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: Ellen Spry OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 8983 DATE OF LOSS: 6 November 1886 CAUSE OF LOSS: Storm LOCATION: Lake Michigan, Skillagallee Reef RIG TYPE: Schooner HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: Thomas Spear, Little Sturgeon, WI - 1873 OWNER(S): Keith Bros. - out of Chicago MASTER: Capt. Alstrom TONNAGE: 545.86 gt, 518.40 nt DIMENSIONS: 172.7 x 33 x 13.1 CASUALTIES: none mentioned Bound Buffalo to Chicago with 1,100 tons of coal when she was overwhelmed by a heavy southwest gale and driven on Skillagallee Reef. Her crew took to the yawl boat and were picked up by the schooner H. M. SCOVILLE after enduring eight hours exposed to the raging wind and blinding snow. ======================================================================== Sources: R. L. Polk Marine Directory - 1884 The Daily News (Batavia, N.Y.) 8 November 1886 Merchant Vessel List - 1886 Biographical Record of the Fox River Valley Counties of Brown, Outagamie and Winnebago, 1895 Mansfield, J. B. "History of the Great Lakes" - 1899