Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2014 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 U.S. Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== VESSEL NAME: Riverside OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 21937 REASON: Storm DATE OF LOSS: 15 October 1893 LOCATION: Lake Erie, abt. 30 miles N.E. of Cleveland RIG TYPE: Schooner HULL TYPE: Wooden BUILDER: Miller, at Oswego in 1870 OWNER(S): J. M. Jones & Son, Detroit MASTER: Capt. D. J. Farrington TONNAGE: 278.38 gt LENGTH: 133 ft BEAM: 25 ft DEPTH: 10 ft CASUALTIES: 6+ SURVIVORS: 0 Lost with all hands during a savage gale while enroute from Kelley's Island to Tonawanda with 670 ton of stone. ======================================================================== Sources: Merchant Vessel List, 1891 Port Huron Daily Times, 19 & 24 October 1893 Marine Review, 26 October 1893 Marine Review, 14 December 1893 Old Shipping Days in Oswego, J. Leo Finn, 1872 - p. 188