Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2016 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/ ========================================================================= 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: Stephen Bates OTHER NAME(s): sometimes seen Steven Bates or only as S. Bates OFFICIAL NO: 23341) DATE OF LOSS: 22 April 1883 CAUSE OF LOSS: Storm LOCATION: Lake Michigan, five miles north of Grosse Point RIG TYPE: Schooner, clipper style, 2 masts HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: Bates & Son, Manitowoc - 1856 OWNER(S): Capt. Wm. Bates MASTER: Capt. F. Walsh TONNAGE: 139.17 t DIMENSIONS: 97 x 27 x 7 CASUALTIES: 0 of 6 After losing her mainsail and rudder casting in an easterly gale Capt. Welsh dropped anchor in an attempt to ride it out. The BATES dragged ever nearer to the beach until, finally, it was decided to slip her anchors and make a run for the beach before dark. She stranded two or three hundred feet from the beach and swung round broadside to. The crew, five men and one woman, were assisted in making a safe landing by the life-saving crew at Evanston. The BATES was carrying cedar posts, cordwood and ties from Horne's Pier to Chicago. ======================================================================== Sources: Buffalo Daily Courier, 26 April 1856 Merchant Vessel List - 1869, 1871, 1873, 1875 (wrong reg# - 22341) Annual Report of the U.S.L.S.S. - 1884 R. L. Polk Marine Directory, 1884 - notation "Went ashore '83" Door County Advocate - 10 May 1883 Mansfield, J. B. "History of the Great Lakes"