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    VESSEL NAME:   Westmoreland
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   -
    DATE OF LOSS:  7 December 1854
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, Manitou Passage
    RIG TYPE:      Propeller, passengers & freight
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       Lafrinier & Stevenson, Cleveland, OH - 1853
    OWNER(S):      Anson D. Ellis
    MASTER:        Capt. Thomas Clark
    TONNAGE:       665 t.
    DIMENSIONS:    200 x 28 x 12
    CASUALTIES:    17 of 34

                   The WESTMORELAND was bound for Mackinac Island with
                 with supplies which included, but not limited to, oats,
                 flour, butter, wool, lard, beef and high-wine, when she
                 ran into a northwest gale. She began taking on water when
                 off Little Point Sable. Capt. Clark endeavored to make
                 the safety of South Manitou harbor but, when opposite
                 Platte River by, the rising water put out the fire in
                 her boilers. Left at the mercy of the storm WESTMORELAND
                 began sinking by the stern and drifting south through
                 the Manitou Passage. Capt. Clark ordered everyone to the
                 boats but part of the crew, who it is rumored had partaken
                 too greatly of the high-wine, refused the command and were
                 lost.
                   Rumors have long existed of lost gold and whiskey
                 however dives to the wreck have found nothing of the kind.
                   The wreck was located in 1872 and her engine salvaged.

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Sources: Buffalo Daily Republic - 1 July 1853
         Grand River Times (Grand Haven, MI) - 27 December 1854
         Vessel Enrollment - March, 1854
         "The Sailor's Magazine" - March, 1855
         Mansfield, John Brandt - "History of the Great Lakes"
         Wait, S. E. - "Old Settlers of the Grand Traverse Region" - 1918