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: H. P. Bridge OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 11202 DATE OF LOSS: 11 May 1869 REASON: Collision LOCATION: Lake Huron, opposite Saginaw Bay RIG TYPE: Bark, 3 masts HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: J. M. Jones, Detroit - 1864 OWNER(S): Elon. W. Hudson MASTER: Capt. Stedman TONNAGE: 425 g DIMENSIONS: 164 x 30 x 12 CASUALTIES: 0 Bound down from Milwaukee to Buffalo with cargo of 45,000 bricks and 35,000 bushels of oats when she was run into by the propeller COLORADO in a heavy fog. Crew taken aboard the COLORADO. ======================================================================== Sources: 41st Congress, 2d Session, Disasters on the Lakes - 1869, p. 6 Buffalo Commercial Advertiser - 30 March 1864 Board of Lake Underwriters - 1866 Mansfield "History of the Great Lakes, Vol. 1" - 1899, p. 714 The Colorado vs. the H. P. Bridge