Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2015 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/ ========================================================================= Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== VESSEL NAME: Emma OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 135607 DATE OF LOSS: 1896 CAUSE OF LOSS: "passed out" LOCATION: Lake Huron? RIG TYPE: Schooner, 2 mast HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: James Huxtable, Sand Beach, 1882 OWNER(S): ? MASTER: ? TONNAGE: 10.51 gt DIMENSIONS: 37.4 x 11.4 x 3.4 CASUALTIES: not stated By the time of her loss the EMMA had gained quite a reputation. In 1888-'89 she was used as part of an opium smuggling operation. Capt. Harry Durant would load the little schooner with the illegal cargo in Canada and land it on the American side. In August, 1888, Capt. Durant and the crew were arrested and the EMMA seized. In 1894 the six man crew of the EMMA were arrested and charged with piracy after assaulting and robbing a man named Charles Gillman at Stage Island, on the Canadian side. Arrested were William Johnson, William Murphy, William Cooper, Thomas Willis, Patrick McLaughlin and Grant Gray. ======================================================================== Sources: Los Angeles Herald - 1 September 1888 The Morning Call (Paterson, N.J.) - 6 January 1889 Chicago Tribune - 1 November 1889 R. L. Polk & Co., Marine Guide - 1891 The Guide - Monthly Journal Devoted to Legal News and Public Affairs, Vol. 111, No. 1 - 1894, p. 100 Detroit Free Press, 8 & 14 August 1894 The Marine Record, 16 August 1894 - p. 2 Merchant Vessel List - 1895 Mansfield, J. B. "History of the Great Lakes"