President (Schooner), waterlogged, 12 Oct 1847
Description
- Full Text
PRESIDENT Schooner, waterlogged with loss of deck load, on Lake Michigan, near St. Joseph's.
Buffalo Courier (casualty list)
March 17, 1848
PRESIDENT Schooner, became water logged Oct. 12, 1847, and tried to make St. Joseph, in going in she struck the pier carrying away her gibboom and bowsprit and loosened her foremast, she pounded about half an hour on a bed of rocks and finally got in with the loss of her deck load and boat - leaking badly - cargo below, wheat.
Casualty List for 1847
Erik Hyle's private papers
- Media Type
- Text
- Newspaper
- Item Type
- Clippings
- Notes
- Reason: waterlogged
Lives: nil
- Date of Original
- 1847
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- McN.W.641
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Michigan, United States
Latitude: 42.10976 Longitude: -86.48002
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- Donor
- William R. McNeil
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