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    VESSEL NAME:   Edwin Jenny
    OTHER NAME(s): Sometimes seen as Jenney or Jenna, also E. Jenny
    OFFICIAL NO:   -
    REASON:        Storm
    DATE OF LOSS:  June 1848
    LOCATION:      Lake Erie, 12 miles above Long Point Cut
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner
    HULL TYPE:     Wooden
    BUILDER:       at Mt. Clemens, MI - 1837
    OWNER(S):      B. B. Jones & J. Chamberlin
    MASTER:        -
    TONNAGE:     82.37
    LENGTH:      70.00 ft
    BEAM:        21.11 ft
    DEPTH:        6.10 ft
    CASUALTIES:   0
    SURVIVORS:    not stated
    
           19 Nov 1842 - Dragged anchors and went ashore below Point
                         Abino, a little above Frances Mills.  Upbound
                         with stone.  Capt. Davison.
    
           2 June 1844 - sunk near Cleveland after being run into
                         by the steamer Chicago.  Bound for Buffalo
                         with 340 barrels of flour and 2,440 bushels
                         of corn.  Must have been raised as she appears
                         in later reports of vessel movements and tonnages.
                         
           7 Dec  1844 - Schooner E. Jenny, Capt. Davison reported as
                         ashore and gone to pieces after a Lake Erie gale.
                         
           Shown on Port of Buffalo arrivals and departures throughout
           1848.
           
             June 1848 - Ashore and went to pieces 12 miles above Long
                         Point Cut, Lake Erie.  The Buffalo Directory,
                         Tonnage on the Lakes, 1849 lists the schooner
                         Edwin Jenna 82.37 tons, as (dead).


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Sources:  Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, 1848 & 1849
          Directory of Buffalo, Tonnage on the Lakes, 1849
          Albany Evening Journal, 8 June 1844
          New York Herald, 9 December 1844
          New York Herald, 23 November 1842