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    NAME: Emily
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    REASON: foundered in storm
    DATE:  October 4, 1862
    LOCATION: Georgian Bay
    TYPE: Schooner, 2 mast
    HULL TYPE: wooden
    BUILDER: George Ford, Goderich, 1850
    OWNER: George Ford & Capt. David Hay
    MASTER: Capt. David Hay
    TONNAGE: 30 
    LENGTH: 50 ft
    BEAM: 12 ft
    DEPTH: 6 ft
    CASUALTIES: 0
    SURVIVORS: 
    
                               The Schooner Emily, of Owen
                           Sound, was wrecked near Sandy Island,
                           Georgian Bay, on the 4th inst.  We
                           take the captain's statement from
                           the Owen Sound Times: --
                                He says - "We left Parry Sound
                           for Collingwood on Friday the 3rd of
                           October with a cargo of lumber and
                           two span of horses.  We got in the lee
                           of Sandy Island that night and cast
                           anchor, the wind blowing from the 
                           South-West.  On Saturday, the wind 
                           was a perfect hurricane, and we were
                           compelled to cast both anchors.  The
                           wind then shifted to the West.  She
                           rode all night until the wind shifted
                           to the North West, when the cables
                           parted.  We tried to make sail, but
                           the sails were no sooner hoisted than
                           they were blown off the hanks.  She 
                           drifted on to the rocks, within about
                           a quarter of a mile off the Island.
                               I then took off my coat, vest and
                           such clothing that would impede my
                           progress in swimming (the small boat
                           being disabled and useless) and taking
                           hold of one end of a line in my mouth,
                           swam for the shore.  The line I made
                           fast to a tree, then swam back to the
                           wreck, and brought another line ashore,
                           by which means I got the crew, two
                           loaves of bread and some blankets off
                           the wreck.  The horses swam ashore 
                           about 6 o'clock in the evening.  We 
                           remained on the island all night, the
                           rain falling and the wind blowing
                           very hard.  In the morning (Sunday)
                           we went to see what had become of 
                           the wreck and found that her stern
                           had been smashed in and otherwise so
                           badly injured as to be completely
                           useless.  I then fastened the stern
                           of the small boat together with a
                           rope, and with the aid of the bread
                           and some tar, managed to rig her and
                           paddled her back to Parry Sound, a
                           distance of fifteen miles, and got a
                           boat, with the assistance of which we
                           managed to save the horses, lumber and
                           a part of the rigging."
                               Toronto Globe, October 21, 1862
                              
                         


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Sources: Toronto Globe, October 21, 1862