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David D. Swayze,
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beginning with the letter
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Other names :
built as CITY OF
Official no. : C71152
Type at loss :
propeller, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info :
1872, A Robertson, Hamilton, Ont.
Specs :
132x24x12, 651g 403n
Date of loss :
1880, Nov 7 or 6
Place of loss : off
Long Point, S of Prince Edward Bay, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss :
storm
Loss of life :
14 or 16
Carrying :
wheat and flour
Detail : Bound Toronto for Montreal, she
opened her seams and foundered in a
storm, apparently very quickly. Her skipper, the famous Capt. Edward Zealand,
had saved for his entire career to purchase and rebuild her prior to the accident.
He was lost with her. It was not known that she had been lost until the
schooner MAY TAYLOR came upon a field a flotsam and her smashed lifeboat on the
9th. The vessel was a loss of $43,000.
Salvagers found
her hull W of Nicholson Isl. while searching for the tug PALMER in 1899.
Burned at her dock
at Hamilton, Ont, in Jun, 1873, nearly to a total loss.
Rebuilt, 1879
Sources :
csqw,mmgl,csv,slh,sol,h,nsp,dmt
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ZENITH CITY
Other names :
none
Official no. :
28129
Type at loss :
propeller, steel, bulk freight
Build info :
1895, Chicago Shipbuilding, Chicago
Specs :
388x48x23, 3850g 3429n
Date of loss :
1916,
Place of loss :
Hammond Bay, Straits of Mackinac
Lake : Huron
Type of loss :
storm
Loss of life :
none
Carrying :
?
Detail : She sank in a storm. Initially
declared a total loss, but later was recovered and lasted until 1947.
Sources :
mv,slh,gwgl,is
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ZENOBIA
Other names :
none
Official no. :
none
Type at loss :
schooner, wood
Build info :
1857, D. M. O'Connor, (Buffalo?)
Specs :
368 t. [om]
Date of loss :
1858, Oct 8
Place of loss : on
Pt. Betsie
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss :
storm
Loss of life :
none
Carrying : 16,000 bu corn
Detail :
This schooner was caught in a storm, driven ashore and wrecked, a total
loss. The crew clung to the hulk for three days until they were able to make it
to shore and report her loss. She had been three days out of Chicago, bound for
Buffalo. Owned by E. K. Bruce, Chicago.
Sources :
nsp,hgl
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ZEPHYR
Other names :
none
Official no. :
none
Type at loss :
schooner, wood
Build info :
1808, Cleveland*
Specs :
45 t.
Date of loss :
1820, Nov (10)
Place of loss : ca.
12 mi E of Ashtabula, Oh
Lake : Erie
Type of loss :
storm
Loss of life :
10 to 12 [all]
Carrying :
salt, general merchandise,passengers
Detail :
Bound Ashtabula for Sandusky, she was driven down the lake and came
ashore near the Pennsylvania/Ohio line. All aboard perished. Master: Capt.
Napier(d)
*Reportedly the
first vessel built at Cleveland.
Sources :
nsp,rp,hgl,wmn
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ZEPHYR
Other names :
none
Official no. :
28018
Type at loss :
schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info :
1857, G. Cantair, Detroit
Specs :
101x23x9, 144 t.
Date of loss :
1869, Jun 10
Place of loss : 15 mi E of
Long Point
Lake : Erie
Type of loss :
storm
Loss of life :
none
Carrying :
250 t. coal
Detail :
Bound for Detroit from Buffalo and fighting a gale, she sprang a leak
and sank. Her crew abandoned in her boat and made it to Grand River, Ont. after
a long 18 hour pull. She went down in 25 fathoms (150 feet) of water. Unlikely
she was recovered, though she still shows on some later lists.
Sources :
nsp,mv,hgl,wl,wmn
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ZILLAH
Other names :
built as prop EDWARD SMITH, renamed in 1900
Official no. :
136106
Type at loss :
propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info :
1890, F. Wheeler, W. Bay City
hull# 67
Specs :
201x37x13, 748g 583n
Date of loss :
1926, Aug 29
Place of loss :
Whitefish Bay
Lake : Superior
Type of loss :
storm
Loss of life :
none
Carrying :
limestone
Detail : She began to leak in a summer
storm. She coasted in a circle as the crew gathered what belongings they could,
then rolled over and sank while steamer WILLIAM B. SCHILLER stood by to take
off her people, with help from the U.S. Coast Guard.
Wreck located in
1975.
Sources :
vbs,phr,mv,rkr,lssc,gwgl,lss,ns3,mpl,m&h,eas
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ZIMMERMAN
Other names :
none
Official no. : C
none
Type at loss :
sidewheel steamer, wood
Build info :
1854, L. Shickluna, Niagara, Ont.
Specs :
200x28x9, 475 t.
Date of loss :
1863, Aug 21
Place of loss :
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss :
fire
Loss of life :
2
Carrying :
?
Detail : Caught fire at about 2 a.m. and
burned to total destruction alongside her dock. The destruction by fire was
nearly complete, even the engine and boiler being damaged beyond repair after
falling through the hull.
She was a crack
steamer, considered the fastest on western Lake Ontario. She was valued at
£15,000 when built.
Rebuilt in 1856 at
Oswego.
Sources :
mmgl,csv,clu,hgl,mpl,ssnr,nsp,rnc
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ZOUAVE
Other names :
none
Official no. :
28021
Type at loss :
propeller steam tug, wood
Build info :
1861, B.B. Jones, Milwaukee
Specs :
97x20x8, 117g 80nt
Date of loss :
1881, early spring
Place of loss :
prob near Mooretown, Ont.
Lake : St. Clair R.
Type of loss : wrecked
Loss of life : ?
Carrying :
?
Detail :
No detail. May have been abandoned to sink a few years earlier or
wrecked. Document surrendered at Port Huron, Nov 30, 1881. Wrecker Capt. P.
Williams reportedly purchased her in May of 1881 to remove her machinery for
sale. It went into the steambarge C. N. PRATT(qv).
Wrecked and sunk
by a boiler explosion near the outlet of Lake St. Clair on May 25, 1862, with
the loss of 4 lives. Her wreckage was struck by several vessels including the
prop CHICAGO, before she was raised a few weeks later. Totally rebuilt and
enlarged afterwards.
Major repairs in
1870.
Sources :
nsp,st,rsl,wl,es,bb,wmn