Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2024 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: City of Boston OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 4375 DATE OF LOSS: 20 November 1873 CAUSE OF LOSS: Aground LOCATION: Lake Michigan, s. of Frankfort RIG TYPE: Propeller, bulk freight HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: at Cleveland, OH., 1863 OWNER(S): Northern Transportation Co. MASTER: ? TONNAGE: 431.56 t. DIMENSIONS: ? CASUALTIES: ? Not much information can be found about The City of Boston. She was laden with corn and flour when she went aground. The Detroit Free Press describes her as being a complete wreck, broken amidships with her stanchions on one side gone. Her boiler was raised in 1887 with plans to also raise the engine. City of Boston had been sunk in the Straits of Mackinac in November, 1868, by collision with the Milwaukee. For two years she rested under 125 feet of water before be- ing raised and towed to Cleveland to be rebuilt as a steam barge. ======================================================================== Sources: Merchant Vessel List: 1871, 1874 (listed as sold foreign" Buffalo Commercial Advertiser; 28 March 1874 Detroit Free Press: 25 November 1873 J. B. Mansfield "History of the Great Lakes", Vol. I