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    VESSEL NAME:   William Home
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   80191
    DATE OF LOSS:  25 September 1894
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, off Seul Chois Point
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner, 3 mast
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       Johnson, Clayton, N.Y. - 1871
    OWNER(S):      J. M. Jones, Detroit
    MASTER:        Capt. C. Henderson, Mexico, N.Y.
    TONNAGE:       305 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    141 x 26 x 11.5
    CASUALTIES:    6 (of 7)

                   The WILLIAM HOME, along with two other consorts, left
                 Manistique on 24 September 1894 in tow of the steamer F.
                 R. BUELL. She was loaded with 579 tons of pig iron for
                 Buffalo. Later that night, in a southeast gale, her deck
                 load shifted and the HOME heeled over. With water pouring
                 into the hold, her crew tried to signal the BUELL. Getting
                 no response from the steamer the HOME'S crew cut her tow-
                 line and started for shore under sail. Within 30 minutes
                 the HOME went to the bottom. Her crew had taken to the
                 yawl which soon capsized in the breakers. The sole
                 survivor, Anton Minga, floated ashore by grasping onto a
                 line attached to the overturned yawl. He was picked up by
                 lighthouse keeper Joe Fountain.


                 Repairs in 1882, '87, '88, '89

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Sources: Saline Observer, 4 October 1894
         Marine Record, 27 September 1894
         Kalamazoo Gazette, 28 September 1894
         Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, 17 October 1871
         R. L. Polk Marine Directory, 1891