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/ ========================================================================= Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== VESSEL NAME: Bavaria OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: C-72595 DATE OF LOSS: 25 October 1898 CAUSE OF LOSS: Storm LOCATION: Manitoulin Island, south of Cape Smith RIG TYPE: Schooner, 3 mast HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: H. Rooney, Garden Isl., Ont. - 1878 OWNER(S): Fraser MASTER: ? TONNAGE: 376 gt DIMENSIONS: 145 x 26 x 12.5 CASUALTIES: none May 29, 1889 - Was in tow of the steam-barge D. D. CALVIN, along with the NORWAY and VALENCIA, when the tow lines parted while off Long Point during a gale. The crew of BAVARIA abandoned her. BAVARIA drifted ashore on Galoo Island and was recovered but her crew of eight were lost. John Marshall, Kingston, master; Felix Campau, Garden Island, mate; John Snell, second mate; William Owens, Arthur Boileau, Alexander Berry, Elias King and Bella Hartman, cook. Capt. Marshall left a widow and three children. Campau, a widow and eight children. Snell left a widowed mother. The others were reportedly single. Oct 25, 1898 - Driven ashore in a gale and wrecked. No loss of life. ======================================================================== Sources: The Buffalo Courier, 30 May 1889 "Old Shipping Days in Oswego" Mansfield, J. B. "History of the Great Lakes" - 1899, p. 752 Great Lakes Maritime Database, University of Michigan Swayze, David D. "Shipwreck!" - 1992 Oswego Palladium-Times, 3 November 2012