Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2016 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/ ========================================================================= NOTICE TO USERS - These files are protected by the The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. Information contained herein is provided for research purposes and may be freely linked to. Copying for redistribution or presentation by any person, persons or organization is not allowed without the written permission of the author/submitter. Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== VESSEL NAME: George C. Finney OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 10545 DATE OF LOSS: 15 November 1891 CAUSE OF LOSS: Storm LOCATION: Lake Erie, below Long Point RIG TYPE: Schooner, built as 2-master, 3rd added in 1889 HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: Goble & McFarlane, Oswego - 1866 OWNER(S): Capt. Thomas Riordan, Buffalo MASTER: same TONNAGE: 301 gt, 286 nt DIMENSIONS: 130 x 26 x 10 CASUALTIES: 7 (all) Lost in a November gale while bound Toledo to Buffalo with 21,000 bushels of wheat. She had nearly been lost two years before when she was struck by a waterspout while off Port Colbourne. The propeller PARNELL towed her into port. Her crew reported that they had escaped four waterspouts that day. Third mast was added during repairs. In 1883 she spent 10 days on Ford's shoal at Oswego before being released. ======================================================================== Sources: Finn, Leo J. "Old Shipping Days in Oswego" Oswego Daily Palladium, 2 May 1890 Aurora (Ill.) Daily Express - 23 November 1891 Merchant Vessel List - 1869, 1871 Mansfield, J. B. "History of the Great Lakes"