rsl


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  ELLSWORTH - see COLONEL ELLSWORTH


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  LEM ELLSWORTH

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  140062

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, bulk freight

Build info       :  1874, Wolfe & Davidson, Milwaukee

Specs              :  138x26x11, 340g  323n

Date of loss    :  1894, May 18

Place of loss   :  midlake 30-40 mi NNE of Chicago.

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  7 [all]

Carrying         :  stone blocks

Detail              : Bound for Chicago from Portage, Mich., Lake Superior, she foundered in a gale at an unrecorded position. Possibly overloaded,  she was last seen in the Straits 2 days previous, riding low in the water. Her battered yawl was found off Kenosha 8 days later, and was the only evidence of her ever found. It contained a bunch of keys belonging to the captain, leading to the belief that the crew had abandoned ship. Owned by Henry Wineman, Jr., Detroit. Master: Capt. John Wilson(d).

Went ashore with heavy damage and the loss of one life, near Oswego, in November, 1880.

Rebuilt in 1879.

Sources            :  is,h,mv,nsp,hgl,osdo,mpl,rp,es


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   S. S. ELLSWORTH

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  23796

Type at loss    :  propeller, wood, bulk freight "steambarge"

Build info       :  1869, Geneva, NY as a schooner-rigged canal boat

Specs              :  117x18x8,  136g*

Date of loss    :  1877, Jul 10

Place of loss   :   SE point of Stony Isl.

Lake                :  Ontario

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  none

Detail              :  She had dropped a group of excursionist/campers off at the island and was at anchor for the night when she caught fire, probably in the kitchen. She burned to a total loss and sank in 21 feet of water.  In 1879 her  machinery was recovered, but the boat itself fell apart when an attempt was made to raise her. The engine and gear went into the new steambarge THOMPSON  KINGSFORD, built for Mattoon in 1880. Owned by Abner Mattoon, Oswego.

Built with an Erie Canal-boat hull, she went to the south via the canal and Hudson River in 1871. Registered out of Savannah, Ga. to A. Mattoon, Oswego, 1871-2 for lumbering in   Florida and to satisfy a land claim. Came back to the lakes in 1872.

Rebuilt from a schooner-rigged canal boat to a steambarge at Oswego in 1873, using the engine and boiler  from the burned tug GEORGE  S. DODGE (qv).

*originally 92x18x9, 114g, enlarged in 1873

Sources            :    rp,wl,mv,wmhs,cpl,wmn

 

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   ELM CITY

Other names   :  built as Canadian schooner EUNICE ANN, renamed before 1861

Official no.     :  US

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

Build info       :  1849,  Foster, Port Rowan or Walsingham, Ont.

Specs              :  81x20x6, 74 t.

Date of loss    :  1866, May 27

Place of loss   :  at Erie, PA

Lake                :  Erie

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  800 bbl water lime

Detail              :  Bound Port Dover, Ont, to Erie, Pa., she caught fire and burned to a total loss. MAY have been recovered, gone into Canadian regsitry again, lost at Conneaut in 1867.

Owned by Foster & Co, Erie, Pa.

Sold American between 1861

Rebuilt at Buffalo in 1859,  major repairs '62

Sources            : nsp,hgl,mmgl,wmn,wl

 

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  ELMA

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  8895

Type at loss    :  schooner-barge, wood, 2-mast [built as 3-mast schooner]

Build info       :  1873, D Lester, Marine City, MI

Specs              :  165x30x11  401g  381n

Date of loss    :  1895, Sep 28

Place of loss   :  on Pictured Rocks, near Munising, MI

Lake                : Superior

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  1

Carrying         :  lumber

Detail              : She was in tow of the steamer P.H. BIRCKHEAD with 2 other barges. The tow was broken up, and soon after ELMA's steering was disabled and she was cast ashore under Miner's Castle. One crewman died trying to take a rope ashore. Another finally made it and sat shivering all night on the rocks, holding on to the rescue line. The rest of her crew came ashore in the morning.

Sources            :   nsp,ms,gwgl,glss,sol,h,wb,lss,hgl


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   ELMIRA

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  none

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :   1852, Black R., Ohio

Specs              :   76 t.

Date of loss    :  1866, Aug 8

Place of loss   :  Genesee River, Genesee, NY

Lake                :  Ontario

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none mentioned

Carrying         :  stave bolts

Detail              :  She struck a pier while attempting to make the harbor in a storm, sank and was reported a total loss of  $3,400, vessel & cargo. Locals broke out a lifeboat and rescued her crew from her rigging. She had been bound Toronto for Genesee. Out of Racine, owned by J. Muehler.

Also sunk on Lake Erie in 1855.

Sources            :    nsp,wmn,jm,hr

 

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  ELMIRA

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  7335

Type at loss    :  propeller, wood

Build info       :  1856, Lafrinier & Stevenson, Cleveland

Specs              :  180x28x11,  781g  599n

Date of loss    :  1878, Nov 30

Place of loss   :  at Dunnville, Ont.

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      : none

Carrying         :  none

Detail              :  A fire was discovered in her at about two a.m. at her winter layup qaurters. Local firefighters arrived and were able to extinguish the cabins, but could not reach the fire below decks due to heavy smoke from her burning bunker coal. She was towed from Taylor's dock to a point a short way below, where she slowly burned to a total loss. She was a loss of $11,000. Out of Bay City, MI, owned by E. B. Knight. Document surrendered Jun 30, 1879, annotated "Burned in 1878." Her wreckage may have been located in 1999.

Major repairs in 1862.

Sources            :   phr,lhl,mpl,es,wl,waw


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   ELMIRA

Other names   :  built as EDWARD SMITH, renamed G. A. MITCHELL in 1918,

renamed ELMIRA in 1925

Official no.     :  135660

Type at loss    :  propeller, wood, bulk freight

Build info       :  1883, George King [Koenig], Marine City, MI

Specs              :  194x33x17,  700g  523n

Date of loss    :  1930, Jun 13

Place of loss   :  Boyne City, MI, Lake Charlevoix [Pine Lake], MI

Lake                :  Michigan

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      :  ?

Carrying         :  (lumber?)

Detail              :  She burned to a total loss. Her remains were scrapped in 1933.

Owned by Wolverine Steamship Co.

Sources            :  eas,ns4,mv,hcgl


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  C.W. ELPHICKE

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  126568

Type at loss    :  propeller, wood, bulk freight

Build info       :  1889, Craig Shipbuilding, Trenton, MI  hull# 39

Specs              :  274x42x20  2059g  1703n

Date of loss    :  1913, Oct 21

Place of loss   :  Long Point, S of lighthouse at tip

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  wheat

Detail              : Driven on the point in a gale, she broke in two and sank in shallow water. 7 crew made it to shore in her boat, Lifesavers took  the other 12 off. Master: Capt. A. B. Comins. Owner: Buckeye Steamship Co. Wreck lies in 24 ft of water, 1.2 mi, 229 deg from Long Pt. light.

Sources            :  do2,eas,glp,ttgl,sol,ns2,mv,mpl,hcgl,ewe


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  ELVINA

Other names   :  none  somettimes seen as ALVINA

Official no.     :  8263

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

Build info       :  1868, Field, Sacket's Harbor, NY  as a schooner

Specs              :  138x26x11  297g  282n

Date of loss    :  1901, Oct 13*

Place of loss   :  off Thunder Bay Isl., Mich

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         : 700 bbl lubricating oil

Detail              :  Bound Cleveland for Manistique, Mich. in tow of steamer A. WESTON, she was overwhelmed by a storm and sank. Her crew abandoned her in the  yawl and  made it to shore unaided. Her cargo was salvaged by the 17th. Owner: Capt. Wm. Dulac, Mt. Clemens, Mi.

*some sources say Oct 3, this date is from newspapers

Major repair, 1882

Sources            :   nsp,stb,slh,ns1,mv,hr

 

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  GEORGE H. ELY

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  85147

Type at loss    :  barge or schooner-barge, wood

Build info       :  1871, E. Fitzgerald, Port Huron, MI

Specs              :  181x33x13,  649 gt

Date of loss    :  1882, Oct 12

Place of loss   :  near Detour, MI

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  coal

Detail              : Tow of tug J.W. BENNETT*, she struck bottom in heavy weather, swamped and sank in shallow water just inside Detour Point. Later she broke in two and was given up as a total loss Nov 10.

Owned by Pennington and others of Cleveland

*or H. B. TUTTLE.  She and  the prop  TUTTLE  were built as a steamer/consort.

Sources            :   nsp,slh,phr,hgl,mv


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  GRACE ELY

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  85631

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  1880, Marquette, MI

Specs              :  37x13x6,  12gt.

Date of loss    :  1885, Sep

Place of loss   :  off Little Presque Isle, MI

Lake                : Superior

Type of loss    : poor stowage

Loss of life      :  1

Carrying         :  ? (limestone?)

Detail              : Tow of tug MYSTIC, she capsized due to poor stowage and trimming of her cargo. Thought to be a total loss, but later recovered; final disposition unknown.

Sources            :   mv,hr


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  SAMUEL P. ELY

Other names   :  none  also seen as S.P. ELY

Official no.     :  23780

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

Build info       :  1869, J.P. Clark, Detroit as a schooner

Specs              :  200x32x14  627g  596n

Date of loss    :  1896, Oct 29

Place of loss   :  harbor entrance at Two Harbors, MN

Lake                : Superior

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  light

Detail              : Tow of steamer HESPER, she went out of control and was lost from tow. She crashed into a contractor's scow and then wrecked on the breakwater. An heroic rescue by the tug ELLA G. STONE saved her 11 crew.

Once part of the Bradley Fleet.

Major repairs  1879, 82

Sources            :  gwgl,lss,mv,hgl,net,hcgl,nsp


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   ELYRIA

Other names   :  also seen as ELYNA

Official no.     :  7323

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  1867, Black R., OH

Specs              :  84 t.

Date of loss    :  1870, Oct 30

Place of loss   :  near Erie, PA

Lake                :  Erie

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  2

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              :  She wrecked  near the beach on the northern shore of the peninsula in a gale. Two sailors from the Revenue Cutter COMMODORE PERRY drowned when their small boat swamped during an attempt to rescue ELYRIA’s crew. She was abandoned Nov 8.

Sources            :    nsp,hgl,mv


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  EMBLEM - See  OLIVIA     


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  EMBURY

Other names   :  built as COLIN CAMPBELL, renamed in 1901

Official no.     :  5719

Type at loss    :  propeller, wood, bulk freight

Build info       :  1869, Linn & Craig, Gibraltar, MI

Specs              :  159x30x11  373g  280n

Date of loss    :  1903, Dec 4

Place of loss   :  at Tonawanda, NY

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  lumber

Detail              : Destroyed by fire at Grand Isl. on the Niagara R., where she sank and was abandoned. Her crew escaped without casualty.

Owned by W.L. Martin of Cheboygan. Master: Capt. Curran.

Major repairs in 1881, 82

Sources            :   nsp,ns1,mv,mpl,hcgl


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  EMELINE

Other names   :  also seen as EMILINE*

Official no.     :  7492

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 3-mast

Build info       :  1862, M. Williams, Vicksburg, MI

Specs              :  111x22x7  128g  122n

Date of loss    :  1896, Aug 8

Place of loss   :  25 mi S of Bailey's Harbor, WI

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  none

Carrying         :  bark

Detail              : She capsized, was driven ashore near Algomah, WI, by a gale and wrecked.  Her crew was at first reported lost, but made it to shore in her yawl. She was broken up by the following spring and was dynamited as a hazard to navigation in 1903. Master: Capt. Abrahamson.

Rebuilt and enlarged at Detroit in 1864.  Major repairs in 1872, 78 & 80.

 *her actual name was probably spelled EMILINE, though official records show her the other way.

Sources            :   nsp,h,wb,hgl,bb,wgts,hr


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  EMERALD

Other names   :  none

Official no.     : C none

Type at loss    :  sidewheel steamer, wood (some newspapers describe her as a tug)

Build info       :  1844, Chippawa, Ont.

Specs              :  132x20x9, ca. 96 t.

Date of loss    :  1858, Dec 2

Place of loss   :  near Bear Creek, Lake St. Clair

Lake                : St. Clair

Type of loss    : stranded

Loss of life      : none

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : Stranded and abandoned – reported a total loss of $3,000. Recovered and towed to Algonac the next March, but disposition unknown from there. Master: Capt. Poole

Also sunk on St. Clair R. Apr 18, 1855.

Sources            :   rbs,clu,csv,hgl,mmgl,st,wmn


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  EMERALD

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  36340

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

Build info       :  1869, W. Dixon, Bay City, MI  

Specs              :  134x32x9  287g  272n

Date of loss    :  1886, Nov 17

Place of loss   :  off Kewaunee, Wis

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  5

Carrying         :  coal

Detail              : Driven ashore in a gale near Kewaunee when lost from tow of steamer JUSTICE FIELD. She had been in tow with the barges G. W. BISSELL, LOTTIE MAY and FLORENCE M. DICKINSON, of which DICKINSON was also lost. Bound Toledo for Milwaukee. Despite many reports to the contrary, she was recovered by Leatham & Smith, Sturgeon Bay, in August of the following year and used in the stone trade by them until abandoned to sink in Lake Michigan in Nov 29, 1903.

Sank on Saginaw River in 1880, recovered the next year.

Rebuilt in 1875

Sources            :   nsp,lmdc,vbs,osdo,hgl,sb,mpl,mv,wgts


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  EMERALD

Other names   :  none

Official no.     : C ?

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  1872, Hardison, Port Colborne  as a bark*

Specs              :  139x26x12, 344gc  322nc

Date of loss    :  1903, Nov 23

Place of loss   :  under Scarborough Bluffs, E of Toronto

Lake                : Ontario

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  all [8]

Carrying         :  coal

Detail              : Bound Charlotte for Toronto, she foundered with all hands while trying to ride out a gale under The Bluffs. Her loss was unknown for 6 days. Master: Capt. McMaster.

Major repairs in 1882.

*St. Catharines, same year also given

Sources            :   nsp,ns1,h,lmdc,vbs,osdo,hgl,sb,mpl,hr


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  EMERALD

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  8253

Type at loss    :  propeller, wood, bulk freight "rabbit"

Build info       :  1863, Hinman, Algonac, MI

Specs              :  144x23x9  216g  154n

Date of loss    :  1909, Nov 13

Place of loss   :  Thunder Bay Island, E of Alpena, MI

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      : ?

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : Driven ashore and broken up by big waves.

In Nov of 1901 she was abandoned in a November gale and drifted around L Huron for nearly a week before being

picked up by the steamer WESTFORD.

Document surrendered at Marquette in 1903, the vessel reported as "abandoned, unfit for further service."

Sources            :   nsp,ns1,mv,mpl,hcgl


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  EMERALD

Other names   :  none

Official no.     : C85417

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 3-mast

Build info       :  1872, G. Hardison, Port Colborne, Ont.

Specs              :  139x29x12, 343gc  322nc

Date of loss    :  1911, Nov 29

Place of loss   :  unknown

Lake                : Ontario

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  all [ca 6]

Carrying         :  coal

Detail              : Went missing in a gale. No wreckage or bodies ever found.

Sources            :   mmgl,ns2


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  W.J. EMERSON

Other names   :  none

Official no.     : C107133

Type at loss    :  propeller steam tug, wood

Build info       :  1900, Goderich, Ont.

Specs              :  66x13, 28gc 19nc

Date of loss    :  1933, Oct

Place of loss   :  off Light number 10, near Bennett Isl. [also shown asShaganash Isl.]

Lake                : Superior

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      :  (none)

Carrying         :  none

Detail              : Burned and sank.

Sources            :   mmgl,lss,do,rf


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  H.A. EMERY

Other names   :  none

Official no.     : 95913

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  1887, J. Kelly, W. Bay City

Specs              :  73x19x6  67g  64n

Date of loss    :  1899, Aug 6

Place of loss   :  at Harbor Beach, MI

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      : none

Carrying         :  lumber

Detail              :  After having missed the entrance and  foundered while attempting to enter harbor in storm, the vessel  and cargo were declared a total loss.

Launched into Howe's Slip, W. Bay City, and sank there in 1895,  raised in 1897.

Sources            :  is,slh,h,lhdc,phr,vbs,nsp


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  W.Y. EMERY

Other names   :  also seen as W. J. EMERY, above is official

Official no.     : C71280

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 2-mast

Build info       :  1867, H. Dakin, Port Burwell, Ont.

Specs              :  104x25x11, 154 gc 154 nc

Date of loss    :  1899, Sep 26

Place of loss   :  1.5 mi off the mouth of Bear Creek, near Pultneyville, NY

Lake                : Ontario

Type of loss    : storm

Loss of life      : none of 10

Carrying         :  soft coal

Detail              : Foundered enroute Charlotte, NY for Kingston, Ont after springing a leak in a gale. The tug PROCTOR came to her rescue and saved the crew just as the ship went down. Master: Capt. William Mitchell. Registered out of Toronto

Some sources show her lost Sep 20.

Sources            :   mmgl,h,win,rp,jmk


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   EMIGRANT

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  none

Type at loss    :  brig, wood, 2-mast

Build info       :  1843, D. W. Jones, Cleveland as a propeller brig

Specs              :  118x26x9,  250 t. om

Date of loss    :  1845, Oct 4

Place of loss   :  Avon Point, near Cleveland

Lake                :  Erie

Type of loss    :  (storm)

Loss of life      :  ?

Carrying         :  iron,  200 t. coal, 100 t.iron nails

Detail              :  Upbound from Cleveland, she was reported lost on Avon Point in various sources. Owned by Pease & Allen, Cleveland. Master: Capt. John Munson.

One of the earliest propeller vessels, her engine was removed after only two seasons of service and she was relaunched as a brig, then lost the same season.

Sources            :    nsp,hgl,wl,wmn,bb


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  EMILINE - See EMELINE


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  EMILY

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  none

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

Build info       :  1826, St. Clair R.

Specs              :  54x15x5,  34 t.

Date of loss    :  1830, Dec 15

Place of loss   :  unreported

Lake                : St Clair*

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      :  7 of 12

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : Wrecked in a gale. Part of her crew was able to make it to a nearby island, but could do nothing to save the remaining crew.

One of earliest commercial losses on L. St. Clair.

*also given as near Port Huron, St. Clair R.

This may be the vessel that the poem "The Loss of the Jules  LaPlante" is based upon.

Sources            :   sol,h,hgl,mpl,wl


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  EMILY

Other names   : C

Official no.     :  none

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood

Build info       :  ?

Specs              :  109 t.

Date of loss    :  1852

Place of loss   :  at Grand River, Ont.

Lake                : Erie

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      : ?

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : Wrecked.

Reported blown down and lost with all hands in the Nov 18 storm of 1842, but actually made it to port with minimal damage. Bound for Cleveland with wheat.

Sources            :  is(2-67),hgl,nsp


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  EMILY

Other names   :  sometimes seen as C. EMILY

Official no.     :  C none

Type at loss    :  schooner, wood, 2-mast

Build info       :  1850, G. Ford, Goderich

Specs              :  52x12x6,  30 t.

Date of loss    :  1862, Oct 4

Place of loss   :  near Sandy Island, Georgian Bay

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      : none

Carrying         :  lumber, 4 horses

Detail              : Sheltering from a gale behind Sandy Island, she was beset by rapidly changing winds, which finally broke her chains and sent her on the rocks. The captain swam 1/4 mile ashore with a rope in his teeth, by which the crew were rescued. The horses later came ashore by themselves. Hailed from Owen Sound, but probably owned in Goderich.

She was reportedly engaged exclusively in the coasting trade.

May have suffered an earlier wreck on Georgian Bay in 1858

Sources            :   slh,hgl,wmn

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  EMILY AND ELIZA

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  36582

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

Build info       :  1878, Anspaugh Bros., Oak Harbor, OH

Specs              :  78x21x5  64g  60n

Date of loss    :  1910, Sep 9

Place of loss   :  Platte Bay, near Sleeping Bear.

Lake                : Michigan

Type of loss    :  storm

Loss of life      : none

Carrying         :  cedar fence posts

Detail              : She was wrecked near the mouth of Otter Creek while taking on lumber. Owned by the House of David religious sect out of Benton Harbor, Mich.

First operated by Anspaugh Bros out of Port Clinton, OH.

Carries the official no. of unrigged barge, maybe built as such

Sources            :  eas,ssb,mv,nb,mpl,lotl


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  RHODA EMILY - See CREAM CITY


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  EMMA

Other names   :  none

Official no.     :  8608

Type at loss    :  sidewheel steamer, wood

Build info       :  1864, Chicago

Specs              :  41x12x6,  21 t.

Date of loss    :  1868, Sep

Place of loss   :  at Bay City, Saginaw River

Lake                : Huron

Type of loss    :  fire

Loss of life      : none

Carrying         :  ?

Detail              : No detail. Document