Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2017 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: C. G. Breed OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 4577 DATE OF LOSS: 15 November 1879 CAUSE OF LOSS: Capsized in a heavy squall LOCATION: Lake Erie, RIG TYPE: Schooner HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: Davidson & Ellsworth, Milwaukee, WI - 1862 OWNER(S): Jesse H. Farwell, Detroit MASTER: Capt. Harry Rose, Detroit TONNAGE: 385.17 gt DIMENSIONS: 140 x 26 x 13 CASUALTIES: 5 of 8 The C. G. BREED was bound Detroit to Buffalo with 24,000 bushels of wheat consigned to F. W. Fiske & Co. when she was struck by a sudden squall and cap- sized northeast of Point au Pelee. No insurance. April, 1878 - Aground inside the government breakwater at Chicago. ======================================================================== Sources: Detroit Free Press, 5 April 1878 Detroit Free Press, 16 November 1879 Milwaukee Sentinel, 18 November 1879 Merchant Vessel List - 1874, 1871, 1878