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 USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== VESSEL NAME: John Wesley OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 75491 DATE OF LOSS: 7 September 1901 REASON: Storm LOCATION: Lake Huron, near Port Huron RIG TYPE: Schooner, 2 mast HULL TYPE: Wooden BUILDER: Bailey Brothers, Toledo - 1872 OWNER(S): - MASTER: - TONNAGE: 302 gt LENGTH: 135 ft BEAM: 26 ft DEPTH: 12 ft CASUALTIES: 0 SURVIVORS: not mentioned Carrying cargo of iron ore from Escanaba, MI., to Black Rock, N.Y., was driven ashore at Windmill Point during a gale on September 25, 1883. Crew rescued by the Buffalo life-saving crew. Reported as a total loss. Repaired in 1885 after laying in the Erie Basin for 2 years. October 31, 1892, ashore east of Marquette, Lake Superior, and reported as a total loss. October 10, 1894, during a gale off Saginaw Bay, Lake Huron she went on her beam ends and waterlogged. Crew of 7 rescued by the Point aux Barques life-saving service. September 7, 1901 - Cheboygan to Buffalo with lumber when caught in a violent gale causing the deck load to shift and the WESLEY took on a list. Crew attempted to jettison the deck load but the vessel rolled onto its beam ends and drifted ashore near Harbor Beach. Crew rescued by the Point aux Barques life-saving crew. Total loss. ======================================================================== Sources: Port Huron Daily Times, 8 April 1872 Annual Report of the U.S. Life Saving Service, 1884 & 1896 Buffalo Morning Express, 2 September 1885 Merchant Vessel List, 1886 Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, 2 November 1892 The Clinton (Iowa) Morning Age, 13 October 1894 Donahue, "Schooners in Peril," p. 135-137