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    VESSEL NAME:    Equinox
    OTHER NAME(s):  -
    OFFICIAL NO:    7232
    DATE OF LOSS:   10 September 1875
    CAUSE OF LOSS:  Storm
    LOCATION:       Lake Michigan, off Big Point Sable
    RIG TYPE:       Propeller
    HULL TYPE:      Wood
    BUILDER:        F. N. Jones, Buffalo, 1857
    OWNER(S):       Capt. Dwight Scott, et al., chartered to the Grand
                          Trunk & Sarnia line.
    MASTER:         Capt. Dwight Scott, Cleveland
    TONNAGE:        870 t.
    DIMENSIONS:     184 x 30.8 x 10.7
    CASUALTIES:     25 of 26

                    Bound Saginaw to Chicago with the schooner EMMA A.
                  MAYES in tow, both carrying salt and the EQUINOX (at
                  least) with a deckload of lumber. The pair were caught up
                  in a gale that swept Lake Michigan. After springing a
                  leak the EQUINOX signaled the MAYES to come alongside.
                  The schooner, upon seeing the propeller settling had
                  cast off her line and, whether by design or inability,
                  did not aid the sinking vessel. The lone survivor,
                  Reuben Burr, drifted atop the pilot house for thirty-one
                  hours before being picked up by the passing schooner
                  HAVANA 80 miles south-southwest of Manitou island.
                    It was reported by the mate of the MAYES that Mr.
                  Preston, engineer of the EQUINOX, had protested to the
                  captain that the propeller was being overloaded with wood
                  at Saginaw at which time the captain wanted to "lick him"
                  for interfering.


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Sources: Chicago Daily Tribune, 14 September 1875
         Toronto Daily Globe, 13 & 16 September 1875
         Indiana State Sentinel, 16 September 1875
         Milford (MI) Times, 18 September 1875
         Mansfield, J. B. "History of the Great Lakes"
         Vessel Enrollment, 1857
         Merchant Vessel List - 1869, 1871