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: Bahama OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 2380 DATE OF LOSS: 3 June 1903 REASON: Hull failure LOCATION: Windmill Point, Ontario RIG TYPE: Schooner-barge HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: Goble, Oswego, N.Y. - 1863 OWNER(S): Hughes Transportation Co., Port Huron MASTER: ? TONNAGE: 333 gt DIMENSIONS: 186 x 26 CASUALTIES: 0 SURVIVORS: not stated Reported in error as being a total loss on Lake Huron in 1893 & 1895. Was taking on a load of stone for the breakwater when she sprung a leak, sank, and broke in two alongside the loading dock. The wreck was a hazard to navigation and was dynamited and broken into pieces for easier removal. ======================================================================== Sources: Finn "Old Shipping Days In Oswego" Annual Report of the Secretary of War, 1903, pp. 2131 Blue Book of American Shipping, 1903