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    VESSEL NAME:    Joseph Paige
    OTHER NAME(s):  -
    OFFICIAL NO:    75593
    DATE OF LOSS:   30 November 1897
    CAUSE OF LOSS:  Storm
    LOCATION:       Lake Superior, Vermillion Point
    RIG TYPE:       Schooner-barge
    HULL TYPE:      Wood
    BUILDER:        Milwaukee, 1872
    OWNER(S):       John F. Wedow, Cleveland
    MASTER:         Capt. Stephen Rose, Marine City, MI
    TONNAGE:        625.86 gt - 594.57 nt
    DIMENSIONS:     190.4 x 32.1 x 12
    CASUALTIES:     0 of 7

                    Bound Marquette to Detroit in tow of the steamer
                 H. B. TUTTLE, both ore laden, when stiff northwest winds
                 turned into a gale. The TUTTLE, unable to make any head-
                 way, was being driven towards the shore. To save their own
                 craft the towline was cut and the JOSEPH PAIGE, unable to
                 work her way off a lee shore, struck ground off Vermilion
                 Point. Crew taken off by the combined efforts of the
                 lifesaving crews and Vermillion Point and Crisps Point.
                    The cook, and wife of the captain, was so shaken by
                 the incident, that she refused to work on the lakes again.
                 She also cited it as one of the reasons that she "took up
                 with" a landlubber named John Henry Smith at Buffalo. The
                 two were married but it seems she neglected to divorce
                 Capt. Rose before hand!

                    Aground at North Tonawanda with lumber two months
                 before.


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Sources: The Milwaukee Journal, 1 June 1950
         Marine Review, 2 December 1897
         Buffalo Evening News, 9 October 1897
         Duluth Evening Herald, 1 December 1897
         Oswego Daily Record, 2 December 1897
         Merchant Vessel List, 1897