B. et T. -
See GILLY


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B.C. & Co.

Other names : ?
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : barge, wood
Build info : ?
Specs : ?
Date of loss : 1870
Place of loss : Saginaw R. at Saginaw
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : "sank"
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : no detail
Sources: slh,hgl not in ‘69 mv


------------------------------------------------------3423
F.W. BACKUS

Other names : built as EARL CATHCART, renamed in 1852
Official no. : none
Type at loss : propeller, wood
Build info : 1846, E Bates, Amherstburg, Ont
Specs : 133x25x9, 289 t.[om]
Date of loss : 1866, Nov 25
Place of loss : off Racine, WI (also given in error as near Chicago or Milwaukee)
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none - those aboard included nine passengers
Carrying : hay, horses and cattle
Detail : Discovered to be afire offshore and run to the beach, where her passengers and crew disembarked.. The tug DAISY LEE towed her out while she was still burning, with the intention of scuttling her, but was unable to do so. After she burned through her towline she drifted back to shore and burned to the waterline. Her live cargo was pushed overboard while she was still well out, but they all swam safely to shore.
Probably owned by C.S. Hubbard, Chicago
Builder Bates was from Milan, OH, but built her in Canada.
Seized by U.S. for violation of shipping laws in 1852 and became an American bottom.
Rebuilt in 1861, repaired in 1865.
Sources: hgl,lhl,mpl,bb,rsl,nsp


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MELVIN S. BACON

Other names : none
Official no. : 90657
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1874, J. Squires, Vermilion, OH
Specs : 182x34x14 615g 584n
Date of loss : 1915, Nov 16
Place of loss : near Grassy Island
Lake : Detroit R.
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Rammed and sunk by the steamer JOSEPH SELLWOOD, abandoned as a total loss. Recovered, sold Canadian in 1919 and dismantled in 1929. Owned by W. Chapman of Cleveland, former Gilchrist boat at the time of this accident.
Had operated on the eastern seaboard for some years.
Burned and declared total loss after going ashore near Ashland, WI,Sep 24-5, 1905.
Sources: mv,mv,nsp,lss,eas,hcgl


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BADGER

Other names : none
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : barge, wood*, crane-equipped
Build info : 1914, Marine Iron Works, Duluth
Specs : 140(oa)x36x12
Date of loss : 1929,Nov or Dec
Place of loss : Point Abino, Ont. [near Buffalo]
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : foundered
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Struck bottom and sank while working over wreck of steamer BRITON (qv), raised but declared a constructive total loss.
*constructed of fir, one of the few
Sources: ns3


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BADGER STATE

Other names : none
Official no. : 2134
Type at loss : bark, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1853, James M. Jones, Milwaukee (often seen in error as Buffalo)
Specs : 150x28x12, 302 t
Date of loss : 1870, Nov 16
Place of loss : off Sleeping Bear Pt.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 240 cords wood
Detail : Bound Grand Traverse Bay for Chicago, she stranded and wrecked on the tip of Sleeping Bear dune.
Built on a salt-water model. Rebuilt and strengthened in 1862
Homeport: Chicago
Sources: nb,smi,hgl, soundings,nsp,rsl


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BADGER STATE

Other names : none
Official no. : 2111
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1862, Mason & Bidwell, Buffalo
Specs : 213x33x17 802g 494n
Date of loss : 1909, Dec 6
Place of loss : at Marine City, MI
Lake : St Clair R
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : 15
Carrying : ?
Detail : Caught fire at her dock. After firefighters could not contain the blaze, she was cut loose and drifted to Fawn Isl, where she burned herself out.
Built as a passenger steamer, converted to a floating pool hall for a couple of years around 1905-6, until purchased by H. M. Loud's Sons Co. in May, 1906, and converted to a lumber boat.
Sources: eas,slh,sol,ns1,ledc,mv,mpl,nsp,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------215
BADGER STATE

Other names : ?
Official no. : 224114
Type at loss : tug, oil screw
Build info : 1924, Marinette, WI
Specs : 45 t
Date of loss : 1939, Nov 9
Place of loss : off Northport, MI, Grand Traverse Bay [also given as Northport, WI]
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : none
Detail : Foundered off Northport.
Sources: sol,h,mpl


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HORACE H. BADGER

Other names : built as schooner KATE GILLETT last name in 1882. Often called H. H. BADGER.
Official no. : 14164
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1867, Miller, Conneaut, OH as 2-mast schooner
Specs : 129x30x10 264g 259n
Date of loss : 1903, Jun 11
Place of loss : Cleveland, OH
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Driven on the breakwater and broken up by storm waves. Crew of 7 rescued by Lifesaving Service.
Ashore and declared lost at Cross Village, MI, September of 1895, and again near Alpena, September, 1896.
Rebuilt in 1882, enlarged, converted 2-mast to 3.
Sources: nsp,ns1,h,mv,ledc,mpl,eas,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------217
BAHAMA

Other names : none
Official no. : 2380
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast, bulk freight
Build info : 1863, Goble, Oswego, NY
Specs : 136x26x13 333g 317n
Date of loss : 1895
Place of loss : off Alpena, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Foundered
Usually used as a towbarge, but rated as a schooner.
Also reported total loss in storm on Huron 9/17/93.
One source says she was lost on Cleveland breakwater in 1903 and another says she was abandoned in 1904.
Sources: phr,osdo,wb,tel,slh,mv


------------------------------------------------------4094
CAROLINE E. BAILEY

Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1855, Bailey, Madison Dock, OH
Specs : 88x21x7, 121 t.
Date of loss : 1867, Oct 31
Place of loss : at Grand Haven, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : (none)
Carrying : ?
Detail : Reported ashore and total loss.
Major repair in 1864
Sources: nsp,rsl,hgl,wl


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DANIEL E. BAILEY -
See IRON CITY


------------------------------------------------------4221
J. E. BAILEY

Other names : none
Official # : 75646
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1874, J. Bailey, Saugatuck, Mich
Specs : 130x26x10, 196g 186n
Date of loss : 1884, Oct (26 or 8)
Place of loss : at Gill's Pier
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : wood
Detail : Went ashore on Gill's Pier and reported a total loss.
Out of Milwaukee
Sources : es,jm,nsp,wmn

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NINA BAILEY

Other names : none
Official no. : 18767
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1873, Ludington, MI
Specs : 30 t
Date of loss : 1880, Nov 1
Place of loss : St. Joseph, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 2
Carrying : none
Detail : Filled and went out of control, striking the North Pier and capsizing. Crewmen climbed up on her keel and were rescued by the Lifesaving Service. She later broke up and became a total loss of $900.
Registered out of Milwaukee.
Sources: nsp,h,usls,mv,bcha


------------------------------------------------------3692
FLORA L. BAINES

Other names : none
Official no. : C71249
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1874, Penetang, Ont.
Specs : 31x8, 9gc 6nc
Date of loss : 1879, Sep 13
Place of loss : off Oakville, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Foundered.
Out of Toronto
Sources: win,mmgl


------------------------------------------------------3303
BAKER
probably W.L. BAKER
Other names : ?
Official no. : (80985)
Type at loss : schooner, wood or dredge
Build info : (1883, Ashtabula, OH)
Specs : (19 g, 18n)
Date of loss : 1890, Nov 8
Place of loss : off Ahnapee, WI [18 mi S of Minorville]
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : ?
Detail : Capsized in gale.
Sources: nsp,mv,hgl,bb,mpl


------------------------------------------------------4258
DAN BAKER

Other names : none
Official no. : 35252
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1869, Dan Hayes, Fairport, Oh
Specs : 61 t.
Date of loss : 1874, Jun 12
Place of loss : off Cedar Point, Oh
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : stone
Detail : Sprung a leak and sunk by a gale near Sandusky. Reported at the end of the year as a toal loss.
Out of Cleveland, owned by Blanchard
Sources: nsp,mv,wl,wmn

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


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TIMOTHY BAKER

Other names : often called TIM BAKER
Official no. : 24156
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1857, S. Ruggles, Milan, OH
Specs : 122x25x10, 224g 215n
Date of loss : 1888, Oct 1
Place of loss : near Pelee Isl.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : all?
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Ashore several miles below "The Dummy" (Bar Point Light). Crew presumed lost. Broke up in a storm on the 8th.
Owned by M. Scott, Marine City
Rebuilt 1867; major repair, 1882.
Sources: mv,nsp,phr,win,h,hgl,es3-1


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H.P. BALDWIN

Other names : none
Official no. : 11199
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1866, J.M. Jones, Detroit, MI as a bark
Specs : 178x33x12 495g 470n
Date of loss : 1908, Aug 27
Place of loss : 1 mi N of Indiana Shoals
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : grain
Detail : Capsized and foundered in a gale. Owned by Great Lakes Dredge & Dock, Chicago.
Heavily damaged in stranding near Cleveland in December 1881.
Stranded at Marblehead, OH, Nov 1893.
Ashore on Kelley’s Isl., May, 1904.
Rebuilt in 1883
Sources: h,ns1,lmdc,mv,usls,mpl


------------------------------------------------------221
S.C. BALDWIN

Other names : none
Official no. : 23957
Type at loss : unrigged barge, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1871, Campbell & Owen, Detroit as propeller bulker hull# 13
Specs : 160x30x11 413g 356n
Date of loss : 1908, Aug 27
Place of loss : Twin River Point, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : stone
Detail : Grounded, capsized and sank in a storm, a total loss. Tow of tug TORRENT.
Known as a "jonah" and had trouble getting crews: Nearly destroyed in an accident, 1876; ashore near Alpena, 1877; damaged in collision in 1894 and burned while awaiting repairs from another accident the same year; stranded in Green Bay in 1903.
Major repairs, 1876, 1877, 1881, 1895; rebuilt 1884. Converted to a barge in 1904.
Sources: nsp,slh,stb,ns1,h,mv,atl,st,mpl,eas,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------281
DANIEL BALL

Other names : none sometimes shown as DANIEL BELL
Official no. : 6199
Type at loss : propeller, wood, freighter
Build info : 1861, Grand Rapids, MI
Specs : 142x21x5 123t
Date of loss : 1876
Place of loss : Saginaw, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Burned to a total loss at Saginaw. Documents surrendered at Port Huron Jan 14, 1879.
Owned by A. Root of E. Saginaw at time of loss
Sources: eas,phr,lhl


------------------------------------------------------4070
M. BALLARD

Other names : also seen as MARY BALLARD
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1855, Stevens & Presley, Cleveland
Specs : 116x25x11, 288 t. om
Date of loss : 1866, Dec (7)
Place of loss : off Galoo Isl., NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 9 or 11[all]
Carrying : wheat
Detail : Reported wrecked and a total loss with all hands.
Owned by her skipper, Capt. Hugh Coyne, of Cleveland. He was lost with her.
Major repairs in 1864.
Sources: nsp,hgl,wl,rsl


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DAVID BALLENTINE -
See QUITO


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BALTIC

Other names : sometime seen as BALTIN
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : brig, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1851, Bear Creek [Wallaceburg], Ont.
Specs : 94x22x9, 152 t.
Date of loss : 1855, Sep (19)
Place of loss : near Port Stanley, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : none
Detail : Went on a reef and destroyed. Her outfit was probably later recovered and used in the rebuilding of the schooner BEAVER in 1857.
Owned by Thomas Walters, out of Port Dover.
Went ashore on Georgian Bay and wrecked in 1853. Rebuilt at Wallaceburg.
May have capsized with loss of her entire crew off Waukegan, Ill, in May of 1852
Sources: mmgl,sagl,hgl,nsp,wmn


------------------------------------------------------222
BALTIC

Other names : none
Official no. : 31044
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1847, Peck & Masters, Buffalo, as steamer, see below
Specs : 224x30x12, 618 t. (825t as prop)
Date of loss : 1872, Sep 29
Place of loss : off Long Point
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 7 [all]
Carrying : ?
Detail : Tow of tug MOORE with 3 other barges in a heavy gale, she broke her towline and tried to set sail, but was overwhelmed. Crew launched her boat but were all drowned.
Some sources show this loss at Thunder Bay, MI , but this is an error..
She was built as a sidewheeler, converted to "side-propeller" in '54, but ran only a year or so, was converted to a conventional prop later (1863?) and to a barge in 1865
Sources: nsp,slh,eas,hgl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------223
BALTIC

Other names : none
Official no. : C
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, 2-mast, bulk freight
Build info : 1867, W. Waterbury, Wellington Sq., Ont.
Specs : 106x22x10, 184g, 164n
Date of loss : 1894, Nov 24
Place of loss : in Oswego, NY, harbor
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : barley
Detail : Collided with wharf and went ashore in a NE gale, where she broke up. The USLS crew anticipated the disaster and had a beach apparatus set up near where she struck. They fired a line over her and removed the crew of 6 by breeches' buoy. Later a pet dog and a horse were saved from the vessel, before she went to pieces.She had been bound Deseronto, Ont., for Oswego.
Out of Hamilton, Ont.
One source says she was the Oswego-built schooner of 1854.
Rebuilt, 1874
Sources: csqw,mmgl,clu,osdo,win,is,h,glhs,hgl,mpl,dmt,usls,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------224
BALTIC

Other names : built as FRANCES SMITH(qv) last name in 1888
Official no. : C92310*
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger/package freight
Build info : 1867, M Simpson, St. Catharines, Ont.
Specs : 182x28x12, 1324gc 832nc
Date of loss : 1895, Sep 5 Several sources say she burned 1896.
Place of loss : Collingwood, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Burned to a total loss at her wharf.
Stranded with heavy damage on Higbee Isl., L. Sup. in 1885
Stranded with heavy damage on Clapperton Isl., Sep 1888.
Her engine & machinery were from steamer CLIFTON.
*1st given, 1888.
Major repairs in 1882 & 3, rebuilt, 1888.
Sources: nsp,lh,slh,sol,is,h,csv,mmgl,win,hgl,mpl,hcgl


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BALTIMORE -
See also PATRICIA McQUEEN


------------------------------------------------------226
BALTIMORE

Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger/package freight
Build info : 1847, A. Keating, Monroe, MI
Specs : 170x22x11, 513t [om]
Date of loss : 1855, Sep 18
Place of loss : near the Government pier at Sheboygan, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : corn and misc supplies
Detail : Bound Chicago for the new Soo Canal and Lake Superior. Ran into a gale so violent that soon waves were washing right over her decks. One particulaly large one smashed her forward cabin and toppled one of her stacks, causing great danger from fire. Disabled, she tried to put in to Sheboygan, but struck bottom after one of her anchor chains broke. Drove ashore and settled in shallow water, later broken up by wave action.
Sources: eas,is(2-60),is,lmdc,less,hgl,nsp,mpl


------------------------------------------------------225
BALTIMORE

Other names : built as ESCANABA, renamed in 1899
Official no. : 135487
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1881, Linn & Craig, Gibraltar, MI
Specs : 201x36x20 1161g 918n
Date of loss : 1901, May 24
Place of loss : SE of AuSable, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 13 of 15
Carrying : coal
Detail : She struck a reef, broke in two and foundered after fighting all the way to above Thunder Bay in a gale. She turned back for Tawas, but didn’t quite make it. Maybe towing a steam drill and a lighter. Engine & boiler recovered in Oct & Nov, 1901, most of the rest of her gear brought up in 1903.
Ashore with heavy damage on Gull Isl reef, L. Mich., May, 1896.
Sources: nsp,slh,sol,ns1,h,lhdc,mpl,pf,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------3937
BANCROFT

Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1836, Pt. Peninsula, NY
Specs : 112 t.
Date of loss : 1842, Nov 19
Place of loss : at the harbor mouth of St. Joseph, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : salt, apples and merchandise
Detail : Arriving off the harbor from Buffalo in a gale, she struck the north pier, then drifted ashore near the south pier, where she reportedly broke up.
Owned by Wheeler & Porter and her skipper, Capt.Bouton, all of St. Joseph
Sources: nsp,hgl


------------------------------------------------------229
BANNER

Other names : none
Official no. : 2155
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1847, Lent, Conneaut, OH as a brig
Specs : 140 ft, 289gt.
Date of loss : 1888, Nov 8
Place of loss : Fish Point [Point Au Sable] near Oscoda, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lath & shingles
Detail : Driven on a reef by a gale. Her crew was saved before she was pushed into deeper water, where she sank. After they had spent the night lashed to the rigging, local townspeople succeeded in taking them off in a tiny yawl.
Out of Mt. Clemens.
Converted to 3-m schooner in 1869-70.
Ashore in 1868 and again in 1883.
Major repairs in 1859,'69,'76,'82. Originally 431 t. brig
Sources: mv,nsp,polk,sol,is,h,hgl,mpl,rsl


------------------------------------------------------230
BANNOCKBURN

Other names : none
Official no. : C102093
Type at loss : propeller, steel, bulk freight
Build info : 1893, Dixon & Co., Middlesborough, England
Specs : 245x40x21 1620gc 1035nc
Date of loss : 1902, Nov 22
Place of loss : Mid-lake
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : went missing
Loss of life : 21 [all]
Carrying : grain
Detail : Sailed out from Ft. William into storm and never seen again. One of her lifeboats later found ashore. Her loss is one of the big mysteries of the Big Lake. For many years, sailors claimed to see her running without lights on stormy nights, looking in vain for some safe port.
Sources: nsp,gwgl,gs,is(4-73),lol,sol,wm2,ns1,csv,mmgl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------231
BANSHEE

Other names : built as BANSHEE, named HERO 1860-1, BANSHEE again in 1861.
Official no. : none
Type at loss : propeller, wood, freight
Build info : 1852, G. Ault, Portsmouth, Ont.
Specs : 119x18x3, 166t
Date of loss : 1861, Aug 21
Place of loss : Timber Isl., near False Ducks Isls. Location also given as "off South Bay."
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1 of 11
Carrying : wheat,flour & butter
Detail : Bound Lake Erie for Montreal, she foundered after engine failure [broken shaft] in a storm left her helpless. One passenger died, crew made it to Timber Island. Registry not closed until 1876. Owned by Howard & Rowe of Quebec.
Wreck located in 1967.
Sources: csqw,mmgl,csv(s2),hgl,rp,do


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BARBARA
- See also MAJOR BARBARA


------------------------------------------------------232
BARBARA LYN

Other names : built as SUMPTER, renamed in 1989
Official no. : 276723
Type at loss : propeller diesel tug, aluminum
Build info : 1958, Bayou la Batra, Alabama
Specs : 51x17x6, 51g 35n
Date of loss : 1990, Oct 1
Place of loss : off Pte Aux Barques, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : 2-barge tow
Detail : Towing 2 construction barges, enroute to Alpena, she capsized in 12-foot seas and sank 12 mi north of Huron City, MI. 3 crew swam to the barges and were rescued by helicopter, 1 drowned.
Owned by Ryba Marine Construction, Cheboygan, MI
Sources: nsp,mpl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------234
BARBARIAN

Other names : none
Official no. : 2137
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1855, A. Miller, Oswego, NY
Specs : 136x26x11 298g 283n
Date of loss : 1898, Oct 25
Place of loss : near Milwaukee
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : RR ties
Detail : Blown ashore and wrecked.
Sources: osdo,is,h,hgl,bb


------------------------------------------------------235
J. BARBER

Other names : also seen as JOE BARBER
Official no. : 12981
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger & fruit boat
Build info : 1856, L. Moses, Cleveland
Specs : 125x26x8, 306 t.
Date of loss : 1871, Jul 19
Place of loss : 14 miles off Michigan City, Ind.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : 5
Carrying : fruit and passengers
Detail : She was on her regular route , when she caught fire near her stack and waa destroyed. The steamersCORONA and A C Van RAALTE came to her rescue, saving most of her passengers and crew - about 30 (some sources say 18 saved, 2 lost) in all were saved. Bound St. Joseph for Chicago, she went down in about 80 feet of water.
Owned by Capt. Dustin of Detroit
Rebuilt in 1864, 66
Sources: lmdc,nsp,hgl,mpl,wl,bcha,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------3628
WILLIAM BARCLAY

Other names : none
Official no. : 26834
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1857, Sylvester Larned, Detroit
Specs : 73x19x5, 53g
Date of loss : 1868, Dec 5
Place of loss : unreported
Lake : unreported
Type of loss : "lost"
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : No detail. Built for the lumber-coal trade, Saginaw and Cleveland. Document surrendered 12/17/1878 at Port Huron, annotated "lost 12-5-1868." This may be an error, supposed to read"12-5-78" as official number were not assigned to schrs by the date of her loss. Vessel also shows on 1871 insurance list.
Sources: phr,mv,wl


------------------------------------------------------236
JAMES BARDON No.7

Other names : none
Official no. : 76625
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1879, Lockport, NY
Specs : 69x15x7, 51g 26n
Date of loss : 1890, Nov 10
Place of loss : St. Louis R. near Duluth Harbor
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Burned to total loss
Sources: mv,lss,gwgl,is


------------------------------------------------------243
BARGE 104

Other names : none
Official no. : 53257
Type at loss : unrigged barge, steel whaleback, bulk freight
Build info : 1890, A. MacDougall [American Steel Barge Co.], Superior, WI
Specs : 276x36x19, .1295g 1231n
Date of loss : 1899, Nov 10
Place of loss : Cleveland Harbor
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 7
Carrying : ?
Detail : Bound Cleveland for Duluth, she was being towed into harbor by the tug ALVA B, when she broke loose and rammed the breakwater, sinking quickly. Her crew was rescued by the U.S. Lifesaving Service with much difficulty.
Sources: is,h,hgl,mpl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------244
BARGE 115

Other names : none
Official no. : 53269
Type at loss : unrigged barge, steel whaleback, bulk freight
Build info : 1891, A MacDougall [American Steel Barge Co.], W. Superior, WI
Specs : 256x36x19, 1169g 1111n
Date of loss : 1899, Dec 18
Place of loss : Pic Isl. Near Marathon, Ont.
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : Broke from her tow steamer well out in the lake, went ashore 5 days later & broke up. Her crew was thought to be lost, but showed up days later after long tramp through the wilderness. In tow of COLGATE HOYT (some sources say FRANK ROCKEFELLER). Declared total loss the following May.
Sources: is,nsp,lss,rf,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------245
BARGE 129

Other names : none
Official no. : 53276
Type at loss : unrigged barge, steel whaleback, bulk freight
Build info : 1893, A. MacDougall [American Steel Barge Co.], Superior, WI
Specs : 292x36x22, 1311g 1266n
Date of loss : 1902, Oct 13
Place of loss : off Vermilion Point, MI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : Broke towline from steamer MAUNALOA in heavy weather. While trying to reconnect, was rammed by the steamer and sank quickly after her side was penetrated by an anchor. MAUNALOA picked up her crew. Went down in 125 ft. of water.
Sources: nsp,lssc,lol,gwgl,is(2-69),sol,ns1,hcgl


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BARGE A

Other names : ?
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : unrigged barge, wood
Build info : ?
Specs : 410g
Date of loss : 1900, May 15
Place of loss : Racine, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : sank
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Broke in half and went down in the harbor.
Owned by Lake Michigan Car Ferry Transportation Co. at the time, but leased a group of Milwaukee shippers.
Sources: h,nsp


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BARGE NO. 1

Other names : none
Official no. : 67313
Type at loss : barge, wood, RR ferry-barge, 28 car
Build info : 1895, Jas. Davidson, W. Bay City, MI hull #70
Specs : 310x44x12 1544g 1463n
Date of loss : 1918, Nov 8
Place of loss : North Point, Thunder Bay, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 5
Carrying : lumber, chickens
Detail : Normally used as a RR carferry. Grounded in storm, broke in two and slipped into deep water.
Holed by a launching timber and sank during her launch. Rails were installed on her deck at Chicago (see also BARGE NO 2)
Sources: stb,cfgl,is,ns2,mpl,eas


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BARGE NO. 2

Other names : none
Official no. : 67314
Type at loss : barge, wood, RR carferry
Build info : 1895, Jas. Davidson, W. Bay City hull #71
Specs : 310x44x12 1548g 1462n
Date of loss : 1906, Sep 9 (also given as Sep 29)
Place of loss : Chicago Harbor
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : Capsized
Loss of life : 3
Carrying : RR cars
Detail : Capsized due to a loading error. Floated bottom-up for more than a month, foiling all efforts to right her, and finally sank in the yacht basin. Raised keel-up in spring of 1907, towed out & scuttled 3 mi off Calumet Harbor. Dynamited by Corps of Engineers in Aug of the same year. RR cars which she had aboard were recovered in Oct, 1906.
She and No.1(qv) were biggest barges in the world when built
Sources: nsp,cfgl,is,vbs,mpl,eas


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BARGE NO. 3

Other names : none
Official no. : 67317
Type at loss : barge, wood, RR carferry, 28 cars
Build info : 1896, Craig Shipbuilding, Toledo, OH hull# 70
Specs : 306x47x12, 1581 t
Date of loss : 1900, Nov 12.
Place of loss : near Long Point
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : pulpwood
Detail : Tow of tug S.M. FISCHER with BARGE NO. 4(qv). Went out of control in storm and cut loose by FISCHER after her crew was taken off. Foundered soon after. The cook had to be forcibly removed from the barge as she was abandoned.
Sources: nsp,cfgl,is,ns1,mpl


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BARGE NO. 4

Other names : none
Official no. : 67318
Type at loss : barge, wood, RR carferry, 28 car
Build info : 1896, Craig Shipbuilding, Toledo hull# 71
Specs : 306x47x12, 1581 t.
Date of loss : 1900, Nov 12
Place of loss : near Long Point
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : pulpwood
Detail : Barge identical to BARGE NO. 3, details of loss also nearly identical. In fact, BARGEs 3 and 4 were nearly identical to BARGEs 1 and 2 and built to the same design.
Sources: nsp,cfgl,is,ns1,mpl


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BARGE NO. 7

Other names : ?
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : barge
Build info : ?
Specs : 78 t.
Date of loss : 1958, Oct 16
Place of loss : Off Windsor, Ont.
Lake : Detroit R
Type of loss : sunk
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : no detail
Sources: h not in mmgl


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M.P. BARKALOW

Other names : none
Official no. : 90277
Type at loss : schooner, wood, bulk and package freight, 2-mast
Build info : 1871, O. Harper, Perry, OH
Specs : 104x23x8 122g 116n
Date of loss : 1902, Apr 26
Place of loss : off S. Bass Isl.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 4
Carrying : salt
Detail : Foundered while riding out a gale at anchor. The lost were skipper, his wife, his son and 1 crewman.
Sunk with heavy damage at Toledo in fall 1894 after a collision with a drawbridge.
Sources: nsp,is,ns1,mv,ledc,phr,mpl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------4259
FRANK D. BARKER

Other names : also called F.D. BARKER
Official # : 9165
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1867, S. Johnson, Clayton, NY
Specs : 305gt 290 nt.
Date of loss : 1887, Sep 27
Place of loss : Spider Island, Rawley’s Bay, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : stranded
Loss of life : none?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Drove ashore on a rocky reef. At first it was thought that she could be rescued easily and it was later reported that she was, but on Nov 15th it was reported that she had been swung onto another reef by heavy seas, thrown on her beam ends, and was going to pieces.
Out of Cleveland
Sources : nsp,mv,polk,jk,wmn,hgl

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JOHN J. BARLUM

Other names : none
Official no. : 76914
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1890, Craig, Toledo, OH
Specs : 223x41x16 1185g 1126n
Date of loss : 1922, Sep 18 (or 8)
Place of loss : near Marblehead Light, Sandusky, OH
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : sank
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Outbound in tow, she filled and sank five miles off the harbor entrance. Later removed to deeper water.
Canadian registry 1901-1911, C#107490.
Sources: eas,ns3,mv,ledc,mpl,hcgl


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BURT BARNES

Other names : none
Official no. : C150489
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1882, G.S. Rand or Rand & Burger, Manitowoc, WI US#3193
Specs : 96x25x7 134g 127n
Date of loss : 1926, Sep 3
Place of loss : 12 mi SE of Picton, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Foundered off Lake Ontario's Long Point during a gale. Bound for Picton from Sodus Pt., NY. Her crew abandoned her in a patched-up lifeboat and landed near Rochester, NY, 32 hours later.
Sold Canadian in 1904. Registered out of Kingston in 1926.
One of the last working schooners on the lakes.
Sources: csqw,win,is(2-90),win,is,h,mv,osdo,mpl,hcgl


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FRANK C. BARNES

Other names : none
Official no. : C116386
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1892, Manistee, MI US# 120894
Specs : 67x16x7 63g 43n
Date of loss : 1915, Nov 1
Place of loss : off Gull Pond, near Pt. Petre, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : all 5(6)
Carrying : none
Detail : Went missing in storm at unknown position. Some pilothouse wreckage and a body eventually washed up on shore. The wreck was later located off Pt. Petre.
Sold Canadian in 1906. Owned by Canada Steamship Lines
May have been built from the tug J.C. OSGOOD [US#75159], built 1863, New Baltimore, NY.
Sources: csqw,nsp,gs,sol,mv,mmgl,mpl,hcgl


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F.T. BARNEY

Other names : none
Official no. : 9535
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1856, W. Cheney, Vermilion, OH
Specs : 126x26x11, 255 t
Date of loss : 1868, Oct 23
Place of loss : below Nine Mile Point, NW of Rogers City
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Collided with the schooner TRACY J. BRONSON and sank. Wreck was reportedly located about 1987, sits in deep water, upright in almost perfect condition. Newspapers of the time report that the wreck was struck by several passing vessels and was located "about midway between theSouth Passage and 40-mile Point.
Registered out of Vermilion, OH
Major repair in 1862
Sources: mv,slh,lhdc,nsp,ssm,mpl,rsl,hcgl


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WILLIAM H. BARNUM

Other names : none
Official no. : 80342
Type at loss : propeller, wood, freighter
Build info : 1873, J.M. Jones, Detroit
Specs : 219x35x21 1212g 1059n
Date of loss : 1894, Apr 3
Place of loss : 5.5 mi ESE of Mackinaw City
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : Ice
Loss of life : none
Carrying : corn
Detail : Her hull was cut by floating ice and she sank. She was reportedly in poor condition at the time of her last trip and had been given insurance for only that single voyage. Tug CRUSADER tried to save her, but was only able to take her crew off before she went down.
Partially "salvaged" in 1969, mostly stripped of artifacts.
Sources: is(3-69),slh,hdm,h,mv,lhdc,wbm,ssm,mpl,hcgl


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H.A. BARR

Other names : none
Official no. : C107489
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1893, Jas. Davidson, W. Bay City hull #56 [US# 96218]
Specs : 217x35x17 1119g 1063n
Date of loss : 1902, Sep 24 (some sources erroneously give Aug 24 as date.)
Place of loss : 30 miles off Port Stanley, near Braddock Pt.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : Downbound from Lake Superior, tow of "saltie" THEANO (qv). She broke her towline in giant waves and foundered. Her crew was picked up by THEANO
Sold Canadian in 1901. Owned by Algoma Central Steamship Co.
Sources: nsp,is,ns1,ledc,win,vbs,mpl,do not in mmgl


------------------------------------------------------3304
WILLIAM H. BARRETT

Other names : none
Official no. : 80458
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, river
Build info : 1874, J. Ganoe & Sons, Grand Rapids, Mich
Specs : 129x24x4, 118 g 112n
Date of loss : 1894, Nov 5
Place of loss : at Grand Rapids, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Burned at her winter layup moorings - total loss. Insurance had run out Nov 1.
She had been a long-time Grand River steamer, built to run between Grand Rapids and Grand Haven..
Owned by Valley City Trans. Co.
Sources: nsp,mv,hcgl


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BARRIE
- See also COMMODORE JACK BARRY, COMMODORE BARRY


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M.J. BARTELME

Other names : built as JOHN J. McWILLIAMS, renamed CENTRAL WEST in 1916, last name in 1928
Official no. : 77170
Type at loss : propeller, steel, bulk freight
Build info : 1895, F.W. Wheeler, W. Bay City hull #105
Specs : 352x45x23 3400g 2808n
Date of loss : 1928, Oct 4
Place of loss : SE tip of Cana Isl.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : stranded
Loss of life : none
Carrying : in ballast
Detail : Stranded and destroyed by waves, constuctive total loss. Later cut up for scrap where she lay.
Sources: vbs,sbs,sol,is,ns3,lmdc,mpl,eas,hcgl


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A.F. BARTLETT

Other names : none
Official no. : 105130
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1871, Herminger, E. Saginaw
Specs : 48x10x4 11g 5n
Date of loss : 1884
Place of loss : Saginaw River at Bay City
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Burned and declared total loss, but put back in service by local shipbuilder.
Had another disastrous fire at Duluth in Sep. 1888.
Last year on registry, 1900.
Listed in Polk (1884) as "sunk"
Sources: mv,vbs,polk,slh,hgl


------------------------------------------------------4260
AGNES BARTON

Other names : none
Official # : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1835, Buffalo
Specs : 92x23x8, 156 t. om
Date of loss : 1855, Aug 7
Place of loss : near Conneaut, OH
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Bound Cleveland for Buffalo, she sprang a leak and foundered in 30 feet of water, 1.5 miles offshore and 1.5 miles from Conneaut light. It was reported that she would probably not be salvaged because she was "an old vessel and about used up."
Out of Toledo
Rebuilt and enlarged in 1842 orig 73 ft.
Sources : nsp,wl,wmn

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BENJAMIN BARTON

Other names : also seen as BEN. BARTON
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1835, Mt. Clemens, MI
Specs : 87x24x9, 178 t. [om]
Date of loss : 1838, Nov 5
Place of loss : just east of the pier at Conneaut, OH
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Blown ashore and wrecked by gale. Reported a total loss, but released and repaired the following spring. Lasted until at least 1844.
Owned by Morse & Co. of Detroit
Sources: is,nsp,hgl,wl


------------------------------------------------------3424
PLINY F. BARTON

Other names : none also seen as P.F. BARTON
Official no. : none
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1853, Buffalo
Specs : 61x14x5, 40 t
Date of loss : 1865, May
Place of loss : at Baby's Point
Lake : St Clair R
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : (none)
Carrying : none
Detail : Burned to a total loss. No detail.
Sources: lhl,hgl,st,wl,nsp


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BESSIE BARWICK

Other names : none
Official no. : C83146
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1866, L. Shickluna, St. Catharines, Ont. as a bark
Specs : 135x26x11, 296gc, 274nc
Date of loss : 1887, Oct 28
Place of loss : Pilot Harbor, Michipicoten Isl.
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Bound Port Arthur for Kingston. Seen on the 28th, but her subsequent whereabouts were unknown for more than 10 days. Westerly gale had pushed her into the shallows where she pounded to pieces. Her crew were sheltered by local fishermen, later made it to the Soo in a small open boat.
Out of St. Catharines.
Sources: nsp,gwgl,is,h,eas,mmgl,wb,win,lss,hgl


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BATCHAWANA

Other names : built as ROBERT A. PACKER renamed in 1906. Also seen as BATACHAWANA
Official no. : C117032
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1881, W. S. Crosthwaite, Bay City, MI[US# 110491]
Specs : 209x33x16 921g 770n
Date of loss : 1907, Jun 27 [Jun 21 also given]
Place of loss : off Coppermine Point, Ont.
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Burned to a total loss.
Sold Canadian, 1906.
Sources: win,vbs,mmgl,lssc,gwgl,is,ns1,h,csv,mpl


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ELI BATES

Other names : none also seen as ELLA BATES
Official no. : 7236
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1857, Geo. Hardison, Erie, PA
Specs : 265 t
Date of loss : 1871, Nov 16
Place of loss : about 7 mi N of harbor at Ashtabula, OH
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : foundered
Loss of life : 9 [all]
Carrying : wheat
Detail : Disappeared in a gale, and no positively identifiable wreckage or bodies found. Topmasts that were found sticking out of the water between Ashtabula and Conneaut were later identified as hers and in June of the following year she was located off Conneaut in 14 fathoms of water. She had been bound Sheboygan, WI, for Buffalo with wheat.
Went ashore on Windmill Point, Lake Erie, 9/25/70 and had major repairs following.
Homeport: Buffalo, owned out of Detroit
Sources: h,mv,hgl,ledc,nsp,jk


------------------------------------------------------260
STEVEN S. BATES

Other names : also seen as STEPHEN BATES, S. BATES, and STEVEN BATES
Official no. : 23341
Type at loss : schooner, wood "clipper built"
Build info : 1856, Bates & Son., Manitowoc
Specs : 97x27x7, 139 t.
Date of loss : 1883, Apr 23
Place of loss : 5 mi N of Grosse Point, IL
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 6
Carrying : posts and hardware
Detail : Bound Horne’s Pier, WI, for Chicago, she was driven into the shallows by a storm and broken up by wave action.
Out of Chicago
Major repairs in 1870.
Sources: mv,polk,h,lmdc,usls,nsp,wl,es


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BATISCAN -
See UNITED STATES


------------------------------------------------------261
GERALDINE BATTLE

Other names : built as PURITAN, renamed SANDY HOOK('02), last name '07
Official no. : C126094
Type at loss : barge, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1893, R. Mills, Buffalo as propeller passenger steamer [US#150630]
Specs : 146(oa)x32x12
Date of loss : 1916, Oct 21
Place of loss : Thorold, Ont, Welland Canal
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : gravel
Detail : Was unloading at Thorold when she caught fire and was destroyed.
Burned at Buffalo, Jan 6, 1906. Sold Canadian, 1907 and rebuilt.
As steamer she was 136x32x10 409g 345n, converted to bulker in 1902, to bulk barge in 1907
Sources: ns2,mpl not in mmgl


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MARY BATTLE
- See DETROIT, LINCOLN


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THOMAS FREEL BATTLE

Other names : built as tug F.B. BRADY, renamed in 1905
Official no. : C107948
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1901, Freeman Green, Sr, Dunnville, Ont.
Specs : 47x13, 29 t.
Date of loss : 1907, Oct 17
Place of loss : Port Maitland, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She caught fire around her boiler while tied to a plaster dock in Port Maitland harbor and her crew was helpless to do anything to stop it. She burned to total loss.
Registered out of St. Catharines
After her loss this tug was replaced by the prop tug THOMAS FREEL BATTLE, below.
Sources: win,mmgl,h,waw


------------------------------------------------------3753
THOMAS FREEL BATTLE

Other names : built as American tug FANNIE L. BAKER, renamed in 1910
Official no. : C126092
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1888, Detroit US# 120729
Specs : 68x17x6, 44g 22n
Date of loss : 1910, Nov
Place of loss : Thorold, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Reported in Canadian registry as burned to total loss. Actually recovered, returned to American hull [and her original name] in 1917 and abandoned about 1938.
Sold Canadian in 1910. Registered out of St. Catharines. Replaced Canadian tug of the same name.
Sources: mmgl,mv,hcgl
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JOHN C. BAUER

Other names : built as PLANET, renamed in 1882
Official no. : 54159
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, lumber
Build info : 1855, M. Fox, Black R., OH
Specs : 117x25x7 158g 151n
Date of loss : 1900, Jul 6
Place of loss : S. Fox Isl. harbor
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : stranded
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : Stranded near the beach in a fog and became total loss. Bound Milwaukee for Cecil Bay in the Straits of Mackinac. Abandoned by her crew, who were later picked up by an Indian fishing boat. Later towed away to clear the S. Fox harbor.
Owned by A. Nelson of Milwaukee
Sources: nsp,mv,ns1


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BAVARIA

Other names : none
Official no. : C72595
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1873, H. Rooney, Garden Island, Ont.
Specs : 145x26x13, 376g 361n
Date of loss : 1898, Oct 25
Place of loss : Cape Smith, Manitoulin Island.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Driven ashore by gale and pounded to pieces. Bound Byng Inlet for Walkerville, Ont. Her crew was saved by local Indians.
On May 29, 1889, she broke from the tow of the steamer D.D. CALVIN and began to founder near Long Point, L. Erie (maybe L. Ont.). Her crew abandoned, but didn't make it to shore - all 8 lost. The wreck washed ashore on Long Point, little damaged. Cargo:squared timber.
Locally called a "timber drougher"
Sources: csqw,mmgl,nsp,osdo,sol,is(1-76),slh,hgl,mpl,es3-2,hcgl


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BAVARIAN

Other names : see below
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, iron, passenger/ package freight
Build info : 1855, Gilbert & Co, Montreal
Specs : 176 ft, 427 t
Date of loss : 1873, Nov 5
Place of loss : 15 miles off Bowmanville, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : 14 of 36
Carrying : general freight, passengers
Detail : In transit Montreal for Toronto when her boiler exploded and she burned to a shell.
Iron hull survived several wrecks. Built 1855 as KINGSTON, gutted by fire, 1872 and rebuilt as BAVARIAN at Kingston after another fire at Bowmanville with loss of several lives. Rebuilt as ALGERIAN after the '73 fire & assigned C#71609. Renamed CORNWALL in 1904, rebuilt in 1913, dismantled in 1930 and hull scuttled off Amherst Isl..
Sources: csqw,do2,clu,mmgl,sol,is,h,rp,nsp,hcgl


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BAY CITY

Other names : built as FOREST CITY, renamed in 1853
Official no. : none
Type at loss : propeller tug, wood
Build info : 1852, Eli Bates, Trenton, MI
Specs : 199x27x9, 480 t.
Date of loss : 1862, May 20
Place of loss : near Port Burwell, Ont
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : She sprang a leak and sank off shore and washed to shallow water in one piece. Her crew was rescued by the new tug WINSLOW. Her engine & boiler were removed during 4 different salvage attempts in June & July. The hull was finally abandoned Jul 21, though plans had been made to convert it into a schooner. BUT, hgl says this is the same vessel as 1880 loss of same name.
Owned by Capt. Edwards of Detroit.
Converted to a large tug in 1860.
Sources: nsp,sagl,wl not in mmgl,mpl


------------------------------------------------------4167
BAY CITY

Other names : ?
Official # : (none)
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : (before 1855)
Specs : (216 t.)
Date of loss : 1859, prior to Nov 18
Place of loss : East Sister Reef
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : (none)
Carrying : corn
Detail : Went ashore on the reef, stranded in 7 feet of water. The tug BRUCE and the wrecker RELIEF tried to save her, but she was later reported abandoned (about Nov. 24), but further attempts may have been made the next spring to remove her.
Probably out of Sandusky
Sources : nsp,jm,wl


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


------------------------------------------------------««3425
BAY CITY

Other names : none
Official no. : 2451
Type at loss : propeller, wood, steam barge
Build info : 1867, Geo. Gardiner, Marine City, MI
Specs : 152x27x14, 372g 295n
Date of loss : 1891, Jun 6
Place of loss : foot of Rivard St. River Rouge [Detroit] MI
Lake : Detroit R
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 300,000 ft white pine lumber
Detail : Burned to total loss while being repaired. Her watchman reported the fire during the night and firemen thought they had it out, but it rewakened and burned to a total wreck.
She was owned in Cleveland, managed by P. H. Clark, Marine City
Rebuilt in 1871, then caught fire and burned nearly to the waterline on her first trip out, April 10, 1871. Major repairs in 1879
Sources: lhl,hgl,mv,mpl,es,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------««267
BAY CITY

Other names : none
Official no. : 2135
Type at loss : schooner [sloop]- barge, wood,1-mast, bulk freight
Build info : 1856, S. Tripp, Saginaw as brig
Specs : 140x29x10 306g 290n
Date of loss : 1902, Nov 29
Place of loss : at Alpena, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Left at anchor in Thunder Bay by steamer HURON CITY. Anchor chains parted and she was driven against Gilchrist dock and wrecked. Crew abandoned her with difficulty. Later removed, but not returned to service.
On Nov 20, 1880, she was cast adrift by steamer JAMES P. DONALDSON, driven ashore and wrecked in a gale, 4 mi E of Erie, PA. Her crew was saved by the Lifesaving Service using breeches' buoy. Captain of the barge and captain of lifesaving crew were old shipmates. She was heavily damaged and declared a total loss in some papers, but was recovered in June of 1881.
Rebuilt in 1876.
Completely dismasted in a gale in 1856.
Sources: nsp,stb,ns1,h,vbs,mh


------------------------------------------------------4054
BAY OF QUINTE

Other names : none
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1853, Thurston, Bath, Ont.
Specs : 151x24x8, 250 t.
Date of loss : 1863, Nov 18
Place of loss : Salmon Point, north shore
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 7,500 bu wheat
Detail : Bound for Toronto, she went ashore in a storm and became a total wreck.
Owned by Capt. Gaskin of Kingston.
Rebuilt at Kingston, Ont,. in 1861.
Sources: clu,hgl,nsp,rnc,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------««268
BAY STATE

Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : propeller, wood
Build info : 1852, Bidwell & Banta, Buffalo, NY
Specs : 137x26x11, 372 t. om
Date of loss : 1862, Nov 2
Place of loss : "in the vicinity of Oswego"
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : went missing
Loss of life : 22 [all, including 6 passengers]
Carrying : general merchandise
Detail : Bound for Lake Erie ports from Oswego, she broke up offshore in a terrific gale and foundered with all hands. The shoreline for miles was strewn with her wreckage.
Northern Trans. Co. boat out of Ogdensburg, NY
Stranded and thought to be a total loss on May of 1856, but recovered in July. Major repairs in 1861.
Sources: gs,hgl,osdo,(mmgl),nsp,rp,wl,hcgl,umr


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BAYANNA

Other names : built as ARAGON, renamed 1946
Official no. : C150811
Type at loss : propeller, steel, self unloading bulker
Build info : 1896, Detroit Dry Dock, Wyandotte, MI hull #123 US# 107228
Specs : 249x42x17 1643g 963n
Date of loss : 1962, Dec 1
Place of loss : near Deseronto, Ont., Bay of Quinte
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : struck obstruction
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Stranded and sank in shallow water. Later raised but declared a constructive total loss after being brought up in Dec, 1963. Gutted by fire in lieu of dismantling and cut up for scrap in 1964.
Sold Canadian, 1922, after an accident on Lake Ontario.
Converted to a sandsucker at Canandian Vickers, Montreal in 1927, and to self-unloader at Muir Bros., Port Dalhousie, in 1942.
Sources: a&f,mmgl,sol,is,h,csv,osdo,mpl,hcgl


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BAYERSHER -
See GEORGE J. WHELAN


------------------------------------------------------270
BAYPORT

Other names : built as tug FAIRPORT, renamed in 1945; renamed TUG A in 1962 and TWIN PORT in 1963
Official no. : C171939
Type at loss : propeller tug, steel, steam
Build info : 1914, Great Lakes Towing, Cleveland
Specs : 72x17x12, 65g 31n
Date of loss : 1959, Jun 22
Place of loss : at Collingwood, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : Towing Accident
Loss of life : 3 of 6
Carrying : none
Detail : Hooked by her own tow cable to steamer CAPT. C.D. SECORD, capsized and sank. Exact position given as Lat 44 deg. 32'00"N, long 80 deg. 13'12" W, 160 deg., 300' from buoy #7. Owned by Canada SS Lines. Recovered, rebuilt & still operating in late 70's
Sold Canadian 1945.
Converted from steam to diesel on raising.
Sources: is(3-59,1-60),win,h,mmgl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------4261
BEAGLE

Other names : none
Official # : C none
Type at loss : propeller, wood
Build info : 1843, Niagara, Ont.
Specs : 90x17, 95 t.
Date of loss : 1849, Oct 10
Place of loss : near Port Hope, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none mentioned
Carrying : ?
Detail : Wrecked near the wharf at Port Hope. It was expected that she would be recovered, but in May of 1851 she was offered for public auction "as she now lies at Port Hope."
Owned by Culcutt & Scott, Cobourg, Ont.
Also wrecked near Presque Isle, Lake Ontario, in November, 1847.
Sources : csv,wmn

------------------------------------------------------271
JOHN BEAN, Jr.

Other names : none
Official no. : 13764
Type at loss : schooner, wood, lumber
Build info : 1867, Pentwater, MI
Specs : 106 ft., 157g
Date of loss : 1886, Sep 30
Place of loss : Muskegon, MI, harbor
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : While entering the harbor unter tow, she collided with a pier and sank through mishandling. Lifesaving service rescued her crew, and the vessel was later raised, though she had been considered a total loss.
Sources: mv,h,hgl,usls not in ‘69 mv


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MAX BEARD -
See SIDNEY E. SMITH


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BEATRICE
- See also LULU BEATRICE


------------------------------------------------------3426
BEATRICE

Other names : none
Official no. : C83029
Type at loss : propeller excursion boat and tug, wood
Build info : 1882, McDonnel, Wallaceburg, Ont.
Specs : 79x16x6 66gc 45nc
Date of loss : 1885, Dec 4
Place of loss : Port Stanley, Ont
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : (none)
Carrying : ?
Detail : A fire started in her engine room, and she was burned to total loss. Registry closed in July, 1886
Owned by Capt. J. Ellison.
Another Canadian prop BEATRICE [C#71118], built 1877 at Collingwood by M Cross as SANFORD DAVIE, 63x12x6, 31g 21n, reported burned about 1909.
Sources: hgl,polk,mmgl


------------------------------------------------------
BEAUHARNOIS -
See QUINTE


------------------------------------------------------4029
BEAVER

Other names : none
Official no. : none [British warship]
Type at loss : armed sloop, wood
Build info : ca. 1762
Specs :
Date of loss : 1763, Aug 28
Place of loss : Cat Fish Creek, 14 miles from the site of Buffalo
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : (none)
Carrying : provisions, including pork and flour
Detail : She was bound for Detroit to relieve the fort there, which was then under seige by the Indian leader Pontiac. 185 barrels of her cargo was saved and went on to Detroit on the schooner GLADWIN, which had been in company with the BEAVER.
Sources: nsp,hgl,www


------------------------------------------------------272
BEAVER

Other names : ?
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, passenger & freight
Build info : 1771
Specs : ?
Date of loss : 1771
Place of loss : 2-3 mi W of harbor entrance at the site of Lorain, OH
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : foundered
Loss of life : 17
Carrying : "valuable" cargo + passengers
Detail : Probably went down in storm. Member of Commodore Grant's fleet of exploration and trading vessels. Location of loss also given as Sandusky, OH
Sources: h,ledc,www,hgl


------------------------------------------------------273
BEAVER

Other names : ?
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : ?
Specs : ?
Date of loss : 1861
Place of loss : off Nine Mile Point, near Cheboygan, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Driven ashore and wrecked.
Sources: slh not in mmgl


------------------------------------------------------274
BEAVERSTONE

Other names : built as GEORGE W. CUYLER. Also seen as BEAVERTON
Official no. : C111809
Type at loss : propeller tug, wood
Build info : 1880, F.W. Wheeler, W. Bay City, MI [US# 85638]
Specs : 69x15x6, 18t
Date of loss : 1926, May 14 (May 23 also given)
Place of loss : Bustard Isl, Georgian Bay, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Blown ashore and destroyed by waves.
Sold Canadian 1902
Sources: win,lss,is,h,bb,rl not in mmgl


------------------------------------------------------275
B.H. BECKER

Other names : none
Official no. : 231681
Type at loss : motor tug, (steel)
Build info : 1932, Marine City, MI
Specs : 19 t
Date of loss : 1937, Aug 10
Place of loss : off Greenbush, MI [off Harbor Beach, MI also given]
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Foundered in heavy seas, 9 mi N of Oscoda, MI
Sources: slh,sol,h ,mpl not in mmgl


------------------------------------------------------276
PHILIP BECKER

Other names : none
Official no. : C74214
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1876, J. Lerock, Buffalo
Specs : 51x13x6, 29g 20n
Date of loss : 1879, Nov 17
Place of loss : 10 mi off Oswego, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 3 [all]
Carrying : none
Detail : Foundered in blizzard/gale. She was working with 4 other tugs when sunk. 16 of 32 lives in the little fleet were lost.
Sold Canadian in 1876, out of Montreal.
Sources: hgl,is,osdo,mmgl,h


------------------------------------------------------277
R.H. BECKER

Other names : none
Official no. : 56207
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, 2-mast, bulk freight
Build info : 1867, J. A. Johnson, Dover Bay, OH
Specs : 108x23x7 141g 134n
Date of loss : 1908, May 1
Place of loss : off Sheboygan, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Capsized and sank in a gale. Partially raised two weeks later to clear the harbor, dragged outside and beached nearby to break up. Crew rescued by USLS.
Had number of unrigged barge, probably built as such
Sources: ns1,h,lmdc,eas,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------278
J.L. BECKWITH

Other names : also seen as JAMES L BECKWITH
Official no. : C111802
Type at loss : propeller packet, wood
Build info : 1873, Union Drydock Co., Buffalo US#75602
Specs : 67x23x8 61gc 33nc
Date of loss : 1912, Jul 26
Place of loss : Sandy Point or Sandy Island
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Wrecked, no detail.
Used as a ferry for early part of her career
Sold Canadian, 1901
Sources: win,mmgl,gwgl,h,mv,mv


------------------------------------------------------3306
JORDAN BEEBE, Jr.

Other names : none
Official no. : 76246
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood, fish
Build info : 1881, R. Satimore, Bay City as a schooner
Specs : 46x14x5, 21g 20n
Date of loss : 1893, Nov 20
Place of loss : Put-in-Bay, S. Bass Isl.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Burned to a total loss. Owned by Port Huron Fish Co. Document surrendered Dec 29.
Converted from a schooner to tug by her original builder in 1883-4.
Sources: nsp,vbs,svv,phr,hgl


------------------------------------------------------279
ALICE M. BEERS

Other names : none
Official no. : 382
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast, lumber
Build info : 1864, Z. Pangborn, Algonac
Specs : 105x25x10 154g 147n
Date of loss : 1902, Sep 4
Place of loss : off docks at Glen Arbor, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : light
Detail : Hove to off the docks in a gale, but slipped her anchor and drove onto channel marker. Holed and drifted shore, where she later broke up. Bound Milwaukee for Glen Haven. Hailed from Milwaukee.
Sunk near Manistee in 1875.
Rebuilt, 1888
Sources: nsp,is,ns1,h,lmdc,sb,nb,hgl,wl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------280
LENA BEHM

Other names : none
Official no. : 140840
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1886, F. Behm, Grand Haven, MI
Specs : 59x16x6 34g 32n
Date of loss : 1900
Place of loss : off Port Hope, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Caught fire well offshore and destroyed. Document surrendered at Port Huron 12/31/1900.
Photo.
Sources: phr,slh,mv,mpl,mar,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------282
JANE BELL

Other names : none
Official no. : 12782
Type at loss : bark, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1862, Campbell, Detroit
Specs : 141x28x12, 374g (447 t)
Date of loss : 1881, Oct
Place of loss : 5 mi W of Chambers Isl. Light, Green Bay
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : cordwood
Detail : Capsized and sank in a gale.
Stranded 8 mi WSW of Ashtabula, OH Sep 7, 1880 and declared total loss.
Sources: hgl,lmdc,usls,mpl,mv,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------1616
LAURA BELL

Other names : also seen as LAURA BELLE
Official no. : 15723
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1870, Bailey Bros., Toledo, OH
Specs : 138 ft., 269gt
Date of loss : 1883, Sep 7
Place of loss : off Shot Point, E of Marquette
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : coal
Detail : Stranded and became a total loss. Hailed from Cleveland and bound for Marquette from there. After spending three days in her rigging, her crew were rescued by a tug from Marquette.
Heavily damaged in a grounding in Waiska Bay, Lake Superior, in 1879.
Rebuilt, 1883.
Sources: gwgl,lssc,lss,h,polk,usls,sip


------------------------------------------------------
LAURIE BELL -
See LAURIE BELLE (under "L’s")


------------------------------------------------------3595
LIZZIE BELL

Other names : also seen as LIZZIE BELLE
Official no. : 15146
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1866, G. Johnson, Marine City, MI
Specs : 77x19x6, 59g
Date of loss : 1870
Place of loss : unreported
Lake : unreported
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : No detail. Document surrendered at Port Huron Dec 19, 1878 annotated "wrecked in 1870."
Sources: phr,mv


------------------------------------------------------3605
MATTIE C. BELL

Other names : none
Official no. : 91420
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1882, T. Arnold, E. Saginaw, MI
Specs : 181x33x11, 769g 742n
Date of loss : 1895, Nov 25
Place of loss : at Big Summer Island
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : In tow of the steamer JIM SHERRIFS(qv), she stranded in a fall gale and broke up, a total loss. Crew rescued. Document surrendered at Port Huron 12/30/1896, annotated "stranded and abandoned."
Owned by L.P. Mason, Saginaw
Sources: phr,hgl,mv,vbs,wb


------------------------------------------------------283
BELLE

Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : steamer, wood
Build info : 1850, J. W. Banta, Buffalo, NY
Specs : 142x22x8, 240 t
Date of loss : 1852, May
Place of loss : off Cape Croker, Georgian Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Foundered in a storm.
Sources: lhl,hgl,wl


------------------------------------------------------3427
BELLE

Other names : none
Official no. : 2159
Type at loss : propeller, wood, packet
Build info : 1860, B.M. Hagedorn, Port Huron, MI
Specs : 91x10x8, 129 t.
Date of loss : 1869, Nov 20
Place of loss : off Port Washington, WI in deep water
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : 2
Carrying : lumber
Detail : She caught fire offshore in a gale. Her crew and the single passenger abandoned in the yawl, but it capsized and two were lost. Survivors were picked up by the brig C.J. HUTHINSON later. She had been bound Manitowoc for Milwaukee.
Out of Milwaukee.
Sources: lhl,hgl,nsp,mpl,bb,mdwl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------284
BELLE

Other names : none
Official no. : C83153
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1866, A. Shaw, Port Dover, Ont.
Specs : 61x15x6, 40gc 40nc
Date of loss : 1886, Dec 8
Place of loss : unreported
Lake : unreported
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Burned while frozen in at anchor. Total loss.
A 65 t. vessel of this name foundered near Port Dalhousie in Nov, 1887 [h]
Sources: mmgl


------------------------------------------------------285
BELLE

Other names : none
Official no. : 2242
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 2-mast, bulk freight
Build info : 1856, Bates & Son, Manitowoc, WI
Specs : 95x25x7 104g 99n
Date of loss : 1908, Dec 12
Place of loss : near Big Sable Point, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Tow of the steamer F.W. FLETCHER she broke her towline in big waves & foundered. 52 years of age at loss.
Sources: eas,nsp,mv,h,lmdc,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------
BELLEVILLE
- See SPARTAN


------------------------------------------------------287
BELOIT

Other names : none
Official no. : 2139
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1862, Beckwith, Holland, MI
Specs : 105 t.
Date of loss : 1882,
Place of loss : near Michigan City, Ind.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Stranded in a gale and went to pieces.
Also stranded near White Lake, L. Mich., in 1868
Rebuilt, 1874
Sources: mv,lmdc,hgl


------------------------------------------------------288
A.J. BEMIS

Other names : none?
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1859, Buffalo
Specs : 49t
Date of loss : 1872, Sep 15
Place of loss : 6 mi from Alpena, 3/4 mi offshore
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Caught fire while underway, ran for shore but sank 3/4 mi short. Fire originated under boiler.
Sources: nsp,slh,lh not in '69 mvus, wl,mmgl or lhl


------------------------------------------------------4168
CAROLINE A. BEMIS

Other names : none
Official # : none
Type at loss : brig, wood
Build info : 1850, (Buffalo)
Specs : 207 t., om
Date of loss : 1854, Saturday before Oct 3
Place of loss : ca. halfway between Cleveland and Pt. Pelee, near Black R., Ohio.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 200 t. coal
Detail : Bound Cleveland for Chicago, she collided with the brig CAROLINE out of Chicago with corn, at about midnight. Cut nearly to the waterline just forward of her fore chains, she went down in deep water in ten minutes. Some of her crewmen lept aboard the CAROLINE , while others made it away in her small boat. Her masts were seen emergent with the sails still set a few days later.
Owned by E.K. Bruce and Capt. Ferris, out of Buffalo
Sources : nsp,jm,wl


------------------------------------------------------4262
E. S. J. BEMIS

Other names : also seen as E. St. JOHN BEMIS
Official # : 7328
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1855, S Ruggles, Milan, OH
Specs : 294 t. [om]
Date of loss : 1870, Sep
Place of loss : 15 mi off Port Rowan, Ont
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 14,000 bu wheat
Detail : Bound Detroit for Buffalo, she was caught by a gale and foundered in about 100 feet of water. Her crew took to the yawl and made it to shore safely. The tug SARAH E. BRYANT attempted to salvage her in Oct.
Owned by John Stewart of Detroit or Buffalo
Sources : nsp,rsl,mv,wmn

------------------------------------------------------289
PHILO S. BEMIS

Other names : none
Official no. : 19684
Type at loss : propeller tug, wood
Build info : 1859, D. Bell, Buffalo
Specs : 50x12x6, 29 gt 16 nt
Date of loss : 1879
Place of loss : Alpena, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Burned at her dock. Repairs were begun, but abandoned before completion.
homeport: Alpena
Burned nearly to a total loss near Plough's Fishery, about 6 miles from Alpena, in Sep of 1872.
She was an odd-looking tug with sloping cabin walls and wheel forward of the cabin, originally an Erie Canal tug.
Sources: mv,rkr,slh,lhl,hgl,nsp,wl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------290
BEN HUR

Other names : none
Official no. : (C?)
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, wrecker
Build info : 1874, Dunville, Ont.
Specs : 314 t
Date of loss : 1890, Nov 8
Place of loss : near Port Huron
Lake : St Clair R
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Had been purchased for and was attempting to salvage the schooner M.E. TREMBLE (qv). Rammed and sunk by towed schooner-barge SUPERIOR [towed by PASSAIC]. Hulk came to rest on top of TREMBLE. A lighter scow she was using went down with her.
Owned by Murphy Wrecking, which was formed just to remove the TREMBLE.
Sources: nsp,slh,is,hgl,st not in mmgl


------------------------------------------------------291
E.G. BENEDICT

Other names : none
Official no. : C61132
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1869, H. Rathbun & Son, Mill Point, Ont.
Specs : 105x26x8 ft, 155 t
Date of loss : 1891, Nov 19
Place of loss : near Port Burwell, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Blown ashore and wrecked.
Sources: mmgl,sagl,ledc,hgl


------------------------------------------------------3885
J.W. BENNETT

Other names : built as JAMES W. BENNETT, renamed in 1913
Official no. : C131055
Type at loss : propeller tug, wood
Build info : 1876, Squires, Huron, OH [US#75895]
Specs : 91x18x9, 107gc 73nc
Date of loss : 1923 or 22
Place of loss : unreported but probably Lake Erie
Lake : (Erie)
Type of loss : unreported
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : "Wrecked."
Sold Canadian in 1913.
Sunk in a collision with the steamer SAUGATUCK in upper Green Bay in Aug, 1906 and raised the next year.
Her career reportedly ended on Oct. 19, 1915 when she was lost off Porphyry Light, Lake Superior
Sources: mpl,mmgl,hcgl,wmn


------------------------------------------------------292
BENNINGTON

Other names : none?
Official no. : 162596
Type at loss : wrecking barge, wood, unrigged
Build info : 1891,
Specs : 250 t
Date of loss : 1908, Sep 5
Place of loss : off Whitefish Point
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : hull failure?
Loss of life : 2 of 2
Carrying : none
Detail : Suddenly foundered in fair weather while under tow. Bound Port Arthur for Soo.
Owned by Reid wrecking.
Sources: mv,eas,phr,lssc,gwgl,lss


------------------------------------------------------293
C.B. BENSON

Other names : none
Official no. : 125266
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1873, J Duff, Port Clinton, OH
Specs : 136x26x13, 299g 284n
Date of loss : 1893, Oct 14
Place of loss : Gravelly Bay, near Port Colborne, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 7 [all]
Carrying : coal
Detail : She was wrecked by a storm and sank at 10:15 am while bound for Buffao from Toledo. The tips of her main & mizzen masts protruded from the water for at least 2 years. A piece of wreckage bearing her name washed ashore below Niagara Falls in 1901.
Ashore for over a month after an Oct, 1877 storm.
Sailed the Atlantic, 1874-7, said to be 1st vessel to carry a cargo of corn from the Lakes across the Atlantic.
Schooner KATE WINSLOW, owned by same company, was lost 10/14/97, in fact NELLIE A DUFF, C.B.BENSON and KATE WINSLOW, all schooners owned by the Duff family all were lost on Oct 14, but in different years.
Sources: nsp,wb,is(2-60),h,mv,ledc,hgl,wes,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------294
JAMES R. BENTLEY

Other names : none shows in '69 mvus as JAMES R. BENTLY
Official no. : 12720
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1867, Bailey Bros., Fairport, OH
Specs : 170 ft, 575 t.
Date of loss : 1878, Nov 12
Place of loss : off 40-mile Point, eastern Straits of Mackinac
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : grain
Detail : Bound Buffalo for Chicago, she struck a shoal in heavy weather and foundered. Her crew was rescued from rough seas by the bark ERASTUS CORNING(qv).
Wreck was located in 1984.
Sources: mv,hgl,slh,ssm,mpl


------------------------------------------------------295
JOHN BENTLEY

Other names : ?
Official no. : C?
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1873, Jamieson, Mill Point
Specs : 518 t.
Date of loss : 1886
Place of loss : off Cabbage Head, Georgian Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Sunk by a white squall.
Had a close call with a storm and was rescued by the USLS in Sept of the previous year.
Sources: slh,hgl,usls not in mmgl


------------------------------------------------------296
BENTON

Other names : none
Official no. : 2145
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1867, Hitchcock & Gibson, Buffalo as a passenger steamer
Specs : 152x28x9 308g 159n
Date of loss : 1909, Aug 1
Place of loss : Rouge River, near Detroit, MI
Lake : Detroit R
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : unfinished wooden automobile parts
Detail : Burned at the Ford Rouge plant while unloading partially finished wood auto parts.
Ashore with damage on S Bass Isl, Lake Erie, Oct, 1906. Major repairs in 1883 and probably converted to bulker at that time.
Sources: nsp,ns1,mv,mv,mpl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------297
BERLIN

Other names : none
Official no. : 2161
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1854, S. Ruggles, Milan, OH
Specs : 111 ft, 260 t (214 t.)
Date of loss : 1877, Nov. 8
Place of loss : Burnt Cabin Pt., near Pte Aux Barques
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 4 of 6
Carrying : limestone
Detail : Downbound, she was driven ashore and broken up in gale. Capt, cook & a deckhand were washed overboard. Capt's son died of exposure while lashed to the rigging.
Homeport: Buffalo
Capsized in the Straits of Mackinac in a squall in late April, 1861, crew all safe. Recovered by the wrecking tug LEVIATHAN.
Sources: nsp,slh,sol,h,lhdc,mv,hgl,usls,es


------------------------------------------------------4095
BERLIN CITY

Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1856, Berlin, WI
Specs : 74 t.
Date of loss : 1861, Jul 8
Place of loss : Oshkosh, Wi
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : ?
Loss of life : none
Cargo : ?
Detail : Stranded. No detail.
Sources: eas,lhl not in hgl


------------------------------------------------------
BERMUDA -
See also SENATOR DERBYSHIRE


------------------------------------------------------298
BERMUDA

Other names : none
Official no. : 2100
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1869, G. Goble, Oswego, NY
Specs : 138x26x12, 394t
Date of loss : 1870, Oct 9
Place of loss : Grand Island, near Munising, MI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 3
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : Sank in almost the same spot in November of '69. Raised July '70 and rebuilt and was on her 1st trip when cast into the shallows. Tied up to trees ashore, but suddenly foundered when the bank gave way. At first it was reported that no lives had been lost.
Raised again in 1883, but abandoned without repair.
Sources: nsp,ms,gwgl,is,osdo,tel,lss,hgl,mpl


------------------------------------------------------299
BERMUDA

Other names : none
Official no. : C72701
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1868, J. Tait, Sophiasburg, (Robbins Cove, Long Reach,) Ont.
Specs : 96x23x8, 160 t
Date of loss : 1880, Nov 6
Place of loss : off Port Granby, Ont. [False Ducks]
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 9000 bu. barley
Detail : Grounded intentionally when she began to leak, the vessel and cargo becoming a total loss on the rocky shore.
Registered out of Whitby, Ont.
Sources: nsp,csqw,h,mmgl


------------------------------------------------------300
LOTTA BERNARD

Other names : none name actually consists of two first names
Official no. : 15635
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, "rabbit" freighter
Build info : 1869, W & L Jackson, Port Clinton, OH [fitted out at Sandusky]
Specs : 125x20x7, 147 t. [190 t. old measure]
Date of loss : 1874, Oct 29
Place of loss : off Encampment Isl.
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 3
Carrying : general merch
Detail : Foundered in a terrific gale while bound Silver Islet for Duluth. She was capable of only 4 mph & was at the mercy of any fast-rising storm. Her skipper put her under full steam and ran for Duluth, but it became apparent that she would founder, so he put her in the shallows 6 miles below Encampment River. Her crew made it to shore in her boat, but three died of exporsure in the a long trek to find help in this desolate area.
Owned by E. Ingalls & Co. of Duluth
Sources: nsp,lss,gwgl,is,www,hgl,mpl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------301
FRANCES BERRIMAN

Other names : none also spelled FRANCIS
Official no. : 120067
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast (also described as a bark, in error)
Build info : 1872, Tonawanda, NY
Specs : 180x33x14, 669 t.
Date of loss : 1877, May 7
Place of loss : 10 mi off Sturgeon Pt., MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : 2 of 10
Carrying : wheat
Detail : Bound Milwaukee for Buffalo, she collided with the steamer DAVID W. RUST at about 10:30 pm and sank. RUST saved 8 of her crew. The collision was apparently due to a passing error. She sank in about 11 minutes.
Out of Erie, PA
Sources: nsp,slh,hgl,usls,mv,es


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BERRY
- See also COMMODORE JACK BARRY


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BERTIE -
See GOSSOON


------------------------------------------------------306
JACOB BERTSCHY

Other names : none also seen as JACOB BETSCHY and J. BERTSCHY
Official no. : 75124
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1867, A.C. Stokes, Sheboygan, WI
Specs : 138 ft, 434 t (mv:467 t.)
Date of loss : 1879, Sep 3
Place of loss : just W of Grindstone City, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 51
Carrying : wheat & shingles
Detail : Sheltering in Port Austin harbor when the wind shifted and she began to pound heavily. Made for open water, but sprang a leak and was run for the beach under a bluff to save her passengers and crew. Went on a reef and wrecked. Pte Aux Barques Lifesaving crew took her people off by lifeboat after a terrific struggle. BERTSCHY was totally destroyed by the storm. Bound Saginaw for Cleveland.
Suffered over $10,000 damage in a fire at Depere, Wisconsin, in August of 1872.
Sources: mv,slh,h,lhdc,lhl,hgl,usls,mpl


------------------------------------------------------303
BERWYN

Other names : built as R. C. CRAWFORD, renamed CAPT. GEORGE W. NAUGHTIN in 1883, BERWYN in 1901
Official no. : 21585
Type at loss : schooner, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1866, Chas. Hinman, Algonac, MI*
Specs : 132x29x10 269g 238n
Date of loss : 1908, Nov 25
Place of loss : 2 mi from Pilot Isl. Light, Death's Door
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Caught by a sudden gale, she stranded and broke up on a reef. Tow of steamer WALTER VAIL.
Owned out of Chicago.
*Builder also given as Smith & Butterfield.
Major repairs in 1880, 1884
Sources: nsp,ns1,lmdc,mv,eas,mpl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------304
BESSEMER

Other names : built as JUSTIN R. WHITING renamed in 1885
Official no. : 46130
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1875, Langell, St. Clair, MI
Specs : 178x28x16, 436g 326n
Date of loss : 1889, Oct 5
Place of loss : off North end of Portage Ship Canal
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : She and consort SCHUYLKILL were struck by a rapidly-rising gale, and ran for the Canal when it became apparent that BESSEMER was going to sink. The two went onto a reef at the mouth of the canal, collided and broke up quickly. Crew were able to jump onto the breakwater. Her remains partly blocked the canal until cleared by dynamiting the next fall.
Sources: nsp,gwgl,h,ks,mv,eas,lss,wb,hgl,sb,mpl,df,bb


------------------------------------------------------305
BETHLEHEM

Other names : built as E.P. WILBUR, renamed in 1904
Official no. : 135984
Type at loss : propeller, steel, package freight
Build info : 1888, Globe Shipbuilding, Cleveland hull# 16
Specs : 290x41x14, 2633g 1902n
Date of loss : 1910, Sep 23
Place of loss : SW side of S. Manitou Isl.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : general merch
Detail : Went ashore in gale. Lifesavers and crew unloaded her over several days. Battered by several storms while ashore. Local sources say she broke up in place, but she was actually pulled off and repaired at Milwaukee.
Sold for the Atlantic trade in 1917, scrapped in 1923.
Sources: is(1-61),smi,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------3428
BETTY L

Other names : built as S.S. RUMAGE, renamed CHARLIE O. SMITH ('93), last name in '29
Official no. : 22380
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1863, Quayle & Martin, Cleveland
Specs : 74x16x8, 64g 39n
Date of loss : 1929, Nov 6
Place of loss : at Wallaceburg, Ont.
Lake : St. Clair R
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Burned to total loss at her dock.
Sources: lhl,phr,mv,mpl,jb,eas,hcgl


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BIDE-A-WEE -
See BRIDGEBUILDER X


------------------------------------------------------4014
BIG Z.

Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1844, Z. Wright, Lexington, MI
Specs : 112x20x9, 168 t. om
Date of loss : 1859
Place of loss : 5 mi S of Sheboygan, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : (none)
Carrying : ?
Detail : She was driven ashore by a storm and broken up.
Rebuilt and enlarged in 1848 at Irving, NY. Originally 88x20x9, 128 t. om
Sunk at Cleveland with heavy damage in 1849.
Sources: bb,wl,hgl,bcw


------------------------------------------------------307
J. BIGLER

Other names : none also shown as JOHN BIGLER
Official no. : 12785
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1866, J.M. Jones, Detroit
Specs : 144x26x12, 344g 327n
Date of loss : 1884, Sep 3
Place of loss : off Lower Entry to Keweenaw Waterway, about 10 mi N of Huron Isls.
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Bound Nipigon for Chicago, she foundered in gale.
Owned by G.L. Finney of Chicago
Major repairs in 1878
Sources: mv,lss,ks,osdo,df,bb


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ROSAMUND BILLETE
- See HOWARD S. GERKEN


------------------------------------------------------3604
MARY BIRCKHEAD

Other names : none also seen as MARY BIRKHEAD
Official no. : 17618
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 2-mast [scow hull]
Build info : 1867, Jackson, Oak Harbor [or Sandusky, OH]
Specs : 125x26x10, 226g
Date of loss : 1891, Oct 9
Place of loss : at Lime-Kiln Crossing
Lake : Detroit R
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none of 6
Carrying : coal
Detail : Bound for Port Huron in tow of the tug ANNIE MOILES, she collided with the steamer ROMAN and sank near the Crossing. The wreck nearly blocked the channel completely until the end of the month, when it was blown up with dynamite. Document surrendered at Port Huron 12/31/1891, annotated "wrecked, total loss."
Owned by P. H. Fisk, Saginaw
Sources: phr,polk,mv,hgl,wl,es


------------------------------------------------------308
P.H. BIRCKHEAD

Other names : none
Official no. : 20400
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1870, D. Lester, Marine City, MI
Specs : 157x28x13 495g 222n
Date of loss : 1905, Sep 30
Place of loss : off docks at Alpena, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none of 13
Carrying : coal
Detail : She had been towed in to Alpena the previous day with a blown cylinder head. After repairs, she was pulling away from the dock when she caught fire, burned to waterline and sank in the Bay. Bound Ashtabula for Racine.
Unusual twin tandem arch construction [double arches built into hull on both sides] and built with twin compound engines running a single shaft.
Sources: nsp,stb,slh,ns1,mv,lhdc,mpl,eas,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------309
BIRDIE

Other names : none
Official no. : 3143
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1881, Sheboygan, WI
Specs : 47x11x3, 13g 12n
Date of loss : 1892, Oct 7 or 9
Place of loss : in Hammond Bay, E Straits of Mackinac
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Dragged ashore and wrecked in a gale. Purchased where she sat in November in hope of salvage, but finally given up as lost the following summer.
Some official lists show her built in 1878.
Sources: phr,slh,h,hgl,usls


------------------------------------------------------310
H.B. BISHOP

Other names : ?
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1846, Jacob W Banta, Buffalo
Specs : 122x25x9, 264t
Date of loss : 1852
Place of loss : Nottawasaga Harbor, Georgian Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : grain
Detail : Driven over bar and into shallows by storm. She was at Nottawasaga to prove that the harbor was navigable to larger schooners. Her remains were still visible on the beach for at least 100 years.
Sources: tfgl,slh,hgl not in mmgl


------------------------------------------------------311
BISMARK

Other names : perhaps BISMARCK
Official no. : (none)
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : (1871, Andrews & Son, Port Dalhousie)
Specs : (131x26x12 322gc 303nc)
Date of loss : 1878, Sep 13
Place of loss : near Port Credit, Ont
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : stranded
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : May have been recovered, if she is vessel shown above.
Sources: (mmgl),h


------------------------------------------------------312
HARVEY BISSELL

Other names : also shown as HARVEY BISSEL
Official no. : 11281
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 2-mast, bulk freight
Build info : 1866, Little, Toledo, OH as a bark
Specs : 162x34x12 497g 472n
Date of loss : 1905, Nov 28
Place of loss : off False Presque Isle, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Blasted by sudden, violent gale, and went to pieces offshore. Her crew were rescued by her tow vessel, the steamer DAVID W. RUST.
Spent the winter of 86-87 ashore after stranding on Green I. Shoal, near the Straits.
Major repairs in '74, '79, '82 and '87
She stuck on the ways during her launch and took several days to remove.
Sources: slh,lol,mol,stb,sol,ns1,mv,nsp,eas,phr,mpl,hcgl


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W.K. BIXBY -
See SIDNEY E. SMITH, Jr.


------------------------------------------------------313
BLACK HAWK

Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : brig, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1854, Stevens & Presley, Ohio City, OH
Specs : 138x26x12, 385 t.
Date of loss : 1862, Nov 1
Place of loss : Pte Aux Becs Scies (Point Betsie)
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : all
Carrying : 19,000 bu. corn [stained glass, etc. also reported]
Detail : She was driven ashore and wrecked in a gale.
Owned by D. N. Barney of Buffalo
Sailed Detroit to Liverpool and back, 1858.
Sources: h,lmdc,hgl,wl,nsp


------------------------------------------------------314
BLACK HAWK

Other names : ?
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : ?
Specs : ?
Date of loss : 1887, Nov
Place of loss : unknown
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : went missing
Loss of life : all
Carrying : ?
Detail : No detail.
The only BLACK HAWK shown in '84 mvus was E. Saginaw-built boat which lasted into 20th century [US#2140], however, a 130 t. scow-schooner of this name - disposition unknown - was built at St. Joseph, MI in 1857, and a brig of this name - disposition also unknown - was built by Peck & Masters, Cleveland, in 1854.
Sources: mv,glss,sol,nsp,rsl


------------------------------------------------------315
BLACK MARLIN

Other names : built as fish tug MARTHA M. renamed in 1953
Official no. : 233702
Type at loss : propeller tug, steel (wood?), diesel
Build info : 1935, Mininger, Vermilion, Oh
Specs : 40x14x3, 11g 9n
Date of loss : 1958, Nov 29
Place of loss : near Avon Point, W of Cleveland
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 2
Carrying : none
Detail : Foundered after her engine failed in 15 foot waves and 75 mph wind, accompanied by -6°F temperatures. She had left her barge, the HICKORY STICK (qv) at anchor. Her 2 crewmen were rescued by Coast Guardsmen from Lorain, OH. For nearly a year the tug and barge had been laying concrete block over a power cable to Put-in-Bay.
Owned by Dyche Salvage Co., Cleveland.
Details of this loss provided by Joe Amberik, Cleveland, OH, who was first mate on the tug when it was sunk.
Photo.
Sources: ledc,ja,hcgl


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EMMA BLACK -
See EMMA BLAKE


------------------------------------------------------316
BLACKBIRD

Other names : ?
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : ?(schooner, wood)
Build info : ?(1867, R. Hooper, Wilkesport, Ont.)
Specs : ?(76x20x6, 65 t.)
Date of loss : ?(unk*)
Place of loss : unknown
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : went missing
Loss of life : all
Carrying : ?
Detail : no detail
(*Canadian document surrendered as "out of existence," date not given)
Sources: (mmgl)


------------------------------------------------------317
JAMES G. BLAINE

Other names : built as PENSAUKEE, renamed in 1890
Official no. : 20195
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 3-mast, bulk freight
Build info : 1867, T.Spears, Little Sturgeon Bay, WI
Specs : 177x34x13 555g 527n
Date of loss : 1908, Jul 8
Place of loss : near Oswego, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 7
Carrying : coal
Detail : Tow of tug WILLIAM G. PROCTOR, she broke her towline and was driven ashore, then broken up by waves. Bound Charlotte, NY for Prescott, Ont. Still fully-rigged as a 3-mast schooner at time of loss.
Owned by Richard Fitzgerald of Ogdensburg, NY
Sources: is,ns1,h,mpl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------318
E.R. BLAKE

Other names : none
Official no. : 135812
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1867, Carlson, Port Washington (Milwaukee?), WI
Specs : 121x27x8 210g 191n
Date of loss : 1898
Place of loss : well offshore
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Burned while underway.
Ashore at Mission Point and declared total loss, 12/1/89.
Major repairs in 1876
Sources: nsp,slh,hgl


------------------------------------------------------319
EMMA BLAKE

Other names : also seen as EMMA BLACK
Official no. : 36059
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1868, Blake, Conneaut
Specs : 28 t.
Date of loss : 1870, Oct 17
Place of loss : in harbor at Cleveland
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : all
Carrying : ?
Detail : Blown against the Toledo railroad pier and sank, total wreck. Out on Conneaut, OH.
Major repairs in 1870.
Sources: nsp,is,hgl,wl,rnc


------------------------------------------------------320
J.W. BLAKE

Other names : none also seen as I.W. BLAKE
Official no. : none
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1853, Dover, OH
Specs : 68x18x3, 33 t. [om]
Date of loss : 1855, Jun 2
Place of loss : 4 miles off Sturgeon Bay, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Capsized in a squall. Her crew escaped in her yawl, though one who was asleep almost didn’t make it. Thought to be a total loss, but later recovered and rebuilt.
Sources: slh,hgl,nsp,wl


------------------------------------------------------321
B.W. BLANCHARD

Other names : none
Official no. : 2806
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1870, J. Martin, Cleveland
Specs : 212x32x12 919g 526n
Date of loss : 1904, Nov 28
Place of loss : North Point reef, Thunder Bay, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber, 2-barge tow
Detail : Inbound in a gale with barges J.T. JOHNSON and JOHN KELDERHOUSE in tow., she was driven on the reef, broke in half and sank. Abandoned, but her boiler was recovered a few days later.
Built as a passenger/freight steamer, converted to bulker at Milwaukee in 1901 after a serious fire. Arch-braced.
Collided with and sank the steamer ARIZONA(qv) on St. Clair Flats in 1873.
Sources: nsp,stb,slh,ns1,h,mv,mpl,bb,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------3361
BLANCHE

Other names : none
Official no. : C71061
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast (or sloop)
Build info : 1874, W. Jamieson, Mill Pt., Ont.
Specs : (95)x21x7, 92gc 92nc
Date of loss : 1888, May 26
Place of loss : Between Oswego and Brighton, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 5 [all]
Carrying : coal
Detail : Went missing in a squall. One captain who knew the boat & crew theorized that she dove to the bottom with all sails set. Some wreckage later washed ashore near Wellington, Ont.
Owned by A. Campbell of Port Colborne
Sources: mmgl,nsp,


------------------------------------------------------323
BLAZING STAR

Other names : none
Official no. : 2868
Type at loss : schooner, wood, lumber
Build info : 1873, H. Burger, Manitowoc, WI
Specs : 137 ft, 265 t.
Date of loss : 1887, Nov 10
Place of loss : Fisherman Shoal, Washington Isl. WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : navigational error
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Went on the reef in fine weather, even though the wreck of the steamer I.N. FOSTER was in full view on the reef. Captain was unable to locate a tug to pull her off, and she broke up in heavy weather that followed. Abandoned for good in Jun, 1888.
Ashore with heavy damage on Long Point, Nov, 1883, and given up as lost, but later recovered.
Sources: nsp,h,lmdc,mv,eas,osdo,wb,hgl,mpl


------------------------------------------------------324
ELISHA C. BLISH

Other names : also seen as E.C. BLISH, E.D. BLISH
Official no. : none
Type at loss : propeller tug, wood (also seen as a schooner)
Build info : 1857, Chas. Hinman, Black R. OH
Specs : 81x16x9, 107 t.
Date of loss : 1864
Place of loss : mid-lake
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : went missing
Loss of life : all
Carrying : ?
Detail : Foundered with all hands at unknown position..
She sank herself near shore at Algonac April 15, 1862, when a steam pump was accidentally left in a position to pump water into the vessel.
Sources: slh,hgl,wl,nsp not in mmgl


------------------------------------------------------325
A.T. BLISS

Other names : none
Official no. : 29925
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1881, T Arnold, E. Saginaw as a schooner
Specs : 168x31x10 437g 415n
Date of loss : 1903, Nov 4
Place of loss : 10 mi NW of Ludington, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : stone
Detail : Bound Sturgeon Bay, WI for Ludington, she was lost from the tow of the tug SYDNEY SMITH and overwhelmed. The big carferry PERE MARQUETTE 18 steamed out of Ludington to rescue her 2-man crew.
Rebuilt from a schooner to a schooner-barge in 1888.
Owned by C. Woolfork, Chicago.
Sources: nsp,ns1,h,vbs,mpl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------
BLOOD
- See SENATOR BLOOD


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BLOOMER GIRL -
See SILVER SPRAY


------------------------------------------------------327
BLUE COMET

Other names : built as TROY SCOCONY renamed BLUE COMET in 1946
Official no. : 222943
Type at loss : motor propeller, steel, tanker
Build info : 1923, Sun Shipbuilding, Chester, PA
Specs : 254x38x14 957g 611n
Date of loss : 1953, Oct 29
Place of loss : at Calumet, IL
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : 500,000 gal. gasoline
Detail : Exploded and burned in one of the biggest tanker fires ever on the lakes. Later recovered and rebuilt. Scrapped in 1964.
Sources: a&f,mpl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------326
BLUE BELL

Other names : none also seen as BLUE BELLE
Official no. : 2235
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1867, Edwards, Milwaukee
Specs : 84x25x7, 122g 116n
Date of loss : 1887, Sep 6
Place of loss : off the Sturgeon Bay, WI, harbor entrance
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Bound Wilt's Bay, Michigan, for Milwaukee, she missed the harbor entrance while attempting to dock, and was driven ashore, where she broke up. Her crew made it to the beach, with the aid of the local USLS crew. Total loss of about $5000. Remains removed by dredging operations in 1894.
Sources: mv,eas,wb,sagl,h,hgl,sb,bb,usls


------------------------------------------------------328
BESSIE BOALT

Other names : none
Official no. : 2584
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1868, Boalt, Wolf R. [Ahnapee], WI
Specs : 103x27x9, 173 g, 164 n.
Date of loss : 1884, Sep 21
Place of loss : 4 mi NE of Two Rivers, WI, lifesaving station
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 6
Carrying : Lumber
Detail : Bound Leland, MI, for Milwaukee, she capsized offshore and was wrecked in a gale. Her crew made it to shore in her boat. Some cargo was later recovered, but the vessel went to pieces by Oct 4.
Stranded and declared a total loss 4 mi NE of Two Rivers, WI, in Sep of 1872, but was later recovered. Some loss of life.
Reported wrecked in a Nov 6, 1877, gale near Frankfort, MI, but recovered again.
Homeport: Milwaukee
Sources: mv,h,lmdc,hgl,usls,bb,wl


------------------------------------------------------329
BOAZ

Other names : none
Official no. : 2791
Type at loss : schooner, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1869, Stokes, Sheboygan, WI
Specs : 114x22x8 127g 121n
Date of loss : 1900, Nov 10
Place of loss : North bay, near Bailey's Harbor, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : elm lumber
Detail : Driven hard aground and wrecked. There is some evidence that she was eventually
recovered.
Owned out of Milwaukee
Sources: nsp,ns1,lmdc,mv


------------------------------------------------------4135
BOHEMIAN

Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1856, Buffalo, NY
Specs : 137x26x11, 373 t. [om]
Date of loss : 1856, Oct 22
Place of loss : S shore of Port Washington, WI, harbor
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : none
Carrying : pig iron, RR wheels
Detail : She stranded 200 yards S of Silverman's Pier and broke up, on the same day as the disastrous loss of the steamer TOLRDO a short disatnce away. Her crew was rescued from shore by locals.
Owned by Littlejohn and Fitzhugh, Oswego. The same parties were to lose the schooner ARABIAN at Pt. Betsey a month later.
Sources: bb,rp,hgl


------------------------------------------------------330
JOHN J. BOLAND, Jr.

Other names : built as TYNEVILLE renamed in '28 [year of launch]
Official no. : C149467
Type at loss : propeller, steel, bulk freight
Build info : 1928, Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Newcastle, England
Specs : 253x44x24 1939gc 1149nc
Date of loss : 1932, Oct 5
Place of loss : 9 miles off Barcelona, NY
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 4 of 19
Carrying : coal
Detail : Capsized and foundered in gale.
Out of Sarnia, Ont.
Sources: mmgl,win,sol,ns4,h,ledc,csv,mpl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------331
BOLIVIA

Other names : also seen as BOLIVIAN
Official no. : 2893
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1874, G. Goble, Oswego
Specs : 353 g
Date of loss : 1886, Nov 12
Place of loss : off Charlotte, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : went missing
Loss of life : 6 [all]
Carrying : ?
Detail : She broke away from the tug PROCTOR and disappeared. Newspaper reports on the 19^th said there was "now no doubt she has gone to the bottom."
A schooner BOLIVIAN was reported ashore and wrecked near Sand Beach, Mich., Lake Huron, in 1877.
Sources: slh,rp ,polk,es2-4


------------------------------------------------------332
SAMUEL BOLTON

Other names : none also seen as SAM D. BOLTON, SAMUEL BOLTEN
Official no. : 57105
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1867, G Carpenter, Bangor, MI as a schooner
Specs : 150x30x9 330g 314n
Date of loss : 1893, Sep 19
Place of loss : near Richmondville, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fog
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Lost from tow in a fog and drifted ashore, where she broke in two and was later torn apart by waves. Stripped and abandoned September 21. Bound Cheboygan for Tonawanda.
She is probably the vessel found near Richmondville in 1960.
Owned by Brazil Hoose of Detroit
Sources: nsp,slh,sbs,vbs,mv,wb,hgl


------------------------------------------------------
BON AMI -
See ISLET PRINCE , NORTH SHORE


------------------------------------------------------333
BON VOYAGE

Other names : none
Official no. : 3497
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger/package freight [coaster]
Build info : 1891, Rogers & Brittain, Saugatuck, MI
Specs : 153x30x17 500g 361n
Date of loss : 1901, May 10
Place of loss : near S entrance to Portage Ship Canal
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : 4 of 40
Carrying : passengers, general freight
Detail : Caught fire and beached to save her people. Burned to total loss on bar 1000ft from shore.
Nsp says five were lost, including four female members of the same family. Much of her machinery & engine were stolen during the summer but the thieves were later caught and prosecuted.
Sources: nsp,gwgl,is(1-71),sol,ns1,h,mpl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------334
HIRAM R. BOND

Other names : none
Official no. : 95966
Type at loss : unrigged scow, wood [built as a propeller steamer]
Build info : 1888, Milwaukee Ship Yard Co., Milwaukee
Specs : (113x26x8 231g)*
Date of loss : 1905, May 29
Place of loss : off Milwaukee
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : sand
Detail : Rammed in a fog and sunk by the big carferry PERE MARQUETTE 20. The ferry rescued her crew.
File has accurate location of her loss.
* specifications as steamer
Sources: nsp,cfgl,mv,mpl


------------------------------------------------------335
O.M. BOND

Other names : none
Official no. : 19383
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1873, A. Miller & Co, Oswego, NY
Specs : 137x25x11 315g
Date of loss : 1886, Oct 14
Place of loss : near Pte Aux Pins, Ont
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 2 of 7
Carrying : 22,000 bu wheat
Detail : Bound Detroit for Buffalo when a rapid shift of wind sent her on her beam ends. She lost steerageway and was driven ashore. Crew stayed in her rigging until rescued by a local man in a skiff. She was on one of her first trips after the rebuild below. Out of Oswego, NY.
Sunk near Port Dalhousie. Ont.. in May of '86. Raised and rebuilt at Buffalo.
Sunk and recovered near Sand Beach, MI, in 1879.
Sources: nsp,slh,is,h,ledc,mv,osdo,wb,win,hgl,usls,sb,sip,es


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SARAH BOND -
See JOHN WALTERS


------------------------------------------------------336
BONNIE DOON

Other names : ?
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1855, W. Shupe, Huron, OH
Specs : 133 ft, 255 t.
Date of loss : 1867, Dec 6
Place of loss : Bois Blanc Isl., Straits of Mackinac
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Bound Saginaw for Chicago, she was driven ashore and wrecked. Speculation was that she would eventually be raised, but after several attempts she was abandoned in April of 1868.
Owned by Gillett & King, Chicago.
Rebuilt in 1864.
Another report of a vessel of this name shows her burned in 1880 at Meldrum Bay, Ont, L. Huron. Shown as a sloop, but may be the same vessel.
Sources: slh,hgl,ssm,nsp ,rsl


------------------------------------------------------337
BONNIE MAGGIE

Other names : built as BONNIE BOAT
Official no. : C51653
Type at loss : propeller, wood, freighter
Build info : 1859, J.M. Keating, Huron, OH
Specs : 111x18x7 203gc 125nc
Date of loss : 1869, Oct 14
Place of loss : near Kincardine, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Thrown ashore and broken up by waves.
Sold Canadian in 1865.
Some sources say she was built at Sandusky, OH
Sources: mmgl,slh,csv,hgl,rsl,mdwl


------------------------------------------------------338
A. BOODY

Other names : rebuilt as E.A. FULTON(qv) in 1898
Official no. : 872
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1863, G. Rogers, Toledo, OH
Specs : 137x25x11 287g 273n
Date of loss : 1887, Nov 10
Place of loss : off Pte Aux Barques, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : stranded
Loss of life : none
Carrying : iron ore or pig iron
Detail : Struck Port Austin reef, declared a total loss, but after 10 days hard work she was finally pulled off. She was near the wreck of the big stranded steambarge OSCEOLA (qv).
Rebuilt 1872 and 84. Sold Canadian and rebuilt in 1894.
Sources: nsp,slh,ns2,mv,st,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------3429
L.H. BOOLE

Other names : none
Official no. : 14809
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1858, L.H. Boole, Milwaukee
Specs : 57g 28n
Date of loss : 1872, Oct 9
Place of loss : near South Haven, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Stranded and wrecked.
Sources: mv,lhl,is,hgl


------------------------------------------------------4055
MARY BOOTH

Other names : none
Official no. : 16392
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1857, Bidwell & Banta, Buffalo
Specs : 132 t.
Date of loss : 1877, Nov 4
Place of loss : off Milwaukee
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : maple lumber
Detail : She became waterlogged in a gale, but her crew doggedly clung to her until she appeared ready to turn turtle. Shortly after they abandoned her, she rolled over, but actually may have drifted to the east for several days. The crew landed at White Lake, Michigan after 48 frigid hours adrift, and they were all near death.
Sources: nsp,bb,mv


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BOSCOBEL -
See also OTTAWA (tug)


------------------------------------------------------339
BOSCOBEL

Other names : none
Official no. : 31430
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1876, Peshtigo Co., Algonac, MI*
Specs : 167x32x11 504g 479n
Date of loss : 1909, Aug 1
Place of loss : mid-lake
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Tow of steamer D.F. ROSE, she foundered in a moderate gale due to massive hull failure.
*Built on the hull of the passenger & package freight prop of the same name [#2147], which was built in 1867 at Chicago [or 1866, Peshtigo, WI by Philbrook] and burned near Ft Gratiot with 3 lives lost September 3, 1869. Raised in '76.
Sunk by ice near Turtle light, Lake Erie, in December of 1895 after stranding on a bar. Reportedly went down in deep water, but later recovered. Her crew was saved by the tug ROY.
Sources: nsp,ns1,mv,lhl,st,mpl,mdwl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------340
BOSTON

Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger/package freight
Build info : 1846, John Robison, Detroit
Specs : 205x30x13, 757t
Date of loss : 1846, Nov 24
Place of loss : in the bay at Milwaukee
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : The brand-new steamer ran out into the lake in a gale to prevent pounding against a pier at which she had been unloading. Lost her stacks and therefore her boiler fire draft and was backed onto the beach, where she was pounded to pieces.
Owned by the Michigan Insurance Co. of Detroit.
An attempt was made to raise her the following spring.
Sources: lmdc,hdm,lhl,nsp,wl


------------------------------------------------------341
BOSTON

Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : propeller, wood, freighter
Build info : 1847, Luther Moses, Ohio City, OH
Specs : 34x21x10, 259 t*
Date of loss : 1854, Jul 28
Place of loss : 15 to 20 miles off Oak Orchard, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none of 28
Carrying : pork, corn, whiskey & produce
Detail : Bound Chicago for Ogdensburg, NY. Collided with the bark PLYMOUTH and sank in about 20 minutes. Her crew and the few passengers abandoned in 3 lifeboats and made it to shore safely, the captain’s boat sailing 50 miles to Charlotte NY.
Owned by Crawford & Co. of Ogdensburg.
*This tonnage shows on her official documents, but must be in error. Probably 134 ft.
Sources: is,lhl,nsp,rp,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------343
BOTHNIA

Other names : built as JACK, renamed in 1896
Official no. : C100661
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1895, D. Calvin, Garden Isl., Ont
Specs : 178x38x13 833gc 478nc
Date of loss : 1912, Jun 26
Place of loss : St. Clair Flats
Lake : St Clair
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : ?
Detail : Collided with the steel steamer S.S. CURRY and sank near Star Island House. Later removed. CURRY's rudder had broken, causing her to sheer.
Built partially of tamarack. In 1895, following a collision which sank the steamer NORMAN(qv), an appraiser said her construction was strangest he had ever seen. See clip file.
Sources: win,mmgl,ns2,csv,mpl


------------------------------------------------------344
MARY N. BOURKE

Other names : none
Official no. : 92126
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1889, F. Maynard (or Nester), Baraga, MI
Specs : 219x35x16 920g 874n
Date of loss : 1914, Sep 26
Place of loss : 15 mi N of St. Ignace, MI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : Fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Burned to the waterline while docked at Peter’s Lumber dock in St. Martin’s Bay. Crew was awakened at 9:30-10pm by smoke from the hold and escaped. Dock and a pile of lumber were also destroyed.
Owned by D.C. Parson of Detroit, son of her skipper.
Sources: slh,ns2,mv,nsp,df,mpl,eas,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------345
ERASTUS BOWEN

Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1844, Chicago
Specs : 66x15x5, 42 t [om]
Date of loss : 1851, Apr
Place of loss : on Grosse Point, IL, below Chicago [Grosse Pointe, Mi also given]
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : stranded
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : household goods
Detail : No detail
Sources: lmdc,hgl,mpl,wl


------------------------------------------------------346
C.M. BOWMAN

Other names : none
Official no. : C107191
Type at loss : propeller, wood, freighter
Build info : 1897, J. Strong, Saugeen, Ont. (also given as Port Elgin)
Specs : 92x19x9, 88gc 60nc
Date of loss : 1915, Dec 13
Place of loss : Vail's Point, Georgian Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Blown ashore and wrecked. Later burned.
Out of Saugeen, Ont.
Sources: mmgl,win,slh,h,csv


------------------------------------------------------347
BOXER

Other names : ?
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : ?
Specs : (16 t.)?
Date of loss : 1818
Place of loss : Mouth of Grand R., Ohio
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : sank
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : No detail
Sources: is,(hgl)


------------------------------------------------------348
ISABELLA J. BOYCE

Other names : none
Official no. : 100446
Type at loss : propeller, wood, sandsucker [built as freighter]
Build info : 1889, Burger & Burger, Manitowoc, WI
Specs : 138x30x11 368g 317n
Date of loss : 1917, Jun 6
Place of loss : Middle Bass Isl.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : sand
Detail : Grounded, then destroyed by fire.
Built as a bulker, converted to sandsucker in 1915.
Sources: sol,ns2,mv,mpl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------349
MARY H. BOYCE

Other names : none
Official no. : C140994
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1888, Duncan Robertson, Grand Haven, MI US#92033
Specs : 181x34x14 864gc 477nc
Date of loss : 1928
Place of loss : Fort William, Thunder Bay, Ont.
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Gutted by fire. Two reports of final disposition. Towed into the lake and scuttled or dismantled in 1936, maybe both.
Sold Canadian in 1919
Sources: ns4,mmgl,mpl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------350
J. OSWALD BOYD

Other names : none
Official no. : 223043
Type at loss : propeller, steel, fuel tanker
Build info : 1913, Bow, McLachlan & Co., Paisley, Scotland
Specs : 244x44x20, 1806g 1273n
Date of loss : 1936, Nov 11
Place of loss : Simmons Reef, N side of Beaver Isl.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : stranded, fire
Loss of life : none of 20
Carrying : 900,000 gal gasoline
Detail : Standed in the fall, her crew being rescued by U.S.C.G. from Beaver Island. On Jan 1, 1937, while being relieved of her cargo, she exploded and burned, killing several. See MAROLD II for more detail. Remains were removed to Detour, MI in June of 1937, and scrapped in 1942.
Twin-engined.
Formerly British registry [BR#133540]
Sources: rkr,mv,gsgl,is,slh,lm,mpl,hcgl


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BRACKETT
- see COLONEL BRACKETT


------------------------------------------------------
T.U. BRADBURY
- See FLORENCE M. DICKINSON


------------------------------------------------------352
ALVA BRADLEY

Other names : often seen as A. BRADLEY
Official no. : 1910
Type at loss : schooner, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1870, Quayle & Martin, Cleveland
Specs : 192x32x20 934g 900n
Date of loss : 1894, Oct 13
Place of loss : 7 miles SW of N Manitou Isl.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none of 7
Carrying : steel billets
Detail : Sprang a leak and sank in a NW gale. Crew of 7 was rescued by N. Manitou Lifesaving Service Vessel & cargo were called a $45,000 loss, but her cargo was later recovered.
Driven ashore with heavy damage after several days of pounding, Oct 23, 1887, on Shot Pt., near Marquette, MI, Lake Superior. Declared total loss, but recovered Nov 6.
Major repairs in 1882, 1883, 1887
Sources: nsp,h,lmdc,wbm,gwgl,mv,nb,lss,hgl,wl,usls,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------353
CARL D. BRADLEY

Other names : none
Official no. : 226776
Type at loss : propeller, steel self-unloading bulk freighter
Build info : 1927, American Shipbuilding Co., Lorain, OH
Specs : 623x65x33 10,028g 7706n
Date of loss : 1958, Nov 18
Place of loss : 12 mi SW of Gull Isl., Beavers Group
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 33 of 35
Carrying : in ballast
Detail : Battling 30-foot waves and 65 mph winds , she rode up on a huge wave and broke in two, sinking quickly. The German motor vessel Christian Sartori was first on the scene, but was unable to find any of her crew. Extensive air-sea rescue operation by the Coast Guard yielded just two freezing survivors on a raft 14 hours later. She was bound Buffington Harbor, IL, for Calcite, MI, and was the 2nd largest vessel ever lost on the Lakes. Vessel owners and insurance companies claimed for years that she was simply overwhelmed by the storm, and didn’t break in two, but dives in the spring of 1997 confirmed that she had, thereby proving that it was hull failure rather than an act of God which killed her.
Owned by the Bradley Fleet. Her homeport of Rogers City, MI was also the home of 33 of her crew.
Hull located in Sep '59 in 360' of water.
Sources: lol,mh,slh,glss,sol,is(4-59),h,lmdc,gn,eas,a&f,ns5,mpl,nsp,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------354
CHARLES H. BRADLEY

Other names : none
Official no. : 126653
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1890, F.Wheeler, W. Bay City, MI
Specs : 201x37x14 804g 624n
Date of loss : 1931, Oct 9
Place of loss : Portage Lake, Keweenaw Peninsula
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : stranded, collision ,fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : pulpwood
Detail : Towing barge GRAMPIAN, she was traversing the Portage canal when she ran on a bar and was struck from behind by the barge. Caught fire and burned to the waterline, a total loss. Wreck lies in 6 to 17 ft of water off the mouth of the Sturgeon R., S end of Portage Lake.
Sources: glp,vbs,ms,sbs,gwgl,sol,is,ns4,mpl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------
F.B. BRADY -
See THOMAS FREEL BATTLE (1907 loss)


------------------------------------------------------3576
GEORGE N. BRADY

Other names : none
Official no. : 10244
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1865, Detroit*
Specs : 102x20x10, 165g 123n
Date of loss : 1892, Aug 24
Place of loss : 3 mi above Grosse Pointe, MI
Lake : St. Clair
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : towing log raft
Detail : While engaged in towing alog raft across Lake St. Clair with the tug SUMNER, she caught fire around her stack. Her crew fought the fire until it was apparent that they would not be able to extinguish it, the abandoned her for the SUMNER, which had been standing by. The tug drifted into the shallows at the position shown and burned to the waterline. Her registration document was surrendered at Port Huron 6/30/93, annotated "Burned, total loss."
Owned by Howard Towing Association.
*build also seen as 1865, McDole, Marine City and at Algonac
rebuilt, 1878
Sources: phr,polk,mv,lhl,hgl,wl,nsp,jb


------------------------------------------------------4071
O. V. BRAINARD

Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1848, Harbridge, Sacket's Harbor
Specs : 135 t. om
Date of loss : 1866, Oct
Place of loss : at Port Hope, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : (none)
Carrying : ?
Detail : Reported wrecked at Port Hope, a total loss. Probably owned by M. Golding, Oswego.
Also burned on Lake Ontario in 1851.
Sources: nsp,hgl,rsl


------------------------------------------------------355
D.R. BRAMAN

Other names : also seen as D. R. BRAYMAN
Official no. : 35184
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood
Build info : 1868, Johnson, Dover, OH
Specs : 80 t.
Date of loss : 1870, (Oct)
Place of loss : off Black River, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : foundered
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : No detail. Reported by wreckers to be a total loss, 10/29/70.
Out of Cleveland
Sources: mv,slh,hgl,wl


------------------------------------------------------3308
WATERS W. BRAMAN

Other names : built as U.S.Q.M.C. tug RESCUE. Many variations of her names seen, including WALTER M. BRAMAN, W. BRAMAN WALTERS, W.M. BRAYMAN, etc.
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1858, Boston, MA [1st home port: Port Royal, SC]
Specs : 89 t.
Date of loss : 1867, Jun 26
Place of loss : near Pelee Isl., 7 mi E of the Dummy
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : While idling in the Passage, awaiting vessels to tow, she caught fire and burned to a total loss at about 2:30 a.m. Her crew abandoned in her boat and were picked up later by prop TRADER. The fire began in her coal bunker. She was taken in tow after burning out and left to sink near pt. Pelee. Her engine and boiler may have been recovered in 1883.
Rebuilt in 1867 and came to the lakes from New York City; she was only here 5 weeks before her loss.
Sold by U.S. Quartermaster Corps in 1866.
Sources: lhl,nsp,hgl,es


------------------------------------------------------
PULOE BRANI -
See B.B. McCOLL


------------------------------------------------------356
BRANDON

Other names : none
Official no. : C92535
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast, bulk freight
Build info : 1887, J. Gaskin, Kingston, ONt.
Specs : 167x33x11, 541gc 516nc
Date of loss : 1888, Sep 29
Place of loss : 40 mi SW of Isle Royale
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : RR rails
Detail : Tow of tug JAMES A. WALKER with schrs JENNIE and REGINA. Sprang a leak and foundered. Brand new at the time. The question was later raised as to whether she was overladen.
Out of Montreal.
Sources: hgl,lss,nsp,is,mmgl,win,gwgl,h,es3-1,


------------------------------------------------------357
BRANDYWINE

Other names : ?
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : ?
Specs : ?
Date of loss : 1842, Nov 19*
Place of loss : 18 mi W of Buffalo, near Barcelona, NY
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 7 (all)
Carrying : flour
Detail : She capsized and sank in a gale, then drifted to the beach. One passenger’s body was found in the cabin, but the entire crew of 6 had disappeared. The local sheriff watched over the craft for several days to make sure her crew had really been lost.
This is probably the vessel reported as stranded at Buffalo in 1837.
*1846 also given, probably in error, as there is no mention of the vessel having been recovered.
Sources: is(2-67),ledc,hgl,nsp not in mmgl


------------------------------------------------------358
BRANT

Other names : ?
Official no. : none
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood,
Build info : 1857, Sandusky, OH
Specs : 74x19x4 53g
Date of loss : 1859
Place of loss : ?
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Foundered in gale.
Sources: slh,www,hgl


------------------------------------------------------359
JESSE H. BRECK

Other names : rebuilt as H.M. STANLEY
Official no. : C72580
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1873, Andrews & Son, Port Dalhousie, Ont.
Specs : 342x24x12 376gc 364n
Date of loss : 1890, May 17
Place of loss : near Nine-Mile Point, eastern end of the lake
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 8 [all]
Carrying : oak lumber
Detail : She capsized and sank in a storm after battling leaks and high winds for hours. She went down within sight of the family home of the skipper, his three sons and daughter, all drowned in the wreck. She had been bound Toledo for Garden Island, Ont. Presumed to be a total loss, she was later recovered and extensively rebuilt, relaunched as H.M. STANLEY in 1892.
Sources: csqw,mmgl,slh,is(1-76),nh3,h,hgl,sip,es3-2


------------------------------------------------------360
MARION L. BRECK

Other names : (built on hull of schooner WILLIAM PENN [b1840]) also seen as MARY BRECK
Official no. : C ?
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1858, Calvin & Breck, Garden Isl, Ont.
Specs : 127x24x12 298 t
Date of loss : 1907, Oct 7
Place of loss : Bear's Rump Shoal, near Tobermory, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : stranded
Loss of life : none
Carrying : brick pieces
Detail : Grounded and wrecked after 49 years of service [67 years for the hull]. Her crew escaped to the island, and were assisted by a local lighthouse keeper.
Ashore in Georgian Bay, fall 1888, recovered the next May.
Spent the winter of 1895-6 locked in ice near Tawas City, Mich.
Rebuilt in 1863 by Roney, Garden Isl.
major repairs in 1873, 76 & 89
Sources: mmgl,clu,nsp,slh,ns1,lhdc,(hgl),mpl,do


------------------------------------------------------361
JOHN BREDEN

Other names : none builders list shows her as JOHN BREDIN
Official no. : 13933
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1862, Andrews & Donaldson, Port Dalhousie, Ont., as a bark
Specs : 130x25x11 319g 303n (142'oa)
Date of loss : 1899, Jul 21
Place of loss : 4 mi off Lexington, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 3
Carrying : Coal
Detail : Bound Lake Erie for Bay City in tow of tug WINSLOW., she foundered in a storm in the steamer channel, 40 feet of water.
Orig:142(oa?)x26x13, 430gc
Sold U.S. before 1883. Out of Buffalo, 1884, Saginaw 1889, Detroit 1894.
Sources: nsp,is,slh,hgl,phr,net,wl


------------------------------------------------------
ERNEST R. BREECH -
See KINSMAN INDEPENDENT


------------------------------------------------------362
C.G. BREED

Other names : none
Official no. : 4577
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast, bulk freight
Build info : 1862, Ellsworth & Davidson, Milwaukee
Specs : 140x26x13, 385 t.
Date of loss : 1879, Nov 14
Place of loss : near Ashtabula, Oh
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 5 of 8
Carrying : 24,000 bu wheat
Detail : She capsized and foundered in a sudden squall while bound Detroit for Buffalo. The three survivors were rescued in different parts of the lake by three different vessels.
One source says she foundered off Pt. Pelee.
Owned by Jesse Farwell of Detroit
Sources: h,mv,hgl,usls,bb,es,sip


------------------------------------------------------363
BRENTON

Other names : none
Official no. : 3202
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1882, Gibraltar, MI
Specs : 71x21x4 50g 48n
Date of loss : 1899
Place of loss : unk.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : went missing
Loss of life : all hands
Carrying : ?
Detail : Lost to unknown causes.
Sunk but recovered near Cleveland, Nov 13, 1896.
Sources: wb,slh,h,mv


------------------------------------------------------364
BRENTON

Other names : built as LIEUTENANT WILLIAM H. SMITH
Official no. : 226189
Type at loss : propeller (tug?)
Build info : 1909, Muskegon, Mich
Specs : 60x13x6, 29 t.
Date of loss : 1937, Sep 19
Place of loss : 8 miles off Frankfort, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : sank
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Foundered, no detail.
Sources: h,bb


------------------------------------------------------365
JOHN B. BREYMANN

Other names : built as MARINETTE, renamed before 1910
Official no. : 91857
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1885, Rand & Burger, Manitowoc, WI
Specs : 71x18x10, 59g 40n
Date of loss : 1926, Jun 28
Place of loss : at Toledo, OH
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Burned to a total loss in the Toledo boneyard, just E of the Pennsy Railroad Bridge.
Sources: eas,mv,sol,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------366
BRICK -
Previous entry eliminated - taken to be a misreporting of Marion L . Breck


------------------------------------------------------368
H.P. BRIDGE

Other names : none
Official no. : 11202
Type at loss : bark, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1864, J.M. Jones, Detroit
Specs : 164x30x12, 426g 400n
Date of loss : 1869, May 11
Place of loss : 40 mi SE of Thunder Bay Isl., MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : oats and brick
Detail : Collided with prop COLORADO in a fog and sank. Her crew escaped by yawl or clambered over the COLORADO's bow before BRIDGE sank. Bound Milwaukee for Detroit and Buffalo.
Hailed from Detroit
Sources: mv,tel,nsp,slh,hgl,rsl,mdwl


------------------------------------------------------367
BRIDGEBUILDER X

Other names : built as fish tug PITTSBURG, renamed BIDE-A-WEE in 1939, last name in 1946(?)
Official no. : 208790
Type at loss : propeller tug, oil fired steam
Build info : 1911, American Shipbuilding, Lorain, OH hull #392d
Specs : 71x17x7, 46g 36n
Date of loss : 1959, Dec 18
Place of loss : while enroute Sturgeon Bay to N. Fox Isl.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : foundered
Loss of life : 2
Carrying : none
Detail : Foundered in a storm.
Built as fish tug; converted to excurion boat in 1939; converted to construction tug for Mackinaw Bridge, rebuilt to a logging tug in 1958.
Sources: a&f,eas,h,mpl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------4030
BRIDGET

Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1834, David Crocket, Mt. Clemens, MI
Specs : 78x23x8, 119 t. om
Date of loss : 1835, Nov 10
Place of loss : 18 mi N of St. Joseph, MI, harbor
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 14 or 16
Cargo : none
Detail : She foundered in a gale with all hands. She had recently unloaded her cargo and was therefore light.
Sources: nsp,hgl,bcha


------------------------------------------------------369
BRIDGEWATER

Other names : rebuilt as KEYSTONE
Official no. : 2109
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast, built as a bark
Build info : 1866, Hitchcock (& Gibson), Buffalo
Specs : 706 t.
Date of loss : 1875, Dec 1
Place of loss : Waugoschance Pt, Straits of Mackinac
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : stranded, fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Grounded on Waugoschance, but released fairly quickly. Towed to Buffalo for repairs, where she was gutted by fire during the process. Later rebuilt.
Also stranded 11/14/70, reported ashore then.
In 1880-2 the propeller KEYSTONE was built on her hull
Sources: nsp,slh,hgl,m&h,nsp


------------------------------------------------------370
JOHN BRIGHT

Other names : none
Official no. : C61130
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1869, Notter, Buffalo
Specs : 54x13x6, 30gc 14n
Date of loss : 1879, Oct 9
Place of loss : Belleville, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Destroyed by fire, a total loss of $6,000. Out of Montreal.
Sold Canadian as a new tug, 1869.
Sources: win,mmgl,clu,csv,h,dmt


------------------------------------------------------371
BRIGHTIE

Other names : also seen as BRIGHTY
Official no. : 2587
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 2-mast, built as 3-mast schooner
Build info : 1868, Lafrinier & Drake, Cleveland
Specs : 182x23x13 601g 571n
Date of loss : 1928, Aug 23
Place of loss : off Whitehall, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none (1 of 7 also given)
Carrying : pulpwood
Detail : Seams opened in mild blow and she sank. Her 60 year old hull reportedly just gave up.
Sources: eas,ns3,lmdc,mv,mpl,wl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------3765
BRILLIANT

Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, lumber
Build info : 1856, J.M. Jones, Milwaukee
Specs : 100x27x8, 182 t. [om]
Date of loss : 1857, Dec 5
Place of loss : 7 mi S of Sheboygan, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : (none)
Carrying : light
Detail : Bound Chicago for Sheboygan for a cargo of lumber, she went on a reef close to shore and sank. May have been recovered.
Sources: nsp,hgl,is,bb


------------------------------------------------------372
BEN BRINK

Other names : none
Official no. : 31541
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1888, Detroit
Specs : 150x29x9, 318g 318n
Date of loss : 1890, Sep 12
Place of loss : near Eagle Harbor, MI
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 6 [all]
Carrying : ?
Detail : Lost from tow of steamer CHAS. HEBARD, she went ashore and broke up. Crew apparently never made it to safety. Reported a total loss, BRINK was later salvaged, lasted well into 20th century.
Sources: lss,wb,is,mv,gwgl,mv,ns4,hgl,es


------------------------------------------------------373
JENNIE BRISCOE

Other names : none
Official no. : 75203
Type at loss : propeller, wood "steam barge"*
Build info : 1870, Campbell & Owen, Detroit hull# 15
Specs : 85 ft, 82 t.
Date of loss : 1870, Sep
Place of loss : Off Grosse Ile, MI
Lake : Detroit R.
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Collided with propeller FREE STATE and sank, total loss. Reported raised Oct 22 in Free Press. Possibly sank in July instead of September.
*Shown in a number of sources as a schooner.
Sold Canadian as a wreck in 1871 and rebuilt to the propeller scow HERALD(qv), BUT, listed on U.S. registry in 1877, as a propeller
Homeport:Detroit
Sources: atl,ledc,hgl,nsp,mv


------------------------------------------------------
BRISTOL -
See ALBION


------------------------------------------------------3430
BRITANNIA

Other names : none
Official no. : C
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood
Build info : 1847, St. Catharines
Specs : 135 ft., (275 t.)
Date of loss : 1859, Nov
Place of loss : at Kingston, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Destroyed by arson.
Sources: csv(s),


------------------------------------------------------3702
BRITANNIA

Other names : none
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1860, D. Foster, Port Ryerse, Ont.
Specs : 87x21x7, 124gc 118nc
Date of loss : 1870, Oct 30
Place of loss : near Cleveland
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Ashore and wrecked in a gale which destroyed many vessels. By Nov 8 she was being stripped and abandoned.
Owned by McBride, Port Ryerse.
Sources: win,mmgl,clu,hgl,nsp


------------------------------------------------------376
BRITANNIC

Other names : none
Official no. : 3400
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1888, Jas. Davidson, W. Bay City
Specs : 219x36x17 1121g 904n
Date of loss : 1895, Aug 9
Place of loss : off the S end of Grosse Ile
Lake : Detroit R.
Type of loss : sank
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : She sank after collision with the iron steamer RUSSIAN in a passing error. Later recovered and rebuilt at Marine City. Enlarged to 227x36x21,1319g 1152n. Sold Canadian, 1913 [C#133824] and renamed SARNOR(qv).
Several other vessels struck her wreckage before she was raised.
Sources: nsp,h,mv,vbs,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------3727
BRITISH LION

Other names : none
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : bark, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1862, C. Jenkins or G. Thurston, Kingston
Specs : 128x23x12, 293 t.
Date of loss : 1877, Oct 4
Place of loss : Long Point
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Bound Black River, Oh, for Brockville, Ont. she was driven ashore and wrecked.
1st bark on the lakes to be wire-rigged. Built for Great Lakes-Liverpool trade.
Sources: mmgl,es,rsl,nsp,eas


------------------------------------------------------374
BRITISH LION

Other names : none
Official no. : C80577
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1883, W. Price, Pike Creek, Ont.
Specs : 85x23x6, 80 gc
Date of loss : 1891, Oct 27
Place of loss : 1/2 mile off Erie, PA
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : stave bolts
Detail : Bound Romney., Ont. for Erie, PA, she capsized, foundered and was destroyed in SW gale. A passenger on board the steamer NYACK saw at some distance her crew in a boat near to the wreck and they were rescued after 12 hours adrift. Her registry was not closed til Canadian records were purged in a "clean-up" in 1920's.
Ashore and expected to become a total loss in May of 1884, 15 mi above Sarnia, Ont.
Sources: nsp,h,eas,mmgl,wb,sb,es


------------------------------------------------------375
BRITON

Other names : none
Official no. : 3493
Type at loss : propeller, steel, bulk and package freight
Build info : 1891, Globe Iron Works, Cleveland
Specs : 296x40x21 2348g 1875n
Date of loss : 1929, Nov 13
Place of loss : Point Abino, near Buffalo
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : navigational error
Loss of life : none of 24
Carrying : ?
Detail : A faulty navigation aid on shore caused her to run aground in a fog. A salvager worked on her for quite awhile, but she was finally dynamited as a navigational hazard about 1932.
See also barge BADGER.
Owned by Buckeye Steamship Co. of Cleveland.
Sources: eas,win,is,ns3,h,mv,mpl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------378
R.C. BRITTAIN

Other names : none
Official no. : C100125
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1877, J. Elliott, Saugatuck, MI US#110327
Specs : 142x24x8 213g 149n
Date of loss : 1912
Place of loss : at layup dock at Sarnia, Ont.
Lake : St Clair R
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Retired from service in 1906 and burned at her layup dock. After the fire her hull was set aside for possible future rebuilding, but it sunk at the dock in 1924 and was finally scrapped in 1926
Sold Canadian in 1901
Major repair in 1881
Sources: mmgl,slh,ns3,csv,mpl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------377
BROCKVILLE

Other names : none
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1863, Wm. Saunders, Brockville, Ont.
Specs : 136x24x12 398gc 341nc
Date of loss : 1865, Nov 4
Place of loss : Big Sable Point
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 3
Carrying : 2400 bbl flour
Detail : She was driven ashore and wrecked, a total loss. Most of the crew were able to save themselves in her boat. She had been bound Milwaukee for Montreal.
Owned by Geo. Chaffey & Bros, Kingston, Ont.
Sometimes shown as a bark.
Also shown in error as wrecked on Au Sable Point, Lake Huron (at this time Big Sable Pt was also known as "Grande Pte Aux Sables")
Sources: mmgl,csv,hgl,slh,rsl,nsp,rnc


------------------------------------------------------379
ELIZABETH BRODER

Other names : ?
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1849 [ca.], Owen Sound, Ont.
Specs : ?
Date of loss : ?
Place of loss : Manitoulin Isl
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Driven on the rocks, where she broke up.
Sources: slh not in mmgl


------------------------------------------------------380
ALVIN BRONSON

Other names : none
Official no. : 399
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1849, Jamieson, Maumee, OH
Specs : 119x25x11, 192g 188n
Date of loss : 1888, Apr 29
Place of loss : Port Sherman, Muskegon harbor
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : hull failure
Loss of life : none of 7
Carrying : pine slabs
Detail : Bound Muskegon for Milwaukee, she sprang a leak when ten miles out of the harbor, and put back quickly. By the ime she reached the harbor, she was unmanageable due to the excessive water in her hold, and ran into the harbor pier, where she later broke up. The USLS saved her crew and much of her rigging, but the vessel was a complete wreck.
Heavy damage in a wreck off Oswego, NY, 1865. Foundered in Straits in November, 1869, abandoned, but salvaged the following August.
Rebuilt in 1855, 1870, 1882
Sources: mv,h,hgl,osdo,nsp,wl,usls


------------------------------------------------------381
BROOKLYN

Other names : none
Official no. : 2151
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger and package freight
Build info : 1866, Lafrinier, Cleveland
Specs : 466nt
Date of loss : 1874, Oct 22
Place of loss : Off Fighting Island, near Wyandotte, MI
Lake : Detroit R
Type of loss : explosion
Loss of life : 22 [other numbers of casualties from 13 to 20 are also given]
Carrying : general merchandise including leather, marble, and a large variety of other goods
Detail : Her boiler exploded violently, blowing off most of her after end, tearing her bottom out and sinking her quickly. Parts of her boiler were found more than 3/4 of a mile from the site of the explosion. A coroner's jury found that the BROOKLYN had been pouring on too much steam in a effort to pass the steamer CUBA, some distance ahead and that the 2^nd engineer had let the water run low in the boiler. The BROOKLYN had been boundOgdensburg and Buffalo for Chicago. Locally contracted wreckers had to race theives to the wreck to strip it. Her engine was reportedly blown clear out of her hull. Salvagers said her after end was the most thoroughly blasted wredk they'd ever seen.
Owned by Northern Transportation Co.
She was raised in November, 1874, but sank again. Another attempt to bring her up in Dec, 1877, was ineffectual.
Sources: mv,eas,is(4-65),sol,lhl,hgl,mpl,es,wl,nsp


------------------------------------------------------382
BROOKLYN

Other names : none
Official no. : 2112
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1864, S. G. Johnson, Clayton, NY
Specs : 140x26x12 320g 304n
Date of loss : 1892, May 15
Place of loss : near Alpena, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Went ashore and wrecked.
May have been recovered (hgl).
Sources: mv,slh


------------------------------------------------------3938
ALICE BROOKS

Other names : none
Official no. : C80909
Type at loss : propeller tug, wood
Build info : 1882, Alfred Hackett, Port Elgin, Ont.
Specs : 41x12x5, 17gc 11nc
Date of loss : 1885, Dec 7
Place of loss : mouth of the Saugeen R
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : stranded
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Ran aground and put a large hole in her bottom while trying to rescue the schooner MARY S. GORDON. GORDON was recovered, but BROOKS was a total loss.
Out of Bayfield, Ont.
Sources: nsp,mmgl,polk,es


------------------------------------------------------383
J.W. BROOKS

Other names : also seen as J.S. BROOKS in error
Official no. : none
Type at loss : propeller, wood
Build info : 1851, Wm. Gooding, Detroit
Specs : 136x25x10, 322 t.
Date of loss : 1856, Nov 4
Place of loss : 8 miles NE of False Ducks light (also given as Black River Bay, near Sacket's Harbor, NY)
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 22 to 50 [all]
Carrying : provisions, copper ingots
Detail : Foundered while bound Lake Erie for Ogdensburg, NY. Most of her cargo was salvaged the following year. Ten days later the steamer WELLINGTON encountered the BROOKS lying in 50 feet of water with her stern on the bottom and 8 feet of her bow emergent. When the steamer TRAVELLER attempted to tow her into port, she sank. One report says her safe contained $1 million. Owned by Northern Transportation Co.
She was partially raised, some of her cargo recovered, and dragged submerged to Garden Island, Ont., in Jul, 1857.
Partial explosion of her boiler off Ashtabula in July of 1855, with the loss of one man to scalding, and two - who became frightened and jumped overboard - to drowning. Also sunk in May of the same year on the Canadian shore.
Sources: h,lhl,hgl,nsp,wl,rp,rnc,ctw


------------------------------------------------------384
BROTHERS

Other names : ?
Official no. : ?
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1852, H.Marlton, Goderich, Ont.
Specs : 62x16x7, 64g 57n
Date of loss : 1869, early spr
Place of loss : off Goderich, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : ice
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Caught in an ice field and hull crushed.
Another schooner BROTHERS was reported lost near Port Burwell in 1833.
Sources: mmgl,slh


------------------------------------------------------385
BROWN BROTHERS

Other names : built as BROWN BROS., IVEYROSE from 1947 to 51, then BROWN BROS. again
Official no. : C133792
Type at loss : propeller tug
Build info : 1915, Thos. Thurston, Port Stanley, Ont.
Specs : 75x16x8 64gc
Date of loss : 1959, Oct 28
Place of loss : 5 mi off Long Point
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : sank
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Foundered
eas gives "NE tip of Long Point" as location
Sources: eas,mmgl,win,h,csv,mpl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------386
FAYETTE BROWN

Other names : none
Official no. : 9748
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1868, Stevens & Presley, Cleveland
Specs : 179x31x12, 552g 528n
Date of loss : 1891, Jun 4
Place of loss : Pelee Passage
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 176 stone blocks
Detail : This well-known schooner collided almost stem-on with the steamer NORTHERN QUEEN in fog and foundered in 60 ft. of water. She sank quickly, but one crewman lept aboard the steamer as she was hit, others scrambled up the masts and were saved about an hour later by the steamer ROBERT MILLS.
Later removed as hazard to navigation
She had foundered in the same area in September, 1872.
Sources: mv,h,nsp,sb,mpl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------4056
H. H. BROWN

Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : bark, wood, 3-mast [also seen as 2-mast schooner]
Build info : 1856, J. Wolverton, Detroit
Specs : 115x26x10, 257 t. om
Date of loss : 1865, Oct (25)
Place of loss : near Sandusky, OH
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : (none)
Carrying : lumber
Detail : She drove ashore on Sandusky Bar in a gale and was wrecked. By the 28th she had largely gone to pieces. She had also been ashore near Pte Aux Barques, Lake Huron, just a month previous.
Sources: nsp,wl,rsl


------------------------------------------------------3431
HATTIE T. BROWN

Other names : also seen as HATTIE F. BROWN
Official no. : 11952
Type at loss : propeller tug/ferry, wood
Build info : 1869, Buffalo as a yacht
Specs : 38x7x3, 7 t
Date of loss : 1872, Oct 11
Place of loss : Saginaw River at Saginaw
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : 7
Carrying : none
Detail : While crossing the river at night, she cut across the bows of the tug RANSOM and was rammed, sinking quickly. Declared a total loss, but recovered the next year.
Last information on her is from 1880.
Sources: nsp,phr,mv


------------------------------------------------------387
I. MAY BROWN

Other names : none also seen as IDA MAY BROWN
Official no. : 100366
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1884, Charlevoix, MI
Specs : 53x15x4 20g 19n
Date of loss : 1895, Jul 7
Place of loss : near Michigan City, Ind.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : gravel
Detail : Cargo shifted in heavy weather and she capsized, later drifting to beach. Her crew was rescued by U.S. Lifesavers.
Hailed from Charlevoix, MI.
Sources: nsp,h,lmdc,mv,hgl


------------------------------------------------------388
W.L. BROWN

Other names : built as NEPTUNE, renamed before 1884
Official no. : 80767
Type at loss : propeller, wood bulk freight [steambarge]
Build info : 1872, James A. Day, Oshkosh, WI [originally US#130023, renumbered in 1880]
Specs : 336gt, 224nt
Date of loss : 1886, Oct 21
Place of loss : near Green Isl., Green Bay
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal (iron ore?)
Detail : Bound for Depere, WI, she sprung a leak, exploded and sank in a gale. Went down in 76 feet of water.
All of her outfit and boilers were removed the next summer.
Completely rebuilt by A. Johnson at Green Bay in 1880 [sometimes given as first build information]
Some sources call this wreck WILLIAM J. BROWN. Located in 1974.
Sources: nsp,lhl,polk,is,lmdc,hgl,mpl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------389
W.O. BROWN

Other names : also seen as WILLIAM O. BROWN
Official no. : 26915
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1862, J.W. Leach, Buffalo
Specs : 140x25x12, 306 t. (400 t om)
Date of loss : 1872, Nov 28
Place of loss : near Point Maimanse, Ont.
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 6 of 9
Carrying : wheat
Detail : Downbound from Duluth in a frigid gale, she was driven ashore and pounded to pieces. Three survivors struggled through a terrific cold wave and finally made it to the Soo on Christmas Day.
Homeport: Chicago. Owned by W. Doyle.
Also sunk by collision on Lake Erie in 1865, recovered by J P Clarke and returned to service in September, 1867.
Sources: lss,hgl,mv,gmgl,lssc,sol,is,rsl,do,nsp


------------------------------------------------------390
WILLIE BROWN

Other names : none
Official no. : 80317
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1868, G. Notter, Buffalo*
Specs : 47x13x6 20g 10n
Date of loss : 1889, Dec 6
Place of loss : East Saginaw, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Reported total loss by fire, but recovered and still registered until 1906.
Also sunk in the Saginaw River at Saginaw in April, 1891.
*1871 also given as year.
Sources: nsp,slh,mv,jb,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------
TROY H. BROWNING -
See CORALIA


------------------------------------------------------
J.D. BROWNING -
See CORALIA


------------------------------------------------------391
BRUCE MINES

Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood
Build info : 1854, Tate, Montreal
Specs : 126 ft
Date of loss : 1854, Nov 28
Place of loss : off Cape Hurd, near Tobermory, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1 of 25
Carrying : misc freight
Detail : Foundered in a desolate area. Passengers and crew were unheard from for two weeks, adding to the belief that she went down with all hands. Owned by Montreal Mining Co. and bound Montreal for Bruce Mines with the winter's supplies.
Hulk was reportedly still visible at low water and in good condition in 1883.
Sources: nsp,slh,is(4-72),lhdc,csv,eas,mmgl,hgl,clu,rnc


------------------------------------------------------3432
B.F. BRUCE

Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger and freight
Build info : 1852, John Chapman, Buffalo as a tug
Specs : 110x21x8, 169 t.
Date of loss : 1862, Aug 11
Place of loss : a few miles off Port Stanley, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : staves
Detail : She caught fire offshore and was run to the beach, where she burned to a total loss. Possibly by arson.
Rebuilt from a tug to this small passenger steamer the winter before her loss.
Out of Detroit, owned by H. G. Blanchard
Sources: lhl,hgl,wl,nsp,eas,umr


------------------------------------------------------4169
E. K. BRUCE

Other names : none
Official # : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : before 1849, probably built by E. K. Bruce at his Buffalo shipyard
Specs : 240 t. om
Date of loss : 1853, Oct 24
Place of loss : 1.5 miles W of Oswego harbor
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : 1300 pieces RR iron
Detail : She left Oswego for Toledo into the teeth of a gale, had her jib split and went on a rocky shore. Within a few days she had reportedly broken up, though her outfit and later her cargo were saved. Her captain had deserted her a few days before she sailed, and she was in the charge of her mate.
Owned by W Buckley of Buffalo
Sources : nsp,hgl,jm,wl


------------------------------------------------------392
KATE L. BRUCE

Other names : none
Official no. : 14277
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1872, Hanson & Scove, Manitowoc, WI
Specs : 307 t
Date of loss : 1877, Nov 8
Place of loss : off Alpena
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 8 [all]
Carrying : wheat
Detail : Disappeared in heavy weather. Last seen off 40-mile Point, Michigan. Her lifeboat later washed up near Thunder Bay Light. She had been in tow of the tug JOHNSON before being let go. Speculation at the time was that she collided with an unknown vessel and both sank. A bureau containing her papers washed up in Aug, 78.
She was discovered in Thunder Bay in six fathoms of water in fall, 1879.
Owned out of Chicago.
Also sunk on Lake Erie in Nov, 1872, and on Lake Michigan in 1873.
Sources: nsp,slh,sol,h,hgl,usls,mv,es,jb


------------------------------------------------------3657
ROBERT BRUCE

Other names : ?
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : ?
Specs : "small"
Date of loss : 1835, Nov 12
Place of loss : west of Henderson, NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 5 [all]
Carrying : ?
Detail : Bound Kingston, Ont. for Hallowell, (NY?), wrecked offshore with all hands lost, including one passenger. The wreck drifted ashore on Henderson Point on the 14th.
Out of Henderson, NY.
Sources: osdo,nsp,rp


------------------------------------------------------393
ROBERT BRUCE

Other names : ?
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1854, Leveaya, Buffalo
Specs : 135x26x11, 325 t.
Date of loss : 1856, Dec (6)
Place of loss : under the Sand Hills near Port Burwell, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : [none]
Carrying : wheat
Detail : Bound Chicago for Buffalo, she was blown on a reef, where she broke up.
Owned by E.K. Bruce of Buffalo.
Sources: sagl,hgl,nsp not in clu,mmgl


------------------------------------------------------
BRUNES -
See FRANCISCO MORAZAN


------------------------------------------------------394
BRUNO

Other names : none
Official no. : C80600
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight [steambarge]
Build info : 1863, Bruno Loignon, Montreal
Specs : 136x26x12, 475gc 236nc
Date of loss : 1890, Nov 11
Place of loss : Magnetic Reef, S. of Cockburn Isl., Geo. Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : stranded
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Struck the reef and foundered in heavy weather. Crew escaped in her boat. She had been towing the schooner LOUISA (qv), bound from Cleveland. Some sources say this loss was due to a collision.
Reported ashore with heavy damage on Chantry Island in Nov., 1870.
Rebuilt at St. Catharines, 1880, and enlarged from 93x18x9, 146t.
Sources: nsp,slh,sol,h,lhdc,csv,eas,clu,wb,win,mmgl,hgl,sb,rnc,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------3433
BRUNSWICK

Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : propeller, wood
Build info : 1853, George Weeks, Buffalo
Specs : 164x28x12, 512 t.
Date of loss : 1856, Aug 9
Place of loss : 6-12 mi S of South Manitou Isl.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : corn, scrap iron, lard
Detail : Upbound from Chicago for Buffalo, she sprang a leak in a storm and was abandoned off the Manitous. She went down in fifty fathoms of water. One passenger was drowned when one of her boats capsized, but the rest of the passengers and crew made it to shore near Sleeping Bear in her three other boats.
Owned by Western Transportation Co.
Sources: lhl,nb,hgl,nsp,wl,eas,rnc


------------------------------------------------------395
BRUNSWICK

Other names : none
Official no. : 3148
Type at loss : propeller, iron, bulk freight
Build info : 1881, Detroit Dry Dock, Wyandotte, MI hull #50
Specs : 235x36x16, 1120g
Date of loss : 1881, Nov 12
Place of loss : off Dunkirk, NY
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : 3
Carrying : 1500 t. hard coal
Detail : She collided with the heavily laden schooner CARLINGFORD (qv) in a night of fitful squalls. Her skipper checked to make sure schooner's crew were abandoning, then ran her for shore, his vessel sinking a few miles short about 45 minutes after the collision. Bound Buffalo for Duluth.
Owned by Charles Bewick, et. al., of Detroit.
Deep water salvage was attempted in 1885.
Sources: atl,sol,hdm,h,ledc,usls,mpl,es,hcgl
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BUCEPHALUS

Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : propeller, wood
Build info : 1852, R.J. Case?, Perrysburg, OH
Specs : 169x28x11, 493 t.
Date of loss : 1854, Nov 13
Place of loss : Saginaw Bay north of Pte Aux Barques.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 10 of 24
Carrying : corn and barrelled flour, plus a deckload of merchandise
Detail : Bound Chicago for Buffalo, she lost her rudder in a gale and was rendered helpless. Overwhelmed by heavy seas, she filled and sank. Her crew took to the boats, one of which capsized immediately, drowning eight. Two others were lost when the yawl capsized near the beach at Pte Aux Barques, several miles from the wreck site. 14 made it to shore at the point and were cared for by locals.
Owned by her skipper, Capt. Alexander and Holt & Palmer of Buffalo
May have been raised.
Sources: slh,sol,h,lhl,hgl,nsp,eas
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BUCEPHELUS

Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood,
Build info : ?
Specs : ?
Date of loss : 1879,
Place of loss : Saginaw Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : sank
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : no detail.
May be a confused reporting of previous entry.
There was a boat of this name reg. Out of Provincetown, Mass., #2063, 70 t.
Sources: slh


------------------------------------------------------4096
ISAAC BUCHANAN

Other names : none
Official no. : C
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1852, Port Stanley, Ont.
Specs : 180 t.
Date of loss : 1857, Oct 26
Place of loss : Port Stanley, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Cargo : ?
Detail : Lying at dock alongside FREE TRADER when a fire consumed both, as well as three wheat warehouses and a hotel. One of the warehouses roofs was the location of the local lighthouse, which was also destroyed. She was reported a total loss of $8,000.
Owned by C J Hope of London, Ont.
She also went ashore in a gale at Gravelly Bay, Ont., in Oct, 1855.
Sources: nsp,clu,rnc


------------------------------------------------------398
BUCKEYE

Other names : none
Official no. : 2150
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight [steambarge]
Build info : 1856, Quayle & Martin, Cleveland
Specs : 136x26x11, 378gt 352nt
Date of loss : 1885, Jun 11
Place of loss : Manitoulin Isl., Georgian Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : stranded/fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Stranded on a large boulder, then caught fire and sank. A court fight ensued as to whether the casualty or fire insurance carrier should pay. Casualty lost.
Owned by Eldridge, Chicago.
Major repairs in 1865 after stranding near Brockville, Ont.. Rebuilt in 1866.
Sources: nsp,slh,lhl,osdo,hgl,mpl,wl,rnc


------------------------------------------------------399
BUCKEYE STATE

Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : bark, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1852, Amos Hubbard, Black R., Oh
Specs : 132x25x10, 310 t. [om]
Date of loss : 1852, Nov 5
Place of loss : Milwaukee
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Stranded off S Milwaukee Point, later broken up by waves. She was less than three months old at the time of her loss.
Sources: lmdc,hgl,bb,wl


------------------------------------------------------3434
BUCKEYE STATE
- Steamer reported in a major source as stranded and lost on Point Abino June 9, 1855, but was actually hauled off the same day by the U.S. gunboat MICHIGAN. Sunk again in the St. Clair R. near Newport [Marine City] - by ice this time - in 1858, but raised again in 1863! Converted to a coal barge.


------------------------------------------------------400
BUCKINGHAM
- probably ALVIN BUCKINGHAM
Other names : ?
Official no. : ? (386)
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : ? (1853, Gilmore, Perrysburg, OH)
Specs : ? (125x26x10, 278 t.)
Date of loss : 1870, Oct 15
Place of loss : 15 mi above Harrisville, Mich
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : iron ore
Detail : The heavily-laden schooner sprang a leak in a storm and was turned to shore to try to save her. She sang in 20 feet of water, her crew abandoning in her yawl and later picked up by the tug SANDUSKY. It was thought that she could be raised, but no record of that occurring.
Not in '69 mvus, possibly Canadian. ALVIN BUCKINGHAM was out of Cleveland in 1864.
Sources: hgl,slh,nsp,rsl not in mmgl


------------------------------------------------------401
EDWARD BUCKLEY

Other names : none
Official no. : C138377
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight [lumber hooker]
Build info : 1891, Burger & Burger, Manitowoc, WI [US# 136252]
Specs : 154x32x11 415g 313n
Date of loss : 1929, Sep 1
Place of loss : SE of Mink Isl. Near Manitoulin Isl, in the North Channel
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Caught fire and burned to the waterline, a total loss.
Sold Canadian, 1923
Wreck located in 1993
Sources: do2,mmgl,is(1-64),slh,is,ns3,mv,csv,mpl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------402
JAMES BUCKLEY

Other names : none
Official no. : C80910
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1880, J. Prescott, Prescott, Ont.
Specs : 48x10x3, 10gc 7nc
Date of loss : 1890, Nov 20
Place of loss : at Port Stanley, Ont.
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Burned in the harbor. Out of Prescott, Ont.
High pressure 25 hp engine
Sources: mmgl,win,h


------------------------------------------------------403
JAMES BUCKLEY

Other names : also seen as JAMES BUCKLY
Official no. : C85717
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, bulk freight,2-mast
Build info : 1884, J. Samson or Simson, Quebec City
Specs : 161x32x11, 442gc 442nc
Date of loss : 1912, Oct 16
Place of loss : coast of Jefferson Co., NY
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : (coal)
Detail : In consort with barges H.B.(qv) and MENOMINEE behind the tug WILLIAM PROCTOR. Separated from them in a storm and driven into the shallows. PROCTOR delivered MENOMINEE to Cape Vincent then returned in time to take BUCKLEY's crew out of the rigging - hand over hand on heaving line - before she sank.
Out of Prescott, Ont.
Sources: mmgl,win,osdo,ns2,h


------------------------------------------------------404
W.G. BUCKNER

Other names : also seen as W.G. BUCKNOR
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1837, Gershom Thayer, Irving, NY
Specs : 75x21x7, 107 t [om]
Date of loss : 1849, Sep 28
Place of loss : 6 miles off Ozaukee, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : 5 [paper unclear - at least this many, maybe more]
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Sprang a leak, then capsized. Survivors clung to the wreck for more than 24 hours. The man to whom the cargo belonged was aboard with his wife and five children. One child was washed overboard, while the wife and other 3 children died of exposure. The balance of those aboard, plus the bodies, were taken off by the schooner ERWIN.
"Crowded ashore by ice" and heavily damaged near White Fish R., Green Bay, in early May of the same year.
Sources: is,hgl,nsp,bb,wl


------------------------------------------------------405
RALPH BUDD

Other names : built as SUPERIOR, this name in 1926. . Renamed L.A. McCORQUEDALE in 1959.
Official no. : 202329
Type at loss : propeller, steel, automobile/package freighter
Build info : 1905, Great Lakes Engineering, Ecorse, MI
Specs : 381x41x30, 4544g 3845n
Date of loss : 1926, May 16
Place of loss : Keweenaw Point
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : stranded
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Went ashore with heavy damage. Declared a loss, but later recovered, sold Canadian (C#154862) and converted to a bulk/package freighter at Collingwood, 1930. Scrapped in 1966.
Sources: mv,sol,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------406
BUDDY

Other names : built as U. S. Army C of E tug MENOMINEE, renamed in 1954
Official no. : 268151
Type at loss : propeller tug, steel
Build info : 1924, Baltimore, Md
Specs : 15x13x6, 24g 16n
Date of loss : 1966, May 11
Place of loss : midlake, abreast of Manistee, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Struck by the barge she was towing - derrick barge NO. 53 - capsized and sank quickly.
Owned by Roen Salvage.
Sources: is(3-66),hcgl


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F.R. BUELL -
See NAGAHO


------------------------------------------------------407
BUENA VISTA

Other names : none
Official no. : 2241
Type at loss : schooner, wood, two mast
Build info : 1847, Chicago
Specs : 121x21x8, 174 gt
Date of loss : 1875, Aug
Place of loss : Near either Milwaukee or Manistee
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : "lost"
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : no detail.
Homeport in 1869: Milwaukee. This vessel was still shown on the registry in 1877, but this may reflect more of a paperwork problem than showing that she was still in existence.
Rebuilt in 1873-4.
Sources: is,vbs,hgl,bb,mv,nsp


------------------------------------------------------
BUFFALO -
See also LIGHTSHIP #82


------------------------------------------------------4031
BUFFALO

Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : brig, wood, 2-mast
Build info : before 1855
Specs : 264 t. om
Date of loss : 1859, Sep 11
Place of loss : in harbor at Grand Haven, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Bound Lake Erie for Grand Haven, she was driven ashore on the breakwater while entering the harbor. Her crew was rescued by two local fishermen in their boat and by bystanders on shore. The only casualty, besides the brig, was the captain’s valuable horse, which had been on board. It drowned while being towed ashore.
Sources: hgl,nsp,wl


------------------------------------------------------408
BUFFALO

Other names : none
Official no. : 3076
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1887, Mahar & O’Grady, Buffalo
Specs : 69x17x10 60g 30n
Date of loss : 1907, Apr 29
Place of loss : off Harington Island, mouth of Duluth harbor*
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : ice
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : none
Detail : Foundered after being cut by ice, and declared a total loss. Recovered 7 years later and completely rebuilt.
*Portage Lake, Keweenaw also given.
Sources: eas,is,mv,mpl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------411
BULGARIA

Other names : none
Official no. : 3381
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1887, Jas. Davidson, W. Bay City, MI
Specs : 280x39x21 1888g 1486n
Date of loss : 1906, Jun 4
Place of loss : Fisherman's Shoal, Porte des Mortes, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : stranded
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Stranded on shoal, pounded hard and declared a total loss. However, a salvage diver from Sturgeon Bay bought her cheap and recovered her. Rebuilt, she continued to operate until 1915. Document surrendered in 1916, but laid up at Amherstburg, Ont. until 1937.
Sources: nsp,sbs,ns2,mv,eas,vbs,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------3309
WILLIAM S. BULL

Other names : ?
Official no. : none
Type at loss : propeller steam tug, wood
Build info : 1861, Buffalo
Specs : 16 t.
Date of loss : 1863, Aug 22
Place of loss : 40 mi E of Erie, PA
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : In company of tug G.W. GARDNER and canal boat M.E. PAINE, she waterlogged and went down in a storm. Bound Erie for Buffalo. GARDNER and PAINE saved her crew.
Sources: lhl,nsp,


------------------------------------------------------412
KATE BULLY

Other names : also seen as KATE BULLEY
Official no. : C none
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1866, J. Bully, Corunna, Ont. [date also given as '68 -clu,nsp]
Specs : 380 t.
Date of loss : 1869, Oct 4
Place of loss : off Little Sable Point
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 6 of 10
Carrying : RR ties
Detail : Capsized in sudden gale. Survivors floated for 40 hours before being picked up. Wreckage of the ship washed ashore near Sleeping Bear Pt., and several salvage attempts were made.
Only vessel ever built at Corunna, she was supposedly designed as a steamer, but her engine was never installed. Her owner John Bully had the scow-steamer ALLEN BULLY built at Saginaw in '77 for the expressed purpose of salving her, but fled the U.S. without paying for the boat before he could.
Sources: clu,nsp,nb,smi,ssb,mmgl,sol,lmdc,hgl,mdwl


------------------------------------------------------3436
BUNKER HILL

Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood
Build info : 1835, Black River, OH
Specs : 154x28x12, 457 t.
Date of loss : 1851, Sep 2
Place of loss : at Tonawanda, NY
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Burned to a total loss.
Also heavily damaged in a collision with the brig FASHION off Madison Dock in June of 1846.
Stranded on Horseshoe Reef, Lake Erie, with heavy damage in May, 1838.
Hgl & Niles Reg. & mpl: Built 1837, Charleston, OH, burned 1857.
Sources: lhl,hgl,is,nsp


------------------------------------------------------413
S. BURCHARD

Other names : earlier named SARDIS BURCHARD
Official no. : 23104
Type at loss : schooner, wood
Build info : 1847, Huron, OH
Specs : 105x24x9 170 t.
Date of loss : 1882, Oct 31
Place of loss : Pt. Lookout, Saginaw Bay [Gravelly Shoal]
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : stone
Detail : Tow of steamer DON M. DICKENSON, she broke her towline and went into shallow water. Abandoned the next day after attempts to lower the water in her failed, and broke up soon after. Document surrendered in Dec, 1883.
Owned by C. H. Weeks of Bay City, MI
Stranded and declared a total loss on Pte. Aux Barques, Lake Huron in Nov, 1859, but was salvaged after a long struggle in late August of 1860 [she was raised three times but sank each time while being towed in].
Wrecked on L. Huron in 1870. Sank in the Straits in 1879.
Rebuilt in 1857, 1861, 1866.
Sources: nsp,slh,mv,phr,dc,rsl


------------------------------------------------------414
H.B. BURGER

Other names : built as schooner TRAVELER
Official no. : 95367
Type at loss : schooner, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1875, Rand & Burger, Manitowoc
Specs : 214 g 181n
Date of loss : 1883, May 21
Place of loss : 2 mi S of Chicago waterfront
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Foundered while inbound to Chicago, drifted ashore and broke up.
Sources: h,hgl,mpl,mv


------------------------------------------------------
ROBERT E. BURKE -
See SOUTH SHORE


------------------------------------------------------415
BURLINGTON

Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1837, Oakville, Ont.
Specs : 150 t.
Date of loss : 1841, Mar 27
Place of loss : at Toronto
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Destroyed by fire. Her hull was recovered later and the 98-foot 3-mast schooner SCOTLAND was built on it in 1847 at Toronto.
Also reported as a propeller
Sources: mmgl,csv,hgl,wmn


------------------------------------------------------416
BURLINGTON

Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : brig, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1842, Sam’l. Turner, Cleveland
Specs : 80x21x8, 117 t.
Date of loss : 1854, Nov 20 [also given as 1852]
Place of loss : near Port Bruce, Ont.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Driven hard aground on a reef and became a total wreck while trying to assist the stranded Canadian bark GLOBE(qv).
Sources: is,sagl,hgl,nsp


------------------------------------------------------417
BURLINGTON

Other names : none
Official no. : C ?
Type at loss : propeller, wood, package/bulk freight
Build info : 1857, Dan’l O’Connor, Buffalo [US#2157]
Specs : 137x25x12, 277 t.
Date of loss : 1895, Aug 24
Place of loss : Meldrum Bay, North Channel
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : fire
Loss of life : none
Carrying : none
Detail : Burned to waterline while hove to. Bound Detroit for Manitoulin Isl.
Lay on the bottom in the Detroit River for some time after burning Apr 17, 1894. She was raised under order of the Canadian Government, the vessel being awarded to the Canadian wrecker.
Major repair in 1880.
Extensively rebuilt at F.W. Wheeler, W. Bay City, in 1879.
In spring of 1875 she pulled a tow containing almost 10,000 t. stone up the Detroit & St. Clair R to the Sand Beach harbor of refuge project. It
was considered at the time to be the heaviest tow ever brought up the river.
Sprang a leak due to ice damage and sank in Pelee Passage in late November, 1872. The following spring she came out rebuilt as a steambarge.
Major repairs in 1862, 63.
Sources: do2,slh,mv,lhl,nsp,hgl,mpl,es,rsl


------------------------------------------------------418
BURLINGTON

Other names : built as MINNEAPOLIS, renamed RAMON MARIMON in 1915, last name in 1922
Official no. : 92769
Type at loss : propeller, steel, bulk freighter, crane equipped
Build info : 1897, Chicago Shipbuilding, Chicago as a package freighter
Specs : 238x42x26 2029g 1221n
Date of loss : 1936, Dec 6
Place of loss : entrance to harbor at Holland, MI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : pig iron
Detail : Grounded at the mouth of the harbor in a gale. Waves and ice of the following winter broke her up, 200 ft off N breakwall. Bound Toledo to Holland.
Built as a package freighter, converted to bulker in 1929 at Chicago
Sources: eas,mv,ns4,h,mpl,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------419
RICHARD BURNS

Other names : built as J.B. LOZEN
Official no. : 76868
Type at loss : barge, wood, bulk freight former schooner-barge
Build info : 1890, W. Dulac, Mt. Clemens, MI
Specs : 178x33x12 565g 538n
Date of loss : 1921, Nov 4
Place of loss : St. Clair Flats
Lake : St Clair
Type of loss : hull failure
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Sprang a leak while traversing the flats in tow of prop WILLIAM A. HAZARD and foundered. Later her cargo was recovered and the vessel removed.
Sources: ns3,mv,mpl,eas,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------421
ROBERT BURNS

Other names : none
Official no. : 21177
Type at loss : brig, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1848, Zadoc Pangborn, Port Huron
Specs : 127 ft., 307g 277n
Date of loss : 1869, Nov 17
Place of loss : Straits of Mackinac, E of Bois Blanc Isl.
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 10 [all]
Carrying : wheat
Detail : Disappeared from view while in company of several other vessels and foundered. As of spring, 1871, wreckers were still at work trying to rescue her.
Ashore on E. Sister Island and partially wrecked in 1850 - a $7,000 loss.
She was reportedly the last full-rigged brig on the Lakes - not a brigantine like most Great Lakes "brigs."
Out of Chicago.
Rebuilt in 1861, major repair in ‘62
Sources: ssm,nsp,slh,hgl,rsl,mdwl,bc


------------------------------------------------------423
GEORGE T. BURROUGHS

Other names : none
Official no. : 85662
Type at loss : propeller, wood, sandsucker former freighter
Build info : 1881, Davis & Brendage, Chicago
Specs : 109x24x8 103g 111n
Date of loss : 1905, May 31
Place of loss : near "Trautz' dock," St Clair Flats
Lake : St Clair R
Type of loss : Collision
Loss of life : none?
Carrying : gravel
Detail : Collided with steamer C.F. BIELMAN (qv) and sank. Captain's wife was credited with saving her crew by hailing another boat after the BIELMAN steamed away.
Engine & machinery was later removed brfore she was dynamited as a hazard.
Burned off Grosse Pointe, MI in August of 1881.
Owned by C. Cadwell of Windsor, Ont.
Sources: nsp,ns1,mv,mpl


------------------------------------------------------424
JOHN BURT

Other names : none
Official no. : 75300
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1871, J. Oades, Detroit
Specs : 138x26x11, 348g 331n
Date of loss : 1892, Sep 26
Place of loss : near Oswego, NY, harbor entrance
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : 2 of 7
Carrying : grain
Detail : She was driven past the Oswego harbor mouth and hard aground by a NW gale after her rudder broke. Most of the crew was landed by US Lifesavers except for two who had been lost when she struck, but the vessel was quickly broken up by wave action. Inbound to Oswego from Chicago.
Osdo says she was lost while at anchor.
In Oct of her first season [1871], she dragged her anchors, pounded against a dock at Leland and sank. She was declared a total loss, but was recovered in 1872.
Sources: wb,sol,h,mv,hgl,osdo,nsp,usls,nsp


------------------------------------------------------425
WELLS BURT

Other names : none
Official no. : 80365
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1873, Detroit Dry Dock, Detroit hull #26
Specs : 212x34x14, 756 t.
Date of loss : 1883, May 20
Place of loss : off Evanston Point, IL
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : (storm)
Loss of life : 10 [all]
Carrying : coal
Detail : Foundered 5 mi offshore with the tips of her masts emergent. Seeing them, her owner identified her from shore. In October a mast broke loose and became a hazard to ships
Detroit Dry Dock list of 1894 shows her as a wooden bulk freight steamer, but lists no engine specifications. Perhaps she was started as a steamer, finished as a schooner.
A message in a bottle from her was found in Nov.
Owned by J. S Dunham, Chicago.
Wreck located in 1988
Sources: nsp,gs,sol,h,lmdc,atl,polk,hgl,usls,mpl,es,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------426
CHARLES H. BURTON

Other names : built on hull of bark GLENBULAH*
Official no. : 125402
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1873, Ballentine, Bangor, MI [Bay City]
Specs : 158x31x14 514g 489n
Date of loss : 1905, Oct 10
Place of loss : 4.5 mi E of Barcelona, NY
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : (none)
Carrying : coal
Detail : Driven ashore and broke up.
*GLENBULAH, built by Stokes & Locklin, at Sheboygan, WI in 1867, was largely destroyed in the Chicago fire, fall of 1871. The BURTON was an almost complete rebuild, with a new official number. (GLENBULAH is sometimes described as a prop)
Also wrecked in 1883 and removed from registry.
Sources: ns1,h,mv,ledc,vbs,polk,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------427
LOMIE A. BURTON

Other names : none
Official no. : 15958
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1873, Kempton & Carter, Chicago
Specs : 131x27x10 215g 204n
Date of loss : 1911, Nov 17
Place of loss : S. Manitou Isl.
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : foundered
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : Ran aground on N. Manitou, worked herself off, but sank 8 miles S, just off S. Manitou.
Reported as bound for both Chicago and Milwaukee.
Sources: nb,gs,h,ns2,eas,smi,is,mv,mpl,nsp,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------
BUTCHER BOY -
See CHARLES M. HUTCHINSON


------------------------------------------------------428
BUTCHER'S BOY

Other names : built as A.H. MORRISON, last name in 1884. Also seen as BUTCHER BOY
Official no. : C92612
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1879, Chesley Wheeler, Bay City
Specs : 96x21x4 214g
Date of loss : 1902,
Place of loss : near Christian Isl., Georgian Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Driven down by storm and foundered.
Sold Canadian in 1886. Rebuilt and renumbered (origC#42646) in 1893.
Sources: mmgl,csv,vbs,sbs


------------------------------------------------------429
BUTCHER'S MAID

Other names : built as KAMINISTIQUIA, Renamed JESSIE OLIVER in 1873; renamed ALBERT NEFF in 1875, last name in 1885
Official no. : C71223
Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger & package freight
Build info : 1871, S. Neff, Oshkosh, WI
Specs : 80x17x8, 129gc 75nc
Date of loss : 1886, Oct 20 (Oct 28 also given, in error)
Place of loss : Porphyry Point, North Shore
Lake : Superior
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : Driven ashore on the point, broke up in waves shortly after.
Sold Canadian, 1872 and used as a commissary boat on the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway..
Built as twin-engined propeller.
Sources: mmgl,lss,csv,mpl,jb,es,hcgl


------------------------------------------------------430
HANNA BUTLER

Other names : none
Official no. : C80957
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1856, Taylor & Delaney, Cobourg, Ont.
Specs : 89x20x8, 126 t.
Date of loss : 1887, Nov 26
Place of loss : Salmon (Wicked) Point, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : fog
Loss of life : none
Carrying : barley
Detail : Struck a reef in a fog and broke up in a later storm. Enroute Wellington, Ont. for Oswego.
Went ashore nearby at South Bay, Lake Ontario, in Nov of 1885 and abandoned as a total loss, but recovered a week later.
Major repairs in 1880, 81, 86
Sources: csqw,nsp,h,mmgl,osdo,csv


------------------------------------------------------
TOBIAS BUTLER -
See MARQUIS


------------------------------------------------------
KATE BUTTERONI
- See FALCON


------------------------------------------------------431
MARSHALL F. BUTTERS

Other names : none
Official no. : 91408
Type at loss : propeller, wood, bulk freight, lumber hooker
Build info : 1882, Milwaukee Ship Yard Co., Milwaukee
Specs : 164x30x11 376g 229n
Date of loss : 1916, Oct 21
Place of loss : near Southeast Shoals
Lake : Erie
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber, shingles
Detail : A huge gale tore her apart offshore. Her crew was saved in a courageous rescue from steamers FRANK BILLINGS and FRED G. HARTWELL..
Sources: lol,gsgl,sol,ns2,mv,ledc,mpl,eas,hcgl


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L. C. BUTTS

Other names : none sometimes seen as L. C. BUTTS No. 1
Official no. : none
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1850, Wm Treat, Euclid, OH
Specs : 91x23x9, 165 t. om
Date of loss : 1866, May (15)
Place of loss : Forest Bay
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : lumber
Detail : She was driven ashore and wrecked, a total loss.
Major repairs in 1862.
Sources: nsp,wl,rsl,hgl


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L.C. BUTTS

Other names : none
Official no. : 15850
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info : 1872, T Arnold, E. Saginaw
Specs : 173x32x19 769g 731n
Date of loss : 1891, Nov 12
Place of loss : near Fish Isl., mouth of Green Bay
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : coal
Detail : Driven into shallows by a storm and wrecked by wave action. Her crew rescued after much hardship to both them and the U.S. Lifeasaving crew. She was a total loss of about $66,000.
Sources: mv,eas,vbs,wb,sbs,slh,h,hgl,sb,rsl,hcgl


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JOHN BY

Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sternwheel steamer, wood, passenger & freight
Build info : 1832, John Kirby, Kingston, Ont.
Specs : 110x26 ft
Date of loss : 1833, Oct (ca. 25^th)
Place of loss : near Port Credit, a few miles from Toronto
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Wrecked on shore. She was one of the earliest sternwheelers on the lakes, and her miserable handling characteristics on open water made her one of the only ones. She had a regular route between York (Toronto) and Kingston.
Her high pressure steam engine, one of the 1^st on the lakes, was described by one traveler as being "built for roasting passengers."
Sources: eluc,csv(s2),mmgl,mpl,rp


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BYTOWN

Other names : none
Official no. : none
Type at loss : sidewheel steamer, wood, passenger & freight
Build info : 1836, Kingston
Specs : 123 t.
Date of loss : 1837, Oct
Place of loss : near Kingston
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : "wrecked"
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : no detail. A clipping of Nov., 1837 has her hauled out on the Kingston Marine Railway between August and November, 1837, for repairs.
Sources: csv,hgl not in mmgl
 

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