Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2013, All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Data Repository Copyright Statement on this page: Submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================= USGenNet Data Repository NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization. Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain the consent of the transcriber prior to use. Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. ========================================================================= Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== VESSEL NAME: Isabella J. Boyce OTHER NAME(s): none OFFICIAL NO: 100446 REASON: Fire DATE OF LOSS: 6 June 1917 LOCATION: East Point Reef, Middle Bass Island, OH., Lake Erie RIG TYPE: Propeller HULL TYPE: Wooden BUILDER: Burger & Burger, Manitowoc, WI., 1889 OWNER(S): Pringle Barge Line Co., Cleveland MASTER: ? TONNAGE: 368.28 gt DIMENSIONS: 138 x 29.6 x 11 CASUALTIES: 0 18 May, 1892; sunk in St. Clair river by collision with propeller, ATLANTIC. Raised and repaired at the expense of the ATLANTIC, which was found at fault. 16 July 1895; Aground off Bird Island Pier. 3 Aug't 1897; Disabled at Manistee, MI., by blowing manhole plate out of boiler. 27 Sept 1903; During a gale, with schooner FUNNY NEIL in tow, suffered damage and lost part of deck load. 24 Nov 1914 Upbound with 250 tons of soft coal when she caught fire west of Put-in-Bay. Crew taken off by the lighthouse keeper on Green island. Libeled by Captain McFadden and Edwin F. Rundell for claims due them from salvage, the BOYCE was sold at public auction for $1,025 to Captain William McFadden. 1915 Converted to a sandsucker. May 1916 Libeled by Bell Telephone Co. and Northwestern Telegraph Co., both of Canada, for damages caused by her anchor fouling their cables in the Niagara river. 6 June 1917; caught fire and burned to a total loss while stranded on East Point Reef, Middle Bass Island, Lake Erie ======================================================================== SOURCES: Chicago Tribune, 13 October 1888 Annual Report United States Life-Saving Service, 1899, p. 71 Detroit Free Press, 11 Nov 1894 Merchant Vessel List, 1895 Buffalo Evening News, 17 July 1895 Detroit Free Press, 26 November 1914 Buffalo Courier, 26 December 1914 Meteorological Chart of the Great Lakes, 1903 Record of American and Foreign Shipping, 1904 Blue Book of American Shipping, 1906