Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2014 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================= Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== VESSEL NAME: Alfred Allen OTHER NAME(s): J. J. Morley OFFICIAL NO: 1360 DATE OF LOSS: 27 October 1869 REASON: Storm LOCATION: Lake Erie, Mohawk reef RIG TYPE: Schooner HULL TYPE: Wooden BUILDER: Capt. H. N. Throop, at Pultneyville - 1853 OWNER(S): MASTER: ? TONNAGE: 160 gt (144 tons when built) DIMENSIONS: (?) CASUALTIES: 0 SURVIVORS: - 1867 - owned by Capt. James Holling, his father and W. Waters of Pultneyville who sold her in September of that year for $7,700. Driven onto Mohawk Reef during a gale with blinding snow. Was bound for Toledo with a cargo of salt at the time. Heavy seas washed her off the reef by November 16th. With her bottom gone she was driven so far up onto Rock Island that tugs were useless and by December 2nd was a total wreck. Large repairs in 1862 ======================================================================== Sources: Merchant Vessel List, 1869 Buffalo Commercial Advertiser - 30 October, 16 November, & 2 December, 1869 Mansfield "History of the Great Lakes," p. 716 House Documents - Vol. 265, 1870, p. 21 Board of Lake Underwriters, 1860 Register of Ships of the Lakes & River St. Lawrence, 1864 The Commercial Press, Pultneyville, N.Y. - September, 1867