Narragansett (Schooner), U18110, collision, 1880

THE NARRAGANSETT
      The Results of the Collision
      [The Milwaukee Sentinel has the following
The schooner NARRAGANSETT, run into early Tuesday morning off Port Washington by the schooner FALMOUTH, discharged her cargo yesterday at the Northwestern Marine Elevator, and was towed to Wolf & Davidson's yard for repairs. Only eighty bushels of wheat proved to be damaged, which is surprising, as the vessel is cut down twelve planks. She also has several frames broken, her deck is started and raised an inch or two, and she requires about thirteen new stanchions and a new rail and stringer from the forward timber heads to some distance aft of the forerigging. Speaking of the collision, Captain Reibolt says the NARRAGANSETT was running free and headed north-north east, while the FALMOUTH was on the starboard tack, heading about south. As soon as the FALMOUTH was discovered, almost dead ahead, the Narragansett's helm was put hard down, for the purpose of going to windward and passing under her stern. A similar move must have been made on the FALMOUTH, in the hope of avoiding the collision, as she struck the NARRAGANSETT at the second chain-plate of her fore-rigging, her jibboom grazing the Narragansett's foremast and going through and ruining her staysail.
      The J.W. Hall Great Lakes Marine Scrapbook, 1880
     
     
     
Schooner NARRAGANSETT. U. S. No. 18110. Of 316 tons gross; 300 tons net. Built Cleveland, Ohio, 1861. Home port, Milwaukee, Wis. 139.9 x 26.1 x 11.6
      Merchant Vessel List, U. S., 1900