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: North Star OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 130435 DATE OF LOSS: 25 November 1908 REASON: Collision LOCATION: Lake Huron, off Port Sanilac RIG TYPE: Propeller HULL TYPE: Steel BUILDER: Globe Iron Works, Cleveland - 1889 OWNER(S): Mutual Transit Company MASTER: Capt. Stevenson TONNAGE: 2,476 gt DIMENSIONS: 299.42 x 40.66 x 21.50 CASUALTIES: 0 SURVIVORS: - Downbound with a full cargo of wheat, flour and shingles when she came into collision with her sister ship, NORTHERN QUEEN, and sank almost immediately. ======================================================================== Sources: Donahue "Schooners In Peril" - 1999 Swayze "Shipwreck!" - 1992 Historical Collections of the Great Lakes, Bowling Green, OH Blue Book of American Shipping, 1903 Marine Review, Vol. 38 - 1908, p. 44