Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2016 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== Annual Report of the Lake Carriers' Association, 1909 P. N. Bland Ptg. Co., Detroit, MI., 1910 [p.109] VESSEL LOSSES, 1909. During the past year 34 vessels have been reported as total losses, of which 24 were steamers, 5 were schooners, 4 tugs and 1 car ferry, the list, however, including the steamers James H. Hoyt, Henry Steinbrenner and W. C. Richardson, which although abandoned by the owners, may be saved by the underwriters. Of these losses 15 were destroyed by fire, 13 wrecked in storms, 5 sunk in collisions and one cut through by ice. A lost of the vessels lost in 1909, and their capacity follows: NAME OF CAUSE WHERE LOST CARRYING CAPACITY VESSEL GROSS TONS STEAMERS - Aurania Foundered Whitefish Bay, Lake Superior 3,218 Benton Fire River Rouge, Mich. 304 City of Green Bay Fire Saginaw Bay 250 Clarion Fire Off Southeast Shoal, Lake Erie 1,711 Cowle, John B. Collision Off Whitefish Point, Lake Superior 4,731 Falcon Stranded South Fox Island, Lake Michigan 865 Flint Fire Off North Point, Lake Superior 823 Hinton, Francis Stranded Lake Michigan 417 Iron Age Fire Detroit River 1,114 Meyer, F. A. Cut by Ice Lake Erie, Off Port Colbourne 1,264 Monteagle Fire Mud Lake, St. Marys River 1,273 Ottawa Foundered Off Passage Island, Lake Superior . . . Pridgeon, John Jr. Storm Off Cleveland, Lake Erie 1,173 Richardson, W. C. Foundered Lake Erie, Off Buffalo 3,818 Rome Fire St. Marys River 1,847 Russia Storm Near Detour, St. Marys River 1,501 Samoa Fire Osceola Lake, Torch Mills 1,096 Shores, Adella Storm Lake Superior 734 Stone, George Storm Off Point Pelee, Lake Erie 1,841 Tecumseh Fire Goderich, Ont. . . . Tempest No. 3 Fire Parry Sound, Ont. 369 Thew, W. P. Collision Off Thunder Bay Island 206 Ward, Eber Heavy Ice Straits of Mackinac 1,341 SCHOONERS Gebhart Fire Port Dalhousie, Ont. 354 Nester, George Storm Lake Superior 790 Schuette, John Collision Lower Detroit River 260 Spademan, Charles Foundered Lake Erie 306 Van Straubenzie Collision Off Dunkirk, Lake Erie 317 TUGS Augusta Fire Port Dalhousie, Ont. 57 Columbus Fire Gargantua, Ont. . . . Ottawa Fire Lake Superior 617 Penelope Fire Lake Erie 54 CAR FERRIES Marquette & Bessemer No. 2 Foundered Lake Erie 2,514