Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2016 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: Corsican OTHER NAME(s): sometimes seen as Circassian OFFICIAL NO: 4922 DATE OF LOSS: 2 June 1893 CAUSE OF LOSS: Collision LOCATION: Lake Huron, off Thunder Bay Island RIG TYPE: Schooner HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: H. Rogers, Olcott, N.Y. - 1862 OWNER(S): Capt. S. B. Grummond MASTER: Capt. Edward Bernier, Detroit TONNAGE: 281 gt DIMENSIONS: 112.4 x 25.4 x 10 CASUALTIES: 6 (all) Enroute from Cleveland to St. Ignace with her cargo of coal when she collided with the downbound steel steamer CORSICAN in a thick fog and sank rapidly. Documentation surrendered 29 June 1893 at Detroit. ======================================================================== Sources: Buffalo Courier, 22 July 1893 Alpena Argus, 7 June 1893 Chicago Tribune, 4 June 1893 Marine Review, 14 December 1893 (losses) Michigan Registry and Return of Births, Marriages & Deaths - 1895