Lilly Hamilton (Schooner), collision, 26 May 1879

The Detroit Free Press of Yesterday gives the following particulars of the collision of the tow of the tug CASTLE, and the schooner ALLEGHANY:-
The tug CASTLE passed here at 11:40 Monday night with the schooners HALSTEAD, T. PARSONS, VAN STRAUBENZIE, E. BLAKE and LILLIE HAMILTON in tow. At that time the large schooner ALLEGHANY, of the Anchor Line, had come into the channel near the Canadian shore about opposite Twenty-Second Street. As the two neared the ALLEGHANY the Captain of the CASTLE steered between her and the Canadian shore.
Although running very near the ALLEGHANY, the tug, as well as the schooners HALSTEAD and PARSONS escaped injury. The other schooners, however, collided with the ALLEGHANY, carrying away the latter's head-gear, jib-boom and bowsprit causing her to leak some. The injury to the STRAUBENZIE, if any, was not ascertained. The HAMILTON lost her main-mast, her topsail-year is broken, eighteen stanchions on the starboard side are broken in, her chain plates injured and her foresail is torn. The BLAKE's mizzen-shroud was carried away, and she had other minor injuries. The entire loss resulting from the collision is estimated at about $3,000, and of this sum probably the HAMILTON can hardly be towed to Kingston and be made as good as before for less than $1,000.
      Buffalo Commercial Advertiser
      Thursday, May 29, 1879