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: A. P. Nichols OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 566 DATE OF LOSS: 28 October 1892 REASON: Storm LOCATION: Lake Michigan, Pilot Island, Death's Door RIG TYPE: Schooner HULL TYPE: Wooden, 3 masts BUILDER: Bailey Brothers, Madison Dock, OH - 1861 OWNER(S): ? MASTER: Capt. David Clow, Jr. TONNAGE: 299.67 gt DIMENSIONS: 145 x 30 x 11 CASUALTIES: 0 SURVIVORS: not listed Originally built as a bark. Nov. 1863 - Made the run from Chicago to Buffalo in three days sixteen hours with her starboard tacks aboard. Sept. 1865 - Collision with schooner W. O. Brown, the latter sunk July 1869 - Damaged by collision while at anchor off Buffalo Nov. 1869 - Ashore at Racine, got off 1871 - Damaged during the Chicago fire 1872 - False report of total loss May 1874 - Damaged in collision with propeller LAKE ONTARIO at Chicago. Oct. 1876 - Damaged in storm on Lake Michigan 1888 - Ashore near Detour, MI 28 Oct. 1892 - Ashore at Pilot Island (Death's Door), Lake Michigan. A total loss. Crew rescued by the Pilot Island light- keeper, Martin Knudsen. ======================================================================== Sources: Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, 17 May 1861 Buffalo Daily Courier, 17 July 1866 Buffalo Enquirer, 31 October 1892 Disasters on the Lakes - 1869, 1876 Milwaukee Daily Journal, 24 April 1884 Merchant Vessel List, 1885 Shelack, "Shipwrecks of Lake Michigan" Butts, "Guiding Lights, Tragic Shadows" - 2005 Stonehouse, "Great Lakes Lighthouse Tales" - 1998 Last updated 14 September 2014