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: John Schuette OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 75762 DATE OF LOSS: 2 July 1909 REASON: Collision LOCATION: Ecorse, MI., Detroit River RIG TYPE: Schooner, 3 mast HULL TYPE: Wooden BUILDER: Hanson & Scove, Two Rivers, WI 1875 OWNER(S): Capt. William Bonnah, Toledo MASTER: ? TONNAGE: 289 gt LENGTH: 137 ft BEAM: 26 ft DEPTH: 10 ft CASUALTIES: 0 SURVIVORS: - As a new boat the JOHN SCHUETTE spent her first few years on the ocean. Her first salt water trip being with cargo from North Carolina bound for Russia. In 1879 the rise in freight prices brought her back to fresh water where she remained the rest of her career. On July 2, 1909 she was bound from Cleveland to Lake Superior loaded with coal. Blown off her course in a summer squall she drifted into the path of the steamer COLUMBIA, which was closely followed by the steamer ALFRED MITCHELL. The COLUMBIA managed to avoid the SCHUETTE however the MITCHELL, with visibility reduced by smoke from the COLUMBIA'S stack, ran into the SCHUETTE bow-on sending her to the bottom of the Detroit River. Deemed a total loss, and a hazard to navigation, in August the SCHUETTE was blasted with dynamite. ======================================================================== Sources: Donahue, "Schooners in Peril", p. 80-82 Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, 7 May 1875 Detroit Free Press, 25 September 1879 Inland Lloyds, 1907 Great Lakes Vessel Index, Bowling Green, OH