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: Forest Queen OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 37061 DATE OF LOSS: 7 November 1872 CAUSE OF LOSS: Storm LOCATION: Lake Erie, off Point Abino RIG TYPE: Barge - built as sidewheel steamer rig changed to barge in 1866 HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: Bushnell, Newport (Marine City), MI - 1855 OWNER(S): C. C. Blodgett, Detroit MASTER: Captain William Walker, Detroit TONNAGE: 462.10 gt DIMENSIONS: 194 x 28.4 x 9.6 CASUALTIES: 5 [all] Lumber laden and, along with the barges KENTUCKY and STAR OF THE NORTH, was in tow of the tug BURLINGTON. The barges were cut loose when two miles outside the breakwater at Buffalo during a southwest gale. ======================================================================== Sources: Vessel Enrollment - 1855 Buffalo Daily Courier, 19 July 1866 Mansfield, J. B. "History of the Great Lakes" - 1899 Buffalo Courier & Republic, 4 December 1872