Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2013, All Rights Reserved U.S. Data Repository Please read U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on this page: Submitted by Linda Talbott for the US Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================= U.S. Data Repository NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization. Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain the consent of the transcriber prior to use. Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. ========================================================================= Formatted by U.S. Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== VESSEL NAME: Daisy Day OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 157002 REASON: Stranded DATE OF LOSS: 11 October 1891 LOCATION: Lake Michigan, off Little Point Sable RIG TYPE: Steamer HULL TYPE: Wooden BUILDER: Jasper Hanson, Manitowoc, WI - 1880 OWNER(S): Guyles, Jacobs & Nash, Ludington (when built) Banker Neilson, Pentwater (at loss) MASTER: ? TONNAGE: 146.86 gt LENGTH: 103.4 ft BEAM: 20.7 ft DEPTH: 7.6 ft CASUALTIES: 0 SURVIVORS: Built as a lumber hooker, a small vessel that was able to access smaller ports that had no docking facilities, she led a life that was far less glamorous than her larger sailing counterparts. Nevertheless, the people who resided in these smaller ports were always happy to see her arrival with merchandise that essential for day to day living. 25 May 1880 the little Daisy Day, on her maiden voyage, visited Ludington, MI., with a cargo flour, Middlings, butter, eggs and other suppiles for the new feed store opened there by the firm of Guyles, Jacobs & Nash. This, along with lumber, shingles, hay, and an occasional passenger or two, was typical cargo as she made her way back and forth across the lake. In early June the DAISY DAY was on her second trip to Ludington when she came across the schooner D. A. VAN VALKENBERG, which had been dismasted during a two day gale and was adrift. Taking the schooner in tow the DAISY DAY turned back to Manitowoc and delivered the schooner and her crew to safety. In July, 1883, it was the DAISY DAY who came upon the schooner ELIZA, which had her foremast shattered by lightening and was filling with water from a large hole in her side, and towed her into Port Washington. DAISY DAY had her own share of troubles over the years. Visiting the small ports often meant striking ground and stranding. She was struck by the schooner J. H. Stevens at Sturgeon Bay in 1881 and nearly lost in 1889 to a fire at Mears, MI., while stranded in a creek while the mill there was on fire. In August, 1888, her passenger license was re- voked as her bulkheads weren't watertight. Her short career ended on October 11, 1891 when she stranded 10 miles north of Whitehall, MI., during a gale and was totally ravaged. Abandoned, the DAISY DAY was mostly forgotten until the discovery of her remains in 2003 by David Miesch, a resident of Oceana County and former history teacher, about 50 yards off Claybanks Township Park. A reminder...it is illegal to remove any arti- facts from a shipwreck site. ======================================================================== Sources: Ludington Record, June 4, 1880 (first trip) Ludington Record, June 11, 1880 Oswego Daily Times and Express, July 27, 1883 Buffalo Morning Express, August 2, 1886 Merchant Vessel List, 1891 Pentwater News, October 22, 1891 Ludington Daily News, August 23, 2003 "Ghosts of the Oceana Coast", Brandon Baillod Michigan Shipwrecks.org