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    VESSEL NAME:   Magellan
    OTHER NAME(s): ?
    OFFICIAL NO:   (C)
    DATE OF LOSS:  9 November 1877
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Foundered
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, off Two Rivers, WI
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       Shickluna, St. Catherines, Ont - 1873
    OWNER(S):      Isaac Cockburn, Toronto, et. al.
    MASTER:        Capt. John Belyea, St. Catherines, Ont.
    TONNAGE:       330 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    137 x 23 x 11.66
    CASUALTIES:    8 [all]


                   Found sunk a few rods from the piers at Two Rivers.
                A severe storm had raked the area the night before and
                later reports from Chicago stated that the schooner had
                been in collision with one of the city bridges before
                departing.  Some of the bodies came ashore in a mangled
                condition. Some came ashore in pieces causing speculation
                was that she had been run down by another vessel and focus
                centered on the steamer JOSEPH L. HURD, which had appeared
                in port with a damaged bow and reported passing through
                parts of a wreck.
                   The MAGELLAN'S owners hired Capt. James F. Allen, of
                Kingston, to examin the wreck. Although the Chicago Inter-
                Ocean openly charged that the MAGELLAN was cut down by the
                HURD, Capt. Allen was of the opinion that she broached to,
                or in rounding to, shipped several heavy seas which broke
                in her cabin and washed out her stern.
                   The MAGELLAN was bound Chicago to Toronto with corn.

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Sources: Quebec Daily Telegraph, 16 November 1877
         Cleveland Herald, 15 November 1877
         Oswego Palladium, 13 & 19 November 1877
         Buffalo Courier, 22 November 1877
         Oswego Daily Times, 5 December 1877
         Great Lakes Vessels Online Index - BGSU