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 U.S. Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== VESSEL NAME: Lizzie Metzner OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: C116549 REASON: Storm DATE OF LOSS: 17 October 1916 LOCATION: Oswego, N.Y. RIG TYPE: Schooner - 3 mast HULL TYPE: Wooden BUILDER: Burger & Burger, Manitowoc; 1888 (US No. 140950) OWNER(S): Capt. Chauncey Daryaw MASTER: (same) TONNAGE: 77 gt LENGTH: 78 ft BEAM: 21 ft DEPTH: 6 ft CASUALTIES: 0 SURVIVORS: 3 1888 - Owned by Mashek & Metzner, Kewaunee 1892 - Owned by Orion Vose, Kewaunee 1903 - Owned by Chris. Schoch, Manitowoc 1904 - Owned by Chauncey Daryaw. Reg. Canadian. 17 Oct 1916 - While waiting to be loaded with coal at Oswego during a 60 mile gale when she parted her lines and, with anchors dragging, drifted out of the harbor and went aground near the graveyard east of the Coast Guard Station. Capt. Chauncey Daryaw and his crew, Hiram Willard and J. R. Lobb of Kingston were rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard crew, under Captain Clemens, by means of the breeches buoy. ======================================================================== Sources: Old Shipping Days in Oswego, J. Leo Finn - 1972, p. 178-179 Beesons, 1891-92 Oswego Daily Palladium, 17 October, 1916 Oswego Palladium-Times, 14 October, 1944