Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2020 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/ ========================================================================= NOTICE TO USERS - These files are protected by the The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. Information contained herein is provided for research purposes and may be freely linked to. Copying for redistribution or presentation by any person, persons or organization is not allowed without the written permission of the author/submitter. Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== VESSEL NAME: Nightingale OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 18123 DATE OF LOSS: September 1869 CAUSE OF LOSS: Aground LOCATION: Lake Huron, Spectacle Reef RIG TYPE: Schooner, two masts HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: Shaler, at Conneaut, OH - 1856 OWNER(S): ? MASTER: ? TONNAGE: 272 t. DIMENSIONS: 138 x 29.5 x 11.3 CASUALTIES: ? Once one of the fastest vessels on the lakes. In 1866 the NIGHTINGALE made the trip from Chicago to Buffalo in four and a half days. She ended her days as kindling after running aground on Spectacle Reef. Her wreckage, and cargo of iron ore, had to be cleared from the bedrock to commence the building of Spectacle Reef Light. ======================================================================== Sources: Merchant Vessel List - 1869 Mansfield, J. B., "History of the Great Lakes" Vol. 1 Heap, D. P. "Ancient and Modern Light-Houses" - 1889