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: Laura E. Calvin OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: none (Canadian) DATE OF LOSS: 5 August 1869 CAUSE OF LOSS: Foundered LOCATION: Lake Ontario, ten mi. off Broderick's Point RIG TYPE: Bark HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: Henry Rooney, Garden Isl., Ont. - 1863 OWNER(S): Dawson Bros., Wolf Island MASTER: Capt. Loungway TONNAGE: 311 t. DIMENSIONS: ? CASUALTIES: 0 Bound Kingston for Chicago with stone when a leak of undetermined origin developed. The pumps were unable to keep pace with the inrush of Lake Ontario and the crew took to the yawl, the CALVIN sinking within moments afterwards. The crew was picked up by the propeller AMERICA. Built on bottom of steamer ECLIPSE. ======================================================================== Sources: Finn, Leo "Old Shipping Days in Oswego" - p. 203 Buffalo Courier & Republic, 12 August 1869 Kingston Daily News, 9 August 1839 41st Congress, 2d Session, House of Representatives Papers Relative to Losses of Vessels on the Lakes - 1869 Register of Ships on the Lakes and River St. Lawrence - 1864