Calvin Snell (Schooner), aground, 29 Apr 1858
Description
- Full Text
ASHORE. - Capt. Door reports the schooners CALVIN SNELL and B.F. WADE ashore in the bight above Presque Isle Peninsula. Capts. Stannard and Dorr boarded them Friday morning. They had no water in them, nor had they made any at dark Friday night. A strong northwester was blowing right on the beach. The SNELL is loaded with 13,500 bu wheat, shipped by P. Anderson, Chicago, for Montreal. The WADE is partly loaded with wheat, oats, pork and flour, from Kenosha for Buffalo. - Detroit Tribune.
Buffalo Daily Republic & Times
Tuesday, May 4, 1858
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NOTE. - The SNELL got off and in May 1858 sunk off Presque Isle, Lake Ontario.
- Media Type
- Text
- Newspaper
- Item Type
- Clippings
- Notes
- Reason: aground
Lives: nil
Freight: wheat
Remarks: Got off
- Date of Original
- 1858
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- McN.W.18874
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Michigan, United States
Latitude: 45.3514 Longitude: -83.48887
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- Donor
- William R. McNeil
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