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: Kaliyuga OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 14458 REASON: Storm DATE OF LOSS: 19 October 1905 LOCATION: Lake Huron, off Presque Isle RIG TYPE: Propeller, 4 masts HULL TYPE: Wooden BUILDER: Simon Langell, St. Clair, MI - 1887 OWNER(S): St. Clair Steamship Co. (Cleveland Cliffs Mining Co.) MASTER: Capt. F. L. (Fred) Tompkins TONNAGE: 1,941 gt DIMENSIONS: 269.50 x 40.16 x.20.58 CASUALTIES: 17 (all) Constructed of timber of more than usual thickness and thoroughly edge-bolted, diagonally iron strapped with double arches of steel one inch thick, combined with 24 inches. August 5, 1895 - Grounded in fog at Bois Blanc Island. Released the next day. May 1892 - "Bullets for Union Men." 'A gang of 100 union trimmers armed with revolvers and clubs tried to drive non-union men from the steamer KALI- YUGA at Escanaba. The non-union men met the boarders with a volley from Winchester rifles and made them beat a hasty retreat, leaving one of their number, Clark Williams, behind with a broken hip, the result of a bullet wound.' - The Pentwater News, May 26, 1892 July 24, 1897 - Aground on Ballard's Reef, damaged aft. Repaired. November 4, 1900 - Aground in the Detroit River. Pulled off by tugs WALES and BALIZE which began to tow her to Erie. Forced to anchore on November 8 due to a storm. Reported adrift about 35 miles off Cleveland. Arrived at Erie on November 10. October 19, 1905 - Lost with all hands off Presque Isle. The KALIYUGA had passed through the Soo at 5 a.m. on the 18th enroute from Marquette to Cleveland with iron ore. Last reported sighting by Capt. John Duddleson, steamer L. C. WALDO, headed east between Middle Island and Thunder Bay Island, Lake Huron, with the wind blow- ing hard from the northeast. The wind shifted at about 2 a.m. Friday morning, blowing a gale from the northwest. Aftermath.... The steamers CENTURIAN and FRONTENAC were sent from Cleveland to search for the KALIYUGA, searching the entire north and east shores of Lake Huron but finding no sign of her. On October 26th, the Canadian steamer LILLIE SMITH, Parry Sound to Detroit, reported passing wreckage thought to be from the KALIYUGA about 40 miles south of Cove Island, at the entrance to Georgian Bay. The debris included a pilot house and parts of a cabin in the yellow and white colors of the KALIYUGA. ======================================================================== Sources: The Marine Record, April 7, 1887 The Daily Signal, Middletown, OH, Tuesday, 24 October, 1905 Detroit Free Press, Thursday, 26 October 1905 The Telegraph Herald, Dubuque, IA., Thursday, 26 October 1905 Warsaw Daily Times, Warsaw, IN., Friday, 27 October 1905 Ludington Daily News, Thursday, 2 November 1905