Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2014 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/ ========================================================================= Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== VESSEL NAME: H. A. Barr OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 96218 (C107489) DATE OF LOSS: 24 September 1902 REASON: Storm LOCATION: Lake Erie, about 30 miles off Port Stanley RIG TYPE: Schooner barge, 3 mast HULL TYPE: Wooden BUILDER: J. Davidson, West Bay City, MI - 1893 OWNER(S): Algoma Central Railway, Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. MASTER: Capt. J. A. Stammon TONNAGE: 900 gt DIMENSIONS: 220 x 35 x 16 CASUALTIES: 0 SURVIVORS: - Bound for Buffalo with iron ore in tow of the propeller THEANO. Rough weather turned into a violent storm and the BARR began taking on water as hatch covers were torn away and she became waterlogged. Crew taken off by the THEANO. ======================================================================== Sources: Greenwood "NAMESAKES 1900-1908" - 1987, p. 1 Marine Review, 4 & 11 May 1893 Buffalo Evening News, 26 September 1902