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: Cornelia B. Windiate OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 125375 DATE OF LOSS: abt 1 December, 1875 CAUSE OF LOSS: Storm LOCATION: Lake Huron, off Presque Isle RIG TYPE: Schooner, 3 mast, "canaler" HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: Windiate & Buter, Manitowoc - 1874 OWNER(S): Thomas Windiate et al. MASTER: Capt. William Mackie TONNAGE: 332.39 gt DIMENSIONS: 136 x 26 x 10 CASUALTIES: 9 (all) The CORNELIA B. WINDIATE left Milwaukee on November 27, 1875, laden with 21,000 bushels of wheat for delivery in Buffalo and was never seen again. There had been no sightings of her and it was uncertain whether or not she had even made it through the Straits of Mackinac or not. Her wreck was discovered in 1986 on the bottom of Lake Huron 185 feet down. Her masts and cabin are intact and no visible damage could be found on her hull. Her name, carved into the rail on both sides of the rear cabin, is faint but still legible. It is thought that she became weighted with ice due to heavy seas and sunk. ======================================================================== Sources: Detroit Free Press, 23 May 1874 Cleveland Herald, 19 April 1876 Merchant Vessel List - 1876 Popular Science - March 2003, p. 92