Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2023 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: R. J. Gibbs OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 21195 DATE OF LOSS: 23 May 1893 CAUSE OF LOSS: Foundered LOCATION: Lake Erie, off Bar Point RIG TYPE: Schooner HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: John Squires, Vermillion, OH - 1855 OWNER(S): H. H. Pope MASTER: Capt. H. H. Pope TONNAGE: 176 gt, 167 nt DIMENSIONS: 121.58 x 23.75 x 7.75 CASUALTIES: None Was at anchor trying to ride out the storm when struck by a squall and foundered. Rebuilt at Toledo in 1874. Drydocked for repairs in May following a collision in the Detroit River. Sunk by collision with steamer COLORADO in the St. Clair River on 4 May 1877. Reported as a total loss but was raised and repaired. Ashore at Manistee, MI., November 13, 1880. ======================================================================== Sources: Merchant Vessel List - 1874, '78, '81, '87, '91 Detroit Free Press - 3 June 1893 Port Huron Times Herald - 25 May 1893 Buffalo Enquirer - 24 May 1893 Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, 25 February 1874 Report of the Chief Signal Officer, 1877 Annual Report of the U.S.L.S.S., 1881 - p. 138 Jenks "History of St. Clair County, Mich.," - 1912