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: Joseph L. Hurd OTHER NAME(s): (sometimes seen only as J. L. Hurd) OFFICIAL NO: 75154 DATE OF LOSS: September, 1913 CAUSE OF LOSS: Storm LOCATION: Sturgeon Bay, WI RIG TYPE: Propeller, barge HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: Campbell, Owens & Co., Detroit - 1869 OWNER(S): Leathem & Smith MASTER: - TONNAGE: 759.88 gt - 592.65 nt DIMENSIONS: 171 x 29.2 x 10.9 CASUALTIES: 0 A northwest gale set in while the HURD was moored at Leathem & Smith dock, Sturgeon Bay, loading stone. Her lines parted and she was driven onto the beach where she pounded her bottom and broke her back. Later scuttled. 1895 - Abandoned on the beach at Harbor Springs by the underwriters after running into the new steel steamer CAYUGA near Skillagallee, Lake Michigan. They CAYUGA sank quickly. The entire bow was torn off the HURD. In 1877 she had also been accused of running down the Canadian schooner MAGELLAN but there was no investigation of the matter. May, 1901 - Lost about 200,000 feet of her deckload of lumber, both masts and everything else on deck that wasn't nailed down when caught in heavy seas off Point Betsey. August, 1906 - Waterlogged on Lake Michigan and abandoned by her crew who took to the small boats and were picked up by the passing freighter MOHAWK. After being towed to Chicago she sank in the river there. Originally used for passenger service and packet freight. Her cabins were removed in the early 1890's and she was converted to a freighter. Rig changed to barge in 1907. ======================================================================== Sources: Buffalo Courier, 12 May 1895 Milwaukee Journal, 11 May 1895 Merchant Vessel List - 1882, 1897, 1903, 1905, 1908 Cleveland Herald, 15 November 1877 Oswego Daily Times, 30 May 1901 Oswego Daily Times, 21 August 1906