Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2017 All Rights Reserved USGenNet. Data Repository Please read USGenNet Data Repository 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: Anna C. Minch OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 107846 DATE OF LOSS: 11 November 1940 CAUSE OF LOSS: Storm LOCATION: Lake Michigan, off Pentwater RIG TYPE: Propeller, freighter HULL TYPE: Steel BUILDER: American Ship Building Co. OWNER(S): Western Navigation Co., Ltd., Ft. William, Ont., Canada MASTER: Capt. Donald A. Kennedy, Collingwood TONNAGE: 4,285 gt DIMENSIONS: 380 x 50 x 28 CASUALTIES: 24 (all) Minch's Stern Missing Muskegon Diver Reports ------------------- Marine Experts Believe Canadian Freighter and U.S. Vessel Collided in Nov. 11 Storm --------------------- Muskegon, Mich., Nov. 28 (Special) - Tom McMahan, Muskegon Diver revealed to-day that not only was there a large gash in the forward part of the wrecked Canadian freighter, Anna C. Minch, sunk in Lake Michigan off Pentwater in the hurricane, Nov. 11, but that the stern and about 120 feet of the after por- tion of the hull are missing. Marine experts not only believe the Minch and the freighter Wil- liam B. Davock, collided, but that the missing section of the Minch will be found near the Davock, if it is ever located. Any bodies are be- lieved in the after section of the Minch. A reward of $10 has been offered for recovery of bodies of the Minch and Davock crews. ----------------------------------- The Anna C. Minch had quite a previous record of incidents: April 12, 1907- Struck by stmr. Harvey D. Goulder, Superior, WI Nov. 12, 1911 - Struck dock in Chicago River Sept. 30, 1915- Struck s. end of proction pier, Erie Av. Bridge, Lorain, OH March 27, 1916- Tore loose from mooring lines in Buffalo Creek, drifted to Main Av. Bridge damaging several steamers and crushing a yacht against a concrete dock. Nov. 6, 1916 - Collided with stmr. Charles M. Warner, Lake St. Clair Nov. 18, 1917- Struck by stmr. Steel King, C.H.&D. Dock, Toledo, OH Feb. 26, 1918- Struck by stmrs. Matthew Andrews & Philip Minch, Cleveland, OH Sept. 18, 1918- Struck dock at Fairport Harbor, OH Aug. 31, 1920 - Grounding one mile below St. Clair Ship Canal Oct. 20, 1920 - Struck by stmr. Harry W. Croft at Buffalo, N.Y. Oct. 17, 1921 - Grounded in fog, n. end of Bois Blanc Island Dec. 18, 1921 - Damaged in gale, Erie, PA Feb. 23, 1922 - Ice damage, Erie PA Oct. 17, 1923 - Struck bottom twice entering Conneaut Harbor Nov. 22, 1923 - Wheel damage, Milwaukee, WI Nov. 1, 1924 - Struck dock at Duluth, MN Oct. 28, 1925 - Struck dock at Buffalo, NY Dec. 4, 1925 - Stranded on Fox Point Island, Lake Michigan, in fog. In December, 1910, the licenses of Capt. Claud M. Ames and Myron W. Clark, master and first class pilot of the ANNA C. MINCH, were suspended for 30 days for carelessness and negligence in permitting life-saving apparatus on the MINCH to become unsafe. When inspected on October 20th the inspectors found "her No. 2 lifeboat in dangerous condition; that the air tanks of her No. 1 life-boat were leaky; that one davit of the No. 2 boat could not be swung outward to permit the boat being launched; that the life-preservers for both boats had rotten covers, and that the vessel's fire hose was not in efficient condition." -- Detroit Free Press, 13 December 1910 REBUILD: Reconstructed 1914; 387 x 50.16 x 23.75; 4,139 gross tonnage ======================================================================== Sources: various newspaper articles "Shipwrecks of the Lakes", Dana Thomas Bowen Historical Collections of the Great Lakes