Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2016 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/ ========================================================================= NOTICE TO USERS - These files are protected by the The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. Information contained herein is provided for research purposes and may be freely linked to. Copying for redistribution or presentation by any person, persons or organization is not allowed without the written permission of the author/submitter. Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== VESSEL NAME: S. Robinson OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 22347 DATE OF LOSS: 24th May 1872 CAUSE OF LOSS: Collision LOCATION: Lake Michigan, RIG TYPE: Schooner, 2-masted HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: Laffrineer & Stevenson, Ohio City, OH - 1853 OWNER(S): Out of Chicago MASTER: ? TONNAGE: 312.29 DIMENSIONS: 127.8 x 25.7 x 10.4 CASUALTIES: none On a foggy May morning the S. ROBINSON was bound Milwaukee to Kingston laden with 16,000 bushels of corn when she was run down by the propeller MANISTEE, bound for Milwaukee. Damage to the schooner was so great, being stove almost right through amidships, that she went down within 10 minutes. There was no loss of life although her crew barely had time to escape and were taken aboard the MANISTEE. ======================================================================== Sources: Merchant Vessel List - 1869, '70, '71 Buffalo Daily Courier, 13 October 1853 Pentwater News, 31 May 1872 Circuit Court, E.D. Wisconsin, Case No. 9,028 {7 Bliss. 35}