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: Myron OTHER NAME(s): orig. Mark Hopkins, renamed in 1902 OFFICIAL NO: 91993 DATE OF LOSS: 22 November 1919 REASON: Storm LOCATION: Lake Superior, off Crisp Point RIG TYPE: Prop. - lumber hooker HULL TYPE: Wooden BUILDER: John Collister Shipyard, Grand Haven, MI - 1888 OWNER(S): O. W. Blodgett Company, Bay City, MI MASTER: Captain Walter R. Neale TONNAGE: 732 gt DIMENSIONS: 186 x 32 x 13 CASUALTIES: 17 SURVIVORS: 1 Downbound from Munising for Bay City with a deck load of lumber and the 194 foot schooner-barge MIZTEC in tow when the wind shifted northwest and blew up a viscious gale. A leak had developed and water gained steadily in her hold as the MYRON struggled to gain the shelter of Whitefish Point. The captain of the ADRIATIC tried to provide some relief for the MYRON by putting her 420 foot alongside. The MYRON was in serious trouble and had no choice but to leave the MIZTEC to anchor and ride it out alone. The rising water in her hold soon put out the boiler fires leaving the MYRON at the mercy of the storm raging about her and she slid into the trough. The crew took to the lifeboats but as the MYRON plunged to the bottom her deck-load of lumber broke free providing the storm with deadly missles to be launched at them with each angry wave. The storm slapped back all rescue attempts. The only survivor was Captain Walter R. Neal who had been in the pilot house when the MYRON went down and climbed out a window as the air pressure blew the cabin off. After floating upon the wreckage for twenty- four hours he was picked up by the W. C. FRANZ some twenty miles from scene of the wreck. The MIZTEC weathered the storm and was picked up by a passing steamer, having only lost her deckload of lumber and rudder. ======================================================================== Sources: Swayze "Shipwreck!" 1992 - p. 164 Stonehouse "November: The Cruelest Month" 2010 - p. 106 - 114 Bowen "Shipwrecks of the Lakes" 1952 - p. 264 - 280 Stabelfeldt "Explore Great Lakes Shipwrecks" 1998 Greenwood "Namesakes, 1920 - 1929" 1984 - p. 18 Merchant Vessel List, 1903, 1920 Ludington Daily News, 24 November 1919 Annual Report Steamboat Inspection Service, 1920 Last updated 27 July 2014