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: M. Ballard OTHER NAME(s): (sometimes seen as Mary Ballard) OFFICIAL NO: - DATE OF LOSS: 30 November 1866 REASON: Storm LOCATION: Lake Ontario, off Galloo island RIG TYPE: Schooner HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: Presley & Stephens, Cleveland, 1855 OWNER(S): Capt. Hugh Coyne, Detroit MASTER: Capt. John Coyne (brother of Capt. Hugh Coyne) TONNAGE: 288 t. (om) DIMENSIONS: 116x?x? CASUALTIES: All (reports vary, 9 - 11) SURVIVORS: 0 Bound from Toledo to Ogdensburg with cargo of 13,800 bushels of corn when, during a gale with heavy seas running, she struck a shoal and sunk while in view of the lighthouse on Galloo island. The storm was so severe that no rescue boats could be launched. Had extensive repairs after beind dismasted on Saginaw Bay in November, 1863. ======================================================================== Sources: Mansfield, "History of the Great Lakes," - p. 706 Detroit Free Press, 17 October 1855 Buffalo Daily Courier, 23 November 1863 Oswego Advertiser & Times, 3 December 1866 Daily Milwaukee News, 7 December 1866 Buffalo Daily Courier, 7 December 1866