Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2012, All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read U.S. Data Repository 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: Garibaldi OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: (?) Canadian DATE OF LOSS: 3 October 1887 REASON: Storm LOCATION: abt. 5 miles S. of Port Elgin RIG TYPE: Schooner, 2 mast HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: Nathan Woodard, Port Rowan, Ont., - 1863 OWNER: Muir, of Port Huron MASTER: ? TONNAGE: 164 (209 after rebuild) DIMENSIONS: 124 x 24 x 10 REBUILDS: 1875 & 1881 CASUALTIES: 0 SURVIVORS: - HORRIBLE SUFFERINGS OF THE GARIBALDI SURVIVORS ------------------- Special dispatch to the Palladium. Consecon, Ont., Nov. 23, -- The schr. Garibaldi, which went ashore Sunday morning about 7 o'clock on Weller's beach a short distance from the late Belle Sheridan's disaster, was driven out of her course by the gale. She then tried to make Presque Isle, but could not and dropped anchor on what is called "The Middle Ground" but broke her cable. People from the shore succeeded in rescuing three of the crew and the cook, who is a woman, and three remained on board all night. This morn- ing the others were taken out, one being dead and the other two badly frozen. The captain and the mate were two of those remaining on board over night. The mate was dead. His name is Lewis Stonehouse. The captain was saved alive, but his feet were badly frozen. Those remaining on board over night had to be chopped loose from the ice. Oswego Palladium, November 23, 1880 At the time of the 1880 wreck the crew of the Garibaldi comprised: John McGlenn, master Louis Stonehouse, mate (deceased) Ann Mathews, cook/stewardess John Hoffman Philias Hamlin Napolean Colomb John Nelson (an American from Detroit) List from the Kingston Whig-Standard, Nov 26, 1880 According to newspaper accounts there were three crewmen taken off the Garibaldi on the day of the wreck with three staying onboard overnight for a total of 6 in all. The crew list above gives a total of 7. On November 22, 1880, the Kingston Whig-Standard again says "There were six men and a woman on board." While almost all sources state that Louis Stonehouse was the lone victim of the November, 1880 wreck, on Nov. 24th, 1880 the Kingston Whig-Standard published an account from James Riley, "a sailor on the Garibaldi" who stated that although he only knew the crew by their Christian names, it was not Louis Stonehouse who froze to death. James Riley is not listed as a member of the crew on the Nov. 26th list. No life saving station... "....When the rescuing party came with the daylight Louis Stonehouse was dead. He stood in the cabin frozen in the midst of a block of ice. With his hands above his head, as if to ward off this terrible and certain death, he was a monument to the niggardliness that allowed him to freeze and die for want of a life-boat. Willing heart and strong arms were on the beach, but boat there was none. So died Louis Stonehouse, the mate of the Garibaldi, and his ghost still walks the beach." J.W. Hall Great Lakes Marine Scrapbook Nov - Dec, 1882 Captain John Sibley, of the schooner John Walters was presented with a medal, in the fall of 1881, for his efforts to rescue the crew of the Garibaldi. Port Huron - The schooner Garibaldi, which ran ashore near Port Elgin about a week ago, has gone to pieces and is a total wreck. The vessel was owned early in the season by Mr. Finlay McGibbon, but was lately sold to Captain Muir of Port Huron. The Marine Record, Oct. 20, 1887 ======================================================================== Sources: Stonehouse, "November: The Cruelest Month" Donahue, "Schooners in Peril" Oswego Palladium, Oswego, N.Y., 23 November 1880 The Marine Record, 20 October 1887 Dept. of Marine & Fisheries, Wreck & Casualties 1887 Last updated August 7, 2014