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: Chauncey Hurlbut OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 125238 DATE OF LOSS: 6 September 1908 CAUSE OF LOSS: Storm LOCATION: Lake Superior, 10 mi. west of Whitefish Point RIG TYPE: Propeller, bulk freight HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: Langell, St. Clair, MI - 1873 OWNER(S): J. O. Teagon, Detroit MASTER: ? TONNAGE: 1,009 gt, 829 nt DIMENSIONS: 184.8 x 32.2 x 21.3 CASUALTIES: 0 of 14 Bound Lake Linden to Toledo with stamp sand when she and her consort, the schooner-barge D. K. CLINT, were caught in a storm. The HURLBUT, leaking and with her machinery dis-abled, was beached to avoid sinking in deep water. The CLINT was picked by by the LACKAWANNA and beached as well. Wreck removed on August 21 & 22 August, 1910 by use of dynamite, divers, derrick boat with clam shells, etc. Fragments deposited in deep water. ======================================================================== Sources: Blue Book of American Shipping, 1897 Buffalo Evening News, 8 September 1908 Inland Lloyds Vessel Register, 1907 Merchant Vessl List, 1909 (losses) The Marine Review, Vol. 39, 1909 Annual Report of the Lake Carriers' Association, 1910 Annual Report of the U.S.L.S.S. - 1909 Annual Report of the Chief of Engieers - 1911