Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2014 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Submitted by Linda Talbott - 15 May 2014 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: Marshall F. Butters OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 91408 DATE OF LOSS: 20 October 1916 REASON: Storm LOCATION: Lake Erie, 12 miles southeast of Southeast Shoal light. RIG TYPE: Propeller, steam-barge HULL TYPE: Wooden BUILDER: Milwaukee Shipyard Company, 1882 OWNER(S): Stearns Salt & Lumber Co., Ludington, MI MASTER: Capt. Charles E. McClure TONNAGE: 376.39 gt DIMENSIONS: 164 x 30 x 10 CASUALTIES: 0 SURVIVORS: 15 Built for Butters, Peters & Co., of Ludington. Carrying lumber from Midland, Ont., to Cleveland when she when a brutal storm set in. The crew was all saved thanks to a daring rescue by the steamers FRANK BILLINGS (Hutchinson fleet) and FRED G. HARTWELL (Tomlinson fleet). ======================================================================== Sources: Merchant Vessel List, 1885, 1889, 1910, 1913 Inland Lloyds Vessel Register, 1907 Annual Report of the Auditor General, State of Michigan, 1915 Buffalo Daily Courier; 21, 27 October 1916 Marine Review, Vol. 46, 1916 Mills, Rodney H. "Wooden Steamers on the Great Lakes"