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    VESSEL NAME:   H. P. Bridge
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   11202
    DATE OF LOSS:  11 May 1869
    REASON:        Collision
    LOCATION:      Lake Huron, opposite Saginaw Bay
    RIG TYPE:      Bark, 3 masts
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       J. M. Jones, Detroit - 1864
    OWNER(S):      Elon. W. Hudson
    MASTER:        Capt. Stedman
    TONNAGE:       425 g
    DIMENSIONS:    164 x 30 x 12
    CASUALTIES:    0


                  Bound down from Milwaukee to Buffalo with cargo of 45,000
               bricks and 35,000 bushels of oats when she was run into by
               the propeller COLORADO in a heavy fog.  Crew taken aboard
               the COLORADO.

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Sources: 41st Congress, 2d Session, Disasters on the Lakes - 1869, p. 6
         Buffalo Commercial Advertiser - 30 March 1864
         Board of Lake Underwriters - 1866
         Mansfield "History of the Great Lakes, Vol. 1" - 1899, p. 714
         The Colorado vs. the H. P. Bridge