Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2020 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================= NOTICE TO USERS - These files are protected by the The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. Information contained herein is provided for research purposes and may be freely linked to. Copying for redistribution or presentation by any person, persons or organization is not allowed without the written permission of the author/submitter. Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== VESSEL NAME: Albatross OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: (C)75633 DATE OF LOSS: 21 August 1911 CAUSE OF LOSS: Foundered LOCATION: Georgian Bay, near French River RIG TYPE: Schr-barge HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: at Port Dalhousie, Ont. - 1871 OWNER(S): Midland Towing & Wrecking Co., Midland, Ont. MASTER: Capt. Dean TONNAGE: 317 tons DIMENSIONS: 136 x 26.3 x 11.9 CASUALTIES: None ALBATROSS was in tow of the tug C. C. MARTIN during a terrific storm when she sprang a leak and began sinking fast. Unable to communicate with the tug, all aboard the ALBATROSS piled into a thirteen-foot yawl before the schooner-barge went to the bottom. ======================================================================== Sources: Beeson's Marine Directory - 1911 List of Vessels on the Registry Books of the Dominion of Canada 31 December 1905 Buffalo Evening News - 24 & 25 August 1911 Marine Review - September, 1911 Detroit Times 24 August 1911 Forty-Fifth Annual Report of the Department of Marine and Fisheries, for the fiscal year 1911-1912