Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Experiment (Barge), sunk, 16 Nov 1860

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Barge EXPERIMENT, cargo 15,000 bushels wheat, stove her bow and sunk in the lachine Canal, River St. Lawrence.
      Buffalo Morning Express
      March 11, 1861. (Casualty List, 1860)

      . . . . .

      VESSEL DISASTERS. - The barge EXPERIMENT, with a cargo of 10,000 bushels of wheat from Chicago, transshipped at Kingston, for Montreal, sunk in the Lachine Canal on the 16th. inst.
      Buffalo Daily Republic
      Monday, November 19, 1860

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Newspaper
Item Type
Clippings
Notes
Reason: sunk
Lives: nil
Hull damage: $200
Cargo: $12,000
Freight: wheat
Date of Original
1860
Subject(s)
Barges
Experiment (Barge)
Local identifier
McN.W.4318
Language of Item
English
Geographic Coverage
Donor
William R. McNeil
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Experiment (Barge), sunk, 16 Nov 1860