Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2015 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: Philadelphia OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 20142 DATE OF LOSS: 6 November 1893 CAUSE OF LOSS: Collision LOCATION: Lake Huron, 7 mi off Point Aux Barques RIG TYPE: Propeller HULL TYPE: Iron BUILDER: David Bell, Buffalo, N.Y. - 1868 OWNER(S): Anchor Line MASTER: Capt. E. A. Huff TONNAGE: 1,463.60 gt DIMENSIONS: 236 x 24.3 x 14 CASUALTIES: 16 PHILADELPHIA was upbound with 900 tons of coal for Duluth when she collided with the downbound steamer, ALBANY, in a dense fog 10 miles northeast of the Point Aux Barques lifesaving station. The ALBANY's crew was trans- ferred to the PHILADELPHIA which took the ALBANY in tow. The ALBANY was filling rapidly and, about 30 minutes later, the towline was cut and she went down stern first in 200 feet of water. Within an hour the PHILADELPHIA was also settling and the order to abandon ship was given. Both crews took to two small boats. Fourteen men, including both captains and twelve of the PHILADELPHIA's crew went into the smaller boat. The second boat held the remaining 24 combined crew of both vessels. The smaller boat made shore at Point Aux Barques the next morning. The larger was found by the Point Aux Barques lifesaving crew capsized with a hole stove in her port side. It was speculated that it had drifted astern under the screw of the sinking PHILADELPHIA as the hole appeared to have been made from a blow to the inside of the boat. Casualty list: C. M. Leggett, first engineer Jerry Moran, second engineer J. Hunt, first mate A. Hanna, second mate W. Gibbs, wheelsman C. Linguist, wheelsman _____ Crown, lookout _____ Renshaw, lookout _____ Williams, watchman S. Coffer, fireman John Paint, fireman C. Labelle, fireman George Breiderwaster, cook George Wise, second cook A. Connors, porter (unknown), deckhand ======================================================================== Sources: R. L. Polk's Marine Directory - 1891 Buffalo Enquirer, 7 November 1893 The Milwaukee Journal, 7 November 1893 Aurora (Ill.) Daily Express, 8 November 1893 Marine Review, 28 December 1893 Annual Report of the U.S.L.S.S. - 1894 Ludington Daily News, 6 November 1993 Great Lakes Maritime Database - University of Michigan Swayze, David D. "SHIPWRECK!!" - 1992 Parker, Jack "Shipwrecks of Lake Huron" - 1987 Mansfield, J. B. "History of the Great Lakes" vol. 2 - 1899 biography of Capt. Angus J. McDonald http://us-data.org/ny/erie/bio/mcdonald-angus-j.txt Last updated 19 November 2015