Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2014 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: William H. Hinsdale OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 26360 DATE OF LOSS: Spring of 1877 REASON: Storm LOCATION: Lake Michigan, at South Haven, MI RIG TYPE: Schooner HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: Detty, Michigan City, IN - 1848 OWNER(S): Herman and August Schuenemann MASTER: August Schuenemann TONNAGE: 61.19 DIMENSIONS: ? CASUALTIES: ? SURVIVORS: ? Apr. 1853 - Collision with Lake Street Bridge, Chicago. Nov. 8, 1853 - Struck north pier at Chicago in a gale. 1860 - Ashore at St. Joseph, MI Aug. 1869 - Damaged in a gale on Lake Michigan 1871 - Collision with propeller PHILADELPIA at Milwaukee. Apr. 1874 - Lost deckload of lumber during gale on Lake Michigan Nov. 1874 - Collision with scow BECKER at Plum Island Dec. 10, 1875 - stranded three miles south of Kenosha, WI., in a severe blizzard. Crew of 4 rescued by Benjamin G. Cameron and a group of volunteers. Spring, 1877 - Ashore at South Haven, MI. Total Loss (??) Not on MVL after this. ======================================================================== Sources: Senate Documents, Vol. 99 - 1856 Merchant Vessel Lists - 1869, 1871, 1873, 1875, 1877 Detroit Free Press, 16 April 1853 Buffalo Daily Republic, 14 November 1853 Chicago Inter-Ocean, 25 December 1874 Bourie "Many a Midnight Ship", 2005 - pp. 198-199 Last updated 28 September 2014