Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2012, All Rights Reserved USGenNet. Data Repository Please read USGenNet Data Repository 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: Bannockburn OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: (C)102093 DATE OF LOSS: November 21, 1902 CAUSE OF LOSS: Storm, "went missing" LOCATION: Lake Superior RIG TYPE: Propeller, bulk freighter HULL TYPE: Steel BUILDER: Sir R. Dixon & Co., Middlesbrough, Eng.- 1893 OWNER(S): Montreal Transportation Co., Montreal, Canada MASTER: Capt. George R. Wood TONNAGE: 1,736 gt DIMENSIONS: 245 x 40.1 x 18.4 CASUALTIES: 20 (All) CANADIAN STEAMER BANNOCKBURN BELIEVED TO BE LOST Chicago, Nov. 28 - Marine underwriters are inclined to give the Canadian steamer Bannockburn up for lost on Lake Superior. It was reported to them that the steamer was passed last Friday by the steamer Alqonquin, about 50 miles southeast of Passage Island and northeast of Keweenaw Point. That would bring the Bannockburn well out into Lake Superior and right in the track of vessels. Since that time nothing has been heard of her. It is supposed that the steamer stranded on Caribou Island. The Canadian government discontinued that important light about a week ago for the season. With the stormy weather prevailing it is supposed that the crew could not have got word to the shore. The Montreal Transportation company, the owner of the Bannockburn, sent out tugs from Sault Ste. Marie to search the north shore of Lake Superior in hope of getting some trace of her. The Bannockburn carried a crew of 20 men and ship and cargo are worth $200,000. Fears an Explosion Toronto, Ont., Nov. 28. - Word has reached here that steamer Algonquin met the Bannockburn on Friday noon. She should have reached the Soo early Saturday. The captain of the Algonquin says he saw the Bannockburn passing and shortly afterwards remarked how quickly she had gone out of sight. He now fears an explosion may have occurred. The Bannockburn usually carried a crew of 18 to 20 men. The Lockport Journal, Lockport, N.Y. Friday, November 28, 1902 LIST OF VICTIMS Captain George Woods, Port Dalhousie, Ont.; first mate, Alexander Graham, Port Dalhousie, Ont.; second mate, William Chockley, Kingston, Ont.; Wheelsmen, E. Rodney and A. Callaghan, Kingston; watchman, George Gillespie, Kingston; chief engineer, George Booth, Kingston; sec. engineer, Charles Selby, Jr., Kingston; oiler, Cecil Linton, Kingston. The deckhands, firemen and cooks, about twelve or fifteen in number, were engaged in the West, and their names are unknown. There was also a second watchman, a resident of Kingston, name unknown. Oswego Daily Times, Oswego, N.Y. Saturday Evening, November 29, 1902 NEWS OF GREAT LAKES Boynton, Which Went to Look for the Propeller Bannockburn, Found no Trace of the Missing Vessel -------------------- HOPE IS NOW GIVEN UP ---------------- Lake Marine News Associates Sault-Saint-Marie, Mich. Dec. 1 - There is no longer any hope for the safety of the propeller Bannockburn and her crew of twenty men. The death knell to the hopes of the owners and relatives of the crew was sounded today when a dispatch was received from the captain of the tug Boynton, stating that he had traversed the entire shore where the missing vessel was believed to have stranded. No trace of the boat was discovered. It now seems certain that the wreckage found by the propeller Rockefeller in the middle of Lake Superior marked the grave of the vessel and crew. As the waters of Lake Superior reach their greatest depth at that point it is probable that none of the bodies will ever be recovered as this lake never gives up its dead. What events preceded the dis- appearance of the big steel boat beneath the waves will never be known, but a broken rudder, a break in the machinery or a loosened seam might have re- sulted in this, the greatest loss of the season of navigation on the Great Lakes. "The Buffalo Express", Tuesday Morning, December 2, 1902 ========================================================================