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MAY - JUNE Page 96 PHILADELPHIA breeze kicking up, so I went ashore to look for a drink. When the breeze died down they looked for me for a day or so then sailed without me, That was the second time sleep- ing one off likely saved my life. Archie McDougall of Kincardine, who sailed with 'Skipper' Neil's father, Captain 'Howling Hughie' McKinnon aboard the schooner SEPHIE helped out. "I was on the _ lakes when that happened, It wasn't a schooner, I think it was an Anchor Line steamer that went down with that flour. I don't know just when it was, but it was years after the ship went down away out in deep water that the flour came ashore, There were two or three bags every little which ways all the way from the 7th of Kincardine clear north to Baie d'Or." Modern interest in scuba diving for sunken treasure has revived in- terest in old charts and lists which indicate locations of old wrecks. On one such listing there is the following notation: "In 1868 the Anchor Line built at Buffalo Rev. E.J. Dowling Collection the steamer PHILADELPHIA of 1,600 tons capacity, which, up bound for Duluth with coal, was lost by col- lision with the steamer ALBANY off Pointe aux Barques, Lake Huron, on November 7, 1393, both steamers go- ing to the bottom in deep water carrying 24 members of the crews to their deaths in the greatest lake disaster of the decade," THE PHILADELPHIA carried coal. The AZOV had carried lumber. Would it be possible that the ALBANY had carried flour? If jit did, how did the flour get clear across Lake Huron from Pointe aux Barques to Inverhuron? Newspapers of November 8, 1893, dateline stories from various lake ports telling of the collision. Sand Beach, Michigan, November 8, 1893...The particulars of the dis- aster off Pointe aux Barques are still meagre owing to the fact that the men have been instructed by the owners to say nothing to anyone. The ALBANY of the Western Transite