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: Mary Elizabeth OTHER NAME(s): also seen as Mary AND Elizabeth or Margaret and Elizabeth OFFICIAL NO: - DATE OF LOSS: September 1846 (last week of) REASON: Storm LOCATION: Louse Island, Lake Michigan RIG TYPE: Schooner, 3 mast HULL TYPE: Wooden BUILDER: J. P. Arndt, Green Bay, WI - 1844 OWNER(S): H. B. Ketchum MASTER: ? TONNAGE: 71 t. DIMENSIONS: 91 x 15 x 5.5 CASUALTIES: 0 SURVIVORS: - Bound from Green Bay to Buffalo when she went ashore on Louse Island. Crew and cargo saved. Reported as gone to pieces at the end of October, 1846. ======================================================================== Sources: Detroit Free Press, 13 October 1846 Buffalo Republic, 9 February 1848 Mansfield "History of the Great Lakes" - 1899, p. 652 Great Lakes Maritime Database, University of Michigan Last updated 11 August 2014