Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2016 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: Racine OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 21184 DATE OF LOSS: 3 July 1892 CAUSE OF LOSS: Storm LOCATION: Lake Huron, Point aux Barques RIG TYPE: Schooner, 2 masts HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: Sanford & Moses, at Cleveland, 1844 OWNER(S): out of Detroit MASTER: ? TONNAGE: 168.17 gt, 159.77 nt DIMENSIONS: 106.4 x 23.7 x 9.7 CASUALTIES: none of 6 Stranded and totally wrecked at Point aux Barques during a summer storm. Crew of 6, and their effects, brought ashore in the lifeboat by the Point aux Barques lifesaving crew. Efforts continued to remove her rigging and cargo over the next several days by the schooner AUNT RUTH with aid of the lifesaving crew. Sunk and later raised following a collsion with the schooner KYLE SPANGER, 7 November 1860, on Lake Huron. ======================================================================== Sources: Merchant Vessel List - 1869, 1871, 1890, 1891 Grand Rapids (MI) Herald, 6 July 1892 Annual Report of the U.S.L.S.S., 1894