Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2018 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: A. D. Patchin OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: - DATE OF LOSS: 17 September 1850 CAUSE OF LOSS: Stranded LOCATION: Lake Michigan, Skillagalee Reef RIG TYPE: Side wheel steamer, passenger & freight HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: Keating, at Truago (now Trenton), MI - 1846 OWNER(S): Capt. Harry D. Whitaker et al MASTER: Capt. Harry D. Whitaker, Buffalo, N.Y. TONNAGE: 873.78 [o.m.] DIMENSIONS: 225.9 x 29 x 13.9 CASUALTIES: None mentioned After stranding on Skillagalee she was pumped out but could not get off. Broken by wind and waves. Machinery recovered by steamer Lexington the following year. ======================================================================== Sources: Mansfield, J. B., "History of the Great Lakes" Detroit Free Press, 7 December 1850 Milwaukee Sentinel, 15 January 1850