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: Barbarian OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 2137 DATE OF LOSS: 25 October 1898 REASON: Storm LOCATION: Milwaukee harbor, Lake Michigan RIG TYPE: Schooner HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: A. Miller & Co., Oswego - 1855 OWNER(S): Capt. Andrew Hansen et al. MASTER: Capt. Andrew Hansen TONNAGE: 297.58 t LENGTH: 186 ft BEAM: 26 ft DEPTH: 11 ft CASUALTIES: 0 SURVIVORS: - 25 Oct 1898 - Bound for Milwaukee with ties, was caught up in the the same disastrous storm that claimed the L. R. Doty. Became waterlogged and was driven on the breakwater at Milwaukee. Cargo partially recovered. A life-boat from the BARBARIAN washed up at Ludington, MI on Nov. 8th following. ======================================================================== Sources: Old Shipping Days in Oswego, pp. 188 Buffalo Daily Republic, 8 August 1855 Buffal Daily Courier, 3 April 1862 Merchant Vessel List, 1869 The Toronto Mail, 1 December 1881 Ludington Appeal, 8 & 15 December 1898 History of the Great Lakes, v.2, pp. 825 Annual Report of the U.S.L.S.S., 1900 - pp. 118