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 Jamieson OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: C75912 DATE OF LOSS: 15 May 1923 REASON: Storm LOCATION: Lake Ontario, off Amherst Island RIG TYPE: Schooner, 2 mast HULL TYPE: Wooden BUILDER: William Jamieson, Mill Point, 1878 OWNER(S): Capt. Wm. Savage & Capt. Patrick McManus MASTER: Capt. Patrick McManus TONNAGE: 143 gt DIMENSIONS: 100 x 25.4 x 8.6 CASUALTIES: 0 SURVIVORS: 5 30 April 1914 - Reported in error as being sunk during a severe gale on Lake Ontario but arrived safely at Napanee on May 2. 15 May 1923 - Bound from Oswego to Picton with coal when overtaken by a storm and began leaking. The crew took to the lifeboat moments before the schooner went down, all making it to land safely. ======================================================================== Sources: Chicago Inter-Ocean, 13 July 1878 The Survey, Vol. 33, October 1914 - March 1915, pp. 312 American Library Annual, 1914-1915, pp. 116 Oswego Palladium, 17 October 1916 Vessel Registry, Dominion of Canada - 1902 Toronto Globe, 16 & 17 May 1923 Last updated 9 December 2014