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: Zach Chandler OTHER NAME(s): sometimes seen as Zachariah Chandler OFFICIAL NO: 28020 DATE OF LOSS: 29 October 1892 CAUSE OF LOSS: Storm LOCATION: Lake Superior, near Deer Park RIG TYPE: Schooner, 3-masted HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: at Detroit, 1867 OWNER(S): out of Cleveland MASTER: Captain Skinner TONNAGE: 726.50 gt DIMENSIONS: 194 x 35 x 14.3 CASUALTIES: 1 of 8 Bound Ashland, WI. to Cleveland in tow of the steamer JOHN MITCHELL when her towline snapped in a gale. The CHANDLER, heavily loaded with lumber, sprang a leak and became water-logged. Her crew took to the yawl and, with the exception of crewman Frank Richter, safely made it to shore. Built as a bark. Rebuilt as a schooner 1873. ======================================================================== Sources: Annual Report of the U.S.L.S.S., 1894 Merchant Vessel List, 1891 Toronto Daily Mail, 11 June 1881 Mansfield, John B. "History of the Great Lakes" Vol. 1, p. 764 Wolff, J. F. "Shipwrecks of Lake Superior" p. 51