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    VESSEL NAME:    Northerner
    OTHER NAME(s):  -
    OFFICIAL NO:    67128
    DATE OF LOSS:   12 December 1892
    CAUSE OF LOSS:  Fire
    LOCATION:       Lake Superior, L'Anse
    RIG TYPE:       Propeller
    HULL TYPE:      Wood
    BUILDER:        J. J. Hill, Marine City, MI - 1876
    OWNER(S):       Rochester Transit Company, Blakeslee & Brown
                    chartered for the season by Capt. Eber Ward, Detroit
    MASTER:         Capt. McKinnon, Buffalo
    TONNAGE:        1,264 gt
    DIMENSIONS:     220 x 37 x 13.3
    CASUALTIES:     0

                    Burned to a total loss dockside at L'Anse. She had
                  run on a reef on Keweenaw Point and jettisoned about
                  2,000 barrels of oil to get off. Having sustained injury
                  to her hull and some machinery she put into L'Anse where
                  it was expected she would lay up for the winter. When her
                  oweners, or lessees, ordered to continue to Duluth her
                  crew, considering her to be an unlucky boat, refused to
                  go and delayed her departure. Fire was discovered in the
                  forward part during breakfast, the flames spreading
                  rapidly to her combustible cargo. Valiant efforts by the
                  L'Anse fire company saved the dock and warehouse, but
                  were futile against the flames licking at 1,500 barrels
                  of kerosene oil left aboard the NORTHERNER.

                    The NORTHERNER had also burned and sunk off Kelley's
                  Island, Lake Erie, on November 12, 1886, with a cargo
                  of lime and railroad iron. Raised and repaired in 1887 by
                  Capt. Thomas Maytham. Upon being raised the burned hull
                  went to the bottom for a second time. On her first trip
                  after being repaired she became disabled on Lake Michigan
                  and was towed to Milwaukee by the propeller ROCHESTER.
                  She was also leaking at the time. On December 11, 1890
                  the NORHTERNER was sold to the Rochester Transportation
                  Company.


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Sources: R. L. Polk Marine Directory of the Great Lakes - 1884
         Merchant Vessel List - 1881, 1891
         Chicago Tribune - 13 November 1886
         Marine Record - 15 September 1887
         Buffalo Express - 12 December 1890
         Marine Review - 24 March 1892
         L'Anse Sentinel - 17 December 1892
         Buffalo Express - 20 December 1892
         Buffalo Courier - 14 April 1894
         Mansfield, J. B. "History of the Great Lakes" Vol. II
            (biography of John J. Hill)