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    VESSEL NAME:   Monitor
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   16432
    DATE OF LOSS:  25 September 1898
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Sunk suddenly
    LOCATION:      about a mile and a half east of Round Island, north
                   side of channel
    RIG TYPE:      Lighter
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       J. G. Shaler, Conneaut, OH - 1862, as a bark
    OWNER(S):      Soo Lighter & Wrecking Company
    MASTER:        Capt. W. R. Smith, Marine City, MI
    TONNAGE:       314 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    139.12 x 26.41 x 11.81
    CASUALTIES:    5

                   Was being towed to a sheltered place in Waiskai Bay
                 after lightering 350 tons of iron ore off the stranded
                 schooner CARRINGTON when a rumbling sound was heard
                 forward and the MONITOR went down quickly, bow first. Five
                 men managed to escape and climb into the rigging before
                 she sunk. Five were trapped below where they had been
                 asleep. Described as being a "rotten old tub."

                   Through her years she had been a bark, a three-masted
                 schooner, a barge, and a lighter. In November, 1883,
                 she was driven ashore on North Manitou Island where her
                 crew of five men and one female (cook) suffered fourteen
                 hours before being rescued by the revenue cutter ANDY
                 JOHNSON.

                 Victims of 1898 sinking:
                 Joseph Prior, Soo
                 William Corbiere, Soo
                 John Robeare, Soo
                 Emmanuel Robeare, Soo
                 John Foley, West Bay City
                 All said to be longshoremen.


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Sources: Buffalo Daily Courier - 3 July 1862
         L'Anse Sentinel - 1 October 1898
         Merchant Vessel List - 1869, 1871, '74, '78, '95, '96, '97, '98
         Marine Record - 22 November 1883
         Great Lakes Maritime Database, University of Michigan