Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2017 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: Annie Vought OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 1588 DATE OF LOSS: 22 November 1892 CAUSE OF LOSS: Storm LOCATION: Lake Michigan, South Manitou Island RIG TYPE: Schooner HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: Bailey Bros., Fairport, OH - 1867 OWNER(S): (1891) Louisa Wex, Buffalo MASTER: ? TONNAGE: 680.33 gt DIMENSIONS: ? CASUALTIES: None of 8 Bound Buffalo to Milwaukee with coal when she was blown on the rocks on the north side of South Manitou Island during a severe gale, The revenue cutter ANDY JOHNSON notified the life-saving station, ten miles distant, and transported them to the wreck with their beach apparatus. Entire crew of the schooner was rescued with the breeches buoy. Built as a bark. Refitted at Clark's shipyard, Buffalo, in 1868 after going ashore on Spectacle Reef. In collision with the schooner NORTHERN BELLE off Skillagallee in July, 1872, sinking the NORTHERN BELLE within minutes. Sold at Chicago in June, 1877, under a mortgage for- closure for $9,000. Overhauled & extensive repairs in May at Union Dry Dock. Rebuilt in 1887 being torn from her moorings by a freshet and hurled against the propellers IDAHA & FOUNTAIN CITY. All three drifted rapidly down to the Michigan street bridge where the VOUGHT was squeezed between the two propellers and the bridge. ======================================================================== Sources: Buffalo Post - 11 July 1867 Chicago Tribune - 10 July 1868 Oswego Daily Palladium - 10 July 1872 Cleveland Herald - 19 May 1877 Detroit Free Press - 9 February 1887 R. L. Polk Marine Directory - 1891 Detroit Free Press - 24 & 27 November 1892 Buffalo Evening News - 23 November 1892 Annual Report U.S.L.S.S. - 1893