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    VESSEL NAME:    Thomas Kingsford
    OTHER NAME(s):  -
    OFFICIAL NO:    24143
    REASON:         Ice
    DATE OF LOSS:   8 April 1871
    LOCATION:       near Waugoschance Pt., Lake Michigan
    RIG TYPE:       Schooner, 2 mast
    HULL TYPE:      Wooden
    BUILDER:        Ald. Rogers, Oswego, N.Y. - 1856
    OWNER(S):       built for Kinyon, Collins & D. C. Abbey
    MASTER:         ?
    TONNAGE:        375 t.
    LENGTH:         135 ft keel
    BEAM:            25 ft
    DEPTH:           10 ft
    CASUALTIES:       0
    SURVIVORS:     not stated 
    
           Sep 29 1856 - Launched at Oswego, N.Y.
           Nov  1856 - Damaged wheat cargo in a gale on Lake Huron.
           Feb  1857 - Drifted out of Oswego harbor during a freshet.
           June 1857 - Collision with schooner Sarah in Oswego harbor.
           Nov  1858 - Owned by Doolittle, Lewis & Wright.
           May  1860 - Collided with schooner St. James while being towed
                       in at Chicago.
                1864 - Owned by Doolittle, Irwin & Co of Oswego.  Given
                       a B rating and valued at $8,000.
           May  1865 - Ashore at Pilot Island, repaired.
                1868 - Sold by Reed, Cutler & Whitbeck to H. Whitbeck
                       for $10,000.
           Oct. 1869 - Lost centre-board during a gale on Lake Michigan
           
       April 8, 1871 - Hull cut by ice near Waugoschance Reef on Lake
                       Michigan.  Sunk and later wrecked by gales.

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Sources: Marine Disasters of the Western Lakes, Capt. J.W. Hall - 
            1869 & 1871
         Merchant Vessel List., 1871
         Detroit Free Press, 19 December 1868
         Detroit Free Press, 22 December 1865
         Register of Ships of the Lakes & St. Lawrence River, 1864, p.58
         Oswego Commercial Times, 20 November 1858
         Oswego Palladium, 30 September 1858
         Oswego Daily Times, 4 October 1856